Fictional players

[Whoman69]

I generally like to play with historical teams. Whether in historical seasons or fictional leagues with teams from different eras, the game will always come up with fictional players in order to fill in holes which has the result of making all the teams more alike. What are the pre-game settings I can use to avoid these? It takes forever to get rid of them manually especially when the game system makes you input uniforms and logos.

[Hrycaj]

Originally Posted by Whoman69

I generally like to play with historical teams. Whether in historical seasons or fictional leagues with teams from different eras, the game will always come up with fictional players in order to fill in holes which has the result of making all the teams more alike. What are the pre-game settings I can use to avoid these? It takes forever to get rid of them manually especially when the game system makes you input uniforms and logos.

Are you talking about the game filling minor league rosters with fictional players? I’m not aware that it does that at the MLB level. Still, there is an option to enable ghost players which means your rosters can be incomplete and the ai will fill them with fictional players to sim games but those players are not on the rosters and do not accumulate stats. Just your real life players will.

[Whoman69]

Originally Posted by Hrycaj

Are you talking about the game filling minor league rosters with fictional players? I’m not aware that it does that at the MLB level. Still, there is an option to enable ghost players which means your rosters can be incomplete and the ai will fill them with fictional players to sim games but those players are not on the rosters and do not accumulate stats. Just your real life players will.

About half a dozen or more on each team. I went through the advanced mode and saw no options for filling in minor league teams.

[Whoman69]

[LansdowneSt]

I'm still unclear. Do you mean fictional free agents or fictional draftees? The options and the various setting locations also probably vary depending on if you created a historical game or a fictional game.

[Whoman69]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

I'm still unclear. Do you mean fictional free agents or fictional draftees? The options and the various setting locations also probably vary depending on if you created a historical game or a fictional game.

There are fictional players on each team. Some have as many as half. I am using historical teams from different years which means it has to be a "fictional" league even though all teams are historical. I am sure many of those in the minors are also fictional. Many of the free agents are real players, cut by their teams, even though in many cases the fictional players replacing them are no better. Even my team is filled with fictional players even though I didn't cut any real players.

[Rain King]

If you created the game as a Fictional league and you do not want Fictional players, you need to make sure all modes of fictional players entering the universe are disabled.

Everything on League Settings --> Players needs to be "None"

Under Rules, the Draft needs to be disabled and the box for "Disable automatic creation of free agents" needs to be checked.

You also would have needed to make sure you deleted any fictional players that were created at league creation before importing your historical players.

[Whoman69]

Originally Posted by Rain King

If you created the game as a Fictional league and you do not want Fictional players, you need to make sure all modes of fictional players entering the universe are disabled.

Everything on League Settings --> Players needs to be "None"

Under Rules, the Draft needs to be disabled and the box for "Disable automatic creation of free agents" needs to be checked.

You also would have needed to make sure you deleted any fictional players that were created at league creation before importing your historical players.

Thank you. I guess starting over will be easier than trying to delete all those fictional players.

[Whoman69]

Originally Posted by Rain King

If you created the game as a Fictional league and you do not want Fictional players, you need to make sure all modes of fictional players entering the universe are disabled.

Everything on League Settings --> Players needs to be "None"

Under Rules, the Draft needs to be disabled and the box for "Disable automatic creation of free agents" needs to be checked.

You also would have needed to make sure you deleted any fictional players that were created at league creation before importing your historical players.

Just tried it. Still didn't work. In the players section it asks to set ages for fictional players but nothing to prohibit them from coming up. I did put in none for the other settings you mentioned. I wonder if I need to just use the reserve system instead of minors since some of the teams I have chosen are pre-minors. If that were the case, I would think only those teams would be affected. So frustrating.

[fredbeene]

Yeah after all these years there are still not good options.
There needs to be option differentiate and group/sort by fictional/real/real that never reach majors.
Needs to be option of allowing x % of real that never reached majors allowed in majors

[LansdowneSt]

Originally Posted by Whoman69

Just tried it. Still didn't work. In the players section it asks to set ages for fictional players but nothing to prohibit them from coming up. I did put in none for the other settings you mentioned. I wonder if I need to just use the reserve system instead of minors since some of the teams I have chosen are pre-minors. If that were the case, I would think only those teams would be affected. So frustrating.

Since you started over and the file might be reasonably small, you could zip the .lg folder, post it in dropbox or an equivalent site, and someone could download it and try to find out what isn't turned on/off in your approach. Otherwise it's just a string of incremental suggestions of "check this" and "check that" in the thread.

Fictional leagues aren't my thing but it might be easier for someone that plays this way just to open your game and see what was missed. Just a thought.