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Originally Posted by ctorg
The only issue is that, from my understanding, when teams are in an affiliated minor league but are not affiliated with any major league teams, they don't make any transactions or changes. They don't sign players or trade players or anything else. So you will have to maintain them, adding players to replace those who retire and so on.
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I am doing something similar to the OP, simming a league from 1905 to about 1970 so that when I play it, it has a rich historical background. I have found that unaffiliated minor league teams DO sign players. They seem to sign them all in february after the majors have taken the ones they want.
The only problem with this approach is that some really good players get stuck in the minors, because they weren't well-scouted initially. I don't mind this too much, because it is somewhat historically accurate. However, it would be nice if transactions could occur between the minors and the majors, so that some of these players could be traded up (think Babe Ruth). I have considered doing this manually at the end of every season for a few of the best.