Historical Players

[IIIBishopIII]

do i need to download anything to import historical players? I want Joe Morgan how do i get him in my game?

thanks

[actionjackson]

Originally Posted by IIIBishopIII

do i need to download anything to import historical players? I want Joe Morgan how do i get him in my game?

thanks

There are two databases that ship with the game: Real Stats (Lahman Database) and Neutralized Stats (Spritze/Garlon Database). Both of them contain every player that ever played from 1871 through 2009. Lil' Joe will be there automatically from 1963 through 1984. I'm assuming that's the Joe Morgan you want and not this one.

[IIIBishopIII]

thanks but how do i know which name to import? i am on the import historic player but cant find a list of names to choose form. can you walk me through adding a player

[actionjackson]

Originally Posted by IIIBishopIII

thanks but how do i know which name to import? i am on the import historic player but cant find a list of names to choose form. can you walk me through adding a player

Is there a space for the player's name there (it's been awhile). If there is and you want Joe Morgan enter: morgajo02. After that I think it's similar to loading up a game database. If you want to load in any other guys, you've got to do it one at a time (unless mass select applies to this feature) looking up their lahman code in the Lahman Database.

[IIIBishopIII]

when i hit import player what folder would i select? is there a manual on how to do all this?

[actionjackson]

Originally Posted by IIIBishopIII

when i hit import player what folder would i select? is there a manual on how to do all this?

Sorry about that . The folder you select is historical database.odb, unless you're using what's called a modded database, but for now I'd try to get the basics down. *crosses fingers*

[IIIBishopIII]

i dont have that folder i dont know what else to do trying to read in manual also.

[IIIBishopIII]

i have the database folder but no data/stats

[Kehi7]

I am having the same problem! I can't find the historical database folder and am trying to import babe Ruth, Stan Musial, etc.. into my current roster (2010 rosters). Please help!

[actionjackson]

Geez I'm sorry guys I kind of left you hanging. My apologies. Anyways the path to the historical database.odb is Documents > Out of the Park Developments > OOTP Baseball 11 > stats

The main thing to remember is that it's in the "Out of the Park Developments" folder in the "Documents" folder not the "Program Files" folder which up until this year had only contained skins and fonts, but now it appears to also have added a bunch of backup files in zip format. Don't concern yourself with that. The stats folder in "Documents", "My Documents", "Documents and Settings > Your Name's Documents" is the one you have to point the computer to and that should load up the players you want whether you're doing it en masse or individually. Remember if you're doing it individually that you have to type in the proper code (first five letters or less of last name followed by first two letters of first name followed by the players numeric code which can be found in the Master.csv file in the very same stats folder as the .odb database) otherwise you could get crappy Joe Morgan instead of HoFer Joe Morgan.

Again I apologize profusely IIIBishopIII. Sorry it took me 6 weeks to find this again and thankyou Kehi7 for bringing this to my attention by bumping the thread in exasperation.

[mikecos23]

Try looking in your my documents/OOTP folder (sorry I have the MAC version). In that folder there is a directory called "stats", the historical_database.odb file should be in there. For example, the path might be ../My Documents/Out of the Park Developments/OOTP Baseball 11/stats.