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Originally Posted by lukasberger
I suspect it would be a very, very difficult thing for Markus to code. Plus the fact is that someone would need to actually need to come up with a useable historical MiLB db to make the coding worth it. It's a bit of a chicken and egg situation right now with nothing seemingly likely to change anytime soon.
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I'm not saying you are suggesting that a 'useable historical MiLB db' would be defined as one that includes all minor-league players for all years, for all teams. But I'd just point out that I'm guessing that nearly everyone who is wanting something along the lines of realistic historical minors wouldn't be expecting accurate MiLB rosters. So given that and given 1) that many (apparently including OP) are historical-fictional, 2) what Spritze is doing with his high-school db, and 3) in the thread that I link to above there appear(ed) to be at least three posters who would be willing to produce a useable historical MiLB structure (
authentic, as opposed to completely accurate) file, I'm thinking that solving half of
the chicken or the egg dilemma can be accomplished :-)
And as far as the coding in OOTP goes, much of it is already there. The expansion and city/name changes for historical majors are already controlled by csv files that can be edited. For example, a user can play in historical mode and - by tweaking certain csv's - can have Brooklyn never move to LA... The existing code would just have to be expanded upon. (Not suggesting this is a merely a day's work, but it may not be as difficult as one might think, depending upon the approach.)