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Originally Posted by phillosopherp
I think the big thing I am asking about is that first year. If I start a game in 1980 are the players on the team they were on in 1980 or are they on some other team? I don't care of course about after that, cause of the draft is the draft, and most importantly this DB has players entering when they entered in the draft per your advertising, right. So please let me know on this so that I don't have to make my own DB that would kill me.
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When I tried to start a league in 1960, somewhere around 25% of the players were on the wrong team (my very rough estimate). I think I understand now the mechanics that led to the DB being designed this way (the overriding objective being to have every player appear in the game when he first became a professional, regardless of where that was). I haven't figured out why having players on the correct teams in the first year of a league is unimportant, but having new players appear on the correct teams is important. Perhaps the idea is that over the course of several years, the teams will start to look more like what they did IRL. For example, if I started in 1960, by 1970 my Giants might look more like the Giants actually did in 1970, because of the flow of rookies coming in, and retirees, trades, etc. going out. Or maybe not.
I am more interested in playing through the 60s with more historically accurate teams, so I am going back to look at the Gambo DB. There are some odd rating situations there that I don't quite understand, but the teams are accurate and there are about double the number of players in each organization compared to the Lahman DB.