Fictional League with Real Players

tdmore7 · 04-23-2025, 05:31 PM

This is my first time posting here! I’m sorry in advance if this is wrong place or wrong way to ask my questions. I’ve been a member of the forum and scrolled it but never asked anything.
I posted this on Reddit (where I’m much more active) and was directed here.

So, I am putting together a fake world- with real players. So I know that I have to do a historical save, start it at the year I want, add my new league, and then delete the MLB out of it.
I have a couple of questions:
Without getting too indepth, I am going to try and sum up my questions as easily as possible.

1. How do I ensure that I don't have randomly created 80 ovr's running the league. I plan on having 3 leagues total. 2 to start, with those two splitting in half and forming one league - while the lower tier teams stay in their 2 "minor" leagues. Essentially indy ball teams. EDIT: I want to only have real players who played in real life, in the game. I don't care if they were horrible in real life and then become great in the fictional world - I just mainly do not want created players ever ruining the world.

2. How do I Modify the stats to ensure that players aren't hitting like 70 homeruns in 1890. I have tried historical saves in the past, and for some reason I always end up with created players running the league, and guys hitting 150 homeruns by 2000's.
Thanks in advance.

luckymann · 04-23-2025, 06:20 PM

OK, just need to clarify first - are you talking about a random debut league or historical league using MLB rookies from their correct years with the fictional aspect merely being the teams and altered structure?

Either way, to have no fictional players coming in you need to ensure the disable creation of FA is checked in SETTINGS>RULES.

As far as the chronological accuracy of stat output is concerned, you use the LTMs. These will default to the historical year the game is simulating at that time. If you want different, there's a process.

The day before Opening Day, choose the year from which you want the league's stat output to be taken from the dropdown menu in SETTINGS>STATS & AI. Once the engine has calculated them, lock these modifiers and you should be good to go.

Some may think otherwise on the timing of this, preferring to do it on OD. Some like to do it early and have the autocalc fine tune it on OD. Trial and error to find your personal preference is the way to go.

Hope that helps.

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tdmore7 · 04-25-2025, 01:34 AM

This helped so much! Thank you!

Going back to the first part of your reply - I want it to be historically accurate - not random debutes. So I will turn off FA Creation.
When it comes to the draft, is there anything I need to do there? And then on the "player creation" area where it says how random generation of international FA's and such - I set all of those to zero... but will that mess with lets say - Ichiro coming in? Since he is a International FA?

Thank you again for the reply, and help!

luckymann · 04-25-2025, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by tdmore7

This helped so much! Thank you!

Going back to the first part of your reply - I want it to be historically accurate - not random debutes. So I will turn off FA Creation.
When it comes to the draft, is there anything I need to do there? And then on the "player creation" area where it says how random generation of international FA's and such - I set all of those to zero... but will that mess with lets say - Ichiro coming in? Since he is a International FA?

Thank you again for the reply, and help!

Yeah, either way if you do NOT want fictional players in this universe then you need to disable FA creation (IE check the appropriate box).

For historical rookies coming in as they did IRL, check that box and leave the random rookies from all eras box unchecked. This is in SETTINGS>HISTORICAL.

So, you basically have three choices for historical rookies: they go straight to their historical teams; they come in as FA; or they are in the Draft player pool.

If you want them to go straight to their historical teams, disable the Rookie Draft.

If you want them to come in as FA, check that box, again this is in SETTINGS>HISTORICAL.

If you have the Draft enabled and the above FA box unchecked, they come into the draft pool whenever you've set the reveal to happen.

For the purpose of this game, Ichiro is not an IFA. He is just a rookie for 2001 who (I presume, but don't know for certain as I've not encountered him under these circumstances) lands at the Mariners if you have it set up for players to go to their historical teams. If not, he'll be in the Draft pool with all the historical 2001 rookies.

I think that covers it. Good luck!

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tdmore7 · 04-28-2025, 04:30 AM

I am sorry for the late reply, I appreciate the help so much!
I will be putting this into play shortly, and already feel better than I did in previous attemps LOL
Thank you again!

italyprof · 04-30-2025, 06:09 AM

I have been playing this way: first cresre a fictional league, set the year, number of teams, divisions, etc. Then go to Rules under league settings and set the first year players draft to sometime in November and set a large number of rounds, say 44, to fill the roster. And set the announcement of the draft pool to only 5 days before the draft. Then, go to Options under League Settings and click "historical players" and "random debut " if you want the latter, otherwise the players will all come from the year you are playing. Then Sim the entire first season through the playoffs with the fictional players. Now go to League Settings and click "Clear Rosters. Then click on the league symbol at the top of the screen and click "League Info" and "All Players." Click tge top of the list to select all and then "actions" and Delete all free agents. " League Settings and "Eliminate all league history." Now sim to the first year players draft and you are ready to go!

David Watts · 04-30-2025, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by italyprof

I have been playing this way: first cresre a fictional league, set the year, number of teams, divisions, etc. Then go to Rules under league settings and set the first year players draft to sometime in November and set a large number of rounds, say 44, to fill the roster. And set the announcement of the draft pool to only 5 days before the draft. Then, go to Options under League Settings and click "historical players" and "random debut " if you want the latter, otherwise the players will all come from the year you are playing. Then Sim the entire first season through the playoffs with the fictional players. Now go to League Settings and click "Clear Rosters. Then click on the league symbol at the top of the screen and click "League Info" and "All Players." Click tge top of the list to select all and then "actions" and Delete all free agents. " League Settings and "Eliminate all league history." Now sim to the first year players draft and you are ready to go!

Very interesting. When creating a historical game using just the development engine, one can select to have historical players positions and pitchers stamina based on their whole career. This ensures, guys like Ryan and Schilling don't play their entire careers pitching out of the bullpen. Does this method you described allow for that?

italyprof · 05-01-2025, 12:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by David Watts

Very interesting. When creating a historical game using just the development engine, one can select to have historical players positions and pitchers stamina based on their whole career. This ensures, guys like Ryan and Schilling don't play their entire careers pitching out of the bullpen. Does this method you described allow for that?

Yes, I use the whole career setting in fact, since they all arrive at the start of their career, so it seemed like the right way to go.

04-23-2025, 05:31 PM	#1
tdmore7 Bat Boy Join Date: Dec 2021 Posts: 3	Fictional League with Real Players This is my first time posting here! I’m sorry in advance if this is wrong place or wrong way to ask my questions. I’ve been a member of the forum and scrolled it but never asked anything. I posted this on Reddit (where I’m much more active) and was directed here. So, I am putting together a fake world- with real players. So I know that I have to do a historical save, start it at the year I want, add my new league, and then delete the MLB out of it. I have a couple of questions: Without getting too indepth, I am going to try and sum up my questions as easily as possible. 1. How do I ensure that I don't have randomly created 80 ovr's running the league. I plan on having 3 leagues total. 2 to start, with those two splitting in half and forming one league - while the lower tier teams stay in their 2 "minor" leagues. Essentially indy ball teams. EDIT: I want to only have real players who played in real life, in the game. I don't care if they were horrible in real life and then become great in the fictional world - I just mainly do not want created players ever ruining the world. 2. How do I Modify the stats to ensure that players aren't hitting like 70 homeruns in 1890. I have tried historical saves in the past, and for some reason I always end up with created players running the league, and guys hitting 150 homeruns by 2000's. Thanks in advance.

04-23-2025, 06:20 PM	#2
luckymann Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2019 Posts: 12,738	OK, just need to clarify first - are you talking about a random debut league or historical league using MLB rookies from their correct years with the fictional aspect merely being the teams and altered structure? Either way, to have no fictional players coming in you need to ensure the disable creation of FA is checked in SETTINGS>RULES. As far as the chronological accuracy of stat output is concerned, you use the LTMs. These will default to the historical year the game is simulating at that time. If you want different, there's a process. The day before Opening Day, choose the year from which you want the league's stat output to be taken from the dropdown menu in SETTINGS>STATS & AI. Once the engine has calculated them, lock these modifiers and you should be good to go. Some may think otherwise on the timing of this, preferring to do it on OD. Some like to do it early and have the autocalc fine tune it on OD. Trial and error to find your personal preference is the way to go. Hope that helps. G __________________ HISTORICAL DO-OVERS PIRATES A'S RED SOX DODGERS CUSTOM SAVES ECLIPSE LEAGUE MOON SHOT LEAGUE EVERYMAN LEAGUE GULF LEAGUE

04-25-2025, 01:34 AM	#3
tdmore7 Bat Boy Join Date: Dec 2021 Posts: 3	This helped so much! Thank you! Going back to the first part of your reply - I want it to be historically accurate - not random debutes. So I will turn off FA Creation. When it comes to the draft, is there anything I need to do there? And then on the "player creation" area where it says how random generation of international FA's and such - I set all of those to zero... but will that mess with lets say - Ichiro coming in? Since he is a International FA? Thank you again for the reply, and help!

04-28-2025, 04:30 AM	#5
tdmore7 Bat Boy Join Date: Dec 2021 Posts: 3	I am sorry for the late reply, I appreciate the help so much! I will be putting this into play shortly, and already feel better than I did in previous attemps LOL Thank you again!

04-30-2025, 06:09 AM	#6
italyprof All Star Starter Join Date: Feb 2014 Posts: 1,017	I have been playing this way: first cresre a fictional league, set the year, number of teams, divisions, etc. Then go to Rules under league settings and set the first year players draft to sometime in November and set a large number of rounds, say 44, to fill the roster. And set the announcement of the draft pool to only 5 days before the draft. Then, go to Options under League Settings and click "historical players" and "random debut " if you want the latter, otherwise the players will all come from the year you are playing. Then Sim the entire first season through the playoffs with the fictional players. Now go to League Settings and click "Clear Rosters. Then click on the league symbol at the top of the screen and click "League Info" and "All Players." Click tge top of the list to select all and then "actions" and Delete all free agents. " League Settings and "Eliminate all league history." Now sim to the first year players draft and you are ready to go!