[tm1681]

So...I had a thread going in which I started a baseball universe with an amateur league that began play in 1857, mirroring the National Association of Base Ball Players in real life, and went from there, with league splits and fictional league creation mirroring real-life dates.

However, after a crash in the 1880s going to my backup caused me to lose about 25 years worth of leaderboard data, and then another issue after 1905 involving some data not importing from OOTP23 correctly was making it look like I'd have to go to another backup, and so....

I'm starting over. I realized I never really put much attention into the early years of the game, so I figure now that I have a TB of online storage the new version of this in-game universe and its related thread should be a lot more fun in the end. If you'll remember, I started the original just to pass time because my newborn was spitting up every other feeding and I had to stay up all night, to feed her and make sure she wasn't underweight, so my wife could go back to teaching during the pandemic. I was pretty much winging it at the start, but now that I've got some of my work back I'm writing a lot more and have more solid ideas for everything.

I was creating Word Document previews to map out my posts in the other thread, but this time around I figure I must just make standalone ones for people who are interested, since they don't take much to move over. I can't attach them, but here are links:

Toronto Gothic

Old Newspaper Types

Download them and move them to the Windows --> Fonts folder, almost always in the C: drive.

One thing I want to reply to from the end of the other thread:

Originally Posted by BaseballReplayJournal

This is really cool - any details on what you figured out?

What I figured out is this: of course when you create a league based in one region of a country you lose the ability to change the makeup of generated players and foreign imports, with players essentially becoming all domestic-based. HOWEVER, by playing in Commissioner Mode and going into "Explore World" you can change the Baseball Quality of nations so that "International Established Free Agents" come from the countries you want to see represented.

When the game started on 1/1/1857, I went to "Explore World", knocked all the countries down to "Non-Existent" baseball quality except the USA & Canada, and built them back up so that the countries that sending the most immigrants to the U.S.A. at the time had "Excellent" or "Good" baseball quality.

Based on the test I ran, it worked. 70% of the International Free Agents came from places like Italy, Germany, England, Ireland, etc instead of Japan, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and so on.

So, with that, let's begin.