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I think I have skipped a year in my accounts here, but I can add it later. I confess I am wearying of the league, mainly because I built-in two flaws: one is too many players, which I only figured out how to adjust too late, with lower numbers of draft rounds and by putting age and totals limits on minor league rosters. But it seems unwieldy sometimes.
The other issue is that while I thought 1986 would be fun because of the great balance between home runs and running games and batting averages, the actual totals are a little too high - not quite steroid era high - not teams with four 40 home run players, but a little high. The offensive game is fun, but gets old eventually, as happened by the early 2000s in RL MLB.
So I have been spending time on another team, in a league with 1974 settings perpetually instead, and with 5 round drafts (thanks all of you who have advised that), and three minor leagues with 15 man roster limits, and with strict age limits.
This adds a dimension of strategy (I have the same age limits in this league, but set the total roster limits too high, might adjust it eventually): you have to decide whether an aging player who is 36 and has a few useful RL years left is worth keeping on the ML roster, because you can't send him down to AAA which has an age limit of 35 (29 for AA, 25 for A), or whether you want that position for some young player who may or may not be ready. I like that dimension, but don't like using the 40-man roster limits and Rule 5 to get there.
Anyway, I am enjoying the austerity of 1974, a season I remember very well.
But...I have run the 1921 season for this 1986 league, and so here go the results:
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