Create myself as a player before i take over a team

[RBPD5015]

I have a fictional universe where I have a HS and NCAA FEEDER along with the USBL my major leagues. I am simming from 1970 and want to take over after some history is built. This is what I would love to do but it is not possible.


Make a player with a birth year of 1976 (My age) have him start in HS as a player, when he retires after HS or After MLB, I then want to start coaching as him.

I want to then coach a HS Team for 3-4 years - This should be fun as players will rotate out and ill have no control. If I like that ill take over a college team for 3-4 years and then move on the pros.

Now I can do all the coaching starting at HS and moving up. However I can do it from a created player unless I am missing something.

If my Namesake ends up playing for 20 years till he is 40, I still got another good 20-25 years of coaching.


Thoughts?

[vrobx1]

Originally Posted by RBPD5015

I have a fictional universe where I have a HS and NCAA FEEDER along with the USBL my major leagues. I am simming from 1970 and want to take over after some history is built. This is what I would love to do but it is not possible.


Make a player with a birth year of 1976 (My age) have him start in HS as a player, when he retires after HS or After MLB, I then want to start coaching as him.

I want to then coach a HS Team for 3-4 years - This should be fun as players will rotate out and ill have no control. If I like that ill take over a college team for 3-4 years and then move on the pros.

Now I can do all the coaching starting at HS and moving up. However I can do it from a created player unless I am missing something.

If my Namesake ends up playing for 20 years till he is 40, I still got another good 20-25 years of coaching.


Thoughts?

You can take a retired player and activate him as a coach. He'll most likely start off as a bench coach. He may eventually become a manager. Then, if you wanted to control his team as if you were the coach, you would have to go into commissioner mode.

I did that with OOTP 17. I simmed out a fictional players career starting in 1871 and then converted him to a coach. He then made the HOF as a player and won the World Series as a manager in the same season.