*** CBL Presents MLB 2026 Rosters with UPDATED Steamer Projections!! ***

[Hushroom]

Do I need to do this for my team as well? When it asks for the human-controlled teams as well...do I say yes or no?

Reason I ask, I hit no at first, but now I think the minor league teams IL list isn't being added to automatically. Also I don't see promotions happening even though I have it set to my assist GM to handle that.


*** IMPORTANT notes when you start your season and select your team ***

- Enable AI teams to make moves

Game->Game settings->League Settings
Option in middle column towards bottom “Set all Computer teams to Allow AI Roster changes”

[Pit_Vipers]

I'm sure it's obvious, but how do I update the file with some recent transactions since v13? For example, the Brewers signed Reese McGuire to a minor league contract last week, and I want to make that transaction in OOTP before I start my save. I can make him an offer and try to sign him as a free agent, but I'm hoping there's a way that I can just add him to the minor league roster as commissioner without having to go through the process of signing him as a free agent in-game.

[ChrisG]

Originally Posted by Pit_Vipers

I'm sure it's obvious, but how do I update the file with some recent transactions since v13? For example, the Brewers signed Reese McGuire to a minor league contract last week, and I want to make that transaction in OOTP before I start my save. I can make him an offer and try to sign him as a free agent, but I'm hoping there's a way that I can just add him to the minor league roster as commissioner without having to go through the process of signing him as a free agent in-game.

Go into commissioner mode and if you click "Editor" and scroll way down to the bottom, you can assign a guy to a new team. So for instance for McGuire, on a MiL deal, you would assign him to International League->Nashville Sounds (MIL)

On the right, if you are doing a ML FA signing, you can edit the contract details.

[Pit_Vipers]

Originally Posted by ChrisG

Go into commissioner mode and if you click "Editor" and scroll way down to the bottom, you can assign a guy to a new team. So for instance for McGuire, on a MiL deal, you would assign him to International League->Nashville Sounds (MIL)

On the right, if you are doing a ML FA signing, you can edit the contract details.

Thanks! I wasn't scrolling down far enough to see the option to change the team

[BearcatBuckeye]

Thank you so much for your work on this. Are you dropping an updated version for recent changes?

[Hushroom]

is anyone else noticing home run totals are lower than last year with this roster?

[ChrisG]

It might just be the game itself, but maybe I'm just noticing it with these rosters...anyone else notice that the AI managers will stick a DH-first player at 1B (or some other position) even with no experience, over an actual 1B?

For instance, the AI Yankees will have Stanton at 1B and Ben Rice at DH, the Sox will have Yoshida at 1B and Contreras at DH, and so on, and there's seemingly no way to get it to switch the two.

Really odd. Not sure if there's any way to correct for that or if it's just some bug with the game that will hopefully get rectified in 27. I made Ivan Herrera semi-passable at C since it looks like they will try to have him catch again, because otherwise the AI Cards will put him as a butcher 1B or RF.

[nordberg]

ChrisG:

The AI is not the best in many ways, especially at correct positions. So many starters are in the bullpen and at times bullpen arms in the rotation or as long relief, along with similarities to what you mentioned.The amount of times I have to go into AI controlled rosters to either release or designate players when they put top prospects or MLB players on waivers is becoming ridiculous.

Also, for some reason AI do not put players on IR. Cannot remember which team, but it was a AA club that had like a 3rd of the lineup out with long term injuries all still on the roster. Found that out due to a top prospect with decent stats being on waivers.

[mudvilles9]

Where do we move the folders to?
Do we just drag them them all to OOTP 26?

[millhousebc]

mudvilles....it's a .lg file so take it to your saved game folder. if that doesn't work change it to a .quick file and start it as a quickstart

[mudvilles9]

Drug .lg file to saved games.
How do I open that file in the game? It doesn't show up on my saved games list.

[CBLCardinals]

Originally Posted by Hushroom

is anyone else noticing home run totals are lower than last year with this roster?

Rosters built on Steamer 2026 projections versus actual totals for any given player.
The overall numbers (league wide totals) should be similar to recent seasons.

[CBLCardinals]

Also….

I plan to release another update next few days with updated trades, signings, etc….Spring Training is nearly here….!!

[CBLCardinals]

Originally Posted by BearcatBuckeye

Thank you so much for your work on this. Are you dropping an updated version for recent changes?

Yes! Next few days!!

[CBLCardinals]

Originally Posted by ChrisG

It might just be the game itself, but maybe I'm just noticing it with these rosters...anyone else notice that the AI managers will stick a DH-first player at 1B (or some other position) even with no experience, over an actual 1B?

For instance, the AI Yankees will have Stanton at 1B and Ben Rice at DH, the Sox will have Yoshida at 1B and Contreras at DH, and so on, and there's seemingly no way to get it to switch the two.

Really odd. Not sure if there's any way to correct for that or if it's just some bug with the game that will hopefully get rectified in 27. I made Ivan Herrera semi-passable at C since it looks like they will try to have him catch again, because otherwise the AI Cards will put him as a butcher 1B or RF.

Yeah this is SUPER annoying. I do try to mess around with the ratings to get the AI decisions to be as close to realistic on defense as possible.....but some of those you listed above happen no matter what ;/

The Yoshida 1b, Contreras DH vs RHP makes ABSOLUTELY ZERO SENSE.

Contreras is a million times better at 1b. I even tried lowering Yoshida's all IF ratings to a 1 (out of 250) and the AI STILL has him at 1b instead of DH.

[ChrisG]

Originally Posted by CBLCardinals

Yeah this is SUPER annoying. I do try to mess around with the ratings to get the AI decisions to be as close to realistic on defense as possible.....but some of those you listed above happen no matter what ;/

The Yoshida 1b, Contreras DH vs RHP makes ABSOLUTELY ZERO SENSE.

Contreras is a million times better at 1b. I even tried lowering Yoshida's all IF ratings to a 1 (out of 250) and the AI STILL has him at 1b instead of DH.

Hopefully this gets fixed in 27! Thanks as always for your hard work.

[Noahf3f]

I've downloaded the file and then put it into saved games. how do I get the new file to upload when I start a new season>

[millhousebc]

Should just have to put in your saved game folder

[SkipBranham]

Originally Posted by CBLCardinals

Yes! Next few days!!

Edit*** Generate New Player Photos is the fix.

Hey man, great work with this mod. I got everything to download and install correctly except I've noticed one minor quirk. It seems all the players modeled photos have a weird white wash to them and the only way to fix it that I've found so far is to manually regenerate each players photo.

Have you heard of this? If so, is there a universal fix?

Love the mod though, thanks a million.

[ChrisG]

Originally Posted by SkipBranham

Edit*** Generate New Player Photos is the fix.

Hey man, great work with this mod. I got everything to download and install correctly except I've noticed one minor quirk. It seems all the players modeled photos have a weird white wash to them and the only way to fix it that I've found so far is to manually regenerate each players photo.

Have you heard of this? If so, is there a universal fix?

Love the mod though, thanks a million.

See below. Doesn't hurt to tinker with Gamma LUT settings too if you haven't already (File->Settings). I use 3.4.

Originally Posted by sk78

Thank you @ChrisG

Aahhh, I wasn't testing the "Generate" option because I assumed this would generate entirely new ones. Only tried both "Update" options.

But in the meantime I found a different solution yesterday, here's how:
- before loading this quickstart game for the first time, delete the faces.dat file right in the main directory of the .lg save
- also delete the faces.dat file from the auto-save subfolder
- this will prevent the game from loading any pre-configured facegen/photo data
- meaning the game is going to create facegens/photos according to the user's settings, pretty much in same fashion as if it was a new created game
- it seems also safe to delete the thousands of .png files under ...\your_game_name.lg\news\html\images\person_pictures and ...\your_game_name.lg\news\html\images\profile_pictures
- besides not having to use the generic facegens, additional benefit of this procedure is that it's also reducing the size of the initial save by about 50% to less than 900MB ^^

(this is without extensive testing, so no guarantee if there might be issues later on, but as of now I wouldn't know what that could be)