[Eugene Church]

I have 4 Leagues in an Alltime Allstar League:
Major Leagues
Class AAA
Class AA
Class A

20 teams in each league

Until OOTPB add complete minors, I will use 4 separate leagues and manually promote and demote players from one classification to another. I like to have complete stats for my minors.

To totally play out 40 games a day would take me forever. So I sim 2\3 of a game and play out about 1\3.

In order to control substitutions, I sim for 6 innings...then keep track of when the pitcher is coming to bat, so I can make the decision to leave him in or take him out...As much as possible, I don't let the AI make any choices. If I'm at the top of the order, I sim by half inning. If it looks like a pitcher might bat, I play each batter myself.

This works out very well and pretty much eliminates the double switches, which were not prevalent in 1950's baseball that I want to play.

It also allows me to get familar with the players and teams as time goes by. I hardly remembered anything when I simmed a week or month at a time.

I play about one day's schedule in each league each day.

This allows me to pick each starter, not the AI.
I can choose a reliever as a starter, so this give my pitching staffs more realistic innings pitched than the game does, if I simmed a week at a time or more.
My middle relievers get more realistic innings pitched this way.
The AI seems to ignore the #1 and #2 middle relievers.

So far, I have been patient and am willing to play out each season under my control, rather than let the AI do it.
About once a month, I revamp my rotations and depth charts.

I'm only at May 17 in my leagues, but I am really enjoying the game this way.

Previously I would sim a month at a time, but was not pleased with the way the AI handled pitchers and made substitutions.

Now I am pleased.