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Originally Posted by Dutch Alexander

It took me YEARS to set up my fictional league. I started with OOTP18 and only actually started playing this league in OOTP 21. It's a short season 10 team league that play a 72 game schedule with a secondary 10 team league that play a 54 game schedule. Between the 2 leagues there is promotion/relegation. All "Major League" teams have 2 minor league teams, one "reserve" team and one "talent" team with an age limit of 21. On top of that teams have an International Complex that basically functions as a youth system. In my world there is no draft, teams acquire players through scouting and a few established international free agents that are generated each year.

In order to get the financials right and get the statistical output I want I literally had hundreds of 50+ year test runs after which I put the results into Excel sheets to recalculate the modifiers to then run another test with the new modifiers. To get this league to function the way I want was a complete and utter nightmare. In this game you have so many options, which is great, but that can also work against you as things can become very complicated.

that much time, effort and vision is impressive!

the most time i spent (besides getting the rookies #s) was getting my minor leagues set up. The game does some weird stuff on it own (like putting Hawaii and New York in the same minor league) - so i got out an Atlas and made the affiliated minor league teams within 200 miles of the Major League city, if at all possible.(of course, some of these cities may never really had a minor league team, but they got one now!) i still need to tweak one major league division, but i'll wait until i get a full season finished. Like you it seems a lot of the enjoyment comes from the time and frustration of getting things set up just like you envision and then having the whole thing work.