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Originally Posted by majesty95
- I want trades to happen as they did in real life (I may want to make my own trades periodically though.)
- I want free agents to sign as they did in real life unless I steal one away.
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You can do this, and depending upon how many real life transactions you want undo and how many non-real life transactions you want to make, it's not that difficult, but you'll have to undo some of the historical transactions and of course make the non-real life trades yourself... It also may be worth noting that OOTP's historical transaction module doesn't care what team a player is on when he is about to be traded. It will simply assign him to the new team regardless of whether or not he was on his historically-accurate team just prior to the trade.
So, for example, let's say you want to keep Fred Lynn on the Red Sox for his entire career. You will need to either undo the 1981 trade that sends him to the Angels, or - at a minimum - send Freddy back to the Red Sox and let the rest of the trade stand. Both of these can be accomplished by simply editing the player (and you might also want to edit the player's history so it doesn't show that he was traded to California)... You will then need to do this each time that Lynn changed teams in real life. This is because, regardless of what team Lynn is on at the end of the 1984 season, OOTP's historical transactions module will put him on Baltimore for the 1985 season.
The other thing to keep in mind is the downstream affects of your decisions. For example, if the O's don't get Lynn in 1985, they will have a hole in their lineup (as would the Angels from '81 thru '84). And you'll also find that down the road, perhaps the 1986 trade to acquire Dave Henderson might not make much sense with Lynn already a fixture in center field.
If you're not overly concerned with these downstream affects (or if you are concerned and can have fun with the management of these what-ifs - you could, for example, give Tony Armas to the O's in 1985 so they don't have that hole on the roster), and you don't plan on altering transaction history
too much, it can work and disaster won't eventually ensue.