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adamj · 09-02-2004, 09:43 PM

I am playing a solo league, and started the league as a historical league, having the game import players from the Lahman Database.

I'm wondering if this would fall into the "good" category of game created leagues, or the "bad" category of roster-set leagues?

I started in 1983, but I don't import the real rookies when going to the next season. I have the amateur draft in June with fictional players. I chose to play this way because I like the theory of using fictional players, to avoid having the name recognition advantage over the AI, but I wanted to start from a world I was familiar with. This lets me move gradually into a league of fictional players. I did try starting with all fictional players, but that seemed like waking up from a 20 year coma, and taking over a team, knowing nothing about the league's history.

In any case, I guess the many, many options are a big part of this game's success, allowing each player to play in whatever way is fun for them.

Now that I've rambled enough, I guess my question is: How does the Lahman import work? Does it fit the players to an approximate bell curve based on their relative abilities or does it just assign ratings to each player individually based on his stats alone?

09-02-2004, 09:43 PM	#7
adamj Minors (Double A) Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 101	I am playing a solo league, and started the league as a historical league, having the game import players from the Lahman Database. I'm wondering if this would fall into the "good" category of game created leagues, or the "bad" category of roster-set leagues? I started in 1983, but I don't import the real rookies when going to the next season. I have the amateur draft in June with fictional players. I chose to play this way because I like the theory of using fictional players, to avoid having the name recognition advantage over the AI, but I wanted to start from a world I was familiar with. This lets me move gradually into a league of fictional players. I did try starting with all fictional players, but that seemed like waking up from a 20 year coma, and taking over a team, knowing nothing about the league's history. In any case, I guess the many, many options are a big part of this game's success, allowing each player to play in whatever way is fun for them. Now that I've rambled enough, I guess my question is: How does the Lahman import work? Does it fit the players to an approximate bell curve based on their relative abilities or does it just assign ratings to each player individually based on his stats alone?