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I play strictly historical, but in an almost fictional context. Sometimes it's to see if I can do better than the real guys did, others to see, "What if?" I'll do odd expansions, fiddle with ballparks, etc. The players are always real, and I almost always use real minors rather than random debut. That said...there was the time I had the Phils in Baker, the Braves in Borchert, the Nashville expansion in Sulphur Dell, and the Salt Lake City in Bonneville Park...you want to talk statistical cluster jam? I also loathe free agency and find the DH to be an abomination. I've expanded as far as a 64 team MLB and it really does play havoc. I've also done it so the westward expansion happened over the course of decades, and incrementally—Denver and Houston got franchises before LA & SF in that world.
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