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plannine · 05-12-2019, 02:54 PM

After the initial draft, most players come in at the age they were during their first MLB season. (The only exception, which i have not experienced, might be players who had a inconsistent mlb career, with large gaps in their playing time due to injury, full seasons in the minors or military service)

In my playing with random, I try to have a limit on growth, so I have used the late 1890's as my starting date, with players from any 10 year time period for the initial season.
I will usually take any HOF'ers who show up in the initial draft, late in their career out of the draft (delete), import a new rookie version of them

The first season, I usually select 1948 as my base, and I play around with the modifiers (after every 2 weeks or so) until the league leader stats look close to what I want the league to look like.I usually make small adjustments over time, but try to keep things under control (1950's numbers). Each season my draft pool settings are 5 & 15 (NO MINORS) After the first year, I expand the player pool 10 years in both directions, and do so each year until all players a included. Since my focus is to have reasonable league leaders, the league totals can (and will) be a bit off. Long as I don't have people hitting 200 home runs, stealing 200 bases or striking out 200 batters in 100 innings pitched, I am happy.

Another thing you could do, is to run the initial draft, release all players, delete all free agents, then import whatever players that you want in your first season.

05-12-2019, 02:54 PM	#7
plannine All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Michigan Posts: 555	After the initial draft, most players come in at the age they were during their first MLB season. (The only exception, which i have not experienced, might be players who had a inconsistent mlb career, with large gaps in their playing time due to injury, full seasons in the minors or military service) In my playing with random, I try to have a limit on growth, so I have used the late 1890's as my starting date, with players from any 10 year time period for the initial season. I will usually take any HOF'ers who show up in the initial draft, late in their career out of the draft (delete), import a new rookie version of them The first season, I usually select 1948 as my base, and I play around with the modifiers (after every 2 weeks or so) until the league leader stats look close to what I want the league to look like.I usually make small adjustments over time, but try to keep things under control (1950's numbers). Each season my draft pool settings are 5 & 15 (NO MINORS) After the first year, I expand the player pool 10 years in both directions, and do so each year until all players a included. Since my focus is to have reasonable league leaders, the league totals can (and will) be a bit off. Long as I don't have people hitting 200 home runs, stealing 200 bases or striking out 200 batters in 100 innings pitched, I am happy. Another thing you could do, is to run the initial draft, release all players, delete all free agents, then import whatever players that you want in your first season. __________________ Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa - Casey Stengel Last edited by plannine; 05-12-2019 at 08:47 PM.