question about a WBC type league

[joshuar9476]

I'm creating a league with 40 teams ... 5 US, 5 Japanese, and 30 other Countries ...

i get how to set up a fictional universe with an inaugural and have real MLB players in that draft by strating a new 2009 season end editing the teams. However, i'm trying to set up a league using countries ala the WBC. Each team has to have all but two local players, but when i do the draft teams like Aruba and Iran only draft the two foreign players. The reason why, obviously, is that there are no Iran MLB players for them to draft. My question then, is there a way to create fictionals for these countries to take during or after the draft? If i select "fill teams with fictional players" then i creates a bunch of players from around the world.

Also, do i have to put a nickname for the teams? The WBC teams don't have nicknames and it seems silly to have to assign one.

[fhomess]

Originally Posted by joshuar9476

I'm creating a league with 40 teams ... 5 US, 5 Japanese, and 30 other Countries ...

i get how to set up a fictional universe with an inaugural and have real MLB players in that draft by strating a new 2009 season end editing the teams. However, i'm trying to set up a league using countries ala the WBC. Each team has to have all but two local players, but when i do the draft teams like Aruba and Iran only draft the two foreign players. The reason why, obviously, is that there are no Iran MLB players for them to draft. My question then, is there a way to create fictionals for these countries to take during or after the draft? If i select "fill teams with fictional players" then i creates a bunch of players from around the world.

OOTP has a nations database file that you can edit. Each nation has a baseball level associated with it from 0 to 5. The baseball level indicates the likelihood that OOTP will generate a player from that nation when creating a new player. It's not indicative of how good that player might be, which I believe is still completely random. It's also not a linear scale. So a nation with a 5 baseball level is far more likely than 5 times a 1 baseball level nation to generate a player.

So... how to create enough players for your league's nations? There's a handful of different ways to do this. You could edit your nations file to make all baseball levels the same, which would give you an even distribution. You'd then have to have a large enough draft pool to generate enough players from each country. You could create a feeder league with only players from that nation, but you'd need a feeder league for every different nation. You could manually edit draftees (change their home nation and then regenerate their name). This last one is not recommended.

Personally, I think the feeder league method works well once the leagues are all established, but your initial draft might need the first suggestion and even some of the last.

Originally Posted by joshuar9476

Also, do i have to put a nickname for the teams? The WBC teams don't have nicknames and it seems silly to have to assign one.

I haven't tested it, but I don't think it'll crash the game to not have a nickname. It will, however, mess up reports or news articles where teams are sometimes referenced just by their nickname. That said, some of the WBC teams do actually have nicknames, it's just that no one regularly calls them that. When I've set up leagues like this, I'll sometimes look up the nation's soccer team nickname, and give the baseball team the same name or something similar. The Dutch team, for example, can easily be nicknamed the Oranje.

[joshuar9476]

thanks for your suggestions .... overnight i figured out that in the worst case scenario i could transfer players from the feeder leagues to the actual teams. i'll try your suggestions though ...

with the second question, i went ahead and started using the nicknames soccer teams use. do you use the foreign names for these teams (brasil or brazil, La Blanquirroja or Red and White, Germany or Deutschland) or the translated names?