Remove Jim Unknown

[Xelvonar]

Hi again,

I was allowing ghost players but I was seeing them appear in the Major Leagues (I'm using three levels of minor leagues), so I want to turn them off.

I did so, but there are still "Jim Unknown"s all over everyone's rosters. Is there any way to remove all of them?

Thanks in advance!

-Bill

[The Game]

Originally Posted by Xelvonar

Hi again,

I was allowing ghost players but I was seeing them appear in the Major Leagues (I'm using three levels of minor leagues), so I want to turn them off.

I did so, but there are still "Jim Unknown"s all over everyone's rosters. Is there any way to remove all of them?

Thanks in advance!

-Bill

I had the same problem recently. I mass deleted them all. Over 600 of them between 5 leagues. So put yourself in Commish Mode. Go to each league/level and view all players and then select the Jim Unknowns 1 at a time until you have selected them all for 1 league at a time then right click and delete. Took me 30 mins.

[albatross11]

Originally Posted by The Game

I had the same problem recently. I mass deleted them all. Over 600 of them between 5 leagues. So put yourself in Commish Mode. Go to each league/level and view all players and then select the Jim Unknowns 1 at a time until you have selected them all for 1 league at a time then right click and delete. Took me 30 mins.

Couldn't he also sort by name; getting all the "Jim Unknown"'s together. Then, using the tag controls (or whatever those circles on the far left are called) select the first one and (holding down the SHIFT key) select the last one; then right-click and delete.

[Bluenoser]

Originally Posted by Xelvonar

Hi again,

I was allowing ghost players but I was seeing them appear in the Major Leagues (I'm using three levels of minor leagues), so I want to turn them off.

I did so, but there are still "Jim Unknown"s all over everyone's rosters. Is there any way to remove all of them?

Thanks in advance!

-Bill

Jim Unknown is not and has nothing to do with ghost players. It is an anamoly that's been in the game for some time. Ghost players do not and never will appear in the majors.

As suggested, go to the "all players" report, sort by name, mass select any Unknowns and delete.

[The Game]

Does the all players report show players in various leagues? I did it league by league since I could not find Jim Unknown in all 5 leagues + minor leagues at the time. Under League Menu List All MLB Players it only seems to show MLB players not MiLB players. Thats where I deleted the Unknowns from.

[Bluenoser]

Originally Posted by The Game

Does the all players report show players in various leagues? I did it league by league since I could not find Jim Unknown in all 5 leagues + minor leagues at the time. Under League Menu List All MLB Players it only seems to show MLB players not MiLB players. Thats where I deleted the Unknowns from.

Should be a drop down menu along the top where you can select which league (AAA, AA, A, etc). Maybe on the right?

[1998 Yankees]

Originally Posted by Bluenoser

Jim Unknown is not and has nothing to do with ghost players. It is an anamoly that's been in the game for some time. Ghost players do not and never will appear in the majors.

As suggested, go to the "all players" report, sort by name, mass select any Unknowns and delete.

It's a funny thing about those Jim Unknowns. They are certainly an indication of something gone wrong in the name/player matchup before they went into the players.dat file. Exactly what, who knows.

I think the important thing is whether they are persistent. If so, then you may have a serious problem with your league. If they occur one-time, say after you've done something unusual to your rosters, then you can clean them up and forget about them.

Beware, though, the Jim Unknowns that made your major league rosters and contributed to history that you may want to preserve intact! In that case, you may want to edit those guys to "Jim Brown" or "Jim Thorpe" instead of deleting them.

That's what I did when I noticed Jim Unknowns early in my league's history. I had done the MLB/fictional player routine of flushing real players to free agency, deleting them all, repopulating teams with fictional players, flushing them too, and scheduling an inaugural draft. Some Jim Unknowns popped up somewhere in that process. I edited or deleted them all and haven't seen any since, 18 "years" later.

[The Game]

Originally Posted by 1998 Yankees

It's a funny thing about those Jim Unknowns. They are certainly an indication of something gone wrong in the name/player matchup before they went into the players.dat file. Exactly what, who knows.

I think the important thing is whether they are persistent. If so, then you may have a serious problem with your league. If they occur one-time, say after you've done something unusual to your rosters, then you can clean them up and forget about them.

Beware, though, the Jim Unknowns that made your major league rosters and contributed to history that you may want to preserve intact! In that case, you may want to edit those guys to "Jim Brown" or "Jim Thorpe" instead of deleting them.

That's what I did when I noticed Jim Unknowns early in my league's history. I had done the MLB/fictional player routine of flushing real players to free agency, deleting them all, repopulating teams with fictional players, flushing them too, and scheduling an inaugural draft. Some Jim Unknowns popped up somewhere in that process. I edited or deleted them all and haven't seen any since, 18 "years" later.

Most Jim Unkowns don;t have ratings better then 2-3 (1-10) so for me they didn't show up in any major historical category. Also they showed up for me when I turned off ghost players and Create and maintain hidden players. Since I wanted to get rid of IFA's.

Blue correct, but you have to find Jim Unkowns based on each league.

Albatross the circles only show up in player screen not in the search menu.