Great stuff above. A couple of comments...
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Originally Posted by luckymann
- 1-year recalc ON
- historical lineups ON
- historical transactions ON
- miss seasons according to history ON
- retire according to history ON
- TCR set as low as possible, IE 1
and everything else at default, with the historical season LTM applied. |
All of that ^ except, as an alternative: Instead of TCR set to 1 (which is totally fine, btw), disable Player Development, which will turn off TCR (essentially setting it to zero).
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Originally Posted by luckymann
Minors are problematic in a realist context. As soon as you introduce historical minors, pretty much all bets are off with regard to IRL alignment. Think it through, the only guys who come into the equation re the MLB level still come into the game without minors on, in their rookie MLB season. So for the rest it is purely, as my good friend Bradley pointed out, an exercise in randomness.
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OOTP doesn't recommend historical transactions enabled along with historical minors. Why this is hasn't really been explained. My hunch is that it's because a) there are few bugs that occasionally pop up that they haven't been able to find (I think these have mostly - perhaps entirely? - been fixed), and 2) the general idea that historical txns apply to major league players, but there is no "complete enough" historical transactions database for minor leaguers within OOTP or anywhere else - and this can be confusing to gamers. However, what's important to note is that historical transactions for minor league players generally apply to players who eventually make the major leagues. For example, if you were starting a game in the early 1960's, Reggie Smith would correctly import to the Twins' organization for 1963, then would move the Red Sox' org for 1964, would go to the Cards' org for 1974, and so forth... No problem. However, for career minor leaguers (guys who never made the majors) - and for guys who may have bounced around to/from some independent minor league teams before reaching the majors - their minor league career-transaction arc in OOTP will essentially be random; they'll very likely import to their historically correct minor league team, but from that point they will move from organization to organization based upon the whims of OOTP AI (and I think many of them will bounce around primarily on independent/unaffiliated teams).
That lengthy blathering
shouldn't discourage you from using historical transactions with historical minors, though. The purpose of it is to indicate that it should work pretty well for you!
Good luck!