How to create fictional league with historic players?

KurtBevacqua · 11-24-2016, 01:05 PM

The fictional league button in the League Creation Wizard says you can build fictional leagues with historic players. How? I cannot see any option in the settings to plug into a data base for player drafts or a way to use random historic players for a fictional league.

What I really want to do is start a league from scratch and have a vast amateur draft using historic players as pure rookies. I don't see a way to do this in historic leagues either, you always have to start with a base of at least 704 veteran historic players. I want every historic player as a pure rookie.

eriqjaffe · 11-24-2016, 03:19 PM

I think you need to create a historical league (either normal or random debut), release all the players to a draft pool if necessary, then delete all the real teams and replace them with fictional teams.

Or something like that.

Curve Ball Dave · 11-24-2016, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by eriqjaffe

I think you need to create a historical league (either normal or random debut), release all the players to a draft pool if necessary, then delete all the real teams and replace them with fictional teams.

Or something like that.

You can do that.

Or you create your fictional league, then add a historical league. Dump all the fictional league players into a free agent or draft pool and delete them. Now, delete your historical league (yes, the whole thing), all of those players will be free agents. Schedule a Fantasy Draft and there you go.

I know that's a lot to do and I wish the game can make the process easier, but it doesn't.

KurtBevacqua · 11-24-2016, 06:08 PM

I don't think that gets me what I want. I'd like to have a league that starts with random historic players who are all true rookies. I think those recommendations are just round about ways to get me a league that still starts off with veterans.

Curve Ball Dave · 11-24-2016, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by KurtBevacqua

I don't think that gets me what I want. I'd like to have a league that starts with random historic players who are all true rookies. I think those recommendations are just round about ways to get me a league that still starts off with veterans.

If you want all true rookies then there's no fast (not that the above methods are fast) way to do it. You'd have to create your league, delete the players, then import chosen historical players from the free agent screen and use their rookie years for the import year.

KurtBevacqua · 11-24-2016, 06:23 PM

OK, I figured out a way to do what I want. I did the intial game setup as a historic league, but set the timeframe for players from 1876-1877. I created amateur draft for random to be a 100 player draft. Released all the active players, then deleted them as free agents. Set the amateur draft back to include all players from all years, then simmed to the amateur draft and voila, I have a league of randomly generated rookies from all eras.

Curve Ball Dave · 11-24-2016, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by KurtBevacqua

OK, I figured out a way to do what I want. I did the intial game setup as a historic league, but set the timeframe for players from 1876-1877. I created amateur draft for random to be a 100 player draft. Released all the active players, then deleted them as free agents. Set the amateur draft back to include all players from all years, then simmed to the amateur draft and voila, I have a league of randomly generated rookies from all eras.

BigRed75 · 11-24-2016, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by KurtBevacqua

OK, I figured out a way to do what I want.

Well done!

But then again, I expect nothing less from the 1975 Joe Garagiola/Bazooka Bubble Gum bubble-blowing champion!

jparker2112 · 11-26-2016, 09:57 AM

I like this idea a lot! Im curious...did you do the setting to include the era you are in and allow for league setting to evolve naturally? meaning...dead ball era is actually dead ball era and so on? so Nolan Ryan could be getting 93 starts in 1887 etc...id be interested in seeing the all time records if thats the case!

11-24-2016, 01:05 PM	#1
KurtBevacqua Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 2,968	How to create fictional league with historic players? The fictional league button in the League Creation Wizard says you can build fictional leagues with historic players. How? I cannot see any option in the settings to plug into a data base for player drafts or a way to use random historic players for a fictional league. What I really want to do is start a league from scratch and have a vast amateur draft using historic players as pure rookies. I don't see a way to do this in historic leagues either, you always have to start with a base of at least 704 veteran historic players. I want every historic player as a pure rookie. __________________ "The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man" - William Graham Sumner

11-24-2016, 03:19 PM	#2
eriqjaffe Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2003 Location: Under The Christmas Fish Posts: 7,732	I think you need to create a historical league (either normal or random debut), release all the players to a draft pool if necessary, then delete all the real teams and replace them with fictional teams. Or something like that. __________________

11-24-2016, 06:08 PM	#4
KurtBevacqua Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 2,968	I don't think that gets me what I want. I'd like to have a league that starts with random historic players who are all true rookies. I think those recommendations are just round about ways to get me a league that still starts off with veterans. __________________ "The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man" - William Graham Sumner

11-24-2016, 06:23 PM	#6
KurtBevacqua Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 2,968	OK, I figured out a way to do what I want. I did the intial game setup as a historic league, but set the timeframe for players from 1876-1877. I created amateur draft for random to be a 100 player draft. Released all the active players, then deleted them as free agents. Set the amateur draft back to include all players from all years, then simmed to the amateur draft and voila, I have a league of randomly generated rookies from all eras. __________________ "The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man" - William Graham Sumner

11-26-2016, 09:57 AM	#9
jparker2112 All Star Reserve Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Denver CO Posts: 879	I like this idea a lot! Im curious...did you do the setting to include the era you are in and allow for league setting to evolve naturally? meaning...dead ball era is actually dead ball era and so on? so Nolan Ryan could be getting 93 starts in 1887 etc...id be interested in seeing the all time records if thats the case!