Era Appropriate TEAM NAMES

RANGER11JP · 04-03-2017, 03:26 AM

Does anyone know or even care for team names to be era appropriate? a 1910 team being named the "Atomics" just irks me. Do the team names re-import along with the first and last names? Could this just be a matter of creating new "team name" files? Just throwing this out there. Thanks.

joefromchicago · 04-04-2017, 01:10 PM

My feeling has always been that if you care about team names, then you don't use the default names, and if you don't care about team names, then you don't care about how awful many of the default names are. And this isn't like player names, where, if you're dissatisfied with the names that the game creates, it's more efficient to create a new name list rather than manually changing the names of all the players. There usually aren't that many team names, so changing them manually isn't that big of a task, at least not in comparison to changing player names.

But if it bugs you that much, I imagine coming up with an era-appropriate team nameset wouldn't be that big of a challenge. Take a look at the minor-league information located at baseball-reference.com - lots of team names there.

Questdog · 04-04-2017, 04:57 PM

Also, the problem with making an 'era appropriate' list of team names is that the era is not the only issue with using random team names. Geographic appropriateness is also an issue that cannot be rectified. So, using the random team names generator can never be useful to someone who really cares about their league unless great changes are made to how it works in OOTP..

RANGER11JP · 04-04-2017, 06:40 PM

These are all good points and I should just bite the bullet and rename them. Must be my aversion to typing and my recent CTR surgery. Thanks for the input, gentlemen.

goroyals · 04-07-2017, 04:38 PM

To Questdog's point, one halfway option would be to create a team name file that includes all your era appropriate 'generic names' i.e. White Stockings, Athletics, Excelsiors, etc. but includes entries such as "STATE BIRD" or "LOCAL OCCUPATION". Then, once you see one of those names assigned to an actual city, you edit it to the particular name i.e. "Cardinals" or "Miners".

Not sure it would be worth the time to make a file and still have to make changes manually too, but if you're looking for randomness that's one way.

txranger · 04-08-2017, 04:43 PM

I took the MLB and MILB team nicknames that are in OOTP18 and removed the duplicates ( me thinks anyway ) and made two text files... Maybe this will be a start of what you are looking for...

RANGER11JP · 04-14-2017, 03:20 PM

Sorry for the late response. Interesting ideas and great additions.

Thank you goroyals and txranger!

joefromchicago · 10-06-2017, 12:28 PM

1870s team name randomizer

04-03-2017, 03:26 AM	#1
RANGER11JP All Star Starter Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,364	Era Appropriate TEAM NAMES Does anyone know or even care for team names to be era appropriate? a 1910 team being named the "Atomics" just irks me. Do the team names re-import along with the first and last names? Could this just be a matter of creating new "team name" files? Just throwing this out there. Thanks. __________________ BASEBALL, HOCKEY AND BOXING FAN

04-04-2017, 01:10 PM	#2
joefromchicago Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 3,707	My feeling has always been that if you care about team names, then you don't use the default names, and if you don't care about team names, then you don't care about how awful many of the default names are. And this isn't like player names, where, if you're dissatisfied with the names that the game creates, it's more efficient to create a new name list rather than manually changing the names of all the players. There usually aren't that many team names, so changing them manually isn't that big of a task, at least not in comparison to changing player names. But if it bugs you that much, I imagine coming up with an era-appropriate team nameset wouldn't be that big of a challenge. Take a look at the minor-league information located at baseball-reference.com - lots of team names there. __________________ American-Ethnic (and Canadian) Namesets Historical Minor League Schedules 1870s City/Team Nickname Randomizers "It's Usually Sunny in Philadelphia" weather mod Negro League Schedules

04-04-2017, 06:40 PM	#4
RANGER11JP All Star Starter Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,364	These are all good points and I should just bite the bullet and rename them. Must be my aversion to typing and my recent CTR surgery. Thanks for the input, gentlemen. __________________ BASEBALL, HOCKEY AND BOXING FAN

04-14-2017, 03:20 PM	#7
RANGER11JP All Star Starter Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,364	Sorry for the late response. Interesting ideas and great additions. Thank you goroyals and txranger! __________________ BASEBALL, HOCKEY AND BOXING FAN

10-06-2017, 12:28 PM	#8
joefromchicago Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 3,707	1870s team name randomizer __________________ American-Ethnic (and Canadian) Namesets Historical Minor League Schedules 1870s City/Team Nickname Randomizers "It's Usually Sunny in Philadelphia" weather mod Negro League Schedules

04-04-2017, 04:57 PM	#3
Questdog Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: In a dark, damp cave where I'm training slugs to run the bases...... Posts: 16,142	Also, the problem with making an 'era appropriate' list of team names is that the era is not the only issue with using random team names. Geographic appropriateness is also an issue that cannot be rectified. So, using the random team names generator can never be useful to someone who really cares about their league unless great changes are made to how it works in OOTP..

04-07-2017, 04:38 PM	#5
goroyals All Star Reserve Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Kentucky Posts: 930	To Questdog's point, one halfway option would be to create a team name file that includes all your era appropriate 'generic names' i.e. White Stockings, Athletics, Excelsiors, etc. but includes entries such as "STATE BIRD" or "LOCAL OCCUPATION". Then, once you see one of those names assigned to an actual city, you edit it to the particular name i.e. "Cardinals" or "Miners". Not sure it would be worth the time to make a file and still have to make changes manually too, but if you're looking for randomness that's one way.