[rocketeer928]

Several weeks ago I started a historical MLB league starting at 1901 using the Lahman database, and have played through 1970 so far. However, I have an issue with the statistical leaderboard that I hope someone can help me figure out and correct.

The first time I viewed the leaderboard at about 1920 I expected to see the statistical leaders from the time I started (i.e., 1901) and forward. What I see are some statistical leaders populated by players from pre-1901, likely from the database. For example, Hugh Duffy has the single season batting average record at .440, but that stat was accomplished prior to when I started the game at 1901, sometime in the late 1800s.

I only want stats for the years I have played and not for previous years (e.g., late 1800s). So I set about deleting players. I'll use Hugh Duffy as an example I what I tried.

I went into the Commish mode, went to Hugh Duffy's player profile, and removed him from the HOF and deleted him as a player. After doing so, I closed OOTP 2007 and then rebooted the program to reset everything. Once I had the program up and running again, I performed a Hugh Duffy search and he was nowhere to be found. Good, I thought. However, when I went back to the leaderboards there he was still with the single season record with .440 batting average. Ugh!

So how do I get rid of players that played prior to 1901 who have records within the leaderboard so that they no longer appear on the leaderboard? I want to see only players that played from 1901 and forward. I think I could restart at 1901 and erase all stats during the setup, but I'm not sure if that will work and I don't really want to start anew right now. I would rather continue with my current league.

Any ideas?

Thanks.