How to set a custom game with historical teams?

beatle · 11-08-2021, 04:53 PM

How to set a custom game with historical teams? I was wondering how to do this. I was going to import teams, but the initial draft was full of players which would be a problem with my historical teams. I would like to have no players at the beginning and import my teams. Any suggestions?

Orioles1966 · 11-08-2021, 05:08 PM

Good question.

If I get my current custom league working properly then I would like to in a future season add some historical WHA/NHL teams .

Curve Ball Dave · 11-08-2021, 05:21 PM

Unlike OOTP there is no known way (unless there is and neither I nor anyone else knows it) to create a custom league with historical teams from different years and dump all of the players into a Fantasy Draft or keep all of the players on their teams and let things play out.

Adam B · 11-08-2021, 05:41 PM

Start a game with just 6 teams in the Top League. Once you load into it (and starting on July 1st), go to TEAM > Edit. You can retire all players.

Once you have that done, go to the League > Edit screen. You can then import historical teams. Import a couple, delete the AI generated ones, and keep importing until you have all the teams you want. Put them in whatever conferences (adjust your playoffs as well), generate a new schedule, and you should more or less be good to go.

The only issue would be free agents, and I'm not sure off the top of my head if there's anything you could do besides manually retiring them.

beatle · 11-08-2021, 08:27 PM

Thanks, I will be working on this!

Adam B · 11-08-2021, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by beatle

Thanks, I will be working on this!

Just keep in mind the Historical Import issue with some names being changed is affecting this right now, so you may want to wait post-next update.

Curve Ball Dave · 11-09-2021, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Adam B

Start a game with just 6 teams in the Top League. Once you load into it (and starting on July 1st), go to TEAM > Edit. You can retire all players.

Once you have that done, go to the League > Edit screen. You can then import historical teams. Import a couple, delete the AI generated ones, and keep importing until you have all the teams you want. Put them in whatever conferences (adjust your playoffs as well), generate a new schedule, and you should more or less be good to go.

The only issue would be free agents, and I'm not sure off the top of my head if there's anything you could do besides manually retiring them.

Assuming this works, how would you affiliate AHL teams (if you chose to have an AHL) with the teams you've added?

Bluenoser · 11-09-2021, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Curve Ball Dave

Assuming this works, how would you affiliate AHL teams (if you chose to have an AHL) with the teams you've added?

Put yourself in Commish Mode, go to Edit Team. You can set affiliations there.

11-08-2021, 04:53 PM	#1
beatle All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 636	How to set a custom game with historical teams? How to set a custom game with historical teams? I was wondering how to do this. I was going to import teams, but the initial draft was full of players which would be a problem with my historical teams. I would like to have no players at the beginning and import my teams. Any suggestions? __________________ If you hang with the buzzards, you eat the dead mule! Beatle

11-08-2021, 05:21 PM	#3
Curve Ball Dave Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Chicago Posts: 2,370	Unlike OOTP there is no known way (unless there is and neither I nor anyone else knows it) to create a custom league with historical teams from different years and dump all of the players into a Fantasy Draft or keep all of the players on their teams and let things play out. __________________ "Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing"-Warren Spahn.

11-08-2021, 05:41 PM	#4
Adam B Hockey Community Manager Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: A Hockey Rink Posts: 2,590	Start a game with just 6 teams in the Top League. Once you load into it (and starting on July 1st), go to TEAM > Edit. You can retire all players. Once you have that done, go to the League > Edit screen. You can then import historical teams. Import a couple, delete the AI generated ones, and keep importing until you have all the teams you want. Put them in whatever conferences (adjust your playoffs as well), generate a new schedule, and you should more or less be good to go. The only issue would be free agents, and I'm not sure off the top of my head if there's anything you could do besides manually retiring them. __________________ *Come Watch Adam and Jeff's Live Twitch Streams Every Wednesday Night at 11pm Eastern on the FHM Twitch Channel and the OOTP Twitch Channel*

11-08-2021, 08:27 PM	#5
beatle All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 636	Thanks, I will be working on this! __________________ If you hang with the buzzards, you eat the dead mule! Beatle

11-08-2021, 05:08 PM	#2
Orioles1966 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 2,869	Good question. If I get my current custom league working properly then I would like to in a future season add some historical WHA/NHL teams .