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Originally Posted by wbcfan
If i create a historical league will I have access to players playing over seas in the japanese and korean leagues or are those leagues only included in standard leagues? Basically what I'm looking for is Prime ratings for retired international players that played overseas. In standard leagues I can only find their ratings if they were still playing today. Thanks!
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As long as they didn't debut after 2015, they should all be in the Spritze DB. I like to use the main DB in my games, and import a few Spritze guys for each draft, so I'm not an expert in going full bore with it. I did feel that his work should be preserved, and made available though, so I used some space on a Google Drive to get it done.
There are roughly 33,000 players in the Spritze DB. Currently, there are a little over 20,000 MLB players in the main DB. This count does not include NeL players, despite the fact that they are now part of BB-Ref's MLB players. Since 2016 (nobody will be in Spritze that debuted after 2015), about 1,500 players have debuted in MLB. About 18,650 MLB players would be in Spritze, leaving space for roughly 14,350 non-MLB players. These players are historical players, from all over the place. The MLBers themselves, NeL players, Cuban Leaguers, Mexican Leaguers, Japanese Leaguers, Korean Leaguers, Taiwanese Leaguers, PCL leaguers, and life long minor leaguers.
I'm unable to import some players from this DB, due to OOTP not liking the format of the player ID. That may not be a problem, when you use the Spritze DB, as your main DB. Theoretically, their stats should come in, because the codes that OOTP doesn't allow me to import are used for all of their stats. All MLBers that debuted in 2015, and prior, are there as well. It's a real smorgasbord of historical players, and if that's your thing, this is your database. Like I said, I haven't used it as my main DB, so I'm not sure how well it works. Josh Gibson, and Leon Day, of the NeL reached the HoF of my OOTP21 game, so I know that they work well in small batches. Not sure of a full dose, though. I'd say go for it, and see what happens.
For safety's sake, extract the folder into your stats folder, and point to it from your game, so that you don't overwrite the default DB. So, your database path would be:
C:\Users\Admin\Documents\Out of the Park Developments\OOTP Baseball 23\stats\SpritzeHSforOOTP19
When you're going to setup a game, you can set this up to be your default database, as well. There's something about the Database Path in the Setup, so you would point to the Spritze DB, on the first screen of the Setup Wizard. My suggestion is to use the Spritze 19 DB, as your database, but use the master file from the Spritze 18 DB, because it's much more comprehensive, and you'll know what (or who) you're getting. Any more questions, just ask, or PM me. I have been known to disappear for awhile, so you may not get me right away, but keep trying. Enjoy the DB! That's what it's here for.