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Originally Posted by Reed
I am sticking with my current 1901-2023 recalc + development league. Rain King has a good suggestion of recalculating ratings mid season.
I don't like starting my league as a random league because I don't like having a few stars (like Mays or T. Williams) in that era coming in as older players.
I did try 1901-2000 how I normally start my leagues but it didn't work as I had hoped.
I started historical league in 1895 like I normally do, then change lt to random with min-max years 1896-1900, 20 rounds rookie draft. RAH ON. Missed seasons off. This way I get all players that played 1895 to 1901 in the game. Interesting those players (H. Wagner, C. Mathewson, etc.) come in (and have always this version) with their retirement age as their real retirement age (not their 1901 age). Then in 1896 I change Random Min-Max to 1901-2000 (normally I changed it to1901-2023). Using 1901-2000, players that played in 2000 will unfortunately use their real life age in 2000 as their retirement age in my game, not their IRL retirement age..
So no benefit of using 1901-2000.
Will stick with 1901-2023. Recalc + development.
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Ok, I think I finally have a league setup using RAH. Using 1901-2005. Created league in 2006. 3 year recalc, development off. No way could I stomach playing the actual 2006, so I rolled things back to 1978. So that I would have the option to expand in the future, I removed Arizona and Colorado from the league and set the 14 team subleagues to four 7 team divisions. 154 game schedule, 84 division games, 70 non division.
To start I'm using 10 round drafts with the game creating enough players for 11 rounds. During all the test trying to get this work, it was easy to see that a lot more players retire each year when using RAH. I want to be able to use high short term, low long term injuries. Would love to use normal long term, but I just don't think teams will ever have adequate roster depth to do so, unless I go with an even bigger draft.
I'm actually using the reserve clause to start out. Figure since I have to use so many teams, less player movement will make it easier to get to know the teams. The old players not retiring and sitting on the roster, but never playing problem won't be an issue with RAH on.