Question Regarding Expansion

[Mark42661]

I was wondering if, for example... The Athletics come to Kansas City in 1955. Is there any way to keep the Athletics in Kansas City while letting the game continue with auto-expansion in subsequent years like it did in real-life, but keeping the Athletics in Kansas City? I hope that question makes sense.

[thehef]

Originally Posted by Mark42661

I was wondering if, for example... The Athletics come to Kansas City in 1955. Is there any way to keep the Athletics in Kansas City while letting the game continue with auto-expansion in subsequent years like it did in real-life, but keeping the Athletics in Kansas City? I hope that question makes sense.

Yes, but it requires some manipulation of csv files. In short, you'd need to modify the teams.csv file so instances of the Oakland A's are replaced with Kansas City. Then...

a) If you are playing with historical minors and want the A's farm system to have the same affiliations as real life, there would be add'l mods needed to the milbteams.csv file...

or

b) If you are not playing with historical minors and want MLB rookies to import to their historically-correct team - including, in your case - Oakland A's players to import to your KC team - then you'd need to also edit the teams.csv file to where the teamid field shows OAK (rather than whatever abbreviation for KC)...

Note: I'm not 100% sure on the field name in b) above. It's been awhile since I've done something like this... And you'd also want to either manually each year, or via teams.csv file, edit the ballpark name (IOW, you probably don't want your KC A's team playing in Oakland-Alameda Coliseum...)

Also, and you're probably aware of this... you'll need to make some add'l modification so you don't end up with two KC teams in 1969, when the Royals appear.

[Mark42661]

Originally Posted by thehef

Yes, but it requires some manipulation of csv files. In short, you'd need to modify the teams.csv file so instances of the Oakland A's are replaced with Kansas City. Then...

a) If you are playing with historical minors and want the A's farm system to have the same affiliations as real life, there would be add'l mods needed to the milbteams.csv file...

or

b) If you are not playing with historical minors and want MLB rookies to import to their historically-correct team - including, in your case - Oakland A's players to import to your KC team - then you'd need to also edit the teams.csv file to where the teamid field shows OAK (rather than whatever abbreviation for KC)...

Note: I'm not 100% sure on the field name in b) above. It's been awhile since I've done something like this... And you'd also want to either manually each year, or via teams.csv file, edit the ballpark name (IOW, you probably don't want your KC A's team playing in Oakland-Alameda Coliseum...)

Also, and you're probably aware of this... you'll need to make some add'l modification so you don't end up with two KC teams in 1969, when the Royals appear.

Wow! I would have no idea how to do all of that. But I appreciate the information!

Thanks
Mark

[Brad K]

Originally Posted by Mark42661

I was wondering if, for example... The Athletics come to Kansas City in 1955. Is there any way to keep the Athletics in Kansas City while letting the game continue with auto-expansion in subsequent years like it did in real-life, but keeping the Athletics in Kansas City? I hope that question makes sense.

If you are playing historical rookies KC won't get its first year players after the move.

There might be a work around but I decided to just to with historical locations rather than argue with the game

[thehef]

Originally Posted by Brad K

If you are playing historical rookies KC won't get its first year players after the move.

There might be a work around but I decided to just to with historical locations rather than argue with the game

It's been a bit since I've done something like this, but I'm pretty sure that if you modify the teams.csv file to where all of the Oakland A's entries instead say Kansas City A's, but the teamid remains OAK, then all the first year players will import to KC...

I'm still curious what Mark42661 would want to do two years later, when the Kansas City Royals would join the AL Two teams in KC?

[Mark42661]

Originally Posted by thehef

It's been a bit since I've done something like this, but I'm pretty sure that if you modify the teams.csv file to where all of the Oakland A's entries instead say Kansas City A's, but the teamid remains OAK, then all the first year players will import to KC...

I'm still curious what Mark42661 would want to do two years later, when the Kansas City Royals would join the AL Two teams in KC?

Don't know what I would do. Maybe send the 1969 team to Oakland... if that's possible to do.

I'm probably just not going to mess with it.

[thehef]

Originally Posted by Mark42661

Don't know what I would do. Maybe send the 1969 team to Oakland... if that's possible to do.

Definitely possible, with similar steps as needed to keep the A's in KC... Although the Oakland Royals doesn't resonate. Maybe the Oakland Oaks as a throwback to the team that played in the PCL through its golden era...

Should you ever decide to try something like this and need help w the csv file changes, just shoot me a PM.

[Brad K]

Originally Posted by thehef

It's been a bit since I've done something like this, but I'm pretty sure that if you modify the teams.csv file to where all of the Oakland A's entries instead say Kansas City A's, but the teamid remains OAK, then all the first year players will import to KC...

I'm still curious what Mark42661 would want to do two years later, when the Kansas City Royals would join the AL Two teams in KC?

I ran into the problem and tried to do something to fix it but it didn't work. I don't remember what I did. Just noting it's something that needs to be addressed.