Import players

[Padreman]

I tried to import players no success.
Can someone give a step by step directions on how to accomplish this. Please thank you

[mitchkenn]

Originally Posted by Padreman

I tried to import players no success.
Can someone give a step by step directions on how to accomplish this. Please thank you

there was a post about this sometime ago ... but for the life of me, i can't find it. i copied it for my own use while trying to figure it out (without the photos) to a text file that i saved ... it's long and windy and deals with Spritze database, but the idea is the same if you use the default database. Basically you need to know the players ID. BigRod has an importer tool in the mods section to find that ID.


Anyway - hope this helps:

You can still "use" both databases at once. Set the default database up as your default database, and then import the players you want (like Mr. Charleston for example) from the Spritze database through the historical player import tool. To do this, you need to embed the Spritze database inside the default database (stats folder), and then point to it when you go to use the historical player import tool (which you have to be in commish mode to use). When you point to the Spritze database, be sure to load it from the historical_database.odb rather than the master.csv in order to get all the stats to import.


Ok...

1) You have the zip file (probably in your downloads folder or wherever it went when you downloaded it). You want to extract it to your "Out of the Park Developments" folder. From there change the name to anything but "stats" because you have that folder in your "OOTP Baseball 16" folder already. I believe the name of the folder (posted to his Dropbox sometime in December) upon extraction is "SpritzeOOTP16HighSchoolStats". That will work, as long as it's not "stats".

2) Drag the Spritze folder over to your "OOTP Baseball 16" folder. It will ask if you want to move it into the "OOTP Baseball 16" folder. All you have to do is Drop it in and it'll go. Now it's inside your "OOTP Baseball 16" folder.

3) Locate it in there and Drag it over to the "stats" folder. Do the same thing, Drop it in there, and now it's embedded in your "stats" folder. It's in there, but it's separate from the default database, so it won't be updated by patches during the year, only when Spritze updates his database (if he does it this year - he's done a helluva lot already!), and you repeat this procedure.

Ok, so now you've got the Spritze database right where you want it. So how do you use it in game?

4) First off, put yourself in commish mode, and then either on the "free agents" page or on the "Draft Pool" page (we're gonna use the free agents page here because it's not draft time in my game, but I can confirm that it works on both), a box will appear near the top right hand corner that says "Available Actions". Click on that.

5) Up will pop a box with three options: "Create fictional player(s)", "Import historical player(s)", and "Delete all free agents". Click on "Import historical player(s)"

6) Up will pop a box with the contents of the stats folder, which should have your Spritze folder at the top. Click on the Spritze folder to open it.

I'm gonna leave off at this point. Illustrations for steps 4, 5, and 6 are below, and I'll continue in the next post. Click to enlarge the illustrations as needed.

From above...

7) Click on the Spritze folder to open it. You should see all the various .csv and .odb files now. Click on "historical_database.odb".

8) The "Confirm" button will light up at this point. Click on it.

9) Now the "Historical Player Import Options" box will pop up. This is where things will get tricky.

Illustrations for steps 7, 8, and 9 are below. To be continued in the next post...

...As I said above, this is where it gets tricky. You need to know the Historical Player ID for the player you want to import, and the year you want to import him in. This is where you need to crawl around in the Spritze master.csv file. It's very well organized and completely alphabetical from David Aardsma to Tony Zych (yes that Tony Zych who debuted in MLB in 2015), once you get past line 57, which is a bunch of historical managers and other sorts who never played the game.

Let's say we want to import Oscar Charleston (mitchkenn's guy). He's on line 3769 of the master file (I'm cheating I have it open). Word to the wise, the historical player ID is nothing more than the first five letters (or less, if that's the case) of the player's last name (in this case charl), followed by the first two letters of his first name (so building on that we have charlos, charl for Charleston, os for Oscar), followed by two numbers that are some sort of league designation. In the case of Negro Leaguers who never played in MLB it's usually 00. So put it together and we have charlos00. Enter that on the Historical Player ID line of the "Historical Player Import Options" box in game. (This is Step 10, even though there were some other steps with the master.csv file that you're gonna have to fumble around with for yourself).

11) Navigate along the line of the player you're trying to get into the game in the master.csv folder until you find his Debut (Column Z) and his Final Game (Column AA). In Charleston's case he played from 1915 through 1941 according to Mr. Spritze and we want a fresh Mr. Charleston, so let's bring him in in 1915. Enter 1915 in the Enter Season Year column in the "Historical Player Options" box in game.

12) Now you've got a few more options to fill out. I recommend not checking the "Keep selected season's statistics in player career stats" because I think it makes things messy in your stats. Choose whether you want to import him into the draft pool or not (Ordinarily I would, but in this case I'm not in the draft period of my game so he's coming into the free agent pool for me). Choose Real or Neutralized Stats (Spritze recommends Neutralized, or as he calls them "Neutered"...I second this recommendation BUT you should match them up with the way you have them set for the rest of the players in your game [the ones that come in from the default database]). I choose "Remaining Years of Career" for the next setting, but again you should choose the same as you already have your game set up. I choose "3-Year Period" for both fielding ratings and pitcher stamina (the next two settings), but again set it up as you have it for the rest of the players. I then choose to generate random L/R splits because there are no real ones in game, but do as you've done with the rest of your players. Finally I choose Adjust Hitters with fewer than 200 at bats (default is 300), Weaken Hitters with fewer than 50 at bats (that is the default), Adjust Pitchers with fewer than 40 innings and Weaken Pitchers with fewer than 10 innings, but again you should set these as they are set up in your game. The third illustration in this set is how mine looks after I'm done filling all this out. You would then hit the Import Player button, and Oscar Charleston would be a part of either your free agent pool, or your draft pool, depending on what you selected. I'll save that for the next post. Illustrations for 10, 11, and 12 are below.
...Ok, I've hit the "Import Player" button, and what do you know...The historical player import succeeded and he's now in my free agent pool (but I'm gonna erase him because he's liable to get scooped up by the highest bidder, and I want him coming in via the draft when he comes in ).


??? Good Luck and hope this helped. As i said, io can't find the original post anymore with the pics, so this is best i can do.

[txranger]

Here is a post that might help you...

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...ml#post3664097

[Padreman]

Thank you both gentlemen