Solved Trouble accessing variable from another method

Hello,

I am having some issues accessing a variable from another method, this is more of a Java question than anything, but everywhere I research they say just put the variable outside of your methods, that's what I've done but it doesn't seem to be working, here is the code that is relevant:

I've defined the variable at the top of my class

Code (Text):

public final class Main extends JavaPlugin implements Listener {
    Player selected;

Then I select a random online player (that doesn't have a certain permission) and set that player to "selected". This following code is placed inside a PlayerInteractEvent

Code (Text):

            // Put all online players (excluding those with the bypass permission) into a list
            ArrayList<Player> allPlayers = new ArrayList<Player>();
            for (Player players : Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers()) {
                if (!(players.hasPermission("tracker.bypass"))) {
                    allPlayers.add(players);
                }
            }
            // If our list equals 0 meaning there are no players online that don't bypass tracker send the player a message
            if (allPlayers.size() == 0) {
                event.getPlayer().spigot().sendMessage(ChatMessageType.ACTION_BAR, new TextComponent(net.md_5.bungee.api.ChatColor.RED + "There are no trackable players online"));
                return;
            }
            // Finally, get a random player from our list of trackable players
            int randomPlayer = new Random().nextInt(allPlayers.size());
            Player selected = allPlayers.get(randomPlayer);

The final part is that I want to access the variable in another method, a PlayerDeathEvent to be able to see if the player dies that was selected

Code (Text):

    @EventHandler
    // When the tracking player dies stop tracking them
    public void onDeath(PlayerDeathEvent event) {
        System.out.println("Death event seen. Entity that died is: " + event.getEntity());
        System.out.println("Playing being tracked is: " + selected);
        if (event.getEntity() != selected) return;
        System.out.println("Tracker should be set to false");
        boolean trackerActive = false;
    }

As you can see I have some logging messages going on for debugging, and when I print out the variable "selected" it is null.

 

It should be the final line of the second snippet of code?

Code (Text):

            Player selected = allPlayers.get(randomPlayer);
 

 

My goodness, thank you so much, that's so dumb of me, I took a short (week or so break from coding) and between that and learning BukkitRunnables for the first time my brain is fried, thank you!