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thehef · 03-13-2023, 08:38 PM

First you need to determine whether or not you are going to have historical minor leagues enabled. If you are not, then you'll do these things directly in OOTP. However, if you are going to have historical minors enabled, then, first I would recommend, just to keep it simple, not adding any teams, but merely changing a team - that doesn't have a real-life historical affiliation - to be an affiliate of the Crawfords. Otherwise you're going to have to deal with schedules & stuff for those minor leagues (a minor league might have 8 teams and the schedule is defaulted for that; if you add one team you'll have to find or create a 9-team schedule; a 10-team schedule would be easier to implement, but then you'd have to bother with an additional team to add...)

For changing affiliations, if you open the milbteams.csv file in Excel and then add a filter, you can filter for all teams with "IND" in the Franchise/AffiliationID field. Just as random examples:

- The 1932 Southern Association has 5 of it's 8 eight teams without affiliations. So you could affiliate Birmingham or Atlanta (or one of the other three teams) with the Crawfords simply by changing the "IND" to match the ID you are using for the Crawfords.

- The 1933 Middle Atlantic League also has 5 of it's 8 eight teams without affiliations. So you could affiliate Charleston or Springfield (or one of the other three teams) with the Crawfords.

Going back to the idea of adding a team (rather than just affiliating an independent team with the Crawfords): You'd do that by just inserting a line in milbteams.csv file and then filling everything out... Most of the fields are obvious, and the statistical fields are not used for anything so they can be left blank... You'll need to come up with something for the MiLBFranchise. That would be used to track link the team's history year to year. Not that you'd want to do this, but if you created the "Anytown Bombers" in 1932 and wanted to "move" them and rename them as the "Othertown Gunners" in 1940, then you'd change the name, etc., for 1940 in the milbteams.csv file, but would use the same FranchiseID, and then OOTP would maintain continuity for that franchise's history... Hopefully that makes sense...

03-13-2023, 08:38 PM	#12
thehef Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,345	First you need to determine whether or not you are going to have historical minor leagues enabled. If you are not, then you'll do these things directly in OOTP. However, if you are going to have historical minors enabled, then, first I would recommend, just to keep it simple, not adding any teams, but merely changing a team - that doesn't have a real-life historical affiliation - to be an affiliate of the Crawfords. Otherwise you're going to have to deal with schedules & stuff for those minor leagues (a minor league might have 8 teams and the schedule is defaulted for that; if you add one team you'll have to find or create a 9-team schedule; a 10-team schedule would be easier to implement, but then you'd have to bother with an additional team to add...) For changing affiliations, if you open the milbteams.csv file in Excel and then add a filter, you can filter for all teams with "IND" in the Franchise/AffiliationID field. Just as random examples: - The 1932 Southern Association has 5 of it's 8 eight teams without affiliations. So you could affiliate Birmingham or Atlanta (or one of the other three teams) with the Crawfords simply by changing the "IND" to match the ID you are using for the Crawfords. - The 1933 Middle Atlantic League also has 5 of it's 8 eight teams without affiliations. So you could affiliate Charleston or Springfield (or one of the other three teams) with the Crawfords. Going back to the idea of adding a team (rather than just affiliating an independent team with the Crawfords): You'd do that by just inserting a line in milbteams.csv file and then filling everything out... Most of the fields are obvious, and the statistical fields are not used for anything so they can be left blank... You'll need to come up with something for the MiLBFranchise. That would be used to track link the team's history year to year. Not that you'd want to do this, but if you created the "Anytown Bombers" in 1932 and wanted to "move" them and rename them as the "Othertown Gunners" in 1940, then you'd change the name, etc., for 1940 in the milbteams.csv file, but would use the same FranchiseID, and then OOTP would maintain continuity for that franchise's history... Hopefully that makes sense...