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Originally Posted by joefromchicago
Right now, I believe military service in fictional leagues is handled by story lines, and you should be able to write story lines that would handle military service during the civil war.
Also, remember that, in the north, military service was nowhere near universal, and many well-to-do men were able to avoid the draft through the purchase of replacements. That was certainly the case with many of the middle-class members of the baseball clubs that existed in the New York area during that time. So although you should allow for some players to miss playing time due to the war, don't expect everyone to enlist.
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How does one go about editing the storylines? I had them off because a charity golf tournament, public affair, etc was anachronistic here. But I had no idea I could manipulate all that...
And for who goes, I did some basic research on that. From what I figured up, about 25% of able bodied males served at some point for the north, much higher for the south, as you mentioned.
I'm planning on rolling 1-100 (random.org makes this so easy, I can do a whole team at once) for every player in the league before each season 1861-1865. A player volunteers/gets drafted on 1-4, stays 5-100. Then, I'll commissioner assign them to a team in the war league based on their hometown. I'll probably roll again with the same percentages once everyone is moved, this time for all the players in the war league, to affect casualties. If my math is correct, that means I have about 20% of players at least do some service, of varying lengths, with about a fifth of that group unable to return to the game after the war. It would also be neat to have some guys come up who were generated in the war league, who for my purposes learned the game in camp or something.