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rfniagara · 10-06-2017, 09:46 AM

I am likely missing something but I'm having a problem when trying to start up a 1966-67 NHL league. The first league scree when I create it starts off on October 1. I would like to advance the date after setting up my team but I received the message that the contract minimum is exceeded and can't advance until I release players to get to the 50 contract limit.
Since teams at that time sometimes had in excess of 100 players in their organizations, in the interest of historical accuracy I would like to change the contract limit to something like 99. Problem is that to do that I have to change the league rules. League rules can only be changed on July 1 and I don't see any way to move the calendar backwards from October 1.
I suppose I could just sim 1965-66 and start again on July 1 1966, but I'd still have to release a huge number of players on each team to sim that season and then add them again later on when I can change the roster limit. That's a lot of work just to get to where I want to start historically.
Couldn't the game be altered slightly so that when creating a league the program begins on July 1 so you can edit the rules? Am I missing a way to do this?

10-06-2017, 09:46 AM	#1
rfniagara Bat Boy Join Date: Dec 2016 Posts: 10	HIstorical Start-up I am likely missing something but I'm having a problem when trying to start up a 1966-67 NHL league. The first league scree when I create it starts off on October 1. I would like to advance the date after setting up my team but I received the message that the contract minimum is exceeded and can't advance until I release players to get to the 50 contract limit. Since teams at that time sometimes had in excess of 100 players in their organizations, in the interest of historical accuracy I would like to change the contract limit to something like 99. Problem is that to do that I have to change the league rules. League rules can only be changed on July 1 and I don't see any way to move the calendar backwards from October 1. I suppose I could just sim 1965-66 and start again on July 1 1966, but I'd still have to release a huge number of players on each team to sim that season and then add them again later on when I can change the roster limit. That's a lot of work just to get to where I want to start historically. Couldn't the game be altered slightly so that when creating a league the program begins on July 1 so you can edit the rules? Am I missing a way to do this?