City of Birth Corrections

[LansdowneSt]

No need. I added your list to his list. That Word document now has 116 pages. I use color codes to scratch off one I've fixed. Here is a screenshot of page one of y'all's joint submission to me. Green means I fixed it but have not cross walked it to the Excel, Brown means I want to add the actual city to the database, blue means I cross walked it to the Excel already. The dark blue just means I had fixed it at some earlier point in time after the last MAster.csv was generated.

But all of these are in support of a project I started several months ago to go through every MLB'er and validate the city of birth and year of birth. Here is screenshot of that tracker. In the excel, green means the database is correct, red means incorrect and blue means I've already fixed it. Even if no one else had uploaded a list, my project (with the help of luckymann who has been assisting me going draft class by draft class to fil out the initial green/reds) would have found them all. Given the interest of late, I'm trying to get as many as possible done before OOTP26's release.

So, everything submitted will be cross walked from the joint Word doc to the Excel even if the Excel is the master checklist.

So, to everyone that cares about it, know that it is not an afterthought and someone is actively working it, even if that person has a day job and a family and other OOTP stuff going on. Have faith

Oh, and the ID is actually the absolute best way to tag the player. ;p

[big8dog88]

Glad you're working on it, and glad I could be of some help, but, really, I was aiming this list more at general users who might want to make the corrections themselves for the current and older editions. I think for those people, the name is probably handier than the Lahman ID.

By the way, love the facegen pack.

[LansdowneSt]

Originally Posted by big8dog88

By the way, love the facegen pack.

Thanks! Looking forward to finally getting some of these birth year/place issues done so my time frees up and I can quicken my facegen creation pace.

[textilemonster]

Just wanted to say thanks for all the hard work, it's... A LOT.

[big8dog88]

Originally Posted by textilemonster

Just wanted to say thanks for all the hard work, it's... A LOT.

Same to you. Truth is I did this for myself, then I decided that it would be kind of a waste not to share the information. Seems we each had different objectives, you wanted to help update the database, I wanted to help players work with the database we've been given, but, in the end, the result is basically the same.

I don't know how useful this might be, but here is a list of players (my list, so it's not all-encompassing) who were listed in Baseball Reference as born in cities not found in OOTP 25, and their actual birth cities (as opposed to my "close enough" workaround). This might be useful if those cities are added to the game.

Sparky Adams (adamssp01) - Zerbe PA
Tommie Agee (ageeto01) - Magnolia AL
Pete Alexander (alexape01) - Elba NE
Jim Bagby Sr. (bagbyji01) - Barnett GA
Steve Blass (blassst01) - Canaan CT
Bullet Joe Bush - (bushjo01) - Ehime MN
Ray Caldwell - (caldwra02) - Corydon Township PA
Johnny Callison - (callijo01) - Qualls OK
Bob Cerv (cervbo01) - Weston NE
Wilbur Cooper (coopewi01) - Bearsville WV
Kiki Cuyler (cuyleki01) - Harrisville MI
Dizzy Dean (deandi01) - Lucas AR
Bo Diaz (diazbo01) - Cua, Venezuela
Klondike Douglass (douglkl01) - Boston PA
Alcides Escobar (escobal02) - La Sabana, Venezuela
Nellie Fox (foxne01) - St. Thomas PA
Jimmie Foxx (foxx01) - Sudlersville MD
Tony Gonzalez (gonza01) - Central Cunagua, Cuba
Ron Hansen (hansero02) - Oxford NE
Mel Harder (hardeme01) - Beemer NE
Joe Harris (harrijo03) - Coulter PA
Paul Hines (hinespa01) - Virginia, about 15 miles from Washington DC, according to SABR Bio Project
Don Hoak (hoakdo01) - Roulette PA
Dick Hoblitzell (hoblidi01) - Waverly WV
Toothpick Sam Jones (jonessa02) - Stewartsville OH
Bill Killefer (killebi01) - Bloomingdale MI
Frank Kitson (kitsofr01) - Watson MI
Sherry Magee (mageesh01) - Clarendon PA
Juan Marichal (maricju01) - Laguna Verde, Dominican Republic
Joe McGinnity (mcginjo01) - Cornwall IL
Dave Nelson (nelsoda01) - Fort Sill OK
Curly Ogden (ogdencu01) - Ogden PA
Gregg Olson (olsongr01) - Scribner NE
Joe Page (pagejo01) - Cherry Valley PA
Gerardo Parra (parrage01) - Santa Barbara, Venezuela
Jesse Petty (pettyje01) - Orr OK
Bob Porterfield (portebo01) - Newport VA
Hardy Richardson (richaha01) - Clarksboro NJ
Jim Rooker (rookeji01) - Lakeview OR
Nap Rucker (ruckena01) - Crabapple GA
Jim Russell (russeji01) - Fayette City PA
Wally Schang (schanwa01) - South Wales NY
Hal Schumacher (schumha02) - Hinckley NY
Mike Scioscia (sciosmi01) - Upper Darby PA
Andy Seminick (seminan01) - Pierce WV
Bob Shawkey (shawkbo01) - Sigel PA
Jimmy Slagle (slaglji01) - Worthville PA
Mario Soto (sotoma01) - Bani, Dominican Republic
Mel Stottlemyre (stottme01) - Hazleton MO
Ed Stroud (stroued01) - Lapine AL
Billy Sullivan (sullibi03) - Oakland WI
Tony Taylor (tayloto02) - Central Alava, Cuba
Joe Tinker (tinkejo01) - Muscotah KS
Terry Turner (turnete01) - Sandy Lake PA
Elmer Valo (valoel01) - Rybnik, Slovakia
Duane Ward (warddu01) - Park View NM
Rickie Weeks (weeksri01) - Altamonte Springs FL
Billy Werber (werbebi01) - Berwyn MD
Jordan Zimmerman (zimmejo02) - Auburndale WI

NEGRO LEAGUES

Luis Bustamante (bustam000lui) - San Juan y Martinez, Cuba
Oscar Levis (levisos01) - Oracabessa, Jamaica
Booker McDaniel (mcdanbo01) - Kenwood AR
Webster McDonald (mcdonwe01) - Glasgow DE
Tommy Sampson (sampsto01) - Calhoun AL
Marvin Williams (willima12) - Haslam TX