[Déjà Bru]

So here's a general question for you, if I may, and don't feel like you need to provide a tutorial in response.

How do I play this save?

For, ever since I started with OOTP, I have always played with fictional players and coaches (the vast majority of the time with actual MLB; only this year did I make some fictional teams as well) and as both GM and manager.

My gut feeling is that I need to play as GM-only because this is the first time I have ever played with real, memorable people in the game.

For example, I have interest, of course, in the New York Yankees but I see that Ralph Houk is managing the team. How could I replace The Major? My own very forgettable name instead of his, among other notables such as BC Jim Hegan, PC Johnny Sain, HC Wally Moses? Oh, the utter hubris!

But I see that you have historical transactions turned off so, on the bare chance this also means future coaching changes, I assume Houk would continue to manage the Yankees until his retirement (or I fire him, God forbid), and I will not see him move up to GM in 1964 (replacing me!) and Berra becoming the manager.

The only thing that you appear to have set in this save regarding history is the "Automatically import historical rookies" (as free agents — side question, why not have an amateur draft?). Everything else historical is turned off.

So I am thinking that if I take over the Yankees as GM, I will be in semi-fictional mode anyway and perhaps I wait until The Major does retire, allowing him to run the team until he does.