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Originally Posted by StLee
As a long-time reader of your dynasty and the Jiggs McGee "All Things Figment" thread, I had a point to ponder, not about your team, necessarily but the the Figment universe. Since I see some rad school names, like the Perth Amboy Jaguars, how many colleges/schools are a part of the Figment universe for the pool of players? Did someone go into the universe files and edit each college?
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I can answer this one. Our high schools used in OOTP are for the most part real but our commissioner edited the file to give it more of a 1920s or 30s feel when we were in the early days of the league and decided to abandon feeder leagues. So we have about 3400 high schools but a lot were changed to shrink the file to be more era appropriate. There are a lot from cities like Chicago and New York that are all real but in places like Arizona where the high school pool was greatly reduced you only have one from many cities so you will see things like Phoenix High School in the file.
The colleges were completely edited to be custom schools. There are 505 of them in our OOTP schools file and all are fictional but correspond for the most part to real schools - so Notre Dame is St. Blane, UCLA is City College of Los Angeles etc. 112 I believe are included in our college football league as D1 schools and closer to 200 in our basketball league. We also do a College World Championship Series for our D1 baseball schools but a lot of liberties are taken with it and it uses a separate league file.
Finally there are about 200 junior colleges and I believe, but can't remember exactly, that the commissioner edited the names of most or all of them.
So short answer - Schools file is edited with colleges all being fictional and most high schools being real.