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Originally Posted by Nessex
I'm just wanting to play 2014 with maybe a couple of players from years past. So like adding Sandy Koufax to pitch with Kershaw or Lou Gehrig to hit with the current players.
What kind of league should I start and how do I import the players?
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Just start a 2014 quickstart. Then use the import Historical players option to get them into your game.
To import historical players, click the League tab, click player info and click either list all players or free agents. On that page, click the Available Options dropdown and select Import historical player(s), on the popup, navigate to the Stats folder and select either the historical or Master database.
You'll need to know the players lahman ID in order to import them.
To find a player's lahman ID you can use ootp's search function and click the player's name to bring up his profile page. Click the editor button and the lahman ID is on the left. Another alternative is to go to baseball-reference.com and seach the player. His majors ID is in the url to the left of the last / and before the .shtml. Copy it and paste it into the import historical page and enter any year he played in the MLB.
Here's Sandy Koufax
Sandy Koufax Statistics and History | Baseball-Reference.com
his lahman id is koufasa01
If you want to import a bunch of players, you can create a .txt file and use ootp's import from text file options to import a bunch at once.
The txt file format is like this
lahman ID,Year
example
koufasa01,1955
mayswi01,1951
Add as many players as you want.
Hope this helps.
