Increase players from certain countries

rig99 · 06-01-2010, 09:15 AM

I have no problem getting a ton of players from the usual foreign countries like Venezuela, Mexico, Domincan Republic. The problem is with countries not traditionally related to baseball. How can I get more players from the more unusual baseball places such as England, Russia, Germany, France? I have all their quality set to Excellent but have just 4 players from those places combined.

I have Russia's baseball quality set to Excellent, but I have only 1 Russian player in my entire world of 8 leagues.

darkcloud4579 · 06-02-2010, 05:21 PM

It doesn't happen overnight. If you want the game to do it naturally it takes time. Having teams in that country would make it faster, but the absolute fastest way to do it would be to set the league's nation to that nation, allow 0% of the players to come from international countries and then create x number of free agents that you'd want in the league from that country or change a team's nationality and do the same with that particular team. That's how I've always done it anyway.

GMLoophole · 06-26-2010, 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by darkcloud4579

It doesn't happen overnight. If you want the game to do it naturally it takes time. Having teams in that country would make it faster, but the absolute fastest way to do it would be to set the league's nation to that nation, allow 0% of the players to come from international countries and then create x number of free agents that you'd want in the league from that country or change a team's nationality and do the same with that particular team. That's how I've always done it anyway.

Does changing the team's, as opposed to the league's, nationality, do anything? I wanted to make a kind of international league, but then I realized that in, say, a Dominican league with teams from Mexico and Panama the teams would be filled with Dominican players. Right?

Dogzilla · 07-01-2010, 10:08 AM

No, the nationality of players in a league is determined by the nationality of the teams. So for instance, if you had an 8-team league base in the DR with 4 teams from the DR, 3 from Mexico and 1 from Panama, your domestic players would be 50% from DR, 37.5% Mexico, 12.5% Panama.

GMLoophole · 07-07-2010, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Dogzilla

No, the nationality of players in a league is determined by the nationality of the teams. So for instance, if you had an 8-team league base in the DR with 4 teams from the DR, 3 from Mexico and 1 from Panama, your domestic players would be 50% from DR, 37.5% Mexico, 12.5% Panama.

I wanted to say thanks twice. That is EXACTLY what I wanted to do, but with more countries. Off to create international HS feeders!

GMLoophole · 07-08-2010, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Dogzilla

No, the nationality of players in a league is determined by the nationality of the teams. So for instance, if you had an 8-team league base in the DR with 4 teams from the DR, 3 from Mexico and 1 from Panama, your domestic players would be 50% from DR, 37.5% Mexico, 12.5% Panama.

Now I'm confused again. What % is the "foreign players" number for the league supposed to be set at? 100? Or 0? It seems if it's 0 the players will all be Dominican... so, 100? But that seems like it will just refer to the nations.txt file and generate players from everywhere except the DR.

Dogzilla · 07-11-2010, 02:47 PM

In my example, the foreign percentage would be set at 0%.

If it was set to anything above 0, players would be created from countries that did not have any teams in your league, according to the baseball level of the country.

Big Six · 07-22-2010, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by GMLoophole

I wanted to say thanks twice. That is EXACTLY what I wanted to do, but with more countries. Off to create international HS feeders!

I played around with this the other day. I set up an American fictional league and created small HS feeder leagues from several countries that reflect my own ancestral background, just to see what would happen. I set the preferences so incoming rookies would come from the feeder leagues and additional players.

The next rookie class had a nice representation from the feeder leagues, as well as the usual assortment of Americans, Mexicans, Dominicans, Canadians, etc. I was pretty happy with how it turned out.

Biggio509 · 07-25-2010, 09:56 AM

Another way to approach is through your nations file or with world editor. From the manual,

"
A Note about Leagues with Foreigners

If we had set the Foreigner Percentage to 20%, then 80% of the players would have come from the League Nation, and 20% would have come from random other nations. Nations with higher baseball levels have proportionally more players. A rough breakdown of the percentages is below:
Baseball Level% of Foreigners5 / ExcellentAbout 70%4 / GoodAbout 15%3 / AverageAbout 10%2 / FairAbout 1/2 of 1%1/ PoorAbout 1/10 of 1%0 / Nonexistent0This means that about 70% of foreign players generated will come from nations with a baseball level rating of excellent (5). About 15% will come from nations with a baseball level of good (4), and so forth. No players are generated from countries with a baseball level of nonexistent (0). Additionally, players from nations with higher baseball levels are more likely to be good players."

So if you want to increase the numbers of guys from England you can modify England's country entry in nations.txt to a higher level of baseball. You can also explore world and use nation editor to change the level of baseball in a country. I am currently experimenting with using this file to era accurate foreign born players.

06-01-2010, 09:15 AM	#1
rig99 Bat Boy Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 19	Increase players from certain countries I have no problem getting a ton of players from the usual foreign countries like Venezuela, Mexico, Domincan Republic. The problem is with countries not traditionally related to baseball. How can I get more players from the more unusual baseball places such as England, Russia, Germany, France? I have all their quality set to Excellent but have just 4 players from those places combined. I have Russia's baseball quality set to Excellent, but I have only 1 Russian player in my entire world of 8 leagues.

06-02-2010, 05:21 PM	#2
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 8,678	It doesn't happen overnight. If you want the game to do it naturally it takes time. Having teams in that country would make it faster, but the absolute fastest way to do it would be to set the league's nation to that nation, allow 0% of the players to come from international countries and then create x number of free agents that you'd want in the league from that country or change a team's nationality and do the same with that particular team. That's how I've always done it anyway. __________________ ------ My Mods OOTP Advanced Stats & DFS Suite Managerial Strategy Pack Competitive Balance Tax Calculator Major League Women's Baseball (OOTP24) quickstart Indian Premier League \| 300+ years of baseball quickstart \| Expatriate League quickstart \| Off-Field Injuries Update \| Women's Name File for OOTP \| ---- Dynasty classics: Centurion comes to OOTP5 \| DC Moneyball Dynasty (2004)

07-01-2010, 10:08 AM	#4
Dogzilla Major Leagues Join Date: May 2004 Location: Colorado USA Posts: 421	No, the nationality of players in a league is determined by the nationality of the teams. So for instance, if you had an 8-team league base in the DR with 4 teams from the DR, 3 from Mexico and 1 from Panama, your domestic players would be 50% from DR, 37.5% Mexico, 12.5% Panama.

07-11-2010, 02:47 PM	#7
Dogzilla Major Leagues Join Date: May 2004 Location: Colorado USA Posts: 421	In my example, the foreign percentage would be set at 0%. If it was set to anything above 0, players would be created from countries that did not have any teams in your league, according to the baseball level of the country.

07-25-2010, 09:56 AM	#9
Biggio509 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 2,027	Another way to approach is through your nations file or with world editor. From the manual, " A Note about Leagues with Foreigners If we had set the Foreigner Percentage to 20%, then 80% of the players would have come from the League Nation, and 20% would have come from random other nations. Nations with higher baseball levels have proportionally more players. A rough breakdown of the percentages is below: Baseball Level% of Foreigners5 / ExcellentAbout 70%4 / GoodAbout 15%3 / AverageAbout 10%2 / FairAbout 1/2 of 1%1/ PoorAbout 1/10 of 1%0 / Nonexistent0This means that about 70% of foreign players generated will come from nations with a baseball level rating of excellent (5). About 15% will come from nations with a baseball level of good (4), and so forth. No players are generated from countries with a baseball level of nonexistent (0). Additionally, players from nations with higher baseball levels are more likely to be good players." So if you want to increase the numbers of guys from England you can modify England's country entry in nations.txt to a higher level of baseball. You can also explore world and use nation editor to change the level of baseball in a country. I am currently experimenting with using this file to era accurate foreign born players.