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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
That particular aspect is a hornet's nest of difficulty. The franchise history of the minors is nowhere near as well-defined and documented as is the major leagues. There are numerous cases where it isn't clear just what happened with a club, and sometimes reference sources don't agree....
There are instances where it is not clear whether a club moved to a new city and an expansion team was placed in the vacated city, or if the team in the new city is the expansion team. Just looking at the standings from one season to the next will not answer the question.
What about the league level? E.g. league statistics, playoff formats, All-Star Games, average attendance, schedule lengths, etc.
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Right. These would be certainly be challenges to one degree or another. They would not, however, be challenges for the developers; these would be challenges for modders who would be creating the csv files that control team movement & league evolution. In some cases assumptions would have to be made (as with the example you cited). But if we are looking for plausible and/or authentic rather than totally accurate, I'm sure we could get there.
First we need OOTP to simply allow the functionality to control minors via csv files.