Need help with All-Time Teams

[RMc]

I'm thinking of creating a game with each team based on where the players were born: an all-Puerto Rican team, an all-California team, and so on. I've seen this sort of thing done before (I once found a roster set of players representing different franchises, i.e. all-Yankees, all-Red Sox, etc.). The question is, how is it done? Do I just take each player's best season and import it from Lahman, or is there a faster way to do it? Would a "normalized" database work better?

Suggestions?

[RMc]

Anybody?

[JPW]

Originally Posted by RMc

I'm thinking of creating a game with each team based on where the players were born: an all-Puerto Rican team, an all-California team, and so on. I've seen this sort of thing done before (I once found a roster set of players representing different franchises, i.e. all-Yankees, all-Red Sox, etc.). The question is, how is it done? Do I just take each player's best season and import it from Lahman, or is there a faster way to do it? Would a "normalized" database work better?

Suggestions?

I haven't played the game lately.

But I did play it a lot a while back with versions four and five.

Now my only interested in the game is doing historical sims, which to me means not only re-plays but also what-if-scenarios, and setting up an All-Time-League was one of my personal favorites.

As for "how is it done?", well it is your game and that is entirely up to you.

Using a "normalized" database probably gives you a more realist rendering of how great players from different eras might have performed against one another, and I have set up leagues that way.

But personally, in my game, I prefer to import each player at his very best and then see how they do going head to head against one another.