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Originally Posted by Tiger Fan
Aside from manually importing all of the rookies individually every season (which would be extremely time consuming) I do not believe there is any way for you to have fictional and historical rookies in the same draft pool.
However, since it sounds like you want the fictional players to be equal in ability to the real life historical rookies there is a compromise workaround that would not be too difficult. I have not tried to do this specifically but I think it should work fine.
Choose Create New Game:
First step would be to select add a historical league and choose 1901 as your import year. Following the importing of the players from Lahman you should add all of the minor league levels you want (AAA, AA and A in your example).
Next within the same game select Add fictional league. I know you need 32 more major league teams but I would suggest you create this league with 48 teams in it for reasons I will explain shortly. Also add each minor league level to this league. I would set the amateur draft for this league at 30 or more rounds and make sure from the strategy and equivalencies screen you check automatically import historical player creation modifiers.
Make any setup changes you wish to do here but for it to work properly you will need to enable free agents can be signed from other leagues in your historical league (but likely uncheck the choice for free agents to leave this league) while in the fictional league do the reverse and enable option for free agents to leave the league. I would also set free agency to 1 year in the fictional league.
Click start game. As soon as game is setup move the 32 fictional teams (some of which you will name to real life teams that joined the majors post 1901 and the remainder being the fictional teams you want to add). This will give you a historical league with 48 teams in it and your fictional league will still have 16 teams. Don't forget to add minor league affiliates for the 32 teams you moved across and when you are done generate new schedules for each league. You will also need to fill all teams with fictional players to ensure all minor league affiliates are fully stocked with players.
You need this fictional league to remain active so it can help keep your 48 mlb league teams stocked in players. The idea is the major league draft will still only contain real rookies (so the draft will have barely 2 rounds in many years). Teams from your major league will then stock their minor league systems by signing free agents from the fictional league you left active with 16 teams. If you prefer to have the real-life historical rookies be assigned to their original teams instead of a draft you can do that as well but keep in mind the real teams will have a slight advantage as the other 32 clubs can only go after free agents from the other league. I believe you must keep free agency enabled in your major league for all of this to work but you can set it to 12 years before a player becomes eligible to at least minimize the mlb free agents.
Like I said I have not tried this exact setup but I think it should do basically what you want. Let me know if you have any questions.
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Tiger Fan, Thank you very much for taking the time to try and figure this out. The steps you've listed seem to map out exactly what I'm trying to do. I will attempt to set this up and will let you know how it turns out.
If I decide to add logos, photos, fictional faces and modify stadiums, where in this process would I do so? I'm assuming any addtions/modifications would be done only after I've successfully started the game and set up the rosters, yes?
YankeePride, thanks for your help as well.
Thanks again!
ChuckkieB