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Originally Posted by BirdWatcher
Hey, don't assume you will learn anything from me.
I'm mostly just stumbling around in the dark hoping to run into something useful and not something painful. |
Stumbling is how I found this method. It was kind of like...I wonder why that "Select Year" thing is there. Lemme try that. What the? Holy crap, all the modifiers just changed. I wonder what would happen if I found a year I wanted to use for my stats output. Looked at some possibilities before deciding 1984 was the one for me. Now let's test that out in say 1901, and sim the entire season and see what happens. I checked the 1901 OOTP league stats, and HOLY CRAP!!! They look awfully close to RL 1984 stats, and they sure don't look anything like RL 1901 league stats! Kept testing. It kept working, and here we are about 5 years later.
Stumbled onto the schedules I use that way too as I hate double headers, and there used to be a ton of them back in the day, and I hate interleague, and that's been around a little over 20 years now. I think there used to be a problem with the 19th century as well, which I used to play, where a 30 game season would last about five weeks or so, and I wasn't having any of that, plus eventually I decided that I wanted a 162 game schedule over the course of 182 days every year, so I made a bunch of extremely simple ones where either every team plays or no teams play on a given day. That sounds weird, so why would I do it? Because it was the easiest way to achieve what I wanted to achieve. Who cares what it looks like as long as it gets the job done? I wanted 81 games before the All-Star game, and 81 games after in order to have two true halves to each season, and now I have it. This game is chock full of happy accidents if you're willing to stumble around in order to find what you want.
