Big Dog OOTP 06 Roster Thread

[ozziethesaint]

Ok first off, let me introduce myself since I haven't been around this community as long as some of the other roster makers. I originally made my first rosters for Tony LaRussa Baseball and Sierra's Pro football games. I eventually graduated to High Heat and Mvp Baseball along with Madden football. then on to Sim games like EWR, TEW, and TPB. then finally I got into OOTP creatiing last year in a sim league I was in. creating some missing players, extra free agents and a draft class. Now you say what made me decide to do a full blown roster set for '06? well following the progress or lack there of concerning a certain roster set, I have become annoyed with their flip attitudes and lack of progress along the way. So there's where I will be different. You will know every step of the way where I am at and what I have done.

Step 1 was to import from Lahman and reassign those players to their correct teams as of opening day.

That's now 100% done

Step 2 was to place card double A and triple A players. This was done by renaming all the fake's to their real life counterparts, then changing height/weight/dob/pob.

this is 100% done as well

Step 3 is to go through each of those teams and change their R\L\SW hit info, their numbers, and positions.

this is done for 5 Triple A teams already

Step 4 is to correctly rerate those players, using their career minor league numbers, pecota, ba.com's rankings and bios. along with the recommendations of a group of proffesional scouts and front office people that I have become connected with.

again this is done for 5 triple a teams already.

Steps 3 & 4 are being done together.

Teams done as of now
Memphis Cardinals
Iowa Cubs
Charlotte Knights
Buffalo Bisons
Columbus Clippers

This project will be done in conjunction with the photo pack in my signature

if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to ask. I will make sure to update my user profile to include up to date IM info. I welcome your input and feedback, good or bad. this is my project, because i am doing the work. but in reality it's for the community as much as anything. So I look forward to the comments

[truthserum]

3 Warnings?? Hope ya get it out before you get banned.

[ozziethesaint]

Originally Posted by truthserum

3 Warnings?? Hope ya get it out before you get banned.

Those warnings came from arguing with someone that was removed from a Sim league I was involved with. but thanks for caring

[MorseMoose]

Is this just going to be the major leagues and then AAA? No AA, A, SSA, etc.?

Also, are you leaving ratings the same from Lahman or are you editing the ratings?

[ozziethesaint]

Beta 1 will be Majors down through AA

Beta 2 will be Majors down through Low A

Final MLB only release will be Majors through Rookie and camp leagues

then I will work on US and Canadian Indy leagues, followed by Japanese, Cuban, and Italian Leagues.

and Possibly korean, and Taiwan leagues if I can find info on them or somone with knowledge of those leagues

Edit, just saw the question about MLB ratings. Those will be done by using the career numbers, along with the Lahman ratings as well as pecota, and a few other resources.

[Erich Ingram]

Up above it looks as though he is putting in AA as well, but there is no comment about anything under that. Edit: looks like he has updated

Ozzie I guess one question I have for this is, did you import each player from Lahman that had previous major league experience but did not play in the majors last year? Guys like BJ Upton and Fernando Tatis as well as probably 50-100 others so that their major league stats would show up in the game for their careers?

[ozziethesaint]

Originally Posted by Erich Ingram

Up above it looks as though he is putting in AA as well, but there is no comment about anything under that. Edit: looks like he has updated

Ozzie I guess one question I have for this is, did you import each player from Lahman that had previous major league experience but did not play in the majors last year? Guys like BJ Upton and Fernando Tatis as well as probably 50-100 others so that their major league stats would show up in the game for their careers?

I think I have imported in everyone that has major league stats, I will make a final run through there before the first beta. but I wanted to jump right into player creation while I am still on bed rest. best to attempt to get the crappiest work done before I am able to really start pushing my rehab

[Erich Ingram]

Yeah it is a pain to be importing each player especially the pitchers since they come in as DH's every time so you have to update the pitches and actually make them pitchers. I found that there were a couple of players that I was shocked to find out had major league experience. Just players that I didn't expect.

Being on bed rest must make doing this a lot easier. Unfortunately with 3 children ages 7 and under I don't get as much time. Also right now the file is in Cubby's hands so I am not able to do anything with it.

If I had 10 hours a day to work on it, I am sure I would be done with it, but that just isn't always the case.

[ozziethesaint]

Yea being injured is a leg up, but I haven't had a 2 1/2-3 month head start and someone else working with me. so I suppose it all evens out in the end

[jackflash]

I like the sounds of where this roster set is heading. Keep us up to date.

[Erich Ingram]

2 1/2 month start is nice but with all the changes in the game during that period of time up until it released it lead to some problems that had to be fixed by Markus that I couldn't do.

But in all honesty it is harder to work with two I think than 1 as you have two ideas, and if one person has the file the other can't do any work as it can't be merged together, well at least not to my knowledge, but then again I haven't realy looked into that part.

[ozziethesaint]

Originally Posted by jackflash

I like the sounds of where this roster set is heading. Keep us up to date.

that's the plan....

it's the one thing I disagree with the other roster making team on. I will keep the community updated on my progress.

as such, work will begin on AAA team #6 tomorrow. I am doing some google searches today trying to find some of the missing pics that are needed for that mod I have almost finished

2 1/2 month start is nice but with all the changes in the game during that period of time up until it released it lead to some problems that had to be fixed by Markus that I couldn't do.

But in all honesty it is harder to work with two I think than 1 as you have two ideas, and if one person has the file the other can't do any work as it can't be merged together, well at least not to my knowledge, but then again I haven't realy looked into that part.
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all the same, your backhanded slams are not needed, but thanks for your interest

[Erich Ingram]

Originally Posted by ozziethesaint

Yea being injured is a leg up, but I haven't had a 2 1/2-3 month head start and someone else working with me. so I suppose it all evens out in the end

Also I was able to pave the way to clean up many of the roster creating issues and make it much easier for others to be able to do so, as I was able to get Markus to add in more things to make my life easier during the beta process. Unfortunately a lot of those things did not occur until I had become extremely frustrated with things and started trying to create ways that he could make my life easier :P

[ozziethesaint]

Well then my thanks on whatever was added. but there were probably ways you guys could have made it even easier, but that's a topic for another day

[Erich Ingram]

Originally Posted by ozziethesaint

all the same, your backhanded slams are not needed, but thanks for your interest

???? Backhanded slams? None given, but if you are being thin skinned that is fine. You make a comment so I am not allowed to respond? Ah gotcha ok.

[Erich Ingram]

Originally Posted by ozziethesaint

Well then my thanks on whatever was added. but there were probably ways you guys could have made it even easier, but that's a topic for another day

Well there were things that I almost begged for that would have made life extremely easy but Markus said it wouldn't work unfortunately. But hey what are you going to do, I unfortunately really don't understand programming and the limitations of it so I have to defer to those that do.

[ozziethesaint]

Originally Posted by Erich Ingram

???? Backhanded slams? None given, but if you are being thin skinned that is fine. You make a comment so I am not allowed to respond? Ah gotcha ok.

Nope if I didn't want your responces, I would have kindly asked you to go back to your own thread.

Well there were things that I almost begged for that would have made life extremely easy but Markus said it wouldn't work unfortunately. But hey what are you going to do, I unfortunately really don't understand programming and the limitations of it so I have to defer to those that do.

I would have preffered a seperate editor. ever play the wrestling Sim tew? the game editor done by Adam Ryland is an absolute joy to work with

[Erich Ingram]

Originally Posted by ozziethesaint

Nope if I didn't want your responces, I would have kindly asked you to go back to your own thread.

Ah just didn't understand your comment then I guess.

[ozziethesaint]

Just seem like you telling me that my being layed up right now was a backhanded slam. aimed at getting back at my comment about you having had the game longer. but if I was mistaken, I do apologise

[Erich Ingram]

no I was just saying that makes it easier than trying to chase after 3 kids while trying to get it done. Most of my time comes late at night while my kids are sleeping.