Historical Players in Fictional League?

Rex Dart · 11-19-2013, 11:16 AM

I know I can do the following:

1. Play in a Historical League - e.g., take the 1985 Toronto Blue Jays, and have subsequent historical players enter the league at the same time they actually did. I can do trades and stuff that change the course of history, obviously, but the league itself stays like real Major League Baseball.

2. Play in a Fictional League, where the league structure can be whatever and whenever I want, but the players are all fictional.

But is there a way to create a fictional league starting in a past year, but using real-life players (and having it continue that way, so the appropriate real-life MLB players enter the league at the appropriate time?

txranger · 11-19-2013, 01:29 PM

I think I have tried something along these lines before... It has been a while ago so I am not for sure if this was how I did it... Please if anyone else has other ideas or sees an error here please chime in...

You may want to PM The Game, for he might have some more knowledge in doing this...

1. Start an Historical League in whatever year you want

2. Dump all of the players into the free agent pool

3. Edit the the team names to your fictional names or delete all of the historic teams then add in your fictional teams
Probably will want to delete the historical teams to get rid of the historical team id#'s

4. Turn off league evolution

5. Disable the Amateur Draft

5. Check the box to Import Historical Rookies to the Free Agent Pool

David Watts · 11-19-2013, 02:43 PM

Txranger pretty much nailed it.

There is actually an option you can choose that dumps all players from rosters and schedules an inaugural draft.

You may want to erase history as well. This way all your players will start from scratch with no previous real life stats.

Make sure you leave the option box for "allow expansion" unchecked. This is extremely important. If checked your league is going to automatically revert to real life MLB form during your first off season. You can still manually expand your league, you just don't want the game to do it according to history.

Just seen #5 above. You don't want to disable the amateur draft. If you disable the draft the game is going to try and place the players on their original teams. If you import rookies to the Free Agent pool, your league will not have a draft at all.

Rex Dart · 11-19-2013, 06:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by David Watts

Make sure you leave the option box for "allow expansion" unchecked. This is extremely important. If checked your league is going to automatically revert to real life MLB form during your first off season. You can still manually expand your league, you just don't want the game to do it according to history.

Thanks. I found this point in an older thread, and it was really the "near future" answer I was looking for.

My immediate concern was about how my customized teams (like moving the Blue Jays to Gotham City) kept getting overridden in the off-season. I now know that unchecking "allow expansion" will fix that.

Maybe later on I'll try something more ambitious, but for the moment a slightly-tweaked MLB will do.

11-19-2013, 11:16 AM	#1
Rex Dart Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Nov 2013 Posts: 36	Historical Players in Fictional League? I know I can do the following: 1. Play in a Historical League - e.g., take the 1985 Toronto Blue Jays, and have subsequent historical players enter the league at the same time they actually did. I can do trades and stuff that change the course of history, obviously, but the league itself stays like real Major League Baseball. 2. Play in a Fictional League, where the league structure can be whatever and whenever I want, but the players are all fictional. But is there a way to create a fictional league starting in a past year, but using real-life players (and having it continue that way, so the appropriate real-life MLB players enter the league at the appropriate time?

11-19-2013, 01:29 PM	#2
txranger Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: "Deep in the Heart Of" Posts: 8,356	I think I have tried something along these lines before... It has been a while ago so I am not for sure if this was how I did it... Please if anyone else has other ideas or sees an error here please chime in... You may want to PM The Game, for he might have some more knowledge in doing this... 1. Start an Historical League in whatever year you want 2. Dump all of the players into the free agent pool 3. Edit the the team names to your fictional names or delete all of the historic teams then add in your fictional teams Probably will want to delete the historical teams to get rid of the historical team id#'s 4. Turn off league evolution 5. Disable the Amateur Draft 5. Check the box to Import Historical Rookies to the Free Agent Pool __________________

11-19-2013, 02:43 PM	#3
David Watts Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Looking for a place called Leehofooks Posts: 10,130 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	Txranger pretty much nailed it. There is actually an option you can choose that dumps all players from rosters and schedules an inaugural draft. You may want to erase history as well. This way all your players will start from scratch with no previous real life stats. Make sure you leave the option box for "allow expansion" unchecked. This is extremely important. If checked your league is going to automatically revert to real life MLB form during your first off season. You can still manually expand your league, you just don't want the game to do it according to history. Just seen #5 above. You don't want to disable the amateur draft. If you disable the draft the game is going to try and place the players on their original teams. If you import rookies to the Free Agent pool, your league will not have a draft at all. Last edited by David Watts; 11-19-2013 at 03:10 PM.