Help needed with league history issue.

[Caporegime]

I'm attempting to simulate World War 1 in my league and want to suspend both play & record keeping until 1919. Following chucksabr's in-depth tutorial below...

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...d.php?t=237110

.....I've managed to suspend play and turn off everything except for whatever it is that's still sending information to the league's History Index. New playoff champions are being listed every year despite that fact that no games (including postseason games) were actually played.

Is there any way to prevent this from happening? I'm at such a point of desperation that I'm actually toying with the idea of just renaming every team in my league "Play Suspended - No Winner" until the war ends just so the League History Index will at least look right.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Matt Uk]

Originally Posted by Caporegime

I'm attempting to simulate World War 1 in my league.

Is this an add on?


Sorry, just tickled me! Hopefully someone can answer this for you

[Caporegime]

I guess this is more for future reference than anything else, just in case some hapless nerd like me would like simulate the World Wars down the road and conducts a search here on how to do it.

First, follow chucksabr's instructions here very carefully to deactivate everything in your league.

Second, even with no games scheduled or simmed, there appears to be no way to prevent the game from anointing whichever team happens to be listed at the top the standings as "Champion" in the League History Index. For aesthetic purposes, you're going to have to sim from one year to next and manually rename whichever team that happens to be, as I did in the following examples:




Yes, you'll even have to take these steps for any tournaments you have scheduled in your league. For all intents and purposes, the game treats tournaments as separate leagues, and so must you in this scenario.

[mp33]

I'm creating a similar league and stumbled over your post. Thanks for the hint! It was frustrating finding proper solutions for this.

I think I found a little prettier workaround to solve this renaming thing.

I created an independent league (named World War One, abbreviation WW1) with four teams.
I named two teams "No games played" "due to War" (with abbreviations WW1/WWI) and two teams "League Suspended" "World War One" (WW1/WWI). I moved the "League Suspended" teams to my major league and all teams from the major league to the independent league.

Then I followed the instructions (including disabling the tiebreaker games) and went to preseason. I scheduled a few games between the created teams so only they would be a champion, not the former major league teams which have no games.
After the war, move the teams back, and the indy league can easily be deleted.

This way, the major league teams have "WW1" in their history and didn't win a "WW1-Championship". And you don't have to rename your original teams.

[andyhdz]

Originally Posted by Matt Uk

Is this an add on?


Sorry, just tickled me! Hopefully someone can answer this for you

lol imagine the morale for those guys.