Ok. This has no doubt been asked a million times before (I've probably asked it myself and just forgot). From a casual baseball fan, can this be done?
To play the game as manager without any financials or auto-trading or other specialty functions on.
Set up two leagues of eight teams each. Some real historical teams and a few fictional teams. Populate each team with historical players, both MLB and Negro League, of my own choosing (ie. Maybe Honus Wagner plays for the Tigers or the Red Sox.) and maybe one or two fictional players. Each team with a few pitchers and position players in a farm club to be brought up if needed.
No inter-league play. Play both leagues with DH. Play a 132 game season with the best team in each league going to the World Series. In other words a simple Fantasy/Historical universe where I act as manager of one team per season and only change pitchers in-game and pinch-hit or make defensive changes between innings. Mainly sit back and watch the game play out.
If this can be done, is there a child-proof step-by-step instruction somewhere on how to set this up? I only have so much time in a day and only so many years left to learn.
For some reason my wife likes to see my face once or twice a day....
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