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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
I don't have every minor league schedule, but I do have a lot of them, either as originally published in chart form (paper or PDF) or as text files with the dates in a chronological list (which makes it easier to convert to OOTP's format).
For those interested, I also have as played minor league schedules covering the last four seasons (a result of a research project in which I have been engaged).
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I am very interested in getting some of these from you - if possible grouped by league. I would like to build a full history of some of these seasons with your schedules and the data that I find at BR and other sources in a gaming sense.
If you do post some of your schedules in the text format I have spreadsheets to do the conversions from text to tables and then I have spreadsheets to convert to lsdl format. I also could do them from paper or pdf because I have a spreadsheet for this purpose also. I enter home team, away and date and then I import into the two processes above. Takes about 10 minutes data entry. I would be interested in helping to give these to the community. There is some manual processes to do this but if I wanted to learn VB or C I could put this into a program possibly. Takes about 20 minutes to convert each file(less if I did not put the BR links and standings into the lsdl file), a program would convert these in about 30 secs.
The one issue I do have concerns about is do many people use these files. I pretty much use them in another game to create homebrews and in OOTP I don't use them to supplement an historical season but to create a standalone season. I hope people use these because I put a bit of an effort in creating the tables and spreadsheets. Also for seasons that I do not have a schedule for I have been researching Baseball-Reference for the games and league setups and I take a different year and sometimes league file and use the files I converted. Not a perfect solution, but it works.
I am sorry this is lengthy, it was just a surprise to see your post. Your schedules really got me hooked on doing research on the older minor league seasons and history - Thank you!!!!
-James