Complete World Names Database 2.0

[ChrisG]

Originally Posted by trlp1712

Thank you very much Chris, wonderful work!

You're welcome! Big update coming soon with one brand-new nameset and a mini-nameset to accompany it.

[ChrisG]

Here it is. A huge update. I found a much easier way to pull from real-world databases/rankings for reweightings/additions/eliminations, so this is pretty substantial.

DOWNLOAD HERE

Here's what you'll find:

1. Brand-new Panamanian namesets: A standard Hisp-Panamanian nameset and a separate Afro-Panamanian nameset that follows local patterns (Spanish first name, Afro-Caribbean last name).

In world.default.xml, the new distributions for Panama are 95% Hisp-Panamanian, 2% Afro-Panamanian, and to keep fully Anglo-Caribbean names in the mix, 1% each of Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Nicaraguan. I also added 1% East Asian-Hispanic (think Bruce Chen). Let me know if you think this should be adjusted any.

2. Further additions to the Aruban and Curacaoan namesets including a complete reweighting of the former using real-life data.

Added more "island-style" first names mainly, especially to Curacao, which seems to use them more. Aruba seems a bit more traditional. This should reflect that.

3. A completely blown-up and redone Venezuela nameset and majorly revamped Mexican and Dominican namesets.

I noticed there was a lot of "cross-pollination" among sets where some extremely or exclusively Mexican, Dominican etc surnames were also highly-weighted in the other sets. So you shouldn't really be seeing Cantu on a Dominican player or Disla on a Mexican one now, for instance. Or at least only rarely. This should help each country's player pool feel subtly different.

I may do a Cuba revamp next. Stay tuned.

Here is a 40-man sample of what each of the countries look like now. Let me know what you all think.

[Ilove_Telin54]

Originally Posted by ChrisG

Here it is. A huge update. I found a much easier way to pull from real-world databases/rankings for reweightings/additions/eliminations, so this is pretty substantial.

DOWNLOAD HERE

Here's what you'll find:

1. Brand-new Panamanian namesets: A standard Hisp-Panamanian nameset and a separate Afro-Panamanian nameset that follows local patterns (Spanish first name, Afro-Caribbean last name).

In world.default.xml, the new distributions for Panama are 95% Hisp-Panamanian, 2% Afro-Panamanian, and to keep fully Anglo-Caribbean names in the mix, 1% each of Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Nicaraguan. I also added 1% East Asian-Hispanic (think Bruce Chen). Let me know if you think this should be adjusted any.

2. Further additions to the Aruban and Curacaoan namesets including a complete reweighting of the former using real-life data.

Added more "island-style" first names mainly, especially to Curacao, which seems to use them more. Aruba seems a bit more traditional. This should reflect that.

3. A completely blown-up and redone Venezuela nameset and majorly revamped Mexican and Dominican namesets.

I noticed there was a lot of "cross-pollination" among sets where some extremely or exclusively Mexican, Dominican etc surnames were also highly-weighted in the other sets. So you shouldn't really be seeing Cantu on a Dominican player or Disla on a Mexican one now, for instance. Or at least only rarely. This should help each country's player pool feel subtly different.

I may do a Cuba revamp next. Stay tuned.

Here is a 40-man sample of what each of the countries look like now. Let me know what you all think.

there a chance to add more name for portuguese?

[ChrisG]

Originally Posted by Ilove_Telin54

there a chance to add more name for portuguese?

Maybe...more focused on "baseball countries" first if that makes sense

[ChrisG]

BIG UPDATE! Download here

In addition to some tinkering and adding, there are now two new namesets and two majorly updated ones.

• I have now created a Colombian nameset. It is a whole-nation nameset, but names that are more common in the Caribbean, baseball-playing regions are much more strongly weighted. The Colombia nation file also includes a small sample of the Afro-Nicaraguan and Afro-Panamanian sets: think Jeter Downs.

• I have also created a brand-new Sint Maartener nameset since players from the country seems to turn up quite a bit in the international pools. Names from the island tend to have more of an Anglo-Caribbean flair compared to the former two countries. This is a less complete set; there's not much solid info online compared to other countries so I cobbled it together. So I have supplemented the Sint Maarten nation file with other namesets, including from neighboring Anglo-Caribbean countries and Aruba/Curacao. The SXM nameset is also included in the Aruba and Curaçao nations to supplement those islands' main namesets.

• The Cuban and Dominican namesets have been completely reworked and reweighted. I took out any names not present in either country and added some. Most were low weighted so the variety should feel largely the same. For the next update, I may tinker with the Cuba first name weights more to put a somewhat stronger emphasis on stereotypical "Y" names.

Here are sample outputs for each of the aforementioned nations. Please let me know if you have any issues. And I will once again note that this overall project is optimized for modern-day saves.

[WindGuardian]

Thank you so much for doing this overhaul! I do think it was long overdue for the namelists to have an overhaul. As mentioned, it was unusual to see like Disla appearing on a Mexican player, or Cantú appearing on a Dominican player. I did make that far less common on my name lists that I downloaded on here a few years ago. (I did change some things in mine, like ethnicity ID 194 is Venezuela and 224 is now Indian-American, and even threw in some Filipino surnames for ID 47 because it originally lacked them. I moved the female names ethnicity ID at the end because I wanted to make room for more ethnicities)

I had a couple suggestions that's easy to do: I was thinking maybe have Afro-Colombian as its own nameset, kind of like Nicaragua has, and it being a mix of Colombian and Caribbean names (e.g. Édgar Rentería, Jeter Downs, etc.) I know it's a bit of a longshot, given Argentina, Chile and Paraguay aren't really baseball nations, but they could have their own name lists because there's a lot of differences with the naming customs between the three countries.

I did like the idea of Asian Brazilians as their own nameset, or even Afro-British (Which would be very similar to ethnicity ID 46, but with significant naming differences to set them apart) as their own names. I hope I'm not overwhelming you with too many suggestions all at once because I think it'd be a bit more realistic. Take the time that's needed.

[ChrisG]

Originally Posted by WindGuardian

Thank you so much for doing this overhaul! I do think it was long overdue for the namelists to have an overhaul. As mentioned, it was unusual to see like Disla appearing on a Mexican player, or Cantú appearing on a Dominican player. I did make that far less common on my name lists that I downloaded on here a few years ago. (I did change some things in mine, like ethnicity ID 194 is Venezuela and 224 is now Indian-American, and even threw in some Filipino surnames for ID 47 because it originally lacked them. I moved the female names ethnicity ID at the end because I wanted to make room for more ethnicities)

I had a couple suggestions that's easy to do: I was thinking maybe have Afro-Colombian as its own nameset, kind of like Nicaragua has, and it being a mix of Colombian and Caribbean names (e.g. Édgar Rentería, Jeter Downs, etc.) I know it's a bit of a longshot, given Argentina, Chile and Paraguay aren't really baseball nations, but they could have their own name lists because there's a lot of differences with the naming customs between the three countries.

I did like the idea of Asian Brazilians as their own nameset, or even Afro-British (Which would be very similar to ethnicity ID 46, but with significant naming differences to set them apart) as their own names. I hope I'm not overwhelming you with too many suggestions all at once because I think it'd be a bit more realistic. Take the time that's needed.

You are very welcome!

The Afro(X) namesets are more to pick up the Anglo-Caribbean descended populations and I found there's a lot of overlap between the Afro-Nicaraguan/Panamanian and the (English-derived) Colombian ones.

Downs is actually more common in Nicaragua than in Colombia. You will also find Sjogreen, Hooker, Campbell, etc on San Andres Island, where the English-speaking Afro-Caribbean population lives.

Main difference between those two sets, outside of weightings and a few names here and there, is that the Nicaraguan population in question is mainly English-speaking and uses English names (which you see in real life) while the Panama population largely uses Spanish first names these days.

I mainly included both in the Colombia nation listing because at a brief glance it seems like Colombia's Anglo-Caribbean-descended population uses both English and Spanish first names. At least it picks up the flavor for now. Haha. But I will definitely consider a micro-set along the lines of those other two.

I have like 15-20% of (Hispanic) Colombian players generating as African so that covers that aspect of it.

I forget if I mentioned am considering doing a Japanese-Brazilian micro-nameset next! May make them a disproportionate number of generated Brazilian players too (though nothing crazy) if you all think that would be a good idea, considering they make up a good chunk of the baseball playing population there.

I may just do it the easy way and have it combine the Brazil first name set with the Japanese last name one.

[ChrisG]

Just FYI it appears the latest patch may override both world_default.xml and names.xml. Always make sure to have these backed up.

Anyway, I'm working on more updates.

[darkcloud4579]

Originally Posted by ChrisG

Here it is. A huge update. I found a much easier way to pull from real-world databases/rankings for reweightings/additions/eliminations, so this is pretty substantial.

DOWNLOAD HERE

Here's what you'll find:

1. Brand-new Panamanian namesets: A standard Hisp-Panamanian nameset and a separate Afro-Panamanian nameset that follows local patterns (Spanish first name, Afro-Caribbean last name).

In world.default.xml, the new distributions for Panama are 95% Hisp-Panamanian, 2% Afro-Panamanian, and to keep fully Anglo-Caribbean names in the mix, 1% each of Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Nicaraguan. I also added 1% East Asian-Hispanic (think Bruce Chen). Let me know if you think this should be adjusted any.

2. Further additions to the Aruban and Curacaoan namesets including a complete reweighting of the former using real-life data.

Added more "island-style" first names mainly, especially to Curacao, which seems to use them more. Aruba seems a bit more traditional. This should reflect that.

3. A completely blown-up and redone Venezuela nameset and majorly revamped Mexican and Dominican namesets.

I noticed there was a lot of "cross-pollination" among sets where some extremely or exclusively Mexican, Dominican etc surnames were also highly-weighted in the other sets. So you shouldn't really be seeing Cantu on a Dominican player or Disla on a Mexican one now, for instance. Or at least only rarely. This should help each country's player pool feel subtly different.

I may do a Cuba revamp next. Stay tuned.

Here is a 40-man sample of what each of the countries look like now. Let me know what you all think.

thanks for your work!