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Originally Posted by mitchkenn
WOW .... i'd figure i'd play with this sometime tomorrow barring life getting in the way, but your description and step by step looks like the guess work is pretty much taken away. What a GREAT write-up. VERY MUCH appreciated. 
This place (and people) is simply incredible!!!!!! Again, thank-you. |
Another thing you should know is that you should probably avoid bringing all the famous Negro Leaguers (I believe there are 23 [?] HoFers, but they were
great ballplayers) in at once as it might imbalance your league with too much talent. A normal league will have players of all talent levels. Changing that could affect statistical output of your league and if that's important to you, it could bother you. If you don't care about this, and you just want them all in there, have at it.
I use
an online random number generator (set from 58 to 29691, which covers the lines that the players appear on in the Spritze database) to select who comes in via the Spritze database in order to keep it random as my league is a random debut historical league. If I get a player that played in MLB, I keep looking until I get a Negro Leaguer, an *** player, a KBO player, a PCL player i.e. a non-MLB player. They're all in there. There are about 11,000+ players in there who were not MLBers. It does mean unfortunately (for me) that guys like Satchel Paige can only come in via the default database, and that he won't be a rookie until he's 41 because that's when he debuted in MLB, but Josh Gibson, Oscar Charleston and all the rest that played exclusively in the Negro Leagues will come in for me at 18. I haven't had a Negro Leaguer come into my current random debut historical league yet, but I can't wait to see one because Spritze has done a great job with them (I've seen them in other leagues I've played).