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Originally Posted by RMc
Looks great, but why not use real players? Marshall D. Wright's book, The National Association of Base Ball Players, 1857–1870, has a lot of data from the pre-NA era.
Also, are we gonna get a quickstart sometime?
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So....in the 1859-60 offseason in my game just now, Excelsior made an Indepdent League "Scouting Discovery" who happened to be a starting pitcher born in New York City.
Given that Jim Creighton was born in New York City, was first "discovered" by the big New York Clubs in 1859 and joined the actual real-life Excelsior club in 1860, I figured "oh what the hell" and turned "random Independent League discovery prospect Edward Hughes from New York City"...
...into Jim Creighton - changed birthdate to the correct one - because it was all just a little bit too serependipitous.
I also did the best recreation of his pitching skills that I could, which means that in game-engine terms he has to be a 99-mph flamethrower, and since by all counts he could put a ridiculous amount of spin on the ball I gave him a couple of breaking balls as well.
I've nerfed him a little bit since I took the screen shot, so he starts with an 80 for stuff, but yeah it was kind of funny how that just happened.