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Originally Posted by BIG17EASY
I'm all for including diversity of all sorts in the game. I'm not a programmer, but it seems that it shouldn't be too hard to have an option for fictional leagues to choose male, female, etc. for league makeup.
However, two points about your requests quoted above. For historical women's leagues, there needs to be oodles of data available to build those leagues from. We're lucky that more than 100 years of MLB data exists, which allows those historical leagues and rosters to be created in OOTP. To my knowledge, the required data (outside of team names and player names) does not exist for the few women's leagues that existed.
And for your second request, I'm not sure how OOTP would represent those people. Players in OOTP are essentially a name, a face (if FaceGen is on), a height, weight, hometown and school. The rest is baseball-related info. So I'm curious how you'd have OOTP represent a transgender person when you can't necessarily tell gender from the info currently provided? Does the game add a gender column in the player bio?
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Thank you so much for this contribution, you raise some good points.
Data wise, I really don't have a good answer for you. It doesn't seem that Fangraphs or Baseball Reference have much data on this, so any representation of historical leagues I think would have to be more nominal than anything? I'm struggling to find stats for any leagues, but there does appear to be stats for the 2018 Women's Baseball World Cup on
Baseball Reference. But yeah, definitely will be a struggle to find stats, if we have to auto-generate league history or start from scratch I'll take it nonetheless ^_^
Your second question is really good too. I imagine that putting gender in the player bio area would probably be really doable. Another thing would just be allowing female names to be given to players in, say, MLB leagues? Like, idk they could even have a story generate if they really want to be creative (Rockies OF so and so has announced that she is transgender today ... ). I mean, if we can have players losing their cats and running for the Senate, we can probably have this storyline lol.
Probably limiting this to fictional players only is best, because I really don't want people to post for lolz about how Curt Schilling in their 93 Phillies game came out as trans
or to offend irl players or novelize trans identities as a game rng feature.
I honestly imagine there's probably some gender non-conforming athletes in MLB and other baseball leagues, and maybe just maybe the inclusion of such athletes here might make them feel a little more comfortable and valid within the baseball universe. Also it can provide a rather safe and fun environment for people with non-conforming identities to roleplay as themselves or as others in-game which I would think would add to the accessibility of the game
Idk those are just my off the cuff thoughts, maybe other people have better solutions for these questions?