[battists]

I will add to Bluenoser's comment about the backups - if you spend a lot of time setting up a league, there's always value in doing periodic SEPARATE backups. NOT overwriting the same single backup!!

There's nothing worse than regularly backing up your game, then realize something has gone wrong, and you need to rewind back to the start of the season, and you can't because you've been backing up every day. I've made that mistake a few times.

I usually save separate backup files for:

- Before I even start playing my game.
- Day before opening day
- All-star game/midseason
- Day before playoffs start
- Dec 31

The "day before" stuff can be important, because a lot of settings in OOTP become disabled/enabled when you move into the next phase of the season. For example, you can't change the schedule once the season starts. So if you find out your schedule got messed up somehow, you need to be able to rewind back to the preseason. If you had backed up ON opening day, you'd be screwed.

I haven't played around at all with tournaments, so I don't have any specific suggestions about your other stuff, though. I do know that most people who play "historical" style games prefer to use photos to Facegen. The only reason people might use Facegen is if they want to see their players' faces age over time, or change uniforms.

Regarding setting up your tournament, if it were me, I'd probably create a totally separate file and try to set up something like a four-team tournament and make sure everything works the way I want. Then I'd go back and adjust the 64-team one as necessary.

Good luck! I know the setup can be daunting. One of the big challenges about OOTP is you have SO MUCH freedom to do what you want, but the tradeoff is that it's very difficult for the game to guide you precisely, because there are so many damn options!!