Create a custom league with teams from different years?

[Chicagophil]

I'm I able to create a custom season using teams from different years? Say I want the 27 Yankees, the 90 A's, and the 2016 Cubs in the same league/season. Is that possible?

Thanks

[Hoiles]

It's pretty easy to do this. Choose a custom league from the main menu, then fictional league, choose your league structure, click on next. On the team naming screen, click on the "switch to historical team selection" button under the league naming fields, and you'll be able to specify the historical teams according to year and team.

[Bobble]

Originally Posted by Hoiles

It's pretty easy to do this. Choose a custom league from the main menu, then fictional league, choose your league structure, click on next. On the team naming screen, click on the "switch to historical team selection" button under the league naming fields, and you'll be able to specify the historical teams according to year and team.

All according to Hoile(s)...



I crack myself up!

[Chicagophil]

Awesome
Thanks

[Hoiles]

In doing this, I would disable player development for now as there's a bug where all the players' birth years don't change regardless of the team's year. For example, if you choose the 1927 Yankees Babe Ruth will be like 120 years old. I posted this on the bugs forum.

[NoOne]

Originally Posted by Hoiles

In doing this, I would disable player development for now as there's a bug where all the players' birth years don't change regardless of the team's year. For example, if you choose the 1927 Yankees Babe Ruth will be like 120 years old. I posted this on the bugs forum.

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if you do this immediately after creation it won't take a tone of time - compared to doing it for each player.

export players. load up your prefered spreadsheet application. for each team you'll need to do a simple formula you can fill for all players on that team for each teamID section. i suggest doing this with links on a different worksheet than the exported ootp data. then copy and paste values and text only over the original YoB column.

="cell" +/- X

x = years difference between the historical team's year and current year. you'll have to do it for each team.


this also assumes the historical teams are specific years and not an all-star team with players from multiple points in their careers? if so, this won't work, obviously. fixing 5000 players is a problem... fixing 30 teams is much less daunting task.

[BigRed75]

I would also disable AI transactions, or (to use a previous example) you might find Babe Ruth traded and playing for the 1990 A's...