I need help on how to set up my league

nyy26wc · 08-28-2013, 04:18 PM

I want to set up a half fictional, half historical league.

I've never played a random debut league. But, I'm intrigued by it. I've also never played a fictional league. But, I'm interested in trying it. But, I really want to not choose between them and not have 1 of each going. I want so badly to be able to combine them.

I'd prefer to have a league where it already has a rich history of existing league records. So, I would create the league in 1900 and sim to the present. That entire league history will be fictional players and when I reach 2013, when historical players also enter, the existing players will be all fiction.

Then, starting with the 2013 season, the historical players will start to debut. I figure I can get the historical players into the draft by having a spreadsheet where I use a random number generator to determine each player's debut year. Then, I can use the "import historical player" to get them into the draft pool. I'd like the historical players to go through the minors. I've never used the Gambo/Spritze database, but I assume that what I will have to use to do that.

The problem I've having is I want to have recalc and development on for the historical players. But, that's only available in a historical league.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can do this? I'm stumped. I'm getting ready to give up, but I'm hoping that someone can point me in the right direction. Half of me tells me give it up, it's a great idea, but it just can't be done. The other half of me tells me there has to be some way that I can do this that I just haven't thought of yet.

nyy26wc · 08-29-2013, 01:07 AM

I believe that I figured out how to do this--

Set up the league as a historical league, starting in 1900. Then, I delete all of the players from the rosters and delete them from the FA pool. I then fill all rosters with fictitious. I make sure that the import historical rookies is not checked.

Then, I sim up to 2013. When I get to the 2012-13 offseason, I create a formula that determines how many historical players I want to import each year and how many should come in through the draft. I let OOTP create its draft class and then use the import historical players function to import the historical players who are in the draft class.

Since the league is created as a historical league, I can then have the recalc options that I want, to go along with the development.

08-28-2013, 04:18 PM	#1
nyy26wc All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 679	I need help on how to set up my league I want to set up a half fictional, half historical league. I've never played a random debut league. But, I'm intrigued by it. I've also never played a fictional league. But, I'm interested in trying it. But, I really want to not choose between them and not have 1 of each going. I want so badly to be able to combine them. I'd prefer to have a league where it already has a rich history of existing league records. So, I would create the league in 1900 and sim to the present. That entire league history will be fictional players and when I reach 2013, when historical players also enter, the existing players will be all fiction. Then, starting with the 2013 season, the historical players will start to debut. I figure I can get the historical players into the draft by having a spreadsheet where I use a random number generator to determine each player's debut year. Then, I can use the "import historical player" to get them into the draft pool. I'd like the historical players to go through the minors. I've never used the Gambo/Spritze database, but I assume that what I will have to use to do that. The problem I've having is I want to have recalc and development on for the historical players. But, that's only available in a historical league. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can do this? I'm stumped. I'm getting ready to give up, but I'm hoping that someone can point me in the right direction. Half of me tells me give it up, it's a great idea, but it just can't be done. The other half of me tells me there has to be some way that I can do this that I just haven't thought of yet.

08-29-2013, 01:07 AM	#2
nyy26wc All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 679	I believe that I figured out how to do this-- Set up the league as a historical league, starting in 1900. Then, I delete all of the players from the rosters and delete them from the FA pool. I then fill all rosters with fictitious. I make sure that the import historical rookies is not checked. Then, I sim up to 2013. When I get to the 2012-13 offseason, I create a formula that determines how many historical players I want to import each year and how many should come in through the draft. I let OOTP create its draft class and then use the import historical players function to import the historical players who are in the draft class. Since the league is created as a historical league, I can then have the recalc options that I want, to go along with the development.