What the heck?! I can't believe I forgot about this league. I swore that I manually subscribed to this thread, but apparently, I was wrong. What a great first season...Congratulations!!
What a huge undertaking it must be, huh? You definitely did the right thing by staying out of the league, I think. Working as the GM of a team or Manager and most certainly doing both jobs would increase the amount of work tremendously, I would think. Being the Commissioner of a league like this must be plenty of fun.
You really came up with a cool premise for the league. It cracks me up seeing players from such different eras playing together. I remember Wally Backman from when I was a kid...it gives me a chuckle to see how he's been crushing it at the plate in the Footnote League. Go Wally!! Go!! Oh yeah... Jimmy Archer from the Philadelphia A's team. He died, in real life, one year before Wally Backman was born.
And Marquis Grissom... He's my centerfielder on my 1991 Yankees team. I love it.
OOTP allows us such wonderful customizations, but I really wish they would expand upon the simple options to allow us to really fine tune various options. For instance, if you select that you'd like to use players from all eras randomly, or however it is worded, it would then be so nice if all of a sudden there were checkboxes next to decades. 1900s, 1910s, 1920s and so on, up through the 2010s and 2020s. Of course, the 2020s wouldn't offer too many new players, but in OOTP 25 it will.
It would make it so much easier to setup a league, similar to the Footnote League, where perhaps you only want players from the 1900s thru the 1940s & the 1980s, for example.
Hey luckyman... I don't know if I missed it somehow, but what did you end up doing in terms of minor leagues? You wrote that you were still trying to figure that out, if I'm not mistaken. Just curious...that's all.
Oh...and did you say there was a yearly draft? If so, how the heck does that work? Like, is the Draft filled with people from all eras?