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It's hard for me to comment on this without knowing what you've had to do to stop closers from being used at all, but the first step would be to leave the closer roles empty. If you do that and set the closer tendency to the minimum value, my recent work on the CM shouldn't make things any worse for you. I can't guarantee that


Thanks for your reply Tom, and I should have said to stop the bullpen being used at all !

Yes, I did work out that a good way was to leave all the bullpen roles empty, and I also set most relief pitchers pitcher fatigue settings to poor. The idea was to discourage the CM from using them, and I also set the relief pitcher tendency to minimum, and the pinch hitter settings to never.

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The first is that it would most likely have been a labor of love, not of profit, since the community of folks that is interested in that era is quite enthusiastic but fairly small, as far as I can tell by analyzing the sales of our pre-WWII past seasons.


SABR has a very active Deadball Era Committee and also from the number of books published on this era I think that the community is perhaps a bit larger than you think.
I also think a new Lively Ball Committee is being formed to cover the years 1919-1930.

I think there are a number of reasons why the pre-WWII past seasons don't sell as well. Possibly the lack of close pennant races in those years and the domination of the American League, and the Yankees might be one reason. The lack of player glamour and depth of big stars in the Depression Era compared with the 1920s, and the Deadball Era might be another reason.
I have certainly enjoyed playing the 1934 season, because of the close contest in the NL.

I will look forward to experimenting when the patch comes out.

Norm