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Originally Posted by lukasberger
How would you suggest scheduling regular season games against an All-Star team from an entirely different league? It's not doable in OOTP right now. Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do about that.
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Personally, I'd say if fundamental operating parameters of the league(s) cannot be reproduced properly then don't include them for the moment. There is hardly any pressing reason that all the independent leagues had to be included this year. Given the compromises necessary to include the leagues the result is sufficiently close to fictional that they are no longer realistic representations of the real thing. And if they're basically fictionalized, then they can be disregarded for the time being. The Atlantic and Frontier were included while the AA and Can-Am were skipped.
As to interleague play, that could have been handled by some improvements to the schedule file structure for associations. By adding a few extra fields regular season interleague play in associations could be done. But you may recall a discussion about associations in which numerous folks basically dumped on and disregarded the feature. Well, it turns out the real-life AA/Can-Am situation would have been well-suited to improvements to that feature. (And really that's been the case for since 2012, when the AA and Can-Am League first began regular season interleague play but without post-season competition.)
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Originally Posted by lukasberger
Actually I guess we didn't add them since the Can-Am doesn't really consider them to be a member team. There's no place in the OOTP structure to put them, really. They'd have to have their own one-team sub-league.
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They may not be a 'real' member in terms of long-term membership, but in terms of their games counting in the standings for both the club itself and the other clubs it plays, it is a real member club.
That the Grays and Shikoku teams are ineligible for the playoffs could be handled by improvements to the playoff customization options. I've largely worked out a comprehensive system for overhauling that feature, but again, there was little interest was shown in pursuing it. The overwhelming view seemed to be of continuing the status quo for both associations and playoff customization.