CaptainSuperman

Thank you so very much for the detailed response, I've learned so much and things are starting to click. I'm so used to the way teams are contained to their parent league over here, I just assumed that's how it worked everywhere. Had I made my custom database, it would have been built this way. Now that sounds so much more boring compared to how it is actually set up. But now it makes total sense why you guys use the transfer system and free agency for young players rather than drafting. It's funny cause the save that I have in OOTP features a 3 tier promotion/relegation league, but it's just a single, contained league. All teams draft from the same pool of prospects and sign free agents from the same pool of players. So I'll probably look into that MLS overhaul that turns it more into the Euro style. I find it silly to not use the same system the rest of the world is, I see now why we will never rise to the same level in the sport. Again thank you for helping to get me a little more up to speed on things. I bought the game last week and already have 10 hours across the game and the editor but have yet to actually play as I have been so stumped. I greatly appreciate it!

I planned to start from scratch and create my own fictional/alternate reality world. Something that resembles the hockey world, as it's what I'm more familiar with. The number of leagues as well as the structure of promotion/relegation in Europe is very intimidating to think about compared to just simply having the MLS here in the USA. And I know I could simply just start with the MLS or edit it to my liking, but, and this will probably sound very American of me, but American football and MLS being second, maybe even third rate, is very hard to swallow haha. But if that is the case, I have been trying to wrap my brain around my approach to getting a database that I can work with. If I do start in the MLS and I do expand, is it just as simple as adding the team or will I have to go into the league/nation settings and mess with financials as well?

Hi all, I am new to FM and football in general, I'm more so a lover of manager/simulator games. I'd like to start with a database that is empty of teams/clubs and leagues/competitions, leaving only things like the World Cup, Olympics, things of that nature. Best on best where players are selected based on nationality/regions and what not. But like I said, I am new and I don't know what I don't know. Am I safe to start by deleting all clubs? And what other competitions like the ones I am seeking to keep exist? I look up and down the list and get overwhelmed by the amount of competitions that say national and stuff like that