CubbyFan's Guide to Importing League into Larger Universe

CubbyFan23 · 10-15-2006, 08:07 PM

Alright, I'm sorry for taking forever to post this. When I took my sabattical from the boards. Here it goes. Keep in mind, that I haven't tested the long term viability of doing this. It's possible that it could crash, and cause some issues. I never tested it that far. However, from what I did test, it worked fine.

Create a new league universe (or you can use your existing universe that you want to import a smaller league into) with all of the leagues you want. Teams do not matter, you will be deleting them. Make sure the structure for the Major Leagues that you are importing however is EXACTLY alike to the league you are importing.

For example, I would create a new universe with Japanese, Cuban, Mexican leagues. I would also have the MLB league. I would create the MLB league with all of the specifics as the roster set that I want to import (my CubbyFan rosters that only have a US major league).

Once you create the league, delete all of the teams except for the MLB ones (ie. the international teams). This will then create "empty" foreign leagues with divisions without any teams in them. You can run the game like this for now.

Exit the game. Copy ALL of the original dat files from the league you want to import except for managers.dat, parks.dat, and world.dat into the new universe's folder. Overwrite all of these files.

Go back into the game, load up your universe. You should have the correct MLB teams with MLB players and everything correct. I THINK you can import managers.dat as well, and perhaps parks.dat, but I am not 100% sure. Go back, and create the appropriate teams for the international leagues from scratch and fill them up.

You should then have the imported MLB rosters, plus the international leagues that you have created, deleted the teams from, and then re-created the teams after import.

Hopefully this makes sense. If it doesn't work, please let me know, and I will go back and double check things, but I'm almost 99% sure this is how I did things earlier when I was testing how to do this.

CubbyFan

XFBcommish · 10-16-2006, 06:40 PM

alright, thanks for posting but I'm having one problem.

It seems everything is working correctly except for one thing. The NL goes to the correct place, but the AL and Minor League teams end up scattering all over the different leagues.

Any reason for that?

CubbyFan23 · 10-16-2006, 11:34 PM

I'm pretty sure that means that you don't have identical setups as far as divisions and number of teams in each for your major leagues and/or minor leagues. A difference in either (not the international leagues which should be empty, but the league you are trying to import) will result in that happening.

XFBcommish · 10-17-2006, 01:17 AM

I'll try to get it to work tommorow again, if I can't get it to work I'll post what I'm doing step by step to see where I went wrong.

PSUColonel · 10-17-2006, 05:21 PM

does this include leagues that are already underway?

CubbyFan23 · 10-17-2006, 06:02 PM

I haven't tried it, I would imagine it would not carry over standings. But you should be able to do it in between seasons when every team is 0-0.

Actually I know that will work because I used it for my 2007 rosters which have technically have two years "simmed" and it worked fine. Just make sure when you create the league to import into, that you create it in the correct year.

boilermaker · 12-02-2006, 04:37 PM

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RamMan12 · 02-13-2007, 05:40 PM

Might you know how to import a universe into a brand new universe? I have a major league with 4 minor leagues and an international league and I want to put this universe in a brand new universe.

10-15-2006, 08:07 PM	#1
CubbyFan23 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: St. Louis, Missouri Posts: 2,257	CubbyFan's Guide to Importing League into Larger Universe Alright, I'm sorry for taking forever to post this. When I took my sabattical from the boards. Here it goes. Keep in mind, that I haven't tested the long term viability of doing this. It's possible that it could crash, and cause some issues. I never tested it that far. However, from what I did test, it worked fine. Create a new league universe (or you can use your existing universe that you want to import a smaller league into) with all of the leagues you want. Teams do not matter, you will be deleting them. Make sure the structure for the Major Leagues that you are importing however is EXACTLY alike to the league you are importing. For example, I would create a new universe with Japanese, Cuban, Mexican leagues. I would also have the MLB league. I would create the MLB league with all of the specifics as the roster set that I want to import (my CubbyFan rosters that only have a US major league). Once you create the league, delete all of the teams except for the MLB ones (ie. the international teams). This will then create "empty" foreign leagues with divisions without any teams in them. You can run the game like this for now. Exit the game. Copy ALL of the original dat files from the league you want to import except for managers.dat, parks.dat, and world.dat into the new universe's folder. Overwrite all of these files. Go back into the game, load up your universe. You should have the correct MLB teams with MLB players and everything correct. I THINK you can import managers.dat as well, and perhaps parks.dat, but I am not 100% sure. Go back, and create the appropriate teams for the international leagues from scratch and fill them up. You should then have the imported MLB rosters, plus the international leagues that you have created, deleted the teams from, and then re-created the teams after import. Hopefully this makes sense. If it doesn't work, please let me know, and I will go back and double check things, but I'm almost 99% sure this is how I did things earlier when I was testing how to do this. CubbyFan

10-16-2006, 06:40 PM	#2
XFBcommish Minors (Single A) Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 88	alright, thanks for posting but I'm having one problem. It seems everything is working correctly except for one thing. The NL goes to the correct place, but the AL and Minor League teams end up scattering all over the different leagues. Any reason for that?

10-16-2006, 11:34 PM	#3
CubbyFan23 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: St. Louis, Missouri Posts: 2,257	I'm pretty sure that means that you don't have identical setups as far as divisions and number of teams in each for your major leagues and/or minor leagues. A difference in either (not the international leagues which should be empty, but the league you are trying to import) will result in that happening.

10-17-2006, 01:17 AM	#4
XFBcommish Minors (Single A) Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 88	I'll try to get it to work tommorow again, if I can't get it to work I'll post what I'm doing step by step to see where I went wrong.

10-17-2006, 05:21 PM	#5
PSUColonel Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 13,143	does this include leagues that are already underway?

10-17-2006, 06:02 PM	#6
CubbyFan23 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: St. Louis, Missouri Posts: 2,257	I haven't tried it, I would imagine it would not carry over standings. But you should be able to do it in between seasons when every team is 0-0. Actually I know that will work because I used it for my 2007 rosters which have technically have two years "simmed" and it worked fine. Just make sure when you create the league to import into, that you create it in the correct year.

12-02-2006, 04:37 PM	#7
boilermaker All Star Starter Join Date: May 2004 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 1,956	nm

02-13-2007, 05:40 PM	#8
RamMan12 Major Leagues Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Maine Posts: 482	Might you know how to import a universe into a brand new universe? I have a major league with 4 minor leagues and an international league and I want to put this universe in a brand new universe.