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Originally Posted by Ksyrup
Just to follow-up on a related issue, when doing an historical sim, the game changes some things (adds the all-star game, for example), but doesn't change many, if not all, of the roster rules. So, you need to manually enable the Rule V draft in 1933, the player draft in 1965 (unless you want to continue placing players on their correct teams or are already using the draft), arbitration in 1973, and free agency in 1976. There are a couple more, like waivers, 40-man roster, etc., that I don't know, but there probably needs to be some explanation in the manual of what the game automatically does and what you need to change to be historically accurate.
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As you noted, the game does not make such historical adjustiments to the various league rules. I did raise that idea during beta testing, but it didn't get much traction at the time, probably due to more important things to work on.
Also, to nitpick, the Rule 5 draft was around before 1933, albeit in a somewhat different form (as with a number of other league rules, such as trading and options).
An area I intend to work on for possible inclusion in OOTP2008 is more and better recreation of the older major league rules. There were a lot of differences in how the leagues operated then and how they operate now. That said, finding exactly what those older rules were is a bit of a challenge...