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The tremendous advantage of historical minors is that players become professionals while young and raw. Straight historical makes it impossible to meaningfully trade an established player for prospects, which is a key kind of trade in almost any era. I love "rewriting history," and I like a fair amount of variability in where individual players wind up, in their injury and durability statuses, and even in how they perform within reason. OOTP's greatest strength in that regard has always been that it simulated the overall league, year, and era beautifully while allowing for those individual differences. I think historical minors offers the next logical step in that regard (and what could be a genuine breakthrough) because we will see the "what if" scenarios that I love played out all the way down. You can draft potential superstars with less certainty about how they'll turn out, and you can truly build a farm system (or trade it away to win now). I'm not ready to give up on it just yet, but I think the necessary step is to first insure the integrity of league, year, era results, and then work out how the individual players' career arcs are shaped within those results.
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