Sim from 1901, how are you guys doing it?

[redmarkYankees]

Originally Posted by Shaner99

Damn I don't know why you guys are having all of this trouble. I've been able to successfully sim upto 1950+ numerous times already.(No minors) Which is why I'm thinking it has something to do with the minors. What? I have no clue, maybe something about the AI, which I saw is being addressed in the next patch.

That sounds very feasible - I've experienced no crashes either, using reserve roster instead of minors.

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by Kelric

I don't get it. WTH is going wrong?

I think this...

Originally Posted by Kelric

April 7th - Triple-A, Double-A, Single-A Opening Day.
April 15th - Spring Training for a fictional league.

...has something to do with it.

The regular seasons for your minor leagues are starting before the regular season of your major leagues, which, aside from being ahistorical, probably isn't a good idea.

Remember, when you do a historical league the game will use the actual major league schedule for that year. However, your minor league schedules will be generated by the game. You're going to get a mismatch there, and that is likely at least part of the problem.

Excluding the PCL (which is something of a special case), the minor leagues have always started their regular seasons on or after the major league opening date. Note that while many minor leagues played schedules which had as many games, or more, than the majors, they took much less time to play than a major league schedule of the same length (i.e. the majors would take 168 days to play 154 games; the minors would take only 151 days or 145 days to play 154 games - that obviously means few off days and lots of doubleheaders).

First thing to try is to reset the opening dates for your minor leagues and regenerate their schedules so that they open on or after your major league season and see if that helps any. That will have to suffice until some historical minor league schedule files can be put together for the game.

[Kelric]

Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange

I think this...

...has something to do with it.

The regular seasons for your minor leagues are starting before the regular season of your major leagues, which, aside from being ahistorical, probably isn't a good idea.

Remember, when you do a historical league the game will use the actual major league schedule for that year. However, your minor league schedules will be generated by the game. You're going to get a mismatch there, and that is likely at least part of the problem.

Excluding the PCL (which is something of a special case), the minor leagues have always started their regular seasons on or after the major league opening date. Note that while many minor leagues played schedules which had as many games, or more, than the majors, they took much less time to play than a major league schedule of the same length (i.e. the majors would take 168 days to play 154 games; the minors would take only 151 days or 145 days to play 154 games - that obviously means few off days and lots of doubleheaders).

First thing to try is to reset the opening dates for your minor leagues and regenerate their schedules so that they open on or after your major league season and see if that helps any. That will have to suffice until some historical minor league schedule files can be put together for the game.

Well, my Opening Days for the big leagues had already started in early April. I did not know the actual schedules were being imported though. I've found I can sim when there are no minors, so you're probably right. I'll see what I can do tonight.

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by Kelric

I did not know the actual schedules were being imported though.

If your historical league matches the actual MLB alignment for that year, and you have the balanced, interleague, and schedule length settings correct, the game will use the actual major league schedule for that season.

[Kelric]

Ah. Well I switched to 162 games though I left everything else the same. So no real schedules for me.

[KurtBevacqua]

I'm using the minors because using reserve rosters didn't work either. In fact I tried that about 5 times first, enough banging my head on that wall prompted me to try minors. You guys who have it working I suspect are doing it just a certain way, the only way perhaps that works. If I don't do a draft and just allocate players to their historical teams it seems to work OK, with only having to fill the minors of a couple teams. If I use the draft it doesn't work, hands down. The draft just doesn't happen. The right players come up for the draft pool, and the schedule runs right through the draft without running it and the historic players sit in a never used draft pool.

[Jeremy Weimer]

I'm using a draft. I have it set to November 15th. Haven't had any problems.

[Jeremy Weimer]

I also have minors off and rely on the reserve rosters.

[redmarkYankees]

Originally Posted by KurtBevacqua

I'm using the minors because using reserve rosters didn't work either. In fact I tried that about 5 times first, enough banging my head on that wall prompted me to try minors. You guys who have it working I suspect are doing it just a certain way, the only way perhaps that works. If I don't do a draft and just allocate players to their historical teams it seems to work OK, with only having to fill the minors of a couple teams. If I use the draft it doesn't work, hands down. The draft just doesn't happen. The right players come up for the draft pool, and the schedule runs right through the draft without running it and the historic players sit in a never used draft pool.

All I can suggest is you give us a walkthrough from the start on exactly what settings you use, to see if anyone who's had successful setups/drafts can spot something.

[jte87]

Originally Posted by KurtBevacqua

I have injuries off entirely and a 21 player majorleague roster with no roster expansions. Tigerfan added the minors just to give us extra fill-in players to avoid this problem until enough guys come in via the draft. Either everyone else is super lucky or I am super-unlucky cause I have tried this over a dozen times and can't get more than 3 years simmed before getting it killed by illegal rosters.

You said you weren't using any roster expansion. That may seem to make things less likely to crash, but for whatever reason, you may need roster expansion for it not to crash. Or maybe not crash, but is supposed to be what alleviates the problem with minor league teams not having enough players.

See TigerFan's last response in this thread.

[boilermaker]

If I clipped off the last word of your question (Sim from 1901, how are you guys doing), then I'm pretty thrilled to sayy "very well." Won the World Series my first season with the Phillies. Elmer Flick, Ed Delahanty, Al Orth, Harry Wolverton, Roy Thomas, Red Donahue....Unstoppable!

[Kelric]

Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange

I think this...

...has something to do with it.

The regular seasons for your minor leagues are starting before the regular season of your major leagues, which, aside from being ahistorical, probably isn't a good idea.

Remember, when you do a historical league the game will use the actual major league schedule for that year. However, your minor league schedules will be generated by the game. You're going to get a mismatch there, and that is likely at least part of the problem.

Excluding the PCL (which is something of a special case), the minor leagues have always started their regular seasons on or after the major league opening date. Note that while many minor leagues played schedules which had as many games, or more, than the majors, they took much less time to play than a major league schedule of the same length (i.e. the majors would take 168 days to play 154 games; the minors would take only 151 days or 145 days to play 154 games - that obviously means few off days and lots of doubleheaders).

First thing to try is to reset the opening dates for your minor leagues and regenerate their schedules so that they open on or after your major league season and see if that helps any. That will have to suffice until some historical minor league schedule files can be put together for the game.

Just checked - my MLB season start date is supposed to be April 1st with a 162 game schedule. The minors are all April 4th. The three other major leagues I set up start in various times in March, April and June. I don't think this is it.

[Cooleyvol]

I'm to 1930 with no problems.

BTW, the dominant franchise thusfar is the Philadelphia Athletics, with 10 pennants and 8 World Series victories.

In the NL, St Louis, during the 20s (hello Rajah) has come on with 6 pennants and 4 titles.

[JWay]

is there a fill all minor teams with fictional players option?

[Kelric]

Originally Posted by Kelric

Just checked - my MLB season start date is supposed to be April 1st with a 162 game schedule. The minors are all April 4th. The three other major leagues I set up start in various times in March, April and June. I don't think this is it.

Just tried simming again after making sure every minor league started after their affiliated pro league. Crashed after 1903 again.

[Cooleyvol]

I just noticed that Gehrig imported to Brooklyn.

Anyone know why?

[KurtBevacqua]

Originally Posted by JWay

is there a fill all minor teams with fictional players option?

Yes

[KurtBevacqua]

Originally Posted by jte87

You said you weren't using any roster expansion. That may seem to make things less likely to crash, but for whatever reason, you may need roster expansion for it not to crash. Or maybe not crash, but is supposed to be what alleviates the problem with minor league teams not having enough players.

See TigerFan's last response in this thread.

The problem I had with roster expansion was the dumbass AI rushing to fill up the 40 man roster, thus depleting his AAA team and making it illegal.

[Russ]

Aren't there some teams moving in 1904? If you have the players going to their original teams, I think that you need to change the historical ID's. Just a thought of why you might be having problems with the 1904 season. Or maybe I'm an idiot.

[jte87]

Originally Posted by KurtBevacqua

The problem I had with roster expansion was the dumbass AI rushing to fill up the 40 man roster, thus depleting his AAA team and making it illegal.

I have the roster expansion size at 26 players. I would do 25, but that would probably make the game freak out somehow to not really be expanding. It is a sensitive little bugger. Hopefully the patch alleviates some of these things. I can't tell from Duffy's list whether it is supposed to or not.

But, you could maybe try 26 players.