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thehef · 07-26-2024, 03:30 PM

This is because the milbleagues.csv file - which is the file that determines what leagues appear in OOTP each season - does not have the 2023 minor leagues in it. IOW, it stops at 2022. The companion file - milbteams.csv - which contains all the team info for the minor leagues - has the 2023 teams, but those are ignored if the leagues aren't present in milbleagues.csv.

I don't know if the above situation is due to the data (that is necessary for the file) is not available yet (unlikely), due to oversight/on somebody's to-do list (my guess), or some other reason (certainly possible).

I can confirm that the milbleagues.csv file for OOTP 24 included the 2022 minors, but I don't know if v24 rolled out only with minors thru 2021 and later in the cycle it was updated to include 2023 minors...

What's interesting is that there is a 3rd file that goes with these files: the era_stats_minors.txt file. Essentially, that file contains the league stats totals for each league, each year, so OOTP can keep stats in line with real life. In that file, the minors' data stops after the 2019 season. I'm not sure what OOTP does if data for a milb season does not exist in this file... I'm assuming it either holds over the data from the previous season (so the 2019 baseline data applies to subsequent season), or otherwise does something to make sure things don't go haywire... But not really sure. Interesting, though...

07-26-2024, 03:30 PM	#2
thehef Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,300	This is because the milbleagues.csv file - which is the file that determines what leagues appear in OOTP each season - does not have the 2023 minor leagues in it. IOW, it stops at 2022. The companion file - milbteams.csv - which contains all the team info for the minor leagues - has the 2023 teams, but those are ignored if the leagues aren't present in milbleagues.csv. I don't know if the above situation is due to the data (that is necessary for the file) is not available yet (unlikely), due to oversight/on somebody's to-do list (my guess), or some other reason (certainly possible). I can confirm that the milbleagues.csv file for OOTP 24 included the 2022 minors, but I don't know if v24 rolled out only with minors thru 2021 and later in the cycle it was updated to include 2023 minors... What's interesting is that there is a 3rd file that goes with these files: the era_stats_minors.txt file. Essentially, that file contains the league stats totals for each league, each year, so OOTP can keep stats in line with real life. In that file, the minors' data stops after the 2019 season. I'm not sure what OOTP does if data for a milb season does not exist in this file... I'm assuming it either holds over the data from the previous season (so the 2019 baseline data applies to subsequent season), or otherwise does something to make sure things don't go haywire... But not really sure. Interesting, though...