How about make having the birthdate at the end optional? After all if I had to go back and change 100 filenames to add the birthdays because of name conflicts, that is still much less time consuming than having to do it for thousands.
So he game looks for a picture by player name, if it sees more than one name, it looks for the birthdate.
And for people like me who plays mostly just NHL, it seems unnecessary punishment to use the birthdays given the lack of duplicate names.
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