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Lucky_Will · 05-11-2023, 04:32 PM

With the books closed on 2012, it’s time to begin 2013 in European baseball. This year there is no major international tournament, all eyes are focused on next year’s World Cup in Brazil.

Some things that I do each year before beginning the year:

Baseball Cards

A new year means new designs for baseball cards. This year is based on Panini’s 2012 Champions League cards. I adjust all the standard cards, create updated gold logos for use on award cards, tweak the other graphics and trophies that go on each one, and create specific graphics for the year (this year: a baseball diamond graphic for the player’s position).

This year I leaned into the Panini sticker idea and made front-only cards. This works well for Players of the Month, the Cup competitions, and Champions League, since those stats don’t make the regular card backs.

Logos

For some reason, the game is not automatically updating logos for me. I’ve combed through my logos folder with no luck on determining what the problem is. So I have a spreadsheet that has the logo changes by year, so I go through each logo change and make it accordingly (hitting auto-load does the trick usually).

This year there are 23 new logos and the Socttish Premier League and First Division have been renamed to the be the Scottish Premiership and Championship, respectively, with new logos to match. Only one team changed its name, Belgium’s Beerschot Ratten became the Beerschott Wilrijk Kielse Ratten.

Uniforms

This is the heaviest lift of the year, but one I enjoy. I have a custom template for uniforms, so I make a total of 288 uniform files. Home and away jerseys, pants, and caps for:

20 Premier League teams
28 Non-English Champions League teams
24 Euro teams (if applicable)
32 World Cup teams (if applicable)

This entails a lot of work, since I’m trying to be mostly true to their IRL uniforms, but maintaining a baseball aesthetic. I use several soccer uniform sites to help me out. Thankfully soccer fans are as fanatical about uniforms as baseball fans.

One design element I added for 2013 is the colored placket, a design seen a lot in the early 20th Century (especially among Negro League teams). This design fits the tendency of soccer jerseys to use a single big stripe of color on their jerseys, so teams like Barcelona, Dortmund, and Pacos de Ferriera are wearing them (as did Italy, Poland and Wales in the Euros).

UCL Groups

Groups are seeded by a weighted formula of Win Pct and Run Diff. Here’s the post where I explain the seeding. On 1 Jan I make all the adjustments to the Champions League setup under League Settings.

Standings Export

Every month the game dumps CSVs of game info, and I run a script on those files to generate formatted standings that I can import to my excel sheet and keep tabs on how things are going. I’d love to use this to create encyclopedia-style pages like u/RyMACtizzle does here, but I haven’t spent the time and effort yet to do so. Maybe there’s a wiki page source I could modify if/when I have the time.

Player Creation

I made 50 players for the first year of the game, and I added 5 top American players (Brad Friedel, Landon Donovan, Stu Holden, Tim Howard, and Clint Dempsey). Each successive year, I’ll add 10 top free agents and one American to the mix and see what happens.

Because of the settings on my non-league teams, they were able to sign top players without any monetary considerations, so this will be the second year in a row where players like 4.5-star 2B Landon Donovan sign for Italian cellar dwellers Stregoni, or Neymar signs for Portuguese side Moreirense in that country’s second tier. But after this year hopefully things will settle down.

This year’s new players are:

Nemanja Vidic
Andrea Pirlo
Mario Gomez
Yay Toure
Mario Gotze
Sergio Busquets
Robert Lewandowski
Sanit Cazorla
Jesus Navas
Giorgio Chiellini
(USA) Brad Guzan

I expect they’ll get signed to weird teams and we’ll just roll with it!

Colors XML

In the real world, soccer teams change jerseys every year, something I’d like to do as well. But the XML creation process for team uniforms can be pretty cumbersome. I have a database of team colors that I update on a whim every once in a while, and eventually it’ll get to the point where I have every team in every league for every season, but it doesn’t make much of a difference really, so I do the custom full uniforms and let the XML generated ones ride, since I at least have a 2012 uniform plugged in for everyone.

Whatever prevents my logos from auto updating is also affecting the color XMLs as well, so even if I had every uniform spelled out, I don’t expect it would actually work.

So that’s my annual to-do list. With all of that complete, we have two months of pure off-season and then we’re into cup tournaments!

05-11-2023, 04:32 PM	#57
Lucky_Will Minors (Double A) Join Date: May 2022 Posts: 100	2013 Season Setup With the books closed on 2012, it’s time to begin 2013 in European baseball. This year there is no major international tournament, all eyes are focused on next year’s World Cup in Brazil. Some things that I do each year before beginning the year: Baseball Cards A new year means new designs for baseball cards. This year is based on Panini’s 2012 Champions League cards. I adjust all the standard cards, create updated gold logos for use on award cards, tweak the other graphics and trophies that go on each one, and create specific graphics for the year (this year: a baseball diamond graphic for the player’s position). This year I leaned into the Panini sticker idea and made front-only cards. This works well for Players of the Month, the Cup competitions, and Champions League, since those stats don’t make the regular card backs. Logos For some reason, the game is not automatically updating logos for me. I’ve combed through my logos folder with no luck on determining what the problem is. So I have a spreadsheet that has the logo changes by year, so I go through each logo change and make it accordingly (hitting auto-load does the trick usually). This year there are 23 new logos and the Socttish Premier League and First Division have been renamed to the be the Scottish Premiership and Championship, respectively, with new logos to match. Only one team changed its name, Belgium’s Beerschot Ratten became the Beerschott Wilrijk Kielse Ratten. Uniforms This is the heaviest lift of the year, but one I enjoy. I have a custom template for uniforms, so I make a total of 288 uniform files. Home and away jerseys, pants, and caps for: 20 Premier League teams 28 Non-English Champions League teams 24 Euro teams (if applicable) 32 World Cup teams (if applicable) This entails a lot of work, since I’m trying to be mostly true to their IRL uniforms, but maintaining a baseball aesthetic. I use several soccer uniform sites to help me out. Thankfully soccer fans are as fanatical about uniforms as baseball fans. One design element I added for 2013 is the colored placket, a design seen a lot in the early 20th Century (especially among Negro League teams). This design fits the tendency of soccer jerseys to use a single big stripe of color on their jerseys, so teams like Barcelona, Dortmund, and Pacos de Ferriera are wearing them (as did Italy, Poland and Wales in the Euros). UCL Groups Groups are seeded by a weighted formula of Win Pct and Run Diff. Here’s the post where I explain the seeding. On 1 Jan I make all the adjustments to the Champions League setup under League Settings. Standings Export Every month the game dumps CSVs of game info, and I run a script on those files to generate formatted standings that I can import to my excel sheet and keep tabs on how things are going. I’d love to use this to create encyclopedia-style pages like u/RyMACtizzle does here, but I haven’t spent the time and effort yet to do so. Maybe there’s a wiki page source I could modify if/when I have the time. Player Creation I made 50 players for the first year of the game, and I added 5 top American players (Brad Friedel, Landon Donovan, Stu Holden, Tim Howard, and Clint Dempsey). Each successive year, I’ll add 10 top free agents and one American to the mix and see what happens. Because of the settings on my non-league teams, they were able to sign top players without any monetary considerations, so this will be the second year in a row where players like 4.5-star 2B Landon Donovan sign for Italian cellar dwellers Stregoni, or Neymar signs for Portuguese side Moreirense in that country’s second tier. But after this year hopefully things will settle down. This year’s new players are: Nemanja Vidic Andrea Pirlo Mario Gomez Yay Toure Mario Gotze Sergio Busquets Robert Lewandowski Sanit Cazorla Jesus Navas Giorgio Chiellini (USA) Brad Guzan I expect they’ll get signed to weird teams and we’ll just roll with it! Colors XML In the real world, soccer teams change jerseys every year, something I’d like to do as well. But the XML creation process for team uniforms can be pretty cumbersome. I have a database of team colors that I update on a whim every once in a while, and eventually it’ll get to the point where I have every team in every league for every season, but it doesn’t make much of a difference really, so I do the custom full uniforms and let the XML generated ones ride, since I at least have a 2012 uniform plugged in for everyone. Whatever prevents my logos from auto updating is also affecting the color XMLs as well, so even if I had every uniform spelled out, I don’t expect it would actually work. So that’s my annual to-do list. With all of that complete, we have two months of pure off-season and then we’re into cup tournaments!