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jmknpk2 · 04-13-2009, 08:34 PM

What I am interested in doing is simming through history with the actual players from the historical teams progressing through history.

Problem is, that even if historical rookies first appear on the correct team, after that we lose touch with reality. Players are randomly traded and trades that happened in real life are not made.

I asked about this in an earlier thread and the answer was that the game wouldn't do this automatically for me.

I am about to try this again. Here is my plan on how to do this and I would love to hear if anyone can suggest better ways of doing it.

Start a new league in the year I want, then turn off trades. First year is probably ok. But in subsequent years, I guess in the offseason I will turn to my paper Baseball Encyclopedia to see who the players were on the actual teams for the upcoming year. If I find a player out of place, then I will go to the baseball reference online and lookup the transactions he was involved in and manually make the trade myself.

This seems like a lot of work, but I'm williing to do it as look as I can tolerate.

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jmknpk2 All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 704 Thanks: 67 Thanked 103x in 61 posts	Better way to track historical progression What I am interested in doing is simming through history with the actual players from the historical teams progressing through history. Problem is, that even if historical rookies first appear on the correct team, after that we lose touch with reality. Players are randomly traded and trades that happened in real life are not made. I asked about this in an earlier thread and the answer was that the game wouldn't do this automatically for me. I am about to try this again. Here is my plan on how to do this and I would love to hear if anyone can suggest better ways of doing it. Start a new league in the year I want, then turn off trades. First year is probably ok. But in subsequent years, I guess in the offseason I will turn to my paper Baseball Encyclopedia to see who the players were on the actual teams for the upcoming year. If I find a player out of place, then I will go to the baseball reference online and lookup the transactions he was involved in and manually make the trade myself. This seems like a lot of work, but I'm williing to do it as look as I can tolerate.