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Originally Posted by jasg224
I'm currently working on "copying" the Football Manager 23 database (thank God for the editor) to OOTP.
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OMG, love this idea. I actually tried to use a web scraper to peel data off FIFA sites for FIFA 12, and tried to find a way to get the FM12 database (with no luck). I really spent some time on finding a way to create actual football players in OOTP. I'd love to have Lampard and Drogba and Terry in at Chelsea, or Messi and Ronaldo in La Liga, but getting consistent and complex data from FM (FIFA's numbers are bit too basic by comparison, but they're easier to get) is just too complex for my abilities.
It's a problem of complexity and data availability for 2012 for me.
I'd love to see what you come up with!
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Originally Posted by jasg224
Anyway, my question is: did you mess at all with the Player Development Settings? ... it still seems like baseball players develop slower and play for longer than football players. Is this even something you took into account for your playthrough or did you keep these settings at default?
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I thought about this, and if you check out the Reddit post I mention at the outset, I think one of the replies gets into player development. But, my goal isn't to recreate football exactly, so I'm actually okay with it having the older age range of baseball instead of the younger demo for soccer. I think it'll be fun to have a 40-year-old Arsenal legend putting on the jersey for his 20th season!
I wish I could make it Thierry Henry too, but unless someone super smart with web scraping or finding old copies of Football Manager comes along to work pro bono, I'll have to stick with what I've got!
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As a side note, you can check this 2020 thread of mine that has Premier League and I think some Championship jerseys if you're interested.
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Thanks for the recommendation! I'll check it out. I plan to post some of my graphics work down the line. Right now I'm sitting at:
136x OOTP23 style jersey files (each with a normal map)
825x caps and cap logos
950x primary logos (leagues and teams)
Each logo has been edited to relate to baseball instead of soccer, so everywhere there's an "F" (or "V" or "Calcio" or whatever), it's been changed to a "B" (or whatever); and every logo with a soccer ball has been changed to baseball... Whew. It's been a lot and I
still want to explore the player data thing! (Because existence is pain, I guess...?)