[Tony M]

A hex editor is the best way of doing this.

[disclaimer]
take a copy of your world.dat before doing this - I accept no responsibility for any damage caused to your game or health by following the upcoming instructions.
[/disclaimer]


1) Note down in the following order AI weightings for Current Year, Last Year, Two Years Ago and Ratings, and then exit OOTP
2) Using your hex editor, open world.dat and in the search window find four bytes in a row with the values from 1) in the order given
3) I'm guessing that you're in a solo league so taking a look at the byte layout from the file you should see something like

a b 0 0 0 0 c d e f g h i j CY LY 2YA R

where CY = Current Year AI Weight
LY = Last Year AI Weight
2YA = 2 Years Ago AI Weight
R = Ratings

you can ignore bytes c through j and the four bytes before c should be 0 (if they're not you're either on a different version of OOTP or doing this to an online league)

as a backup check

b = Maintain Hidden Players (1=Yes, 0=No)
c = Personality System (1=Yes, 0=No)
d = Delete Players who never made it to majors (1=Yes, 0=No)

If those don't match, you might be in the wrong place in the file.


If auto-save is currently set to yearly, byte a should be equal to 1 - changing it to 0 will turn off auto-save.

I haven't gone back into global setup after making this change so don't know if that will crash the game but you shouldn't need to go back into there after initial setup anyway.