[thehynes]

hi all, I have played ootp before but it was a few years back and my memory is fading!I know that the reason I couldnt really get on with it was that my 'ideal' game involved a fictional league and ootp at that time couldnt provide me with what I was really looking for.
Anyway, if one of you could humour me and answer some or all of the following questions I would be very grateful.
Before I begin what I would love to do is create a British League in 1875 and play on from that point (I might also create an Australian League). My questions are:

1) If I start a British League in 1875 would I be able to further down the line create an English League, say in 1890, and have them then have championship playoffs against each other? I'm pretty sure the answer to this is now yes when it the past it wasnt doable. Can anyone confirm?

2) Can I stop all play in my fictional universe for seasons at a time but still have the players ageing? I ask because my league(s) would, unlike the American majors, if they had existed in 'real life' have stopped play throughout both WW1 and WW2. Can I suspend all games at the end of the 1914 season and then restart in 1919 and have all of my players aged accordingly?

3) If I did have an Australian League - entirely separate from my two UK Leagues - how would I arrange occasional championship games between them? Exhibition games? Is this easy to do?

4) I would like to have occasional games between the World Series champions and my UK champions. I dont want to be running the American leagues in my fictional world though so..........for example, if I wanted my 1927 champions to sail off to the States to do battle with the NY Yankees am I able to import the 1927 Yankees from Lahman and then have them sitting separately from my leagues and then stage an exhibition series against them?

5) Is there the capacity in OOTP2007 to stage international games i.e England v Australia ? If this isnt one of the features would I be able to achieve this by setting up an exhibition game where I pick players from different teams and put them into international teams? If I did this would it ballsup my player history?

6) I see that you can now set financials going back to 1901. Can I change this year by year? For example could I set the financial year as 1901 for every season I have between 1875 and 1901 and then let it progress from there so that 1920 matches 1920, 1970 matches 1970 etc etc?

7) I also think the answer to this one is yes but would like a confirmation - if I delete a team and let all its players become free agents I do get to keep that teams history?

8) I can still import players from Lahman and then change their name? For example if in 1875 I wanted WG Grace (the giant of English cricket) to play for one of my teams, I could import Babe Ruth from Lahman and then change his name to WG Grace??

9) errr, thats all I can think of at the moment!!!

thanks in advance