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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
The National Association had no fixed schedule. Clubs arranged their schedules individually with other clubs by mail correspondence. Also, membership was not restricted, meaning teams could enter or exit the NA during the season. These are the major stumbling block for the NA years. How should these be addressed? (If I recall correctly, the idea behind the NA was that each club would play the others in what effectively was a best-of-five arrangement. The clubs would schedule five contests, and once either of them had won three, the remaining games, if any, were not played. Standings were ordered by number of wins, not winning percentage.)
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If you use the as played schedules then everything should match up. As long as you make your transactions match. Like not scheduling a historical trade after a team has folded.
If you are using the actual schedule instead of the as played, then how much does it matter? Because you will now have players and teams playing far far more games than they really did. At that point you may be on a more loose historical anything can happen replay than a strict historical replay. Doing it that way would be easier and less work but not as close to the real historical 19th century play imo.