Bought the game, have a couple of questions

[Nessex]

I'm just wanting to play 2014 with maybe a couple of players from years past. So like adding Sandy Koufax to pitch with Kershaw or Lou Gehrig to hit with the current players.

What kind of league should I start and how do I import the players?

[Bigrod]

Originally Posted by Nessex

I'm just wanting to play 2014 with maybe a couple of players from years past. So like adding Sandy Koufax to pitch with Kershaw or Lou Gehrig to hit with the current players.

What kind of league should I start and how do I import the players?

Just start a 2014 quickstart. Then use the import Historical players option to get them into your game.
To import historical players, click the League tab, click player info and click either list all players or free agents. On that page, click the Available Options dropdown and select Import historical player(s), on the popup, navigate to the Stats folder and select either the historical or Master database.
You'll need to know the players lahman ID in order to import them.
To find a player's lahman ID you can use ootp's search function and click the player's name to bring up his profile page. Click the editor button and the lahman ID is on the left. Another alternative is to go to baseball-reference.com and seach the player. His majors ID is in the url to the left of the last / and before the .shtml. Copy it and paste it into the import historical page and enter any year he played in the MLB.
Here's Sandy Koufax
Sandy Koufax Statistics and History | Baseball-Reference.com
his lahman id is koufasa01
If you want to import a bunch of players, you can create a .txt file and use ootp's import from text file options to import a bunch at once.
The txt file format is like this
lahman ID,Year
example
koufasa01,1955
mayswi01,1951
Add as many players as you want.
Hope this helps.

[Nessex]

Thanks,

I'm still having issues. I've navagated to find the players (let's say sandy) and I got his name code from the editor. But then I click available actions and import historical player and I'm lost. It wants to search my computer for a file.

I created a txt file with the text being koufasa01,1963 and it just errors out when it attempts to load it.

[Bigrod]

Originally Posted by Nessex

Thanks,

I'm still having issues. I've navagated to find the players (let's say sandy) and I got his name code from the editor. But then I click available actions and import historical player and I'm lost. It wants to search my computer for a file.

I created a txt file with the text being koufasa01,1963 and it just errors out when it attempts to load it.

When it wants to search your computer as you put it, that's where you need to manually navigate that popup to find ootp's stats folder, then click the stats folder and select either the historical_database.odb or the master.csv file. Once done, click confirm to close the popup.


To load the text file:
It's not working cause you most likely didn't select the historical or master database first.
Once you do that, On the import screen, click the "click here to select file" (just below where you manually enter the player data) to import players from a text file. On the popup, navigate to your folder where you saved your text file (I save my text files in ootp's stats folder, but you can save it anywhere you'd like) and click it and click ok. This will bring you back to the Import screen. Set your import options as you like. Once your done with that, click "Import players" and ootp should successfully import all the players in your text file. They will import to the Free Agent Pool.
Once the import completes, you'll need to go to the Free Agent page and manually move those players to the team you want them on.
Click the players name to bring up their profile page, click the editor tab. On that screen, Set the League and team you want them on. Those settings are just below the National popularity setting on the left.
That's it...enjoy your new players.