Historical database issues go here

[swede61]

on settings, I selected real historical transactions, real IL transactions, real historical lineups..but DID notice that , under historical year, it says 1970 for some reason...could that be an issue? I changed to 1969

under functions /settings I set "all teams to controlled by me"

thinking more about things, could issues be secondary to fact that I started this specific game in 66 and have carried over to multiple OOTP versions?

Oh, and no minor leagues

[swede61]

Gerry Jestadt, like Bob Reynolds, also missing in the game- cant find either by search

[pstrickert]

I don't know what to tell you. But having "1970" show up instead of "1969" probably indicates something went haywire.

[swede61]

ok, not sure how it works, but is there a chance those guys pop up later in the game? they both didnt pitch IRL until September....can people pop into the game later? If not, I guess I need to figure out a way to get them in there?

[pstrickert]

One common denominator for all these players is Montreal, which entered the league as an expansion team in 1969. I don't know if that's a clue to what went wrong, but it might be.

[pstrickert]

Jestadt and Reynolds did not play in the major leagues in 1970. So, your league, when it (inadvertently?) jumped to 1970, might've made those players vanish.

[swede61]

is there a good way to get them in the game? What if I started a new game of 1969 on OOTP 26....can I somehow copy/paste them into my league? Or something similar?

[pstrickert]

You can import historical players: http://manuals.ootpdevelopments.com/...orical_players

[swede61]

OK, I tried that...clicked on "import historical player" under actions

used reynbo01 and 1969

clicked import player; it says I had success, but he is nowhere to be found, in rosters free agents or search

[pstrickert]

I'm out of answers, I guess. Hopefully, someone else will have some suggestions.

[swede61]

appreciate the help!

[luckymann]

Rusty McNealy appears to have some shonky MiLB pitching lines that might need deleting or editing.

Thanks

G

[LansdowneSt]

Originally Posted by luckymann

Rusty McNealy appears to have some shonky MiLB pitching lines that might need deleting or editing.

Thanks

G

fixed. thx

[swede61]

Lansdowne, if you could, please let me know your opinion/advice about the discussion I had with pstrickert above....

Thanks so much
Swede

[LansdowneSt]

I don't think the issue has to do with the import across game versions. The changes to focus on were the 1969/1970 thing and that maybe the "all teams to controlled by me" is conflicting with brining players in. Is this the first season that you are on 26? If it is you can backup the 25 version of the game under a different name, load it, reimport the game under that different name into 26 and not change the year... and then compare. So, I'd try and isolate that variable.

If you want to start investigating the game already in 26 first, first thing I'd do is backup the game since if the next steps solve something, you'll want to go back to that restoration point.

Then I'd take off the "all-teams-controlled-by-me" and try reimporting them. Or advancing a day with it off and see if they show up. Since you know when they first played a game from baseball-reference, I might advance to that day and see if the real lineup forces them into the game.

So, variations like that to test what did it and isolate the issue would be my approach.