Help with team ID settings

[trenchgun]

hello, I'm quite new to ootp baseball in general and was venturing into the 70s to do a run keeping the washington senators in DC and out of texas, but I've been fighting with the game to keep all the team info from updating. I've tried messing around with the franchise and team ID settings but it keeps stripping my roster and trying to add the team as an expansion franchise with a corresponding draft each and every offseason. Ive been making do with keeping historical expansion ticked off to prevent this from happening, but the mariners and jays are getting added soon and I want to keep it roughly historical.


Is there any setting I can finagle with that keeps my team as it is without moving to texas and updating everything *while also* allowing the mlb to expand as normal? thanks

[pholmer]

Perhaps you could uncheck the league expansion controls in the league settings. If you're playing a historical game, that might not work, but it'sworth a try. I have never tried anything like this, so I wouldn't know.

Another thing that you could try is to create a fictional league that starts a few years before the move to Texas, fill it with historical teams and players, and see what happens. Shut off the automatic league expansion again, of course. I've been playing OOTP for 15 years, but I only started creating my own games last year. If it doesn't work out for some reason, I delete that game (or simply set it aside) and try again. Good luck.

[LansdowneSt]

Originally Posted by trenchgun

hello, I'm quite new to ootp baseball in general and was venturing into the 70s to do a run keeping the washington senators in DC and out of texas, but I've been fighting with the game to keep all the team info from updating. I've tried messing around with the franchise and team ID settings but it keeps stripping my roster and trying to add the team as an expansion franchise with a corresponding draft each and every offseason. Ive been making do with keeping historical expansion ticked off to prevent this from happening, but the mariners and jays are getting added soon and I want to keep it roughly historical.


Is there any setting I can finagle with that keeps my team as it is without moving to Texas and updating everything *while also* allowing the mlb to expand as normal? thanks

Start the game before the year they move next time. The Teams.csv file used for the first year of a sim is inside the historical.database.odb and harder to get to. The second and all subsequent year Team changes in a game pull from the accessible Teams.csv file in the /stats folder. Go to Settings from the Main page, go to Troubleshooting tab and then "Open folders with customizable data" to find the /stats folder on your machine.

Look at what happens around the time of the move. Notice how Washington becomes Texas. Replace the fields that change when Tex is created and replace them with the fields as they appear when they were Washington. The game doesn't know real life history, it only knows what that Teams.csv file tells it. So get the file to tell the game something different by editing it.

Since the game is on-going, just edit the file now. When the next year's calendar flips the game will check that file again to load the teams and league structure plus other associated info. For this approach you want auto-evolution on. Because then it is reading your edits, and it will also read the new lines that appear when the M's and Jays start getting rows in that file.