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I was thinking, we currently have 86 human player teams in Bulgaria and 250 bot teams, some of which have 100+ players on their rosters. If we assume that a bot team needs 10-12 players to operate just fine, this calculates to ~15-20 000 bot players that nobody needs or cares about in Bulgaria only!

Considering Bulgaria amounts to a little over 0.5% of BB user population, a very rough estimation would be that there are over 3 million totally useless bot players active right now. Another speculation - if once again we assume that a normal human team has 12-15 players, for 13000 active teams this amounts to roughly 200 000 active players in human-controlled teams.

Now it looks so shocking that I must admit I myself do not believe my calculations are correct. Maybe Bulgaria is just s special case, maybe those numbers are not right but I doubt they are that much far off.

It would seem that 90+% of the players that you guys have in your DB are nobody-cares-about bot players. Now those players have fully accessible profiles with history, stats and all there is... A huge amount of useless data!

If you were to design a simple algorithm to just pick the 10-12 best/youngest etc players of every bot team and remove all the rest in the beginning of every season I think this will be a big relief to the DB.

Size doesn't matter. In today's computers I mean.

Those players do not train, age, change their game shape ...

They are not a problem because there are no calculations with them.

Well, they do age and update their salaries and history actually:


but maybe you are right, can`t say for sure...

Yes, they age, you are right.

So they are processed in the off-season update.

Yep

They continue to train as well iirc? Not sure if this was changed but last time there was this 200k salary Swiss PG with very high passing and dishing out 20+ assists per game. Can't exactly remember the full story (it's been years) but I reckon you can still dig it up from these forums.

Oh wow, it's been that long?

That said, do you still remember who was that player again? Iirc it was speculated that his passing could have been a few levels above 20.