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Originally Posted by Johnny99
Actually, I like running a fictional league and bringing in real players as I see fit. Your league looks great, but if I'm not mistaken, it only has about twenty years of life in it. I like to run long term universes.
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You are correct, since there are limited players, there is no draft, so the league can last about 20 years, maybe more if you adjust the aging factor (?). In fact, that is one of the reasons why we have it set up for 8 total teams. We were really scraping the barrel to find this many. (If you have read James' Abstract, most people haven't even heard of the players ranked after 50 by position) There may be enough players to handle a few more teams, but not really enough stars to support having a rookie draft. If you cut down the league to 4 total teams, then you could hold some players in reserve for a draft but that may only add 10+ years to it. I have created a random rookie year file for draft purposes before and could do so with this DB, if there is enough interest.
Some friends and I have been playing 10-yr leagues with the same DB over and over. A DB of all time stars based on actual career stats. After each season, we claim our few "keepers" then throw everyone else back in the draft, so we get some movement. After 10 seasons, we redraft from the original file. It has been interesting to see who the stars are, b/c of OOTPs randomness in talent changes, there are always several players that become stars, and sooooo many pitchers that don't develop. It is fun to compare the 10yr results, see who the hall of famers are each league, and about half of the stars change.