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If you open the Teams.csv you can see how 19th c. teams have histories tied to them that don't exist. As a fan of a team that didn't exist before 1901, this is something that drives me crazy as a bunch of non-Red Sox hold franchise records. It should end. The band-aid of tying these players to modern franchises should just be fixed. 19th c. teams should fold, players should go to their real teams, the teams IDs should be correctly aligned. Full stop.
You could try reviewing the accessible Teams.csv and revising it so all those stats go to some other franchise ID, start the year before 1883, sim it and then take over the Dodgers. To start in 1884 would require cracking open the historical.database.odg to get to the inaccessible Teams.csv file that governs initial year set-ups. It's just easier to edit the one you can get to and start the year before imo.
But it's not an error. It's a jerry-rigged fix for playability dating back to reconciling old code with the addition of the 19th c. teams years ago.
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