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Having read A Game of Brawl recently, and being entirely dissatisfied with the faked-up 19th-century structures provided with OOTP9, I'm thinking about working up a more genuine 1897 world. I want the 12-team National League with real players, real ballpark factors, and real schedules, plus the Ban Johnson Western League and at least some of the other independent minor leagues of that year.
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I'd be satisfied with a fairly rigorous recreation of the NL, plus reasonable facsimiles of a couple other leagues. I'm okay with using realistic-for-era fictional players in the minors, and even some of them jumping into the NL, as long as it looks right. I do want something to go on for the relative strengths of the leagues, though.
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You may be able to create an historical league and assign players to their original teams instead of holding a draft. Then you'd move four teams from the American League the game created over to the National League and delete the American League. After that, you'd have to input the as-played NL schedule from Retrosheet into the game manually. It's time-consuming, but doable. Remember to uncheck the automatic expansion option. I think that will give you a good 1897 replay, but I'd make no representations about whether the league would survive into the 20th century without crashing. You'd almost certainly need to manually handle the franchise changes in preseason for 1900 and 1901, and even then I have no idea of what the effect will be. Let me know if you try it and how it turns out. I guess something else you could try that might be a little more stable would be to rename the American League to the Western League and expand the National League to add the four extra franchises. You'd still have to rebuild the National League's part of the schedule, but you could turn off playoffs and let the two subleagues operate independently. Then you could just contract the National League in 1900 down to eight teams. You could even use Paper of Record to find out who was in the Western League in 1897 and import those guys manually. It sounds like fun, but very challenging and time-consuming to set up.
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As to the Western League, I've already got its schedules back to its start in 1894. I know the Southern League and Texas League schedules pre-1901 were published in The Sporting News. I have a list of the specific issues if needed. That is historically correct since the Western League became the American League in 1900, and then declared itself a major league in 1901. |
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