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Originally Posted by jakobscalpel
1. Replay all seasons in baseball history sequentially
2. Use real life players with real life stats on fictional teams and leagues
3. Have full computer roster management and GM functions for x number of computer managed teams in the fictional leagues. I'd likely manage 1 or 2 of the teams
4. Relegation style leagues
5. Ability to customize standings so that a point system (4-2-1-0) is used instead of win/loss records
6. Ability to turn off salaries and contracts but retain GM for drafting/trading
7. Ability to customize schedule so that an in-season tournament (similar to FA Cup in English Premier League) is played but that the statistics from the in season tournament are not added to the season totals. This in-season tournament would need to handle pitching rotations seamlessly.
8. Ability to migrate fictional leagues easily from one season to the next with real-life player availability trimming the rosters
9. Ability to specify the number of players kept on each roster for the next season
10. Ability to customize the free agent draft order each season
My impressions on what is supported. I could easily be wrong on some of these:
1. Available
2. I think this is possible but not sure
3. Available
4. Available but not clear on the limitations, if any, for goal #2
5. Not Available
6. Available
7. Unknown
8. Not Available? At least, I didn't see how in the demo last year.
9. Unknown
10. Available
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1. Correct, but with a caveat. 1901-2010 are available. 1871-1900 provide enough information that they can be approximated. The players are available, and in the correct years, but not on their historical teams. (Version 12 might correct that, depending on what the feature 'historical transactions' turns out to mean.) The league structures and schedules would require considerable customization, and some of it (like The Year of the Three Leagues) will never be exact. Trying to get teams to expand and contract on exact dates would be difficult, but not impossible, and likewise for creating schedules for the leagues with an odd number of teams. Le Grand Orange can provide you with 'as played' schedules for most or all of those years.
2. Available
3. Correct
4. per Cooleyvol, available
5. per Cooleyvol, available
6. Correct
7. per Cooleyvol, available
8. If you mean playing with real players and having some of those players disappear during military service, or when they were on the DL or in the minors all season… hmm. The Lahman database should have the 'out of service' years for each player, and if you know where to look for that information I THINK you could mod that yourself, but it would be labor intensive and might not make you happy. I'm not an expert on that, but I think the way you'd do it is to retire the player at the end of the season just before the one(s) he missed, then un-retire him at the end of the season just before he historically returned. Lord only knows what that would do to his career stats, or whether his skills would atrophy while he was away. Presumably the roster list (or database) you choose to play with would compensate. That's a long way of saying, "I think so, but I'm guessing."
9. Available
10. Correct