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Originally Posted by Braden
How do I start a New Historical Game for the 1929 Negro League and get both the American & National Leagues. Every time I try, I only get the National. I got through the whole process and to add a division for the American Negro League, none of the teams are there to be selected.
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Negro Leagues included in OOTP do not strictly follow historical. For example, the 1929 Negro National League, per Seamheads.com, included 7 teams. Those 7 teams, plus the independent Nashville Elite Giants are included in OOTP's NNL. I can't say for sure, but I believe this was done simply to have an even number of teams in the league...
The NAL does not appear in OOTP until 1937. I'm not sure why this is, but it might have something to do with the available data at the time of OOTP's implementation of Negro Leagues (which I believe was OOTP 17). I know that data is available for NAL teams prior to 1937 from the source data that OOTP uses for minor leagues. However, I think - but am not sure - that for NeL's - OOTP instead uses data from Seamheads. So perhaps at the time, Seamheads' data was not available for those seasons...
The above is mostly just semi-educated conjecture... I believe the data guru on this was Spritze, who is unfortunately no longer with us.
I will see if I can find out more info...