Making a Negro League database

Big Train · 09-05-2003, 11:48 AM

I want to create a database of negro league players. I think I could create a reasonably accurate one better than the one that's out there now [no offense to Tresclub]. The problem is I have no idea how to write a database that will work with ootp5. Can anyone help?

sporr · 09-05-2003, 12:00 PM

You will probably get more specific advice from others, but at the very least it has to be in the same exact format as the Lahman database.

DRaysGoRocco · 09-05-2003, 12:57 PM

that is what I was going to say, just follow the same format

ctorg · 09-05-2003, 01:35 PM

The best thing to do (which I did for my fictional database) is to just open up the master, batting, pitching, fielding, and fieldingOf files in Excel, erase everything except the header in each, and just start entering them.

09-05-2003, 11:48 AM	#1
Big Train Major Leagues Join Date: May 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 402	Making a Negro League database I want to create a database of negro league players. I think I could create a reasonably accurate one better than the one that's out there now [no offense to Tresclub]. The problem is I have no idea how to write a database that will work with ootp5. Can anyone help?

09-05-2003, 12:57 PM	#3
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09-05-2003, 01:35 PM	#4
ctorg Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Queens, NY Posts: 9,848	The best thing to do (which I did for my fictional database) is to just open up the master, batting, pitching, fielding, and fieldingOf files in Excel, erase everything except the header in each, and just start entering them. __________________ My music "When the trees blow back and forth, that's what makes the wind." - Steven Wright Fjord emena pancreas thorax fornicate marmalade morpheme proteolysis smaxa cabana offal srue vitriol grope hallelujah lentils

09-05-2003, 12:00 PM	#2
sporr Global Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Muscatine, IA Posts: 8,277	You will probably get more specific advice from others, but at the very least it has to be in the same exact format as the Lahman database.