Editing Players in Historical

Bill Veeck · 05-16-2015, 05:23 PM

I am about to do an inaugural draft or a Random Debut simulation. I decided I wanted to change the age of the biggest stars. So instead of Ted Williams, for instance, starting at 33 years of age as the sim has him, I wanted to make him 22.

I went to the Editor and changed the age, but then took a look at Real Life Stats and he was 9 years old in his rookie year.

My question is this: If you are using 1-yr Recalc with no Player Development, which career will he end up with? Because Real Life Stats lists him in 1952 at age 22 with the stats he had at age 33, which stats will the sim use? 1952 or 1939?

I hope this isn't too complicated. I'd just run the sim and find out but I've spent a lot of time ensuring the right players end up on the right team and I'm just prior to the draft.

The Game · 05-17-2015, 04:55 AM

straight historical uses year not age to my knowledge.

italyprof · 05-18-2015, 12:18 PM

That's a really good question and I have not seen anyone try this before at least that wrote as such in the forums. There are a few things that seem to make the system grouchy - one is changing the historical year for stats when playing a different year (for example, I would love to play starting in 1901 but with say 1940 or 1965 levels of performance and total stats being the standard for the whole league history. In principle you can do this but it keeps trying to switch it back and I have never succeeded in keeping it there.

Another might be what you have found - that it has set a birth date for a player, so if you are playing in 1999 and Ted Williams is 33 it lists him as born in 1966. If playing in 1940 and he is 33 he is born in 1907 and so on. It may explain why you got him as a 9 year old (I bet he could still hit !).

But then which career do you get? try and see. I will try it also in the next few days and see what happens as I also play random debut and would like to know.

Another option you have, however, if you really want certain players at X age is to import them using the ID at the end of baseball-reference and then put in the year you want it to be for them.

Bill Veeck · 05-18-2015, 02:07 PM

it appears if Ted Williams enters the game at 33 years old and you change his age to 22, you get the 33-year-old. I even had gone to the trouble of zeroing out service time etc.

actionjackson · 05-28-2015, 10:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bill Veeck

it appears if Ted Williams enters the game at 33 years old and you change his age to 22, you get the 33-year-old. I even had gone to the trouble of zeroing out service time etc.

You would have to delete the 33 year old and re-import the 22 year old from the database.

EDIT: You don't want to do too many of these or you'll end up with all young 'uns and nobody will retire. The whole reason there are all different ages at the start is to keep the older guys riding off into the sunset when you bring in more young 'uns with the amateur draft.

05-16-2015, 05:23 PM	#1
Bill Veeck Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Aug 2014 Posts: 30	Editing Players in Historical I am about to do an inaugural draft or a Random Debut simulation. I decided I wanted to change the age of the biggest stars. So instead of Ted Williams, for instance, starting at 33 years of age as the sim has him, I wanted to make him 22. I went to the Editor and changed the age, but then took a look at Real Life Stats and he was 9 years old in his rookie year. My question is this: If you are using 1-yr Recalc with no Player Development, which career will he end up with? Because Real Life Stats lists him in 1952 at age 22 with the stats he had at age 33, which stats will the sim use? 1952 or 1939? I hope this isn't too complicated. I'd just run the sim and find out but I've spent a lot of time ensuring the right players end up on the right team and I'm just prior to the draft.

05-17-2015, 04:55 AM	#2
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05-18-2015, 12:18 PM	#3
italyprof All Star Reserve Join Date: Feb 2014 Posts: 983	That's a really good question and I have not seen anyone try this before at least that wrote as such in the forums. There are a few things that seem to make the system grouchy - one is changing the historical year for stats when playing a different year (for example, I would love to play starting in 1901 but with say 1940 or 1965 levels of performance and total stats being the standard for the whole league history. In principle you can do this but it keeps trying to switch it back and I have never succeeded in keeping it there. Another might be what you have found - that it has set a birth date for a player, so if you are playing in 1999 and Ted Williams is 33 it lists him as born in 1966. If playing in 1940 and he is 33 he is born in 1907 and so on. It may explain why you got him as a 9 year old (I bet he could still hit !). But then which career do you get? try and see. I will try it also in the next few days and see what happens as I also play random debut and would like to know. Another option you have, however, if you really want certain players at X age is to import them using the ID at the end of baseball-reference and then put in the year you want it to be for them.

05-18-2015, 02:07 PM	#4
Bill Veeck Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Aug 2014 Posts: 30	it appears if Ted Williams enters the game at 33 years old and you change his age to 22, you get the 33-year-old. I even had gone to the trouble of zeroing out service time etc.