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Originally Posted by BaseballMan
I was thinking of starting in 18871 with no min up to 1899 for random debut and then change it to 1900-2014 when i reach 1900. I was thinking that the19th players should not cross over into the 20th century much more than it did in real life but i could still have the random affect.
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It's hard to know what's the right thing to do. One thing that's certain is that the 19th century pitchers tend to dominate a bit in the 20th century. I don't know if I can mitigate that by doing what I do with 1984 LTMs, PCMs, and Strategy Settings for all seasons. On the other hand, I don't want to rule out the 19th century studs like Honus Wagner, Ross Barnes, Cy Young, Kid Nichols etc.
I've just thought of something that might complicate things for you. If you shrink the pool of players to 1871 through 1899 for those seasons, you may run into problems getting enough players for those seasons. If you remember when you start a straight historical in 1871, you start with 115 players, but with random debut, you'll be starting with 8 teams * 44 players per team = 352 players in the database.
I'm not sure what you'd have to limit your drafts to in order to survive through to 1899, but I know I prefer 5 rounds per draft. Whatever you do, it's going to be close, as there were only 2,191 players that came into all the professional leagues between 1871 and 1899. Between 1871 and 1881 there are 8 teams in the standard OOTP setup (your setup is different I know), and between 1882 and 1899 there are 16 teams, so let's say you have a 5 round draft. That's 11 drafts (1871-1881) where you need 40 players, which means you'd need 440 players on top of the original 352, which is 792 players. Then you have 18 drafts (1882-1899) where you need 80 players, which means you'd need 1,440 players plus the 792 is 2,232 players, which is beyond the total amount of players available, so now you're down to four round drafts, or your 1899 draft will only have 39 players in it. Follow what I'm saying or is it gibberish?
TL;DR: It's going to be a tight fit if you try to set it up the way you're proposing. Great idea to try to keep the 19th century guys to the 19th century though.
