Historical minor league team is just a blank box

textilemonster · 07-15-2024, 09:35 PM

I'm playing a game starting in 1941 and saw that a team in the Mid-Atlantic League had no text in the league's drop-down menu and has no logo or team or city name on the team page.
Basically, it's like the team decided they were going to be the Blanks.
After some research, I figured out it was the Springfield (Ohio) Cardinals. I opened the MiLBTeams document in data/stats and saw that there was some missing information for that team in 1941 (and 1942).

Is there some way I can fix this?

And in a kind-of-related question, can I set teams to a specific city in the historical files? Whenever I do an 1871 start, the Troy Haymakers are always from Troy, Michigan, when they were actually from Troy, New York; and the Middletown Mansfields are from Middletown, Ohio, rather than Middletown, Connecticut. I'd love a way to not have to keep fixing it myself in-game every time.

Thanks for any help!

thehef · 07-15-2024, 09:46 PM

This is a known issue. Been awhile since I looked at these but off the type of my head I recall that there are a bunch of these that have been reported, but part of a larger yet-to-be-tackled cleanup of the milbteams.cvs file.

It's a bit difficult to find all of these because - seemingly - the give-away is blank fields, such as City. However, the milbteams.csv file contains A LOT of these and they are not actually a problem. Why? Because there are a lot of teams in that csv file that are in leagues that aren't part of OOTP; rather, they are in the teams file so player's real life historical stats can be included in OOTP & associated with their actual team on the Real Llife Stats panel (something like that). So the challenge is to...

a) find teams in the milbteams.csv file that have blank fields, and...
b) where the league for that team can also be found in the milbleagues.csv file

IOW, if the league isn't included in milbleagues.csv, then that league won't be in OOTP, thus that team won't be an issue... I did this, and have the file somewhere...

I will try to revisit this and connect with Lukas on it

textilemonster · 07-15-2024, 09:52 PM

Thanks! Though honestly, I wouldn't mind doing it myself, I love research. :P
I'd just need to know what I'm supposed to put, where.

thehef · 07-15-2024, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by textilemonster

Thanks! Though honestly, I wouldn't mind doing it myself, I love research. :P
I'd just need to know what I'm supposed to put, where.

I found my files. PM me your email address and I'll send you a milbteams.csv file that has all of those fixes. (It's too large to attach.) ... I mean, that takes the research fun out it, but it'll be ready to go and save you plenty of time!

textilemonster · 07-15-2024, 10:12 PM

Yeah, being all disappointed because the work is already done is a weird feeling. But still, thanks! Sent you a pm, let me know if you don't get it.

Edit: Got the email! Thanks for the detailed instructions.

Edit 2: And got it to work. Started a 1941 game and there are the Springfield RedCardinals. Thanks again.

07-15-2024, 09:35 PM	#1
textilemonster Minors (Double A) Join Date: Jun 2024 Posts: 111	Historical minor league team is just a blank box I'm playing a game starting in 1941 and saw that a team in the Mid-Atlantic League had no text in the league's drop-down menu and has no logo or team or city name on the team page. Basically, it's like the team decided they were going to be the Blanks. After some research, I figured out it was the Springfield (Ohio) Cardinals. I opened the MiLBTeams document in data/stats and saw that there was some missing information for that team in 1941 (and 1942). Is there some way I can fix this? And in a kind-of-related question, can I set teams to a specific city in the historical files? Whenever I do an 1871 start, the Troy Haymakers are always from Troy, Michigan, when they were actually from Troy, New York; and the Middletown Mansfields are from Middletown, Ohio, rather than Middletown, Connecticut. I'd love a way to not have to keep fixing it myself in-game every time. Thanks for any help!

07-15-2024, 09:52 PM	#3
textilemonster Minors (Double A) Join Date: Jun 2024 Posts: 111	Thanks! Though honestly, I wouldn't mind doing it myself, I love research. :P I'd just need to know what I'm supposed to put, where. Last edited by textilemonster; 07-15-2024 at 09:55 PM.

07-15-2024, 10:12 PM	#5
textilemonster Minors (Double A) Join Date: Jun 2024 Posts: 111	Yeah, being all disappointed because the work is already done is a weird feeling. But still, thanks! Sent you a pm, let me know if you don't get it. Edit: Got the email! Thanks for the detailed instructions. Edit 2: And got it to work. Started a 1941 game and there are the Springfield RedCardinals. Thanks again. Last edited by textilemonster; 07-16-2024 at 12:56 AM.

07-15-2024, 09:46 PM	#2
thehef Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,290	This is a known issue. Been awhile since I looked at these but off the type of my head I recall that there are a bunch of these that have been reported, but part of a larger yet-to-be-tackled cleanup of the milbteams.cvs file. It's a bit difficult to find all of these because - seemingly - the give-away is blank fields, such as City. However, the milbteams.csv file contains A LOT of these and they are not actually a problem. Why? Because there are a lot of teams in that csv file that are in leagues that aren't part of OOTP; rather, they are in the teams file so player's real life historical stats can be included in OOTP & associated with their actual team on the Real Llife Stats panel (something like that). So the challenge is to... a) find teams in the milbteams.csv file that have blank fields, and... b) where the league for that team can also be found in the milbleagues.csv file IOW, if the league isn't included in milbleagues.csv, then that league won't be in OOTP, thus that team won't be an issue... I did this, and have the file somewhere... I will try to revisit this and connect with Lukas on it