02-16-2014, 10:05 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Re: Create the best '14 franchise on '13
Sim your first year. Use 30 team control and recreate the 2013 season as best you can, stats won't match, but its the best solution I have when I would rather start in 2014.
One tip is if there are prospects that are younger than the game allows, to edit them and drop their age down until they are the right age at that time. One is someone like Eloy Jimenez who is only 17 right now.
Another is to edit players that regress and try and get them to a point that you think would resemble them in 2014. If a player retired edit them to zero. Also make sure to have their correct teams sign them (i.e. Beltran with the Yankees for 3 years). Some players might retire on you though. If that happens I usually find a C/D player and edit them to resemble that player in name/skills only, I don't bother to recreate them visually.
You can even start the year with the 2013 roster as it was opening day and recreate transactions, injuries, etc that occur. I only do the major trades and injuries and just let the rest of the game sim itself. But I know some people want to get everything perfectly accurate so they go through transactions of each day and recreate them. Also make sure to check for injuries to major players that did not get injured in 2013, mainly just for stat purposes. I like to see that Votto got his at bats, even if his sim stats are nowhere near accurate (i.e. .267 BA). At least it doesn't say he had only 16 RBIs when I start my 2014 season.
It can take time, but if you take it sort of slow, sim a few weeks at a time do some transactions/injuries, sim some more, make multiple saves you can get a pretty good base for a 2014 season. Once you get a save you like you can load it up whenever and start a franchis as if its 2014, albeit an alternate reality where Gordan Beckam hit 26 home runs.
I don't do this to hold off buying the new version, but I do this if I want to start a new franchise after the MLB season has ended.
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