[chucksabr]

Whenever I have tried to start a new custom game, choosing to create a real world league to start with, they all start on March 18th, two weeks before the first game, which is well out of preseason and into Spring Training. That's no problem if I just want to dive in and go, but if I wanted to make some settings changes, like add a new league or change the schedule length or add or delete the All Star Game, it's already too late to do so. I would prefer it start on January 1st, but I can't figure out how to change that. Is this the way it just is, or can this be changed somehow?