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Originally Posted by Brad K
Playing historical without historical minors what you get for the first year are players who actually played in the majors that year. If the real life team had an injured SS during the year it would call up a AAA shortstop and since that person played in the majors that year he would be in the OOTP game.
However if your injury is to an OF and the real team had no OFers injured, no one got called up and so you wouldn't have anyone to call up.
The second year you have all the historical players from that year plus players from the first year who didn't play the historical second year, plus a few who retired historically but didn't in OOTP, less a few of the opposite.
I started my current game in 1951 and let it run on its own and came in as GM in 1954.
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NEW INFO!!!
Just discovered this.
In addition to the getting the players described above for the first year, the game also provides players who didn't play MLB in the starting year but played MLB both before and after the starting year. However they show up as free agents rather than assigned to the farm system of their actual teams (when applicable).
I haven't selected the option for players to miss historical years. So John Antonelli, who missed 51 and 52 but played MLB for the Braves both before and after shows up as a FA for a game starting in 51.
Hal McRae who played in the minors in 69 but for the Reds both before and after shows up as a FA for a game starting in 69.
Just doing some spot checks...
Year/# FAs
51 76
62 34
68 108
69 4
70 56
90 63
Note the lowest in in a year where both leagues expanded and the second lowest follows two consecutive years of expansion. So whether its necessary to prime the league with extra players by running it for a while seems to depend on the starting year.
What I'm doing is assigning FAs to the minor league affiliate of the teams that should hold their contract, in the examples above, Antonelli to the Braves and McRae to the Reds. Those I'm leaving as FAs are those who played in the minors but not for a MLB affiliate, for example, their contract was sold to the PCL, or those who had no contract at all for the starting year.