there's a ghost player option for MiL, allows it to play wiht fewer. essentially temp players are created to play the games and destroyed after a game is played. (you may see remnants if games remain to be played that day and at least one has been played already.)
with historical players, i'm not sure what else you can do? you could have fictional players augment MiL pool and click setting that doesn't allow them to advance to MLB as another option beyond ghost players. that would allow for a larger draft class or however you are injecting players into your leage each year... essentially you need more, obviously. but, if histocal real players aren't in large enogh # it can't happen without playing people out of era (wrong years etc).
i think this is a current issue with historic play and a mil system active based on past forum posts? like i said i don't play this way. bit unknown on somethings. career mil players may not be in the dB. so you only have the mlb players that "made it" from that time period. can't fill it with just that.
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Re-calc - this is for players ratings. it's not on the Stats and AI page. how often you do this is all about what you want. no wrong way. although if you do it certain ways it will cause more peak/valley results or even them out over career depending on your chocies.
Auto-calculate modifiers button -- callibrates League Total Modifiers wiht current talent levels in league so that stats will be somewhere near the League Totals listed.
no "wrong way" with autocalculate either, but may not be as intuitive as far as what needs to be done to get what you want, and it may require compromise between individual results and league results matching what you want.. may not be able to get both. most likely cannot -- not a fault of ootp, but a funciton of varied perceptions human to human as the cause.
autocalc every year is bad. don't do it. adjust after auto calc to try to avoid a 15 war season if oyu didn't do somethign about that wiht Re-calc options.
you likely wil need to click autocaclulate in future if your stats start to deviate too much as things change - like an era change creating new types of players(different by ratings). whatever you also did after that, you should make some sort of note. e.g. you autocalc, then reduce HR by 10%, increase 2b by5% and reduce SO by 5%.... same process each time you autocalculate.
in that example i said era change.. not the best choice. the things you do after auto-calc may not remain the same after you go from 1 Era to the next as the new types of players develop and turnover the league. within 10 years or so you'll have to adjust those "things" you've learned to adjust after autocalculate.
if era doesn't change, no worries. or settings or...
