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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
It seems to have started around 1910, when a limit was imposed on how many players a team could have under reserve. The new rule specified a 25-man active limit for May 15 through August 20th, and a 35-man limit outside of that period. The reserve limit was increased to 40 for 1921.
The one thing historically that OOTP does not do is early season roster expansion, which is something which was present in MLB from at least 1910 up through 1967. Originally, teams had an early season active limit equal to that of the reserve limit (although clubs typically carried about 32 players for early part of the season). This lasted up to a specified date or the first 30 days of the season, depending on the year.
Starting in 1957 the early season active limit was reduced to 28, which was in effect for the first 30 days of the season. This lasted through the 1967 season. After that, early season roster expansion was eliminated (with the exception of the labor dispute-affected seasons of 1990, 1995, and 2022, and the pandemic-shortened season of 2020).
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I read many of your posts but am not sure if you play v24 or not?
I only ask because OOTP did, in the settings, add early season expansion of rosters option with up to 40 players, and dates that can be user defined. It may have been there in v23 too, I'm not sure?
I haven't used it in my game, and I assume it is off by default for historical game, but it is now there.