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Originally Posted by CH1MA3RA
I wonder though, after league creation if I unchecked the auto expand options prior to 1993 perhaps that might skip over the IRL aspect. Not sure if I'd be able to turn it back on though after that point or if doing so would create issues
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If you created your league in 1983, turned off auto expand, added your MLB expansion teams in 1984, and moved forward, then each year you would have the same minor league structure as you had to begin the 1983 season, and the same major league structure you had for the 1984 season. The only differences would be any additional manual changes you made.
I'm not 100% sure, but if you at any time turned on historical expansion, then as soon as you advanced from the postseason to offseason, all of your structure would update to match real life. For example:
Let's say that just after your final World Series game in 1999 - but before you Advance to the Offseason - you checked "Automatically Expand." Once you then advanced to the offseason, OOTP would read those csv files and would:
a) Not find your two 1984 MLB expansion teams, so those would essentially fold from your MLB (pretty sure there'd still be history of them in OOTP, but they'd no longer be active in your league.
b) Find that Rockies, Marlins, Devil Rays, and Diamondbacks existed, so it would add them to your MLB for the 2000 season.
c) See that the MLB divisional alignment has changed, and would change the structure accordingly, to match 2000's structure.
d) Update stadium names. With auto-expand disabled from 1984-1999, no stadium name changes would've been made automatically.
c) Make massive changes to your minor league structure (teams & leagues), which presumably would've remained the same - except for any manual changes you made - since 1984. IOW, it would change the structure from the 1984 version to the upcoming season (2000) version.