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Right upfront, my main goal: To be able to play actual historical teams/leagues and to be able to hold a draft at the beginning of the season with real historical players (not from the same season). I want to be able to choose all players for the draft for various seasons.

1. I downloaded the Lahman53_csv database and it seems to work. When I choose Batting1966-2005 it then asks me for a year id like. I randomly chose 1984 and it seems to have downloaded the entire 1984 year (pitchers and all) even though I only chose batting... is this correct or do I have to download every file in the Lahman directory for every season I want to use?

2. Is there any way to download all of the Lahman directory at once into the game or does it have to be year by year?

3. How would I go about setting up a draft pool completely from scratch using historical real players? I dont want to, for example, start with 1984 and then add a few from 1986. I want to add, say, 40 players from each year in the 80s.

4. While Im going to use real players from real seasons, Id like the team cities and such to be my own fictional creation (Raleigh-Durham, Sacramento, Cape Girardeau, etc). Do I need to set up that league before the draft pool or can I set up the draft pool before the league? And how do I start a league from scratch like that?

5. I thought I had downloaded 1984 and 2001 from Lahman. I even went into the 1984 Cubs and made lineups and such... but then when i exited and reopened the entire game, neither 1984 or 2001 were listed at the borrom under historical/imported leagues. Why would this be?

So many questions and Ill probably have many more.....

Thank you so much to whoever helps a newbie with things like this.....

Ill more than happily accept answers on here but if someone could meet me on yahoo messenger or aol Id be overjoyed to do some real time running through of the game while i have the screen up.

Thanks guys!
Shawn