[1998 Yankees]

Would someone please verify this from experience?

I have the Retiring Players Option set to "Delete those who never reached Majors." I think this means that these deleted player IDs get recycled and assigned to newly created players, thereby saving players.dat file size.

Does this mean, as I think it does, that any accomplishments of a deleted non-MLB player will be reassigned as well; that is, the new player's name will appear on the accomplishment list instead of the deleted player? If so, the same would probably be true of awards history and leaderboards.

As evidence, I have included below two snapshots, one of the PCL Accomplishments page, showing a "Julio Samame" as having pitched a AAA no-hitter "back in" 2006. The other is of Julio Samame's player profile, dated April 30, 2012. This particular player was not drafted until 2008, so he was not around in 2006 to have pitched a no-hitter.

I suspect that Samame's slot was held by another player in 2006 who "actually" accomplished the feat but who never made it up to the bigs. That player retired, his ID was recycled by the game, and it is now held by Samame. Hence his name appearing for a no-hitter that he never pitched.

I am not reporting this as a bug; it's probably too late now anyway. I would just like confirmation of my theory so that I know what to expect and plan accordingly. It may lead me to have a smaller universe with the deleting retired non-MLB players option turned off.

Excuse me if this has been discussed and confirmed in the past. In that case, kindly direct me to the thread if you can. Thanks in advance.