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thehef · 12-18-2013, 07:18 PM

My understanding is that the Spritze High School db will bring in players after high school, at age 18, and that they will import to the team they are most-associated with (Babe Ruth a Yankee, Steve Garvey at Dogder, etc), and that the Spritze-Gambo db will bring in players as of their pro (typically minor-league) debut, and they will import to the correct historical team. For Negro leaguers, both db's would import them as free-agents (and thus you wouldn't need to import players individually, but you would need to manually assign them to teams). The Spritze HS db includes a bunch of ***-ers, whereas the Spritze-Gambo one only includes the top 50 or thereabouts... If my numbers are right, you'll get about 200 more Negro leaguers with the HS db...

Pretty sure you'd want to use neutralized stats regardless of which of the two db's you use. If you want the major-leaguers to be on their original teams, then you'd need to use the Spritze-Gambo one, and if you want transactions according to history (for major leaguers, of course) I'd suggest that you use the historical_transactions.odb file that comes with OOTP 12 (the ones for 13 and 14 release players who, for example, played season in the minors sandwiched around major-league seasons).

You could also use the historical db that comes with the game and then manually import selected Negro & *** (and career minor-leaguers, if you want any of those). This might be a good option if you don't want to add too many non-major-leaguers. Using this option, major leaguers would debut in your majors at the same time they did in real life, and of course the Negro leaguers & NPBers would debut when you import them.

Can't guarantee everything above is 100% correct, but I think so! Good luck.

12-18-2013, 07:18 PM	#6
thehef Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,345	My understanding is that the Spritze High School db will bring in players after high school, at age 18, and that they will import to the team they are most-associated with (Babe Ruth a Yankee, Steve Garvey at Dogder, etc), and that the Spritze-Gambo db will bring in players as of their pro (typically minor-league) debut, and they will import to the correct historical team. For Negro leaguers, both db's would import them as free-agents (and thus you wouldn't need to import players individually, but you would need to manually assign them to teams). The Spritze HS db includes a bunch of *-ers, whereas the Spritze-Gambo one only includes the top 50 or thereabouts... If my numbers are right, you'll get about 200 more Negro leaguers with the HS db... Pretty sure you'd want to use neutralized stats regardless of which of the two db's you use. If you want the major-leaguers to be on their original teams, then you'd need to use the Spritze-Gambo one, and if you want transactions according to history (for major leaguers, of course) I'd suggest that you use the historical_transactions.odb file that comes with OOTP 12 (the ones for 13 and 14 release players who, for example, played season in the minors sandwiched around major-league seasons). You could also use the historical db that comes with the game and then manually import selected Negro & * (and career minor-leaguers, if you want any of those). This might be a good option if you don't want to add too many non-major-leaguers. Using this option, major leaguers would debut in your majors at the same time they did in real life, and of course the Negro leaguers & NPBers would debut when you import them. Can't guarantee everything above is 100% correct, but I think so! Good luck.