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Originally Posted by bobellis75
So I had a version of OOTP a while back that I never had much time to play and have recently gotten back into the game via the iOOTP versions the last 2 years....
I'm wanting to get OOTP 14 (great sale right now!) and set up a historical league....it looks like the best way to go is to download the spritze DB and start in 1901....what I'm wondering is can I start from that date, with rosters as they should be, and what I want to do is pretend there was never a color barrier.
So...I want to control where I place some of the Negro League guys throughout the history of the game...and I'm not sure if there's a way I can bring them in via draft or free agency or what.
But basically I want to start with the real rosters and simulate from 1901 on, bringing players into the game at the proper times, etc. And include negro league and possibly Japanese players as well.
Thanks for any words of wisdom. I look forward to playing around and running various ideas through the history of the game....
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I don't know how you can add extra players to the draft, but you can, each year, add players as free agents, and from there, using the editor (make sure commish mode is on!), you can manually add them to a team.
To add the players, use the "import historical player" button on the free agents screen. First, make a text file with the player IDs from the database, comma-separated with the year. Yes, you have to look up each player ID.
The rule is generally first 5 letters of last name followed by first two letters of the first name followed by two digits to distinguish between players with the same IDs. However, with Negro Leaguers and Japanese-leaguers, the two digits do not follow this pattern.
A sample text file could look like this:
ruthba01,1927
aaronha01,1957
Once you've created the file, click that button and select the file and each player will import.
You will have to create a new file for each year.