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Originally Posted by CubMariner
Really enjoying reading through this. This thread has inspired me to give OOTP a go (longtime SOM player) as I love the idea of a long historical franchise. I'm admittedly going to steal a lot of your setup ideas, but was curious...is there anything (if you started over again) you would have done differently from the beginning?
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Glad to hear, and thanks for following along!
OK, so most of the things I'd change if I were starting again aren't necessarily game settings but personal sorts of aspects. I've done a lot more work on the NeL guys since this started which would almost guarantee more realistic performances from them and I'd have the league integrated from the beginning in 1901 rather than in 1909 like I did here. I would have done some more work on the finances to make things more challenging from the get-go. With the NeL players being treated better in 23 I'd most likely have scouting pulled right back, rather than at 100% to monitor the NeL ratings. That sort of thing.
A setting I have recently changed to the one I'd use from the off were I starting again is 3-year recalc rather than 5-year. Just tightens up the accuracy a bit while still keeping some fog of war.
One thing to watch out for is having enough players - starting pitchers, in particular. I wanted players playing rather than withering away on the reserve roster, so I added just the AAA level. I would have loved to have invoked historical minors but the file size for a 120-season game scared me off doing so. This means only players who made the bigs enter the save as rookies. This worked OK for a while, but then in the late 1930s I started seeing a dearth of SP, obviously because I have 32 teams and only rookies for 16 are being produced. It got to the point where I had to manually import a bunch of MiLB pitchers and have recently changed pitcher stamina on import from 3-YEAR to CAREER. Not even sure that will fix it, as perhaps just as many guys switch one way as the other. We'll see. It is a major concern right now and I'll report back as to how things proceed post-WW2. I'll also be unretiring as needed, but only in a reasonable fashion.
The only other advice of a general nature I have for you is to take your time in setting things up and save as templates and as files along the way to ensure you don't have to go back and redo things multiple times. Trust me, even though you'll be champing at the bit to get underway, you'll be glad you took your time.
Any other help, feel free to hit me up on DM.
Good luck!
G