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Originally Posted by Gorilla Shakespeare
Importing players from the straight Lahman database is unrealistic anyway because you basically have to play those guys the year they debuted IRL or later. If you have a gaping hole in left field and you're controlling the 1930 Phillies, sorry but you're not getting Buzz Arlett until next year. That's an extreme example, but for all those cases where you might want to play someone a year later than what's realistic, there are by definition going to be as many as when you'd want to bring in a guy a year early.
Honestly, I just don't understand why people play this game with fictional players. People, Diamond Mind is *way* better at this sort of thing. I'm not saying this to drive away business, but it's true. As has been said elsewhere, OOTP is a holistic, career-level baseball simulator. It doesn't get individual seasons anywhere near as "right" as DMB or Strat-o-Matic or The Internet Game or Replay Baseball get them. It's not designed to. If you want to fit the squarish peg of historical gaming into the roundish hole of OOTP, that's cool. Just don't be surprised if you have to make some compromises (and get extra features that you don't get from DMB, such as the fog of war and realistic performances by little-used players when they come in off the bench to fill in).
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Gorilla's post here is exactly what I'm talking about. Need I say more? Sadly, historical simmers, who have loved OOTP in the past, may actually have to take his advice.