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Scott Vibert · 02-21-2016, 07:28 PM

For me, real leagues would always annoy me from any of my preconceived notions. I'd see something "wrong" and it just ruins the immersion.

That is where fictional or alternate historical come in. I use smaller fictional leagues with locations I care about and normally sim out to get some history in place (plus I hate dealing with the inaugural draft), no preconceptions to get past. If I'm running alternate history, I'm using Gambo's DB, I've come up with a point of divergence and some sort of reason for it (typically the creation of a fictional league competing in the same universe, Continental League, something forming during the 1994-95 lockout), or if I'm doing MLB, I'll actually import and sim from 1901 (at least) to the year I'm doing so I have everything in the Gambo/OOTP context.

02-21-2016, 07:28 PM	#67
Scott Vibert Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: My Computer Posts: 8,204	For me, real leagues would always annoy me from any of my preconceived notions. I'd see something "wrong" and it just ruins the immersion. That is where fictional or alternate historical come in. I use smaller fictional leagues with locations I care about and normally sim out to get some history in place (plus I hate dealing with the inaugural draft), no preconceptions to get past. If I'm running alternate history, I'm using Gambo's DB, I've come up with a point of divergence and some sort of reason for it (typically the creation of a fictional league competing in the same universe, Continental League, something forming during the 1994-95 lockout), or if I'm doing MLB, I'll actually import and sim from 1901 (at least) to the year I'm doing so I have everything in the Gambo/OOTP context.