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Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn
It is just a matter of taste how things are displayed. I greatly prefer it the way it is now, because I can see how the extinct teams did on a single screen.
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The thing is, in official baseball history, those teams are not extinct. The team records and everything else carry over. So, for instance, if you look up the all-time batting average leader of the LA Dodgers, you get Babe Herman. That is how it is officially recorded in history, even though Herman played for the
Brooklyn Dodgers. The franchise is continuous. As it is now, Babe Herman shows up as having the record for a defunct team called the Brooklyn Dodgers. In my 1987 league, the LA Dodgers all-time leader is listed as Tommy Davis, which is inaccurate for real baseball history.
It's not just a matter of taste; that's the way history is recorded.
The game handles it correctly if you start in 1901 and move forward, but not if you start in a later year and look back. That doesn't seem consistent to me.