[Comedian2004]

After sleeping on it, I thought about it while I was driving down Osceola Parkway on the way back from a service call.

OOTP allows duplicate names. Also, if you run a career for 100 years, you will end up with a name re-used here and there.

So, I will not change the way it works, it would just be too crazy.

But, simple solution to the problem. Look in the RETIRED PLAYERS folder for a file called RET1.TXT

Inside it, you will find a nice numbered list of all the retired players with their new R number next to them. This is where my program looks for the guy. It starts at the top and works down, if it finds a match, it stops searching.

So, let's say Al Capone retired in 1922. A new fresh face Al Capone appeared in 1967 and retired in 1986. Both were Hall of Fame players or were listed in the lists somewhere. Or, somehow you just discovered that there were two.

Modify the 2nd listing of Al Capone to a new name, like Al Capone II, or Al Capone JR.

Now, when you search for Capone, you will get both listings of the scarfaced criminal. Their player sheets will still be shown as Capone, but if you wanted to make everything correct, you could modify the R file and also every P file with his name in the almanac, but then you would still have to modify other files, like 'Got his first HR off Al Capone'.

So, unless it is really a huge issue, you don't worry about it, just change the ret1.txt file if you want.