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Originally Posted by Cap
Ok. This has no doubt been asked a million times before (I've probably asked it myself and just forgot). From a casual baseball fan, can this be done?
To play the game as manager without any financials or auto-trading or other specialty functions on.
Set up two leagues of eight teams each. Some real historical teams and a few fictional teams. Populate each team with historical players, both MLB and Negro League, of my own choosing (ie. Maybe Honus Wagner plays for the Tigers or the Red Sox.) and maybe one or two fictional players. Each team with a few pitchers and position players in a farm club to be brought up if needed.
No inter-league play. Play both leagues with DH. Play a 132 game season with the best team in each league going to the World Series. In other words a simple Fantasy/Historical universe where I act as manager of one team per season and only change pitchers in-game and pinch-hit or make defensive changes between innings. Mainly sit back and watch the game play out.
If this can be done, is there a child-proof step-by-step instruction somewhere on how to set this up? I only have so much time in a day and only so many years left to learn.  For some reason my wife likes to see my face once or twice a day....
Cap |
Aside from the Negro League part of it, the answer is yes. For the Negro Leaguers to be included, you'd need to invoke historical minors, which rules out the fictional side of things. But you cannot selectively include or exclude historical players - it is an all-or-none, season-by-season (or, alternatively, random debut) deal, I'm afraid. You could, of course, go through and delete those you don't want after they come into the league.
As for the rest of it, trust me you don't really need a step-by-step guide - the Setup Wizard is fairly straightforward.
As far as the individual parts of your request are concerned:
- financials are only activated by the user, the default is OFF
- for no trading, simply uncheck it on setup
- I think the way to go would be a fictional setup but check real historical rookies; this will give you fictional teams and from there, in the wizard, you can select historical ones as desired, otherwise you'd be beholden to the historical setup of the day rather than the structure you want
- either select the MiLB level you want at setup or it can easily be added later
- make sure the Draft is checked if you want historical players going to random teams
Off the top of my head, that's it. Others may have deeper insights but really, what you are asking for is pretty easy to do.
Hope that helps
G