Historical Season quick question

JamesFBishop · 06-13-2010, 02:15 PM

Started in 1901 and i'm going to make my way to the present. I was wondering if the game automatically adds Triple A, Double A, etc. when they came in to play with the association of pro teams?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

Spritze · 06-13-2010, 02:34 PM

No, minors are added by choice by the player either during initial game creation or between seasons.

SamuraiProgrammer · 06-15-2010, 08:07 PM

When adding a 'standard league' the minors will be added for you.

See Creating Custom Games in Advanced Mode

Biggio509 · 06-15-2010, 10:55 PM

Minors can be a sticky point in historical play. In some ways as early as a 1
1901 minors serve today's purpose that is they are for players who are not MLB ready to play in until they are needed or ready for the MLB. However, the game in no way simulates pre-farm system baseball. Back then teams did not control minors. The 1903 agreement set terms for what has to be paid to the team for signing their players. The class system just set up compensation for teams when a major league team plucked someone to play. This is where a modern game fails somewhat historically. You can't sing players already on a team.

I am thinking right now I might do this for a fictional historical league. Create minors and make them non-affiliated. Set minor league free agency to one year so these can be signed when contracts expire. Maybe add feeders and see if the minors sign the new grads that need to develop. Around the 1940's maybe 60's affiliate minors to get them ready for the draft era.

I think minors may not be needed until you get to the draft era. Historical play should give you enough players if you are importing and pre-draft having no draft no they go to the team they started with. If you want fictional, minors in the early years are a place for players to develop and they create free agents for you. Note if you set them up as minors you have no reserve roster and any minor team not affiliate signs players from the FA pool and releases player just like the AI would for a team. My idea is this only works when free agency is turned on in the minors and 1 yr. makes them a free agent. Then you should have a FA pool.

I am going to experiment with this but perhaps a minors system and a draft put in early might be better for fictional play under a historical setting.

06-13-2010, 02:15 PM	#1
JamesFBishop Bat Boy Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 5	Historical Season quick question Started in 1901 and i'm going to make my way to the present. I was wondering if the game automatically adds Triple A, Double A, etc. when they came in to play with the association of pro teams? Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

06-15-2010, 08:07 PM	#3
SamuraiProgrammer Minors (Single A) Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Northwest TN Posts: 97	When adding a 'standard league' the minors will be added for you. See Creating Custom Games in Advanced Mode __________________ If I am answering your question, I MAY BE WRONG, but I will give you the best answer I can. If I am wrong, please someone correct me. If you find out I was wrong, please post here to tell me and for the next person who reads this thread.

06-13-2010, 02:34 PM	#2
Spritze OOTP Historical Czar Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Bothell Wa Posts: 7,253	No, minors are added by choice by the player either during initial game creation or between seasons.

06-15-2010, 10:55 PM	#4
Biggio509 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 2,027	Minors can be a sticky point in historical play. In some ways as early as a 1 1901 minors serve today's purpose that is they are for players who are not MLB ready to play in until they are needed or ready for the MLB. However, the game in no way simulates pre-farm system baseball. Back then teams did not control minors. The 1903 agreement set terms for what has to be paid to the team for signing their players. The class system just set up compensation for teams when a major league team plucked someone to play. This is where a modern game fails somewhat historically. You can't sing players already on a team. I am thinking right now I might do this for a fictional historical league. Create minors and make them non-affiliated. Set minor league free agency to one year so these can be signed when contracts expire. Maybe add feeders and see if the minors sign the new grads that need to develop. Around the 1940's maybe 60's affiliate minors to get them ready for the draft era. I think minors may not be needed until you get to the draft era. Historical play should give you enough players if you are importing and pre-draft having no draft no they go to the team they started with. If you want fictional, minors in the early years are a place for players to develop and they create free agents for you. Note if you set them up as minors you have no reserve roster and any minor team not affiliate signs players from the FA pool and releases player just like the AI would for a team. My idea is this only works when free agency is turned on in the minors and 1 yr. makes them a free agent. Then you should have a FA pool. I am going to experiment with this but perhaps a minors system and a draft put in early might be better for fictional play under a historical setting.