[Charlie Hough]

I don't think it's accurate to say that there are "few" remaining issues, and these are not necessarily cases of players who never showed up in past versions of OOTP. As the examples below will show, some of the data may have been bad all along, but there are problems occurring with OOTP 24 that did not happen with the same players in OOTP 23.

As a quick example, I created saved games in both OOTP 23 and OOTP 24 for comparison, and these three players had database issues all along. But they are being handled very differently in OOTP 24. FYI, I used neutralized stats in both cases, but OOTP seems to use their non-neutralized stats if they don't have any neutralized stats in the database.

All three of these players were imported as an SP in OOTP 24 instead of their proper positions, where they were imported in OOTP 23. These players were never pitchers in real life, and I don't think any of them ever pitched an inning at any level, but they have some pitching stats in the database, and many of the same limited pitching stats are repeated across different years, so there is something wrong with the data. But the big difference is that they were imported at correct positions in OOTP 23, with proper batting ratings based on their batting stats and proper minor league roster assignments, despite having some limited pitching stats and being given substandard pitching ratings. In OOTP 24, they were imported as SPs, placed on MLB rosters as pitchers, and in two of these cases, they were given batting ratings as if they were pitchers, even though they have real-life batting stats for proper ratings.

Whatever is going on here seems to be a problem with the database as well as what OOTP 24 is doing with it. It's definitely not the same as OOTP 23 when comparing the same players and conditions with the same settings. And it's not simply a matter of players suddenly appearing who didn't get imported previously.