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Originally Posted by olivertheorem
I think I'm going to steal the HoF part too. My one question is how you go about assembling all the initial data without it taking forever. Do you use a filter on the retired players screen?
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It doesn't take that long. The only lengthy part is figuring out HoF monitor (which you get fairly good at after so many players) other then that its simply looking at their stats that are on their page and adding the initial points up on a calculator. Very simple.
I keep a seperate wordpad file that keeps each retiring player who has ten years of service and at least 3000 PA or a reasonable amount of games pitched handy so I know who to add to the ballot each season (if doing this remember to check every minor league and major elague at the end of their respective seasons for retirements in the transactions and recheck each one each january 1st for the other retirements and keep an eye on career enders).
After compiling the list of newly retired players at the end of each season (usually 5-12 players a year as of now) I do their initial number right then and put it in the wordpad file so that when they become eligible in 5 more seasons I know how many times to run the number generator for their first percentage.
ALSO I DIDNT MENTION above that when figuring out the inital amount of times to run the generator for a relief pitcher I halve the number. It is more realistic as relievers get rare induction but it gives the very good ones a shot. You may even want to cut the number in thirds, it's up to you but I always use half the number.