[Biggio509]

In 11 I only changed teams and it worked. I am pretty sure that the file only looks at team ID and not league ID. Now in teams.csv you have to have them in NL or AL or the team won't exist. As longer there exists a team with the team ID SL4 for instance the game will put them on the Saint Louis Browns.

For instance in the stock batting file adamsji01 is listed as playing for SL4 AA. If the game looked at the league ID he would be imported as a free agent in the standard historical game. I started a historical game in 1890 with no inaugural draft. Jim Adams shows up with the Saint Louis Browns on their reserve roster despite the fact the batting file has his league ID as AA. The batting file has NA, AA, etc. yet the players get imported to a historical game on the correct team if the team exist.

If I start 1871 without a draft then all the players are on the right team for those exist. All of these players have NA for league ID. The files other than teams seem to be unaltered from the Lahman files. Yet Baltimore, Brooklyn, and all the other teams that did not exist in 1871 are empty. The players who played for teams who did not exist are in the FA pool.

Another example staring 1871 with the quasi-historical setup, the Boston Red Stockings exist in the out of the box setup. Al Spalding is spaldal01. The batting file lists the following, spaldal01 1871 1 BS1 NA. Yet he imports just fine to BS1 when you start the game with no inaugural draft. The game does not look at league ID when it imports players just team ID. The only way Spalding would go to the FA pool in 1871 is if changed Boston's team ID to say BSN, a later ID for Boston.