Historical League stats don't match

Big Jim Slade · 03-07-2003, 01:13 AM

I'm trying to create a new historical league based on last years stats with version 5 of the Lahman Database. I choose 2002 as the import year, but I have two problems.

First, I want the starting year of my league to be 2003, and not 2002, because I want to continue the historical league from where the last season left off, not recreate the last season... is this possible? Right now, my new historical league wants to start on 4/1/2002... and I can't seem to change it. If I put 2003 in as the import year, it says there isn't any data for 2003 (for obvious reasons...)

Second problem, the stats for 2002 are getting imported into my new 2002 season, however, they are getting imported as 2001 stats on the OVERALL STATS (which I just noticed "overall pitching" actually says "overall BATTING"), but if you look at the CAREER STATS the numbers for 2001 are the actual 2001 stats... follow me? Okay, here's an example:

Freddy Garcia - Looking at his CAREER STATS, it says he went 18-6 with a 3.05 ERA and 163 K's. These are indeed Freddy Garcia's 2001 totals. Now, if I switch over to OVERALL PITCHING, it shows his 2001 numbers as 16-10 with a 4.39 ERA and 181 K's. These are his 2002 stats, not his 2001 stats... in CAREER STATS he has no 2002 information, because it's beginning the Historical League on 4/1/2002. Also, the GENERAL INFO section reports his actual 2002 stats as his 2001 stats the same way OVERALL PITCHING is in the BASIC STATS area.

Is there a way to correct either of these two problems?

On a side note: Anybody know of a downloadable Player Photos file for all (or most of) the real life/historical players?

dryfly07x · 03-07-2003, 03:31 PM

Sorry, I don't have a solution, but just wanted to second this problem. I just realized this after I was about 10 games into my first season.

Details: I created a historical league using the 2002 lahman database, hoping to start play in 2003. As noted above though, that's not possible since OOTP5 loads the historical league with a default start date of 4/1/2002.

Please help. Thanks

ZouDave · 03-07-2003, 04:25 PM

There's a roster set you can download that GeForce made that will be start you with this year's rosters and all of the career stats up to 2002. That's what you want to do if you're wanting to start playing from this point onward.

As for the rest of your stuff...when you first load a league from the database, it will be set to be a REPLAY league. This means it will only play 1 year, players won't develop, etc. The reason you will see their *actual* 2002 stats is because it will then allow you to compare the real stats to what the game is generating during the season. If you wanted to start your league in 2002, but play it as a career league from that point on, you need to go into League Setup and switch the gameplay mode to CAREER. That should then display the stats in more of a way you're expecting.

PS - this isn't a bug of any kind, it's exactly how the game is intended to be done. When you import a year from the database, you're importing baseball up to the start of that season. If you want to play with the current rosters, download GeForce's rosters...which I'm sure can be found in the Mods forum.

03-07-2003, 01:13 AM	#1
Big Jim Slade Bat Boy Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 4	Historical League stats don't match I'm trying to create a new historical league based on last years stats with version 5 of the Lahman Database. I choose 2002 as the import year, but I have two problems. First, I want the starting year of my league to be 2003, and not 2002, because I want to continue the historical league from where the last season left off, not recreate the last season... is this possible? Right now, my new historical league wants to start on 4/1/2002... and I can't seem to change it. If I put 2003 in as the import year, it says there isn't any data for 2003 (for obvious reasons...) Second problem, the stats for 2002 are getting imported into my new 2002 season, however, they are getting imported as 2001 stats on the OVERALL STATS (which I just noticed "overall pitching" actually says "overall BATTING"), but if you look at the CAREER STATS the numbers for 2001 are the actual 2001 stats... follow me? Okay, here's an example: Freddy Garcia - Looking at his CAREER STATS, it says he went 18-6 with a 3.05 ERA and 163 K's. These are indeed Freddy Garcia's 2001 totals. Now, if I switch over to OVERALL PITCHING, it shows his 2001 numbers as 16-10 with a 4.39 ERA and 181 K's. These are his 2002 stats, not his 2001 stats... in CAREER STATS he has no 2002 information, because it's beginning the Historical League on 4/1/2002. Also, the GENERAL INFO section reports his actual 2002 stats as his 2001 stats the same way OVERALL PITCHING is in the BASIC STATS area. Is there a way to correct either of these two problems? On a side note: Anybody know of a downloadable Player Photos file for all (or most of) the real life/historical players?

03-07-2003, 03:31 PM	#2
dryfly07x Bat Boy Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 9	Ditto Sorry, I don't have a solution, but just wanted to second this problem. I just realized this after I was about 10 games into my first season. Details: I created a historical league using the 2002 lahman database, hoping to start play in 2003. As noted above though, that's not possible since OOTP5 loads the historical league with a default start date of 4/1/2002. Please help. Thanks

03-07-2003, 04:25 PM	#3
ZouDave Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Kansas City, MO Posts: 313	There's a roster set you can download that GeForce made that will be start you with this year's rosters and all of the career stats up to 2002. That's what you want to do if you're wanting to start playing from this point onward. As for the rest of your stuff...when you first load a league from the database, it will be set to be a REPLAY league. This means it will only play 1 year, players won't develop, etc. The reason you will see their actual 2002 stats is because it will then allow you to compare the real stats to what the game is generating during the season. If you wanted to start your league in 2002, but play it as a career league from that point on, you need to go into League Setup and switch the gameplay mode to CAREER. That should then display the stats in more of a way you're expecting. PS - this isn't a bug of any kind, it's exactly how the game is intended to be done. When you import a year from the database, you're importing baseball up to the start of that season. If you want to play with the current rosters, download GeForce's rosters...which I'm sure can be found in the Mods forum. __________________ ZD