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Originally Posted by wiggins
I am playing with the "All Time Greats" league and I want to import some now active MLB players to add to the league. I'm not sure how to go about doing this. Do I import an historical player, and find his id? Let's say it's David Price from Tampa Bay. If so, what year do I designate for import? Thanks in advance,
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You do add a historical player. I've done this with my my latest league which was built with nothing but historical teams and players. I imported a young Albert Pujols who, in his second season (my league's most recent) drove in
161 runs (having Ty Cobb always on base for him to drive in helps!). I guess that makes his $24 million per year free agent contract justified. I also imported Justin Verlander who I was able to sign as a free agent and he's established himself among the league's best pitchers.
The year you designate for the import depends on the player. In Pujols' case I imported him from his rookie year. I used Verlander's second full big league season as my choice for the import. You can do the same with Price. Any year from '09-'11 will do, depending on how young you want him to be when he joins the league.
You can quickly find the player ID from Baseball-Reference.com. Just type the player you're looking for into the "search" box to pull him up. To use Price as a good example, in the URL line it will say "http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/priceda01.shtml". Price's ID is
priceda01. The player ID is always just before the ".shtml" extention. If you want to save a couple of seconds, you can just highlight the ID and copy and paste it into the game.
Somewhat related, I'm using modern financials for the league. Lou Gehrig is set to make a cool $33,953,000 next season. He is the highest paid player in the league. Given his production, you can't say he's overpaid either
