[Steve Kuffrey]

The following will help save time in particular and may also improve speed of game play or sim time as well.

- Turn off all background programs.
- Make sure your PC has been defragged fairly recently (last 2 months).
- Reduce the average amount of players per team to about 85 players, and set the ammy draft's to run about 5 rounds.
- Play with minor league stats turned off. Turning trading off will also increase the speed, but not sure if you want to do that as it impacts the game (minor league stats do not).
- Fewer teams = faster sim, so if you are going fictional anyway, consider trying a smaller league if your PC has a low amount of RAM.
- Make sure you have plenty of empty hard drive space, ideally a gig free depending on hard drive size.
- If you have a low amount of RAM and are familiar with PC's (or have a friend that can help) attempt to optimize your PC - there are lots of things you can do to make a little RAM go a long way.
- If you have a low amount of RAM buy more - it's cheap
- Depending on your OS, rebooting your PC (if it has been on for a very long time) will help too.