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RCarr · 12-10-2025, 08:50 PM

I set up a historical "fantasy" league with my friends.

25 round draft where everyone drafts a player and what year from history they want them.

I got all the players ID numbers from baseball reference, made a document listing them with their year (Ex: bondsba01, 2001) for 2001 Barry Bonds.

However, when I import them, their stats in the player editor in game are wildly different, usually tanking their ratings.

Why is this? Isn't the whole point of specifying the year in the import document to carry over that year's stats/ratings?

Even when I manually change all the stats in the player editor, and click "Create current rankings based on stats", it just defaults back to whatever stats were there before I changed them, and therefore the rankings never change.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

12-10-2025, 08:50 PM	#1
RCarr Bat Boy Join Date: Dec 2025 Posts: 8	Problem with importing historical players I set up a historical "fantasy" league with my friends. 25 round draft where everyone drafts a player and what year from history they want them. I got all the players ID numbers from baseball reference, made a document listing them with their year (Ex: bondsba01, 2001) for 2001 Barry Bonds. However, when I import them, their stats in the player editor in game are wildly different, usually tanking their ratings. Why is this? Isn't the whole point of specifying the year in the import document to carry over that year's stats/ratings? Even when I manually change all the stats in the player editor, and click "Create current rankings based on stats", it just defaults back to whatever stats were there before I changed them, and therefore the rankings never change. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!