Auto Expansion Questions

[BeachBum]

If you elect to NOT use the auto expansion, will existing teams still move from city to city, i.e. Dodgers to LA, etc? If so, is there a way to not have the move take place?

If the move is stopped and you want the rookies to go to their original teams, will the LA Dodger rookies find their way back to Brooklyn, come in as free agents?

If you are NOT using the auto expansion but want rookies to go to their original teams, what happens to the rookies of the expansion teams? Do they come into the game as free agents or do they just not come in at all?

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

[Comedian2004]

No, if it is turned off, you will have the same teams and layout year to year. (boring)

Rookies go to their original teams. Not sure if Dodgers would go to Brooklyn. You may just want to set up a test league to see.

If you are NOT using expansion, the rookies of expansion teams go to the free agent pool.

[spark240]

Originally Posted by BeachBum

If the move is stopped and you want the rookies to go to their original teams, will the LA Dodger rookies find their way back to Brooklyn, come in as free agents?

The database players are listed by historical team ID, which is different for multi-city franchises. I believe you could manually change the historical team IDs in the appropriate years (the years the teams would have moved), so you'd still have the Brooklyn Dodgers, but for rookie import purposes it would be marked as LAN, etc. You'd probably want to make a chart ahead of time with all the team ID changes plotted out to remind you. (Otherwise, I reckon such players would also come in as FAs, and the franchises that never moved would come to have an advantage.)