[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by jaysdailydose

Seconded. "Favor Prospects" would be the lowest I would go, and generally play Heavily Favor Prospects as well.

I'm surprised he didn't say it, but playing stats only would also present a significantly higher challenge.

Also, in my historicals, I generally never use recalc and use the OOTP Development Engine instead, that way players develop differently than they did in real life. Historical, as stated above, is always going to be easier, especially if you don't do this -- because of name recognition.

It is the main reason why my main leagues are always fictional. You've got to go off what you see, and not your real life knowledge. (Not to say you can't still get a challenge out of historical, try these things mentioned above!)

While it is certainly true that stats only is the hardest way to play OOTP, the transition from easy mode to stats only would IMO be too big of a shock.