Minor Leagues: How to Use

SlyBelle · 04-07-2007, 08:18 PM

If I start a sim from 1901, how does minor leagues get reflected all the way through 2006? If you only start with X major league teams and X minor league teams, do additional minor league teams get added as the league expands? And if so, how do they get assigned as affiliates?

Spritze · 04-12-2007, 09:54 PM

Each major league teams gets one auto-assigned affiliate at each level. As there are fictional when expansion expands the minors expand expansionally as well. The game assigns the new minor teams as it sees fit. One per level per new expansion team.

Mattingly06 · 04-15-2007, 11:11 AM

Is there a way to import real minor league affiliates into a historical sim? I started a 2006 historical sim with Lahman database and I'd like to use real minor league teams (don't care about players). Am I supposed to use a template or something?

chimanbj · 04-16-2007, 11:29 AM

In theory you should be able to create the minor leagues as templates, and then when you make your historical sim, (2006 isn't much in the way of historical, but whatever) load the minor leagues from templates.

However, you may have to sim a day or a year (!) to affiliate the leagues with the majors. Actually, it's not too bad since the minor leagues didn't affiliate with MLB until after 1920....

04-07-2007, 08:18 PM	#1
SlyBelle All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 633	Minor Leagues: How to Use If I start a sim from 1901, how does minor leagues get reflected all the way through 2006? If you only start with X major league teams and X minor league teams, do additional minor league teams get added as the league expands? And if so, how do they get assigned as affiliates?

04-16-2007, 11:29 AM	#4
chimanbj All Star Reserve Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Chicago, by way of Philly Posts: 791	In theory you should be able to create the minor leagues as templates, and then when you make your historical sim, (2006 isn't much in the way of historical, but whatever) load the minor leagues from templates. However, you may have to sim a day or a year (!) to affiliate the leagues with the majors. Actually, it's not too bad since the minor leagues didn't affiliate with MLB until after 1920.... __________________ People ask if I'm a Cubs or White Sox fan...I tell them, proudly, I'm a Phillies Phan!

04-12-2007, 09:54 PM	#2
Spritze OOTP Historical Czar Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Bothell Wa Posts: 7,253	Each major league teams gets one auto-assigned affiliate at each level. As there are fictional when expansion expands the minors expand expansionally as well. The game assigns the new minor teams as it sees fit. One per level per new expansion team.

04-15-2007, 11:11 AM	#3
Mattingly06 Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 45	Is there a way to import real minor league affiliates into a historical sim? I started a 2006 historical sim with Lahman database and I'd like to use real minor league teams (don't care about players). Am I supposed to use a template or something?