Historical Mode - user controlled movement only

[Nino33]

Originally Posted by Nino33

If one wanted to make the transactions themselves in Commissioner Mode, here's a site that covers NHL transactions going back to 1960 HISTORY OF NHL TRADES (To Jeff - you're probably already aware of this)

It's I'm sure not perfect, but I suspect it would be more than "good enough" to better recreate the historical experience

Is it possible to play Historical Mode and "turn off" AI trading?

Originally Posted by JeffR

The trading frequency can be set to 0 in the League edit screen. But it won't stop teams from signing free agents.

Originally Posted by Nino33

Thanks Jeff! Perhaps in the future there could be a way to stop the signing of free agents added? That way those willing to use Commissioner Mode to take the time to make just the changes that happened in real life could do so

As noted above, my suggestion is to allow the user complete control of player movement in Historical Mode

[mcnorth]

This is exactly what I'd like to see. Actually, it's what I bought the game to do - play through seasons using a variety of "what if" scenarios. What if Gretzky never got traded to LA? What if Roy stayed with Montreal?

As it stands right now you can sort of do this by playing a single season at a time - but even then the game engine starts moving players around during the season. My current sandbox just trade Robitaille to Calgary and despite my best efforts it looks like, even though I'm in commissioner mode, I'm stuck with the transaction - I was hoping I could at least undo any 'major' moves along the way but it appears I don't have that much control.

[Habsfan18]

Originally Posted by mcnorth

This is exactly what I'd like to see. Actually, it's what I bought the game to do - play through seasons using a variety of "what if" scenarios. What if Gretzky never got traded to LA? What if Roy stayed with Montreal?

As it stands right now you can sort of do this by playing a single season at a time - but even then the game engine starts moving players around during the season. My current sandbox just trade Robitaille to Calgary and despite my best efforts it looks like, even though I'm in commissioner mode, I'm stuck with the transaction - I was hoping I could at least undo any 'major' moves along the way but it appears I don't have that much control.

In commissioner mode, you can actually go to each players profile and there should be an edit function. From there, you can choose which team he is contracted to/plays for.

So for example, you can take a look at who was traded, and then go to all of their profiles and put them back on their respective clubs.