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Technical difficulties and their resolution (time flies)
My high school feeder league encountered a couple of glitches during the 1909 season. For some reason, it got hung up at the end of the regular season, possibly because there were ties for first place in two of the divisions that would have necessitated a playoff. Incidentally, I've run across that exciting scenario plenty of times, and it never caused a problem before.
Anyway, I deleted the high school league, throwing hundreds of teenaged free agents into the player pool. I was afraid something else in the league files might have been corrupted, so I quickly simmed out the 1910 season without a high school feeder league.
Everything went fine, so I added the high school league again--this time with 12 teams in two divisions--and began 1911. The season completed without incident.
To make sure, I went ahead to 1912. When that season played out perfectly, I became convinced that everything was cool.
As a result, I won't be covering the 1909, 1910, 1911, or 1912 seasons in the format I used for 1904-1908. I'll write a season summary only. If we all like the revised format, I might stick with it.
So, stay tuned for the next chapters of the FLL story. They'll feature the shifting fortunes of more than one club; the appearance of a team that might go down as one of the best of all time, at least for one glorious season; the arrival of several players who look like they might be not only very good players, but interesting characters, too; the farewells of several stars who made the first seasons of the league worth watching; and the disappearance of more than one player under circumstances I couldn't figure out.
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