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Spritze · 10-18-2008, 05:55 PM

A. There are no neutralized stats in the game for the extended portions of a players career included in this db nor for the added players. I am not sure how this may affect gameplay.

1. All players are assigned only to a single team. The one they played the most time with and are most associated with. Example:Ernie Banks started his career in the negro leagues and OOTP would assign him to the free agent pool rather than the Cubs as a rookie if left to its own devices. Most players pre-1960 began their careers with an independant minor league league. If this assignment isn't done then only players who went straight to the majors would start with an appropriate team. If you have the draft enabled this doesn't make any difference but if you wish to assign players to their historical teams this is necessary. I simply chose the team they played the most with rather than their first, so Lou Brock is a Cardinal and not a Cub.

2. Recalc of 3 years generally seems reasonable but use whatever you personally like. The db works with any of the recalc choices.

3. If you wish to keep most players assigned to a team of your choice disable the right to refuse minor league assignments and keep trading frequency set to its lowest level. Also disable all forms of free agency. This will help keep player movement quelled. Using these settings in my last league I kept Ty Cobb on my team for his entire career and paid him a mere pittance. Neutralization does not affect this at all.

4. With recalc this does not happen. But be aware that as this db includes MLE's of real minor league seasons that player who only played 4 games IN THE MAJORS probably played an additional 100 or so games in the minors and if he kicked butt in the minors he could even be a starter the whole year in the majors if he really was better than the fellow who was chosen to play in the majors. The MLE's are calculated/adjusted so that this only happens if the minor leaguer was demonstrably better than the major leaguer. But quite a few were and the frequency of this is much higher when the minor leagues were independant than later when they were controlled by the majors as they are now. So you may notice this until about 1955 and then it seems to pretty much dissapate as the majors gained absolute control over all minor league players.

5. Strangely I have found that not retiring according to history generally results in shorter careers rather than longer. But thou may do as you wish as either way works just fine with this db.

10-18-2008, 05:55 PM	#224 (permalink)
Spritze Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Redmond Wa and Cape Coast Ghana Posts: 2,935 Thanks: 16 Thanked 338x in 236 posts	A. There are no neutralized stats in the game for the extended portions of a players career included in this db nor for the added players. I am not sure how this may affect gameplay. 1. All players are assigned only to a single team. The one they played the most time with and are most associated with. Example:Ernie Banks started his career in the negro leagues and OOTP would assign him to the free agent pool rather than the Cubs as a rookie if left to its own devices. Most players pre-1960 began their careers with an independant minor league league. If this assignment isn't done then only players who went straight to the majors would start with an appropriate team. If you have the draft enabled this doesn't make any difference but if you wish to assign players to their historical teams this is necessary. I simply chose the team they played the most with rather than their first, so Lou Brock is a Cardinal and not a Cub. 2. Recalc of 3 years generally seems reasonable but use whatever you personally like. The db works with any of the recalc choices. 3. If you wish to keep most players assigned to a team of your choice disable the right to refuse minor league assignments and keep trading frequency set to its lowest level. Also disable all forms of free agency. This will help keep player movement quelled. Using these settings in my last league I kept Ty Cobb on my team for his entire career and paid him a mere pittance. Neutralization does not affect this at all. 4. With recalc this does not happen. But be aware that as this db includes MLE's of real minor league seasons that player who only played 4 games IN THE MAJORS probably played an additional 100 or so games in the minors and if he kicked butt in the minors he could even be a starter the whole year in the majors if he really was better than the fellow who was chosen to play in the majors. The MLE's are calculated/adjusted so that this only happens if the minor leaguer was demonstrably better than the major leaguer. But quite a few were and the frequency of this is much higher when the minor leagues were independant than later when they were controlled by the majors as they are now. So you may notice this until about 1955 and then it seems to pretty much dissapate as the majors gained absolute control over all minor league players. 5. Strangely I have found that not retiring according to history generally results in shorter careers rather than longer. But thou may do as you wish as either way works just fine with this db. Last edited by Spritze; 10-18-2008 at 05:57 PM.