Problems With Historical Minor League Draft

MrMoose · 07-16-2021, 08:30 PM

OOTP 2020 and I set up an "era league" of 60s and 70s players, which I set for inaugural draft (I've done a few of these). I individually drafted players for MLB and what I thought would be AAA and AA affiliates for each of the 18 teams represented.

However, as I discovered after turning the AI loose to complete the remainder of the draft from there, MLB teams did NOT have representation at each MiLB level in 1961 and a number of them had multiple representations at different levels! The end result was MiLB is/was all FUBAR. For example, many MiLB teams have no rosters at all, while others (e.g., LAA) have 160+ players in a single affiliate level.

What this shows is that the AI, while recognizing the varying MiLB affiliations, does NOT properly set up draft order/rounds to be able to skip or omit teams who do not have an affiliate at a particular level, or who have multiples at a single level.

So, I would like to either (a) customize and import the draft order to make this work, or (b) externally complete the draft and import the draft results. Both of these show as options to import from a CSV file, but I can find absolutely no information on how either of these files should be structured. Anyone know?

07-16-2021, 08:30 PM	#1
MrMoose Bat Boy Join Date: Mar 2018 Posts: 15	Problems With Historical Minor League Draft OOTP 2020 and I set up an "era league" of 60s and 70s players, which I set for inaugural draft (I've done a few of these). I individually drafted players for MLB and what I thought would be AAA and AA affiliates for each of the 18 teams represented. However, as I discovered after turning the AI loose to complete the remainder of the draft from there, MLB teams did NOT have representation at each MiLB level in 1961 and a number of them had multiple representations at different levels! The end result was MiLB is/was all FUBAR. For example, many MiLB teams have no rosters at all, while others (e.g., LAA) have 160+ players in a single affiliate level. What this shows is that the AI, while recognizing the varying MiLB affiliations, does NOT properly set up draft order/rounds to be able to skip or omit teams who do not have an affiliate at a particular level, or who have multiples at a single level. So, I would like to either (a) customize and import the draft order to make this work, or (b) externally complete the draft and import the draft results. Both of these show as options to import from a CSV file, but I can find absolutely no information on how either of these files should be structured. Anyone know?