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Charlie Hough · 09-10-2006, 02:33 AM

These answers all refer to OOTP 2006, but in most cases they will apply to 6.5 as well.

1. No, I believe you can only import an individual player. I'm not sure if you can import individual players in 6.5, but you can in 2006.

2. I'm not quite sure what you mean here. If you import players from Lahman, the current ratings will usually reflect their ability for the season that was used for the import, and their potentials will be based on your choice of career totals, peak seasons, or remaining years of the player's career. The game isn't really designed to import individual player seasons and treat them in isolation, although you can actually use the game to do a single season replay. You can simply do an import and turn off player development. Players will generally perform according to their ability in the season that you used for the import.

3. You can have division winners and wildcards that qualify for the playoffs. So, in theory, if you only have one division, I think you could still have the top four teams qualify for the playoffs. I'm not sure about all the playoff options in 6.5, but I know that OOTP 2006 offers this wildcard setup.

4. Not if your era settings are set up properly. If you want to use a four-man rotation, then you should probably increase pitcher endurance in the league settings to normal or maybe high. I've simulated historical seasons with four-man rotations and pitcher endurance set to normal, and it seems to work just fine. You just wouldn't want pitcher endurance set to low or very low.

5. Absolutely not. There have never been limitations on players based on their actual season statistics, even for the first year of your import. The game creates player ratings based on their Lahman statistics, but once players have been imported, the ratings determine everything, and the real life statistics cease to have any value.

09-10-2006, 02:33 AM	#2
Charlie Hough Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 3,644	These answers all refer to OOTP 2006, but in most cases they will apply to 6.5 as well. 1. No, I believe you can only import an individual player. I'm not sure if you can import individual players in 6.5, but you can in 2006. 2. I'm not quite sure what you mean here. If you import players from Lahman, the current ratings will usually reflect their ability for the season that was used for the import, and their potentials will be based on your choice of career totals, peak seasons, or remaining years of the player's career. The game isn't really designed to import individual player seasons and treat them in isolation, although you can actually use the game to do a single season replay. You can simply do an import and turn off player development. Players will generally perform according to their ability in the season that you used for the import. 3. You can have division winners and wildcards that qualify for the playoffs. So, in theory, if you only have one division, I think you could still have the top four teams qualify for the playoffs. I'm not sure about all the playoff options in 6.5, but I know that OOTP 2006 offers this wildcard setup. 4. Not if your era settings are set up properly. If you want to use a four-man rotation, then you should probably increase pitcher endurance in the league settings to normal or maybe high. I've simulated historical seasons with four-man rotations and pitcher endurance set to normal, and it seems to work just fine. You just wouldn't want pitcher endurance set to low or very low. 5. Absolutely not. There have never been limitations on players based on their actual season statistics, even for the first year of your import. The game creates player ratings based on their Lahman statistics, but once players have been imported, the ratings determine everything, and the real life statistics cease to have any value.