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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange

That's straightforward to duplicate: the incoming team takes over the schedule of the club which exited, which is exactly how the majors handled it.

You still have the problem of tie games not appearing in the simulated version.

For example, in the 1882 NL season, Detroit played 86 games, even though the schedule was for 84 games. Why? Tie games. (Detroit's record was 42-41-3). In the 1886 AA season, both the Brooklyn and Cincinnati clubs played 141 games in a 140-game schedule (the former finishing 76-61-4 and the latter 65-73-3). The 1887 New York Giants played 129 games in a 126-game schedule due to tie games (68-55-6). In 1888 the AA Brooklyn club played 143 games in a 140-game schedule (its final record was 88-52-3).

But all tie games don't appear in the as played schedule since they did not produce a win-loss result, and thus are treated as postponed games. (The rule was, and still is, to replay tie games in their entirety at a later date, schedule permitting),

On this point we are in absolute agreement.

How would we identify the tie games easily? Retrosheet?