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Originally Posted by 3fbrown
Unfortunately the big database file is not one you can easily edit. Which is too bad, because I have ways that I would love to tweak the file (and I did in the past when it was a regular CSV file). I have not heard about anyone "hacking" the database file, so at the very least it is unfortunately difficult, if not impossible.
Your plan could be implemented manually, but it would take a LONG time. I know importing players individually can be done such that they are whatever age you want them to be. (You put in the year you want to import them, so if you import Greg Maddux from 1995, he will be 30 or whatever age he was that year, even if your league is in 1901 or 2284.) I do not know if you can do that when importing an entire team/league, as I have not done that. Doing this manually will take a LONG time, I'm pretty sure it would be your dreaded hundreds of hours.
I can not guarantee this will work, it might be possible for you to get an old version of the game where the database file *was* just an ordinary CSV that you could easily edit. I know, as I did it back in the day. If that is possible, then as long as you were OK with OOTP8 or whatever old version, it may work. But that is only if such a version is available on the website, would work on whatever OS you have, and doesn't require a license.
Does anyone else know of a way to do this without extraordinary amounts of manual input?
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It takes some time, but what most people have done in the past is to create notepad files with lists of players you want to upload into the game. You have to do some research to create the lists one player at a time, but once that is done you can just upload the notepad file and it will read the .csv historical file and loads those players.
Most players use their Baseball Reference filing name, but a few are different and need to be looked at in the .csv file.
I wish you could upload everyone at once, that would be something.