Historical/Fictional help

majesty95 · 02-25-2008, 09:07 PM

I searched for this but never found an explanation of how to do it, just that it can be done.

I want to set up a post-strike baseball universe starting in 1995. I am going to take the 14 largest MLB markets and the 14 of the largest Eropean and Asian markets and create a world baseball league (yet to finalize a name, either WLB, WBL, or WBA). I want to import real players and have an inagural draft (I was thinking about having the MLB teams draft first and each make their first selection an existing player from their 1994 team. Can I set the inagural draft order and manually draft the first 14 players and then let the CPU do the rest?). I also want to draft historical rookies (preferably when they made their pro debut, not MLB). I'm just not sure how to do all of this.

From what I can tell, the only way to do this is to create a historical 1995 league. Then create a new league structure with minors how I want it and then delete the MLB model that was originally created. I'm just not positive that's how to do it or if there is a more simplistic way.

Since I'm using larger markets I'm thinking of upping the ticket prices and media contract about 20% and the avg player salaries 10% to compensate for many of them having to play overseas. I also want to do a revenue sharing so that every team can compete and no team can buy up every player. I wish I could take the entire profit from every team and then redistribute it evenly. Would that be accomplished by setting the cash max at $0? What if I was to set the cash max at sat $5 or $10 mil to reward financially savy teams? What pitfalls would I encounter?

Any other thoughts, suggestions or tips are welcomed as well.

Thanks!

majesty95 · 02-26-2008, 09:49 PM

Anyone?

wlight1 · 02-27-2008, 12:35 AM

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Originally Posted by majesty95

Anyone?

I have no idea; I'm a purely fictional player myself (at least partially to avoid dealing with complicated setup issues), but I can say that it sounds like a really awesome idea.

majesty95 · 02-27-2008, 12:51 AM

Thanks! I thought it would be cool and I may do a background on it and an update with how it progresses. Just need to get it started though.

zekester91 · 02-27-2008, 11:12 AM

Revenue sharing in the game is not really revenue sharing, it's more of take excess cash from rich teams, make sure all teams are out of red (0 cash) and get rid of any remaining. if you set the Cash max to 0 all teams would start the Offseason with 0 cash (anyone that had cash would lose it and the teams in the red would be brought up to 0).

I don't think there is a DB out there of when players made thier pro debut, although you might check the Mod section, every DB I've seen uses the MLB date. This is becuse no-one has ever made a complete minor league DB from 1900, this project would be too huge, look at the problem of just trying to get a current roster set with full minors, and that's just one year.

majesty95 · 02-27-2008, 02:18 PM

I'm pretty sure Gambo did one. I think I used it once in 2007. Its just been awhile since I've played OOTP.

majesty95 · 02-27-2008, 08:05 PM

Here's a link to my logo request that has some background on the league. Kind of a preveiw of the dynasty report to follow if anyone is interested.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...ml#post2424601

majesty95 · 03-01-2008, 04:19 PM

OK, well I figured it out. You have to create and start a historical league. Then, once in season, go in and delete and move teams around and delete divisions. One problem I ran across was when changing the name of cities was that in the player history it shows the new team as opposed to the real ML team. To combat this, I'm going to have to either create or move AAA teams up and rename them for the Asat and Europe teams and then move the MLB teams I don't use down to AAA. I was planning on using all fo the MLB teams that weren't in the WBA at B League (my AAA) so that should work.

02-25-2008, 09:07 PM	#1
majesty95 All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 1,790	Historical/Fictional help I searched for this but never found an explanation of how to do it, just that it can be done. I want to set up a post-strike baseball universe starting in 1995. I am going to take the 14 largest MLB markets and the 14 of the largest Eropean and Asian markets and create a world baseball league (yet to finalize a name, either WLB, WBL, or WBA). I want to import real players and have an inagural draft (I was thinking about having the MLB teams draft first and each make their first selection an existing player from their 1994 team. Can I set the inagural draft order and manually draft the first 14 players and then let the CPU do the rest?). I also want to draft historical rookies (preferably when they made their pro debut, not MLB). I'm just not sure how to do all of this. From what I can tell, the only way to do this is to create a historical 1995 league. Then create a new league structure with minors how I want it and then delete the MLB model that was originally created. I'm just not positive that's how to do it or if there is a more simplistic way. Since I'm using larger markets I'm thinking of upping the ticket prices and media contract about 20% and the avg player salaries 10% to compensate for many of them having to play overseas. I also want to do a revenue sharing so that every team can compete and no team can buy up every player. I wish I could take the entire profit from every team and then redistribute it evenly. Would that be accomplished by setting the cash max at $0? What if I was to set the cash max at sat $5 or $10 mil to reward financially savy teams? What pitfalls would I encounter? Any other thoughts, suggestions or tips are welcomed as well. Thanks!

02-27-2008, 12:51 AM	#4
majesty95 All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 1,790	Thanks! I thought it would be cool and I may do a background on it and an update with how it progresses. Just need to get it started though. Last edited by majesty95; 02-27-2008 at 12:56 AM.

02-27-2008, 11:12 AM	#5
zekester91 All Star Starter Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 1,122	Revenue sharing in the game is not really revenue sharing, it's more of take excess cash from rich teams, make sure all teams are out of red (0 cash) and get rid of any remaining. if you set the Cash max to 0 all teams would start the Offseason with 0 cash (anyone that had cash would lose it and the teams in the red would be brought up to 0). I don't think there is a DB out there of when players made thier pro debut, although you might check the Mod section, every DB I've seen uses the MLB date. This is becuse no-one has ever made a complete minor league DB from 1900, this project would be too huge, look at the problem of just trying to get a current roster set with full minors, and that's just one year. __________________ Bobby Bowden must have a hell of a recruiting pitch, "Son if you come on down to Tallahasee, you just might be able to watch me die during practice!" The road was closed while the Hartford Police Department's bomb squad came and blew up the chicken.

02-26-2008, 09:49 PM	#2
majesty95 All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 1,790	Anyone?

02-27-2008, 02:18 PM	#6
majesty95 All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 1,790	I'm pretty sure Gambo did one. I think I used it once in 2007. Its just been awhile since I've played OOTP.

02-27-2008, 08:05 PM	#7
majesty95 All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 1,790	Here's a link to my logo request that has some background on the league. Kind of a preveiw of the dynasty report to follow if anyone is interested. http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...ml#post2424601

03-01-2008, 04:19 PM	#8
majesty95 All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 1,790	OK, well I figured it out. You have to create and start a historical league. Then, once in season, go in and delete and move teams around and delete divisions. One problem I ran across was when changing the name of cities was that in the player history it shows the new team as opposed to the real ML team. To combat this, I'm going to have to either create or move AAA teams up and rename them for the Asat and Europe teams and then move the MLB teams I don't use down to AAA. I was planning on using all fo the MLB teams that weren't in the WBA at B League (my AAA) so that should work.