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Originally Posted by tquigley4
Hi all,
I have been trying to start a random debut historical league, but I would like to make it a fictional league. The problem I am having is with the inaugural draft, upon league creation the inaugural draft is filled with fictional players. I am wondering if there is a way to make the inaugural draft filled with historical (random debut) players.
One strategy I have thought of is to create the save with the MLB, then create a new fictional league and delete the MLB. The only problem with that is I would like my fictional league to be 10 teams, so there would be 30 teams worth of players in the draft and the teams would be filled with talent.
If you have any suggestions or solutions to my situation, anything would help.
Thanks!
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What year are you wanting to start in? How many teams do you want to use?
This is how I create a fictional random debut league.
First I decide how many teams I want my league to have. My current league started in 1978 with 24 teams.
To start I used the historical game wizard to create 1978 with random debut selected. I make sure to uncheck the box for automatically expand league. This is really important. If you don't uncheck that box, OOTP will undo all your changes and revert to the historical correct setting once your league reaches its first offseason.
While in the historical wizard you can use the advanced mode to relocate teams, give them new nicknames etc.
Once your league is created, you can edit your league structure and set your divisions in any way you desire. Just make sure you use a schedule that fits your setup. When I created my 1978 league I deleted California and Montreal and set the league to how it looked from 1969-1976.
One thing to keep in mind is OOTP is going to import enough random players for a 44 round draft. This is according to the actual historical setup for the year you choose to start in. So if you start in 1978, OOTP will create 1144 for your inaugural draft. If you delete two teams, the game still has the same 1144 players available. So in my case, my 24 teams picked 47 players instead of 44 in the initial draft.
You can allow the league to import historical modifiers according to each historical year or use one year as a base or several years. I've been using 1978 as my base.
When using the historical wizard you can decide whether you want to use recalc, the OOTP development engine or a combo of both. If you want it to be more random with most real players being like they were in real life, but some going off the rails, I would recommend using solely the development engine. If you like things to stay closer to history with some surprises, I would use a combo of both. I don't recommend using only recalc. If you go strictly with the player development engine, make sure you choose entire career for base player fielding ratings on and base pitcher stamina on. This way guys like Nolan Ryan and Curt Schilling won't remain relief pitchers for their entire career.
Again make sure you uncheck the box for automatically expand league.