I think there should be more P5 Conference players in the draft to mirror real life. There shouldn't be two guys from Southern New Hampshire University available in the first but none from Ohio State. It's a small thing but I think it would be an easy fix as well.

i'm pretty sure the college listed is just completely random when a player is generated the only way i can think of to make P5 schools show up more for players worth a 1st round pick would be to set the generator so that the college would be the last thing picked for a player and then weight each college for each range of players eg. 100-91, 90-81, 80-71 etc... probably much more trouble than its worth to JDB since what college a player went to doesn't matter at all in this game

now if he sets up something to make it more realistic in the ways players interact with one another(eg player/team chemistry affecting how they play on gameday) then i could see it making a difference, for instance if a player joins a team that has a few other players that played for the same college (especially if under the same coach in college) he might be able to adjust faster to working with his new teammates.

Am I the only one that a player with "Other" listed as their college bugs me?

+1

it probably indicates either someone who went to a 2 year college or didn't go to college since in the draft eligibility rules as long as 4 seasons have passed since a player graduated high school they can become eligible for the draft even if they never attended a single day of college