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Garlon · 04-02-2007, 01:45 PM

LeafsFan2005NC - I requsted this during beta testing. Apparently this may cause some sort of problem with building the complete league history. Say you started a league in 2001, but want OOTP to build the entire History from the Lahman DB. I don't think OOTP can deal with those additional leagues and franchises for whatever reason.

BaseballMan - I tried that a couple years ago. One of the problems you run into is that when you reach 2007 (which would then be 1978) OOTP stops importing from the DB.

redmarkYankees - I think you are a bit confused about how OOTP imports players from th DB. The problem with the 1800's players is that it doesn't recognie the abbreviations of NA, AA, UA, and PL. Players get nuked if they have any of thoe abbreviations in their batting/fielding/pitching stats in the Lahman DB. The game also doesn't like the FL. You have to go in and change all of those abbreviations to NL (or AL) and then the game sees these as legitimate players. I did this during beta testing and ran a league from 1871-1900 and everyone imported properly. The league totals modifiers also kept the league stats on track just fine too.

When Arod23 ad I update our DB we will fix the abbreviation issue. Then just do th same thing we always do: Starta fictional league in 1870, set the draft date to Dec 1st, simulate through the playoffs, make al players free agents, delete all free agents (league now has no fictional players), proceed to rookie draft...you then have all the 1871 players going into the 1871 season.

04-02-2007, 01:45 PM	#14
Garlon Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 4,301	LeafsFan2005NC - I requsted this during beta testing. Apparently this may cause some sort of problem with building the complete league history. Say you started a league in 2001, but want OOTP to build the entire History from the Lahman DB. I don't think OOTP can deal with those additional leagues and franchises for whatever reason. BaseballMan - I tried that a couple years ago. One of the problems you run into is that when you reach 2007 (which would then be 1978) OOTP stops importing from the DB. redmarkYankees - I think you are a bit confused about how OOTP imports players from th DB. The problem with the 1800's players is that it doesn't recognie the abbreviations of NA, AA, UA, and PL. Players get nuked if they have any of thoe abbreviations in their batting/fielding/pitching stats in the Lahman DB. The game also doesn't like the FL. You have to go in and change all of those abbreviations to NL (or AL) and then the game sees these as legitimate players. I did this during beta testing and ran a league from 1871-1900 and everyone imported properly. The league totals modifiers also kept the league stats on track just fine too. When Arod23 ad I update our DB we will fix the abbreviation issue. Then just do th same thing we always do: Starta fictional league in 1870, set the draft date to Dec 1st, simulate through the playoffs, make al players free agents, delete all free agents (league now has no fictional players), proceed to rookie draft...you then have all the 1871 players going into the 1871 season.