Deleting a League/SubLeague

[Craig Scarborough]

Someone help me here as it seems the locals are popping wheelies over this.

Why is this needed? What practical application does this have?

Thanks!

[delta]

Well for starters... a league that existed will cease to do so. Bonus: It helps speed up simulation time

[ifspuds]

For example, it allows for:

* Inclusion of the Federal League in deadball-era sims. You can add the league, then when it folds, you can simply delete it again.

* Potentially, it allows for accurate simulation (or at least inclusion) of historical minor leagues. In the early days, there were a crazy number of minor leagues, some of which only lasted a handful of years, then folded. Now we can have a very mutable landscape of minor leagues without having to have it all planned out completely in advance.

* Fixing of mistakes. Say you sim five years, decide that you no longer want one of the subleagues or unaffiliated leagues or what-have-you. Now, instead of having to restart your entire universe from scratch, you can simply delete the unwanted leagues.

And lots more, I'm sure.

To me, it's an absolute necessity. In a game this complex, the ability to change your league structure in this manner is vital, especially if you want to get started playing without having to spend weeks planning out the perfect universe all in advance.

[cephasjames]

For me, I had a world planned out that had leagues starting and folding at various times throughout history (like in real life). In '06 this wasn't possible... every league had to start at the exact same time (rather unrealistic in my eyes).

[Craig Scarborough]

Ah, ok. So, historically-speaking it's a must have, and if you wish to simulate your own leagues failing it's a nice to have.

I've never played historical nor have I moved far enough along to get to the point where deleting a league sounded interesting to me.

Thanks!

[ctorg]

I am very happy about this. I don't know if this was answered elsewhere, but is there a way to re-activate a deleted league? IOW, if I delete the Federal League after 1915 but decide it will start again in 1920, can I do that, or do I just have to make a new FL (not the end of the world, really)?

[Solonor]

Originally Posted by ctorg

I am very happy about this. I don't know if this was answered elsewhere, but is there a way to re-activate a deleted league? IOW, if I delete the Federal League after 1915 but decide it will start again in 1920, can I do that, or do I just have to make a new FL (not the end of the world, really)?

Once you delete them, they're gone. You'd have to start it as a new league.

Maybe you could unaffiliate them for a few years, dump all their players into the MLB pool, then make it so the AI couldn't make any roster moves and they didn't have a schedule, then reattach them and turn everything back on in 1920....? Dunno if that would work, or if it would give the game heartburn, but it's at least an option in this version of the game.

There are options to have creative ways to workaround different scenarios in this version that don't exist in prior versions!

[ctorg]

Originally Posted by Solonor

Once you delete them, they're gone. You'd have to start it as a new league.

Maybe you could unaffiliate them for a few years, dump all their players into the MLB pool, then make it so the AI couldn't make any roster moves and they didn't have a schedule, then reattach them and turn everything back on in 1920....? Dunno if that would work, or if it would give the game heartburn, but it's at least an option in this version of the game.

There are options to have creative ways to workaround different scenarios in this version that don't exist in prior versions!

It's not much of a big deal anyway, since when leagues come back to life, even when they are using the same old name, they're not really all that much like the previous incarnation. See the current American Association as an example. So it's okay if I have to recreate it. I was just wondering if it was possible.

[cephasjames]

Originally Posted by ctorg

It's not much of a big deal anyway, since when leagues come back to life, even when they are using the same old name, they're not really all that much like the previous incarnation. See the current American Association as an example. So it's okay if I have to recreate it. I was just wondering if it was possible.

As I'm planning out my fictional world based off of the real deal, I'm having a tendency, when a minor league runs for a few years and then folds for few years and then starts up again, to just fake the 'folded years' and add in my own 'connecting' info so I don't have to go through the process of starting it back over (did that make sense?). It makes the league last just as long but withou all of the hastle of stopping and restarting.