[DaBears]

Originally Posted by kcroyalty29

After all those years of heartbreak, the KC Royals have won the 2031 and 2031 World Series, and are getting set to play the Giants for the second straight year in 2032. Hoping for a three peat.

I'm still going to play several more seasons of this franchise, but eventually, want to go back and start with the 1989 Royals - the team that first made me fall in love with MLB and the Royals.

Questions:

1. How many of the real draft prospects who were selected in 1990 will be there again in the June of 1990 draft?

A big decision you will have to make is whether you have minors or not. I only play with reserve roster in historical - so the answer may be different with minors. If you have import historical rookies checked and turn off the creation of players for the draft, the game will import the players that made it to MLB with the Royals in 1990. This is different than having a draft, but the only way to play if you want a real life game with KC through the '90s.
If you just want to run the team and not have the actual players the Royals selected, then the draft class will be accurate but you'll be drafting different players than KC did. Up to you.

2. Further, as the years pass, will the guys who eventually made the majors later on be in the correct draft years or is it only accurate the first year or two and made up players after that?

As above, it will be accurate if you want it that way, with the caveats above.

3. Will it automatically add the Rockies/Marlins in the correct year and the Rays in the other?

Yes.

4. I'm assuming it will be the 1989 ballparks when I start - will it update to the new parks as the years pass or do the old ones stay around?

I believe the ballparks are not in your created game. I think it uses Turner Field in ATL as the default for everything that is not an active stadium today. In 1989, that's going to be like two-thirds of the league. I import the current stadium for each team and don't worry about historical stadiums, but others can give help there.

5. Are free agency salaries all VERY close (within a few hundred thousand) where you can basically get any player you want since real life salaries back then were way lower and much closer together?

I play with real transactions so that is turned off. I have never been happy with the game's historical finances. Maybe it's better now.

Thank you!!!

Dave

See above - my best shot since no one had provided feedback.