I have a hybrid fictional-real league that started in 2006. I decided I wanted to import a bunch of real MLBers who've debuted in the time since that didn't make it into my universe.
To accomplish this the easiest thing seemed to be to go to the historical import function under free agents, come up with a list of player IDs, set the import date to 2013, and hit go.
And it seemed to work. I have Buster Posey and Mike Trout some other guys now in the free agent list. Oh, I didn't mention my game date is December 27th, 2012.
But... all of the new imports have terrible ratings. Posey has all of his great real life stats. As do Trout and the others. But they're all rated in the 30s and 40s on the 20-80 scale. Flat-out awful. Ratings of guys who wouldn't make it out of AA. Scouting reports reflect this. If I go into the editor the "example stats in modern MLB setup" (I'm paraphrasing) says they'd hit .150 with 5 homers.
So what's the deal? Did I do something wrong? Was doing a historical import of a current player not the best way to do this? Ideas?
