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Originally Posted by lukasberger
That's possible, I don't know.
You have to understand though, this came about because of two guys who were willing to break their backs to collect, sort and setup the info they could quickly and easily get access to. They spent hundreds, maybe thousands of hours doing this, basically because of their love of the game and of its history.
Now that there's a solid base to build on thanks to Spritze and Bigrod (and Markus as well for sure, I know he sweated blood in coding this, I was a recipient of some of the emails discussing the issues getting it in-game  ), the perfecting of stuff, use of secondary sources, other improvements etc. can come with future versions. Now we have an incredible base to build on.
That's most of the battle. The additions and tweaks and perfections will come over time, but it took a herculean effort just to get us to the point where we could even contemplate arguing about the importance of the Southern Association in the 1940's in an OOTP historical sim.
So I'm all for enjoying the moment a bit before we start the sisyphean task of pushing the boulder even further uphill. |
You may recall that I have a long-standing focus on league-level matters. Most people focus on the
players; for me it is the
leagues which are more interesting. So I always view things from that perspective.
I also have a long-standing desire to see OOTP stop treating the minors as a smaller version of the major leagues, and instead treat the minors as the truly unique entity they were and are in the way they operate. The minors are just
different from the majors—scheduling, tie-breaking, playoff formats, handling postponements, short doubleheaders, attendance and its patterns, etc.
Did you know I've recorded the attendance for every single individual regular season ballgame played in the affiliated minor leagues over the last three seasons? (I added the four main independent leagues in 2014 and the Mexican League in 2015. I'm adding the *** and KBO to the mix for 2016—I'm curious to see how attendance and rescheduling works in those leagues. I'm also going to turn the 2016 file into a rudimentary game log by recording the final score and the game length, both in terms of time and outs, in addition to tracking the attendance, for each game.)