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Originally Posted by cephasjames
Secondly, when I click on the attachment for 2002-2005 nothing happens. The other years work great just not those.
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Hmmm, no one else has reported a problem with those. Try again, and if you still have problems, you can drop me an e-mail and I can always try e-mailing the appropriate files to you.
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Originally Posted by LeafsFan2005NC
The way I have handled the 19th century, with league alignments and such is to have the NL always be a single division (excepting the years of 1876-1881 and 1892-1900 when I split the league between east and west, combining the standings at the end). The year 1884 is always the trickiest since there were a total of 33 teams split amongst three leagues. Fortunately v6 allows me to have four divisions so I place all the AA teams that played the majority of the season and stayed on for 1885 in one division with all the extras in another division. For the UA, I place all the teams that played the most games in one division and all the teams that played very few games in the other division. Of course, the UA did start with 8 teams in 1884 and retrosheet has a schedule showing those 8 teams playing the entire season (imagine tiny Altoona playing all 114 games that season).
For the 1890 Player's League I just create an extra division in the league holding the AA teams and add an extra team to the AA (since the AA fielded 9 teams after all was said and done). The extra team remains for 1891 since the AA fielded an extra team that year to finish out the schedule.
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That highlights the problems with some of the 19th century seasons - other folks will approach those years in different ways. There'd have to be some kind of consensus as to how folks would handle those seasons and then I can get the schedule files to match that approach.
As to the 1884 UA, the full 12 teams can in fact be approximated. What essentially happened in reality is that when a club dropped out of the league, the new club that entered the league took over the departed club's schedule. This can actually be done in OOTP, so you end up with the initial team playing for so many games and then stopping, while the replacement club starts playing games at the point where the departed club stopped.
The same kind of principle can be applied to the 13 team 1884 and 9 team 1890-91 AA seasons.