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Originally Posted by David Watts
Man I wish the Negro Leagues could be made an option by itself not including historical minors. I also wish the players could be made available for random debut drafts. Historical minors was such a cool idea, but it just gets way too massive in size through the years.
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While I don't know the practically it of it, I've been thinking a lot about this very thing. It would allow processes/modifiers/options for just that limited set of players. That way a change that isn't to a player's row in the database but must apply to the dataset as a whole could be done to just the NeL without consequences to the traditional minor leaguers. If this were possible, imagine you were at the screen in the historical game set-up wizard, it would ask NeL 1915- (Y/N) and separately Real Minor Leagues 1915- (Y/N).
As the game looks to update the stats going-forward, it's a good time to consider this. This could also include updating some of the more obtuse naming conventions for importing the NeL'ers. I understand why Spritze created those but if the NeL is undergoing a reset in the years ahead, aligning with bRef is a good idea. I don't mind renaming a few facegens to conform.
The RD thought you have would be nice as well. Could RD pull from two databases? Some folks have asked for that before, with the opening of the MiLB to be included too. The fact it hasn't been made an option implied it might be tricky to pull from anything other than the csv where just the "MLB" players reside. But if the NeL'ers are done/modified/imported in an accurate and balanced way, someone will have a master excel sheet with a built-in random number generator, and one can easily import X number manually to supplement the traditional RD drafts depending whose number gets called.