Historical League Start Date Problem

Kelric · 07-22-2006, 01:20 AM

Using .2260 and Arod/Garlons DB, I am trying to create a league starting in 1871. Whenever I enter 1871 into the Season Year, it automatically changes it into 1901 as soon as I finish typing the 1. Do I need to be making a fictional league instead of adding a historical league as I am currently doing, or is this a complete bug?

Swimmer · 07-23-2006, 02:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Kelric

Using .2260 and Arod/Garlons DB, I am trying to create a league starting in 1871. Whenever I enter 1871 into the Season Year, it automatically changes it into 1901 as soon as I finish typing the 1. Do I need to be making a fictional league instead of adding a historical league as I am currently doing, or is this a complete bug?

Nope. This is a feature.

Seriously, though, to start in 1871 you need to either A) Download an 1871 Quickstart, or B) start in 1870, run a short season with crappy players (I usually use 4 games with a ML equivalence of about .4), and then let the ammy draft import the real players for 1871. Search around on the Historical Simulations Board to read about the various pitfalls of 19th century play.

Kelric · 07-23-2006, 11:34 AM

That's.... odd. Well I can just run 1870 I guess.

battists · 08-11-2006, 10:37 PM

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this. Seriously, though, I must admit I'm not quite sure why this is. I suspect it's because the game is not designed to handle data from prior to 1901. I'll try to get some confirmation on this...

Thanks!

Steve

Kelric · 08-18-2006, 02:19 PM

Thanks Steve.

battists · 10-16-2006, 07:51 PM

Sorry for the late follow-up, but the final answer, as suspected, is that the game does not officially support pre-1901 leagues. The main reason for this is that the data available for said leagues is so sketchy as to make player generation problematic.

As was mentioned, some have created 1871 leagues and so forth. You might want to start there.

For now, I'm moving this to closed, thanks!

Steve

07-22-2006, 01:20 AM	#1
Kelric Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Greater Boston Area Posts: 3,992	Historical League Start Date Problem Using .2260 and Arod/Garlons DB, I am trying to create a league starting in 1871. Whenever I enter 1871 into the Season Year, it automatically changes it into 1901 as soon as I finish typing the 1. Do I need to be making a fictional league instead of adding a historical league as I am currently doing, or is this a complete bug?

07-23-2006, 11:34 AM	#3
Kelric Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Greater Boston Area Posts: 3,992	That's.... odd. Well I can just run 1870 I guess.

08-11-2006, 10:37 PM	#4
battists Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 18,506 Blog Entries: 7	Sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this. Seriously, though, I must admit I'm not quite sure why this is. I suspect it's because the game is not designed to handle data from prior to 1901. I'll try to get some confirmation on this... Thanks! Steve

08-18-2006, 02:19 PM	#5
Kelric Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Greater Boston Area Posts: 3,992	Thanks Steve.

10-16-2006, 07:51 PM	#6
battists Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 18,506 Blog Entries: 7	Sorry for the late follow-up, but the final answer, as suspected, is that the game does not officially support pre-1901 leagues. The main reason for this is that the data available for said leagues is so sketchy as to make player generation problematic. As was mentioned, some have created 1871 leagues and so forth. You might want to start there. For now, I'm moving this to closed, thanks! Steve