the automated draft picks for unowned teams are often pathetic

in current Anything Goes RO draft the second overall pick was used on a punter

not quite sure if this qualifies as a bug, but something that should certainly be fixed

an unowned teams draft selections should go to the player with the highest trade score by default. please make that happen

(...for any team...)

Woe be any team with out a manual draft order. That includes teams with human GMs.

As for non user run teams, there's much improvement for the player weights used that cause AI teams to draft poorly.
For non-user teams, fix the former, fix the latter.
AI teams drafting by the highest trade score based on poor default player weights does not solve the matter. I'd wager it would only make the issue much worse, as the current game engine uses a player rating defined by the current default player weights.
Back to the front (always a Metallica ref), Ai teams are doing exactly as they have been told, as it's been said (coded), when they pick (when they are told to).

Completely valid post. Great topic. I hope i helped you gain some info. Right track, wrong cause.
I hope i didn't discourage your pursuit of fixing AI draft pix. It certainly needs to be a priority in the new engine.

Setherick has been beating this subject until he just could not beat it anymore since i joined way back in 2018, and is the go-to guru about the concern.

alway a pleasure to read your zany posts, however i gained zero info. if a team with an owner doesnt set their draft board that is clearly on them

if an unowned team does not currently have a punter on roster the code shouldnt draft one with the second overall pick

there is no AI in this game. its all code. the default weights arent that bad in my opinion. i dont use them, but that is kind of the point. OL has the highest trade scores for some reason, may be since they play longer. the easiest fix for instant improvement would be to autodraft the player with highest trade score by default while limiting drafting the same position

what we used to call AI (coded; non-user opponents) is *not* what we call AI this day.

We can agree there's not much info. I shared all I know about the subject. Not surprised we both know all there is to know.

Again, an incredibly valid topic, worth more information and more transparency,