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Originally Posted by sprague
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That sir, is a very good, very OOTP-niche bumper sticker. I like it.
I've been thinking about the NeL and the MiLB csv files ever since David mentioned separating them it in the other thread. I had been thinking about a third csv as the answer but what if the NeL players just went on the MLB master sheet as players? If the color line is on there is no "harm" to historic pre-Jackie Robinson sims. The NeL FAs have nowhere to play if the color line is on and there is no NeL toggled on. So, no effect on play as it currently is.
If the NeL league's toggle is on, they all go there as they will. I'm not concerned about them being FAs in such a scenario. I think the NeL teams came and went so much that getting them on start of and end of season rosters is a challenge anyway. If pre-1900 is a free for all, I'd trade this free for all scenario for having them in RDs and ensuring equal treatment of the partial stats nerf or any other (if any) unique treatment of players on that MLB csv.
If the color line is off and there is no NeL, the NeL'ers come into the AL/NL as Free Agents. If the color line is off and the NeL is there, it's a place for surplus players to play and have their contracts purchased from. But having the NeL'ers on the Master sheet would allow them on Random Debuts.
At some point when things calm down I expect all this will be looked at... even while those "Real Life" stats informing their abilities get updated to Seamhead quality.
Lastly, like luckymann said, I've found they play more evenly than the one-year look at star potentials indicate but I like 3- and 5-year recalcs to flatten them out a bit with retire to history so no one runs too off for too long. It is true that there are some definite shooting star players taking Cy Youngs but for now I think that is what it is. I wish the stats would be adjusted in a 23 patch late in the year so we could see how that helps. Maybe that will come, fingers crossed.
As for time of the sims, be sure to turn off all the stats you don't look at come the end. No box scores, no 3D replays, all of that off. For a 1903-1970-ish (I wait until full HOF balloting for them has had time to run), it takes me 4-5 hours. I tend to run those checks overnight or while at work.