[Carlton]

I tried this once

The trick is to have other leagues in your game as well...International, American Association, Texas League, Western League

and check the transaction log...most will have errors since I am not sure about the historical ID for the Minneapolis Millers or Kansas City Blues et al

So click the player and manually assign them to the team
Cheap workaround

It was a pain and not worth the hassle. Creating a mostly historical sim in OOTP is not possible, it is geared towards modern day baseball.

For the one who said go back to 12...seriously the best version for historical sims was OOTP 5, after that it started getting more complex in order to immerse oneself in modern day baseball (drafts,international,scouting,finances,pbp) and it got buggy and took up a lot more space

I've had the game crash 5 times trying to simulate history, all at different times and the backup restore skewed some reports making it a do over.

However, for online modern/fictional leagues, I love the newer versions of OOTP, but maybe I should go back and do my historical sim in OOTP 5, where I got 80 years of history over 2 years while finding old player photos and uniforms

Sorry, just wanted to rant as the angry old man