Just running one or two more sims to fine tune my settings but while they run here are my thoughts on your other questions. First off, welcome to the OOTP community. You will love this game.
ERA MANAGER - For 1901 to 1903 leave it at a 3 man rotation but for 1904 on I suggest putting it to a 4 man rotation for at least a good portion of the year since most teams used 4 starters pretty consistantly.
Stolen Bases = Since caught stealing data is not available in this era you will have too many stolen bases. The easy solution is to go to each team's team setup menu and change the stolen base tendancy to Not Often. This will work fairly well.
SALARY SYSTEM - Unfortunately you are stuck dealing with 2002 dollars. Do not lower your stadium capacity to turn of the century numbers. Leave capacity in the normal modern day settings otherwise teams will run into revenue problems. I just mentally drop 3 or 4 zero's so in my mind a 10 million dollar contact is actually 10,000.
With regard to stadiums I personally do not use the real stadium effects. Instead I make two parks - one for each league. This allows me to further customize the stats between leagues to get the desired results. For example in 1901 the American League as a whole batted .277 while the National League batted .267. I compromise and try for a .270 total average with the league settings but then I change the American League Park effects to roughly 105 for batting average for both left and right handed hitters and lower the National League park effect to 95. This will allow each leagues numbers to be closer to real life totals.
[ 04-07-2002: Message edited by: Tiger Fan ]</p>
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