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Reed · 05-11-2019, 11:33 AM

If you start in 1901 (or any year), players will that missed that season in real life due to injury, war or whatever will not show up for those years if you have selected players miss season as in real life. You will then have Jimmy Ryan show up at the end of the 1901 season with his real stats showing up as his career OOTP stats up to that point. You will have players showing up at the end of 1902 that missed 1901 and 1902 in real life. Players will also show up at the end of 1903, 1904 etc until about 1907. This is not unique to 1901, it happens for any year you start BUT there is a workaround!
If you want to start your historical year in xxxx (let us say 1901), start the league about 8 years prior (1893 in this case) and just fast sim the game to the spring of 1901. Then set up you teams and structure anyway you want. Go into league functions on bottom left erase league history, service time, career stats, etc. BUT DO NOT ERASE INJURIES. You can leave players on their present teams (the teams will be pretty balanced) or you can release the players and have a draft. The players that missed 1901 in real life will show up on the draft list as injured but you can still draft them and place them on the injured list. These players like JImmy Ryan will then be on a teams injured list with no career stats showing. This way you will not have players showing up far the first few years of you league with their real career stats showing up as stats in your league
This might sound like a lot but it really does not take long. About 3 minutes and however long it takes your computer to fast sim about 8 years.

05-11-2019, 11:33 AM	#6
Reed All Star Starter Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 1,942	If you start in 1901 (or any year), players will that missed that season in real life due to injury, war or whatever will not show up for those years if you have selected players miss season as in real life. You will then have Jimmy Ryan show up at the end of the 1901 season with his real stats showing up as his career OOTP stats up to that point. You will have players showing up at the end of 1902 that missed 1901 and 1902 in real life. Players will also show up at the end of 1903, 1904 etc until about 1907. This is not unique to 1901, it happens for any year you start BUT there is a workaround! If you want to start your historical year in xxxx (let us say 1901), start the league about 8 years prior (1893 in this case) and just fast sim the game to the spring of 1901. Then set up you teams and structure anyway you want. Go into league functions on bottom left erase league history, service time, career stats, etc. BUT DO NOT ERASE INJURIES. You can leave players on their present teams (the teams will be pretty balanced) or you can release the players and have a draft. The players that missed 1901 in real life will show up on the draft list as injured but you can still draft them and place them on the injured list. These players like JImmy Ryan will then be on a teams injured list with no career stats showing. This way you will not have players showing up far the first few years of you league with their real career stats showing up as stats in your league This might sound like a lot but it really does not take long. About 3 minutes and however long it takes your computer to fast sim about 8 years.