Early in historical leagues, barren minors. Help!

[storm427]

I have followed Rasnell's guide and run through some historical leagues, it is a great help and has been fun.

The one thing I find lacking compared to my fictional leagues is that the minor league system is empty, since the db's recreate players who have made the majors.

I'm wondering if there is a way to achieve a hybrid, where you start the first season with historical rosters, and as time goes by the major leaguers show up in the rookie draft, but there are also additional fictional players who show up and have the chance to develop into major leaguers?

I suspect this has something to do with the ghost players setting, but I turned it off and still only got "real" major leaguers in the ensuing rookie draft.

Thanks

[Kelric]

Ghost players won't give you anybody - they don't exist. They just allow you to run your minor leagues without worrying about having full rosters.

To get fictional as well as historical players, you will need to run a second amateur draft every year with fictional players. Run your historical draft as you normally would, then disable the import real players function or whatever it's called, then create another amateur draft a few days later. Just remember to reset the importing of historical players for the next season.

[storm427]

Originally Posted by Kelric

Ghost players won't give you anybody - they don't exist. They just allow you to run your minor leagues without worrying about having full rosters.

To get fictional as well as historical players, you will need to run a second amateur draft every year with fictional players. Run your historical draft as you normally would, then disable the import real players function or whatever it's called, then create another amateur draft a few days later. Just remember to reset the importing of historical players for the next season.

Cool. I knew there had to be a trick to it. Thanks for the answer.

[Tekneek]

I've tried something that may not be very historically accurate, but I didn't like the idea of a draft (or even two drafts). I made an independent high school league that produced a pool of "free agents" each year for the pro leagues to pick through. That is another possible way to funnel some fictional players into the universe to fill up minor leagues.

[Russ]

Originally Posted by Tekneek

I've tried something that may not be very historically accurate, but I didn't like the idea of a draft (or even two drafts). I made an independent high school league that produced a pool of "free agents" each year for the pro leagues to pick through. That is another possible way to funnel some fictional players into the universe to fill up minor leagues.

Good thinking. I'm going to give that a shot. Are the prospects ML caliber?

[Tekneek]

Originally Posted by Russ

Good thinking. I'm going to give that a shot. Are the prospects ML caliber?

I have found them to be all over the board, really. Way more variety than I was getting from the game-created draft pools.