Jim Unknown Listed As Owners & Manager

Marcus75844 · 01-03-2017, 06:16 PM

Last night i loaded my 2024 season in OOTP 17 and I noticed that my owner and manager was changed to Jim Unknown. Looking throughout the league I noticed other teams with Jim Unknown listed as an Owner or coaches. Is their anyway to correct this without restoring from a previous backup? Will advancing to the next day change it back to the correct names? Please help.

mitchkenn · 01-03-2017, 06:54 PM

you can manually change the owners name, age etc ... Under owners profile. Not at my game computer, so can't recall the exact steps to get there but it's on the finance page of the team. Once you change the names, they should remain changed. i've done it a couple of times and it's worked OK.

To change the coaches names, you just need to go to their profile and hit the edit button.

And to make it a little more interesting ... you could write an article for the newspaper about the new owner. (That's under the MLB page, News.)

i don't know if advancing a day will change anything. Possibly exiting the program and restarting it, but that's completely a guess.

Marcus75844 · 01-03-2017, 10:16 PM

I know that I am able to change the names but the problem is that it is empty slots and it randomly affects different coaches throughout the minor leagues and even some owners for each team. I have a backup from a week ago. Is it possible to copy one of those files from last week and replace it with the files that are causing these Jim Unknown issues? Does anyone know a specific file that I must replace? Any help is greatly appreciated!

Knicks411 · 03-25-2017, 07:01 PM

I don't know if it's worth it or not to bump this thread, but I am having a similar issue. In my season it looks like the Marlins (not the team I am controlling) have signed a free agent named Jim Unknown, and it's essentially crashed my game. Whenever I look at any teams lineup/rotations, it has retired players in the lineup slots. If I advance a day or try and edit the unknown player, I just get a message saying "ootp17.exe has stopped working".

Has anyone else had this issue?

01-03-2017, 06:16 PM	#1
Marcus75844 Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 37	Jim Unknown Listed As Owners & Manager Last night i loaded my 2024 season in OOTP 17 and I noticed that my owner and manager was changed to Jim Unknown. Looking throughout the league I noticed other teams with Jim Unknown listed as an Owner or coaches. Is their anyway to correct this without restoring from a previous backup? Will advancing to the next day change it back to the correct names? Please help.

01-03-2017, 06:54 PM	#2
mitchkenn Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Oregon, not by design Posts: 2,853	you can manually change the owners name, age etc ... Under owners profile. Not at my game computer, so can't recall the exact steps to get there but it's on the finance page of the team. Once you change the names, they should remain changed. i've done it a couple of times and it's worked OK. To change the coaches names, you just need to go to their profile and hit the edit button. And to make it a little more interesting ... you could write an article for the newspaper about the new owner. (That's under the MLB page, News.) i don't know if advancing a day will change anything. Possibly exiting the program and restarting it, but that's completely a guess. __________________ "This is my opening farewell " - Jackson Browne “They make a desolation and call it peace.” ― Agha Shahid Ali "Maybe she just has to sing, for the sake of the song - And who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong." - Townes Van Zandt "I saw a young man leaning on his wooden crutch - He called out to me, 'Don't ask for so much' And a young woman leaning in her darkened door She cried out to me, 'Why not ask for more?' " - Leonard Cohen "Hello darkness, my old Friend ...." - Paul Simon Before Mays, before DiMaggio, there was Oscar Charleston. "All the lies about Babe Ruth are true." - Waite Hoyt Avatar is the late great Townes Van Zandt. rip. Last edited by mitchkenn; 01-03-2017 at 06:58 PM. Reason: typos

01-03-2017, 10:16 PM	#3
Marcus75844 Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 37	I know that I am able to change the names but the problem is that it is empty slots and it randomly affects different coaches throughout the minor leagues and even some owners for each team. I have a backup from a week ago. Is it possible to copy one of those files from last week and replace it with the files that are causing these Jim Unknown issues? Does anyone know a specific file that I must replace? Any help is greatly appreciated!

03-25-2017, 07:01 PM	#4
Knicks411 Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 3	I don't know if it's worth it or not to bump this thread, but I am having a similar issue. In my season it looks like the Marlins (not the team I am controlling) have signed a free agent named Jim Unknown, and it's essentially crashed my game. Whenever I look at any teams lineup/rotations, it has retired players in the lineup slots. If I advance a day or try and edit the unknown player, I just get a message saying "ootp17.exe has stopped working". Has anyone else had this issue?