Actually,

A player can play in something like 50 games in a season, and play no more - and still be considered a rookie the following year...


>>So it's possible to also get a list of accounts created before 2001 but that start using UT e.g. post the first message in 2001, to add to the Rookie nomination?
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>Well, yes, if the account was created but never used, then it never represented anything. It's like in Baseball I guess where a player could be eligible to be a rookie if he never played a game before.