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Originally Posted by Lucas718
This seems worth looking into. I'm only at the start of Spring Training in the new season. Already have a backup taken, so it could be worth a try to reimport the league from 25 and run through the off-season again to see what happens. If it works, it could save many many hours of manual updates.
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It's a timing thing. OOTP updates minor league structure (reads from the milbteams.csv and milbleagues.csv files) as it transitions from the postseason to the offseason. So if you just finished up your 2020 season on Oct 15th, then when you advance the game to Oct 16th it will update your minors structure (and also any MLB changes to team names, ballparks, etc.) on that same date. It will also import all of the pro players who debuted in 2021. You may not want those in your fictional game.
So you are in the early stages of spring training. If you enable historical minors now I don't believe it will have any real effect. Not until you transition from the 2021 posteason to the 2021-22 offseason...
A couple things:
1) Here's maybe a way to deal with the importing of real players that you don't want in your game: Right before you advance to the offseason and the real players import, put ALL of your players on a Shortlist (MLB dropdown > Transactions > MLB Player List, select the checkboxes to include minor leaguers and so forth; mass select all players and then right-click over any player's name to put all players on either the Default Shortlist or a shortlist you create. Then, advance the game to the offseason, go back to that same view and setup a filter where Shortlist Is Not [Default]. That will display all of the real players who just imported to your game. Next step? Mass delete them.
2) I'm not 100% clear on this, but I *think* it will be important to make sure your Historical Team ID's and/or Historical Franchise ID's of your MLB teams match those that are in the teams.csv file for the upcoming year of when you are trying this. This *should* ensure that - with all of the milb structure changes - players don't get disassociated from their MLB organizations and dumped in the FA pool.
Theories ^^^. Test it out first
