Help Setting Up My League

Rizzo · 02-12-2014, 09:51 AM

So I am looking to start a new game in OOTP 14 and wanted to make sure I did it right before starting. My idea is to start a game the year that the Mariners drafted Ken Griffey Jr and relive his career. I also wanted to do random debut as well but only players that were drafted from my start season on. Is that a possibility? I wouldn't want to see historical players coming back into the league.

The Game · 02-12-2014, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Rizzo

So I am looking to start a new game in OOTP 14 and wanted to make sure I did it right before starting. My idea is to start a game the year that the Mariners drafted Ken Griffey Jr and relive his career. I also wanted to do random debut as well but only players that were drafted from my start season on. Is that a possibility? I wouldn't want to see historical players coming back into the league.

I am tired so forgive me if i am reading wrong. You can not have RD from a particular year. You can start the 1989 season then have RD in June or after the season in November but it still would be from 1871-2012. I do not belive the players from 1989 would show up but not entirely sure.

Rizzo · 02-13-2014, 09:27 AM

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Originally Posted by The Game

I am tired so forgive me if i am reading wrong. You can not have RD from a particular year. You can start the 1989 season then have RD in June or after the season in November but it still would be from 1871-2012. I do not believe the players from 1989 would show up but not entirely sure.

Hmmm, that's pretty disappointing. Thanks for the info!

Orioles1966 · 02-13-2014, 11:33 AM

You could start the MLB 1989 season but put a hold on it to the 1990 season and then start a fictional league for 1989 (w/random draft) and cherry pick the MLB players into your fictional league.

OBSL Commish · 02-13-2014, 01:10 PM

You could also create draft classes using only players from the years you want to import. Simply make a text file with the players IDs followed by the years of their careers you want to import. To find the ID, search the player on baseball-reference.com and the last part before the ".shtml" in the address bar is the playerID. A sample text file would be this:

mantlmi01,1961
mayswi01,1955
musiast01,1949

Once you've made the file, make sure you're in commish mode and go to the free agent screen. Click "Import Historical Player", and select the Master.csv which should come up. Then, go to the next screen and click "Select File". Navigate to where your file is and select it.

Rizzo · 02-14-2014, 02:09 PM

Wow seems complicated but I may have to look into doing something like that.

ukhotstove · 02-14-2014, 10:14 PM

Should be able to do it with a simple copy and paste.

OBSL Commish · 02-14-2014, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Rizzo

Wow seems complicated but I may have to look into doing something like that.

Someone made a spreadsheet that helps with this process and posted it on the forums somewhere recently but I can't find it on here. I'll see if I can find it on my laptop and re-post it here.

Rizzo · 02-15-2014, 07:16 PM

That would be great if you could find that.

ukhotstove · 02-15-2014, 10:11 PM

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...t-creator.html

Rizzo · 02-16-2014, 07:41 AM

Thanks for the link. I'll have to check it out and try to figure out how to use it.

OBSL Commish · 02-17-2014, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by ukhotstove

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...t-creator.html

Yes! That's the link. I was looking for the spreadsheet itself and forgot that it had come from a Dropbox link. Thanks UKHotSTove!

02-12-2014, 09:51 AM	#1
Rizzo Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 254	Help Setting Up My League So I am looking to start a new game in OOTP 14 and wanted to make sure I did it right before starting. My idea is to start a game the year that the Mariners drafted Ken Griffey Jr and relive his career. I also wanted to do random debut as well but only players that were drafted from my start season on. Is that a possibility? I wouldn't want to see historical players coming back into the league.

02-14-2014, 10:14 PM	#7
ukhotstove Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: North of England Gods Country Posts: 7,175	Should be able to do it with a simple copy and paste. __________________ Detroit Diesel Dynasty San Antonio Calzones of Laredo Dynasty

02-15-2014, 10:11 PM	#10
ukhotstove Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: North of England Gods Country Posts: 7,175	http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...t-creator.html __________________ Detroit Diesel Dynasty San Antonio Calzones of Laredo Dynasty

02-13-2014, 11:33 AM	#4
Orioles1966 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 2,869	You could start the MLB 1989 season but put a hold on it to the 1990 season and then start a fictional league for 1989 (w/random draft) and cherry pick the MLB players into your fictional league.

02-13-2014, 01:10 PM	#5
OBSL Commish All Star Reserve Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 945	You could also create draft classes using only players from the years you want to import. Simply make a text file with the players IDs followed by the years of their careers you want to import. To find the ID, search the player on baseball-reference.com and the last part before the ".shtml" in the address bar is the playerID. A sample text file would be this: mantlmi01,1961 mayswi01,1955 musiast01,1949 Once you've made the file, make sure you're in commish mode and go to the free agent screen. Click "Import Historical Player", and select the Master.csv which should come up. Then, go to the next screen and click "Select File". Navigate to where your file is and select it.

02-14-2014, 02:09 PM	#6
Rizzo Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 254	Wow seems complicated but I may have to look into doing something like that.

02-15-2014, 07:16 PM	#9
Rizzo Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 254	That would be great if you could find that.

02-16-2014, 07:41 AM	#11
Rizzo Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 254	Thanks for the link. I'll have to check it out and try to figure out how to use it.