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Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn
...also, in exhibition games fatigue does carry over, but injuries do not happen. That was a design decision since exhibition games are added to the schedule, and many people use that for some custom playoff stuff  |
I did not know that. Excellent news!
Exhibition games during and after the regular season were once a very common thing in MLB. The only remnant left nowadays is the Hall of Fame Game, but in earlier years, exhibition games were played frequently by major league clubs.
I've often thought it would add an interesting element for historical leagues to have the option of recreating those exhibition games. A researcher compiled for Retrosheet a list of some
2,800 in-season exhibition games that were played by MLB teams over the years. And, of course, there were the post-season "city series" which were played between the clubs of two-team cities.
Having those occur in historical leagues (at the user's option of course), especially if linked to proper news stories, would add a new level of depth and historical authenticity. Folks not familiar with this part of baseball history might find it quite fascinating to see that aspect unfolding in their leagues.
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Originally Posted by swampdragon
There really should have been 19th century schedule files. The generated schedules are not suitable for 19th century play.
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I am all too aware of this.
There just wasn't time to get them completed. Garlon's version of pre-1901 history required a fair amount of juggling in terms of schedules, and my perfectionist side just wouldn't let me throw any old thing together — the schedules had to be reasonably authentic. Unfortunately, this requires a fair amount of editing for some years which is rather painstaking and time consuming. It'd have been a lot easier if the real league sizes and alignments could have been used, but OOTP can't handle that just yet.
To be honest, there was a point where I just got so frustrated with the schedule editing I just had to stop and take a break for a few days.
There are thirty pre-1901 seasons to do. I've got twelve ready to be converted to OOTP's schedule file format; that means there are eighteen left to go. I want to get these finished within the next two weeks (hopefully less).