[Expat28]

I am new to OOTP 2007 and I think what I am trying to do is possible but for the life of me I can't figure out how.

I would like to simply play just as if I started the 1980 season as a manager/GM of one of the MLB teams but I want to start with empty rosters and empty front offices for all teams which would allow me to appoint myself the manager of the team of my choice, hire my personnel (from the full available pool of staff) and then draft from the pool of available real-life players. I would also like that all cities/teams start on equal footing financially.

I tried to start a historical league and import the Lahman database and use the "release all/draft" feature but i can't release all the staff and the starting financials are drastically different for each city.

So then I tried to create a standard league and renamed all the teams thinking I could import the real players in after the fact to replace the fictional players but that seemed also impossible.

Can anyone help me to create league using real-life teams and players with all teams starting off empty and equal (no players or staff, equal money and financial potential) that would add historical rookies each year to the draft?

Thanks in advance!

(if you can't already tell I am a Baseball Mogul player evaluating making the switch to OOTP. All of these features are pretty much the default in BM (at least the way I played) so I am just trying to compare apples to apples by using the same initial setup)