Can I Do This?

[OOTPer2013]

Ok I am interested in creating a league featuring historical players only from one franchise. I would like the players from that franchise to debut randomly throughout the game.

Is it possible to do this??

My thought is that I might have to edit the database and keep only the players that played for that particular franchise.

If that is correct, how would I go about doing this and what files would I have to customize.

Thanks in advance for any insight.

I did not find any threads that discussed this specific topic, but I missed one please feel free to put me in that direction.

[The Game]

Originally Posted by OOTPer2013

Ok I am interested in creating a league featuring historical players only from one franchise. I would like the players from that franchise to debut randomly throughout the game.

Is it possible to do this??

My thought is that I might have to edit the database and keep only the players that played for that particular franchise.

If that is correct, how would I go about doing this and what files would I have to customize.

Thanks in advance for any insight.

I did not find any threads that discussed this specific topic, but I missed one please feel free to put me in that direction.

You would have to add the players yourself. unless you want to edit the Master.cvs and delete all players who did not play for your team but I never edit the master.cvs
Although my league is not random i am doing an A-Z league with the White Sox. Starting with David Aardsma and ending with Dutch Zwilling.
Check out your teams Register.
Chicago White Sox Player Career Batting Register - Baseball-Reference.com

[Gambo]

Basically all you would need to do is edit the master.csv and remove the player id (eg mattido01) from the players line.

Do you have any experience with excel?

I can give you a quick rundown of how to do it quickly if so.
1. Make a copy of the fielding.csv and open it and sort by team.
2. Delete the lines that aren't that team. You now have a list of all the players from a team.

Here's the excel experience.
3. Open the master.csv and copy the playerid into one of the unused columns (such as lahman or retro)
4. Create a blank column.
5. Do a vlookup formula to the fielding file to see if the player exists there
6. Save the master.csv and reopen and sort by your new column.
7. Delete the player ids for those guys you dont want.
8. Delete the column you created.
9. Save

You now have a master.csv that the game will only read those guys you want to use without any permanent loss if info. (If you want to add someone later put their Id back

Remove the .odb file from the directory and your good to go..

[OOTPer2013]

Thanks I believe I have enough excel experience to attempt this... much appreciation for your response!