[mitchkenn]

i've never gotten the Negro League players to perform well, outside of the Negro League minor league set-up, without much editing. In that minor league setting, they seemed to do just fine when i beta tested them last year. Somewhere i've got partial notes on the early results, but they're probably haphazard and cryptic now that they are out of context of that testing.
The idea Sprague offered, a huge notepad entry of all the players Ids and names, broken down by year, i think would be a good thing for those of us who import players in that manner. However, it's not something i expect to happen. i've tinkered with a couple dozen files for the years i'd been playing, both the games milb and the older Spritze 17. but the folders are very incomplete - made specifically for a couple of tests i tried and didn't follow up on.
still, for a fictional league with real historical players, the importing players via year by year text file is the only way i know will work. but, to gather the info for that file is very time consuming, at least the way i've been doing it.