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This topic itself could be a separate thread... not the time or place for detail, but just in general: I'd like to see some flexibility and simplicity added in how we can access and utilize historical minor-leaguers and historical minor-league structures, perhaps introducing some non-historical options in order to simplify. So much awesome work has been done by devs and gamer-contributors, but it gets unwieldy, partially due to the unwiedliness of real-life minor leagues around the middle of the last century. And I suspect because of this unwieldiness, historical minor leaguers/leagues are under-utilized by OOTP gamers.
Just as one example of something that would be, IMO, a cool way to be able to setup a game:
- historical majors
- easy importing of historical minor-leaguers, either a) to their historically correct MLB organization, indy team, or as free agents, depending upon where they were in real life
- a basic minor-league structure that includes historical elements, but is much simpler (variations could be created by the community): the keys would be fewer levels, more stability.
(The might actually be possible now - dunno, but if so I believe it would involve a lot of continual manual workarounds.)
This is not at all to suggest that ongoing efforts to make historically accurate minor leagues work better should be abandoned. Only that if we also have other options, more gamers might use historical minor leagues.
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