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Love the premise.
I too also like to start in 1871 and am curious what you did to set this up with those players. Did you extend the excel sheet backward and import? Did you manually add?
If you added pre-1871 stats I'm assuming you used excel to add all these players and would be interested in the actual process of how you set up the world...More importantly, if you would be able to share those resources as a "mod" of sorts.
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Thanks!
I identified about 120 players who played for real professional teams in 1869-70 but not in the real National Association, then created fictional players and painstakingly gave them correct names (sometimes having to make up first names) as well as positions and stats. The big exception, of course, is Jim Creighton, a legendary player who actually died at age 21 in 1862; he was considered both the best hitter and best pitcher (by a wide margin) at the time of his passing. (You'll find that Creighton often gets resurrected in these early baseball simulations, cuz nobody can ever resist!) I thought Jim would have a solid but short career in my simulation, as he was already 30 years old in 1871, but he's still going strong into his forties!)
I do have (very) rudimentary stats [basically, a homemade version of OPS+ and little else] going all the way back to 1857, but I don't know how to create a database from them, or how to "staple" them to the front of the current database.
Thanks for reading!