Please Help Historical League

Rocket94 · 04-10-2020, 02:10 PM

To pass the time, my friends and I wanted to pick our favourite historical players and sim to see which team is the best. I am trying to set up a 6 team league and am having trouble populating the teams with the players/seasons we want, ie. Gretzky 81, Forsberg 02, Recchi 92. For some reason the game keeps crashing. Is there a limit on the number of historical players I can import? It seems I can get one team and that's it. Is there an easy way to do this? I am manually importing each player, which is time consuming, but I don't mind if the game didn't crash for unknown reasons. It crashes during saves.

Adam B · 04-10-2020, 04:16 PM

Can you walk us through exactly what you're doing? Step by step? I've been getting a Stream ready and haven't had any issues myself.

Rocket94 · 04-10-2020, 04:53 PM

I created a 6 team custom league, I then import the historical players for the team I am playing. I edit the players contract status putting them on my team, and I seem to be able to get that far. If I import players and edit them to put them on another team, the game crashes whenever I try to save it. I have attempted to take over another team and import players while managing another team and this does not work either. It's frustrating.

Rocket94 · 04-10-2020, 06:52 PM

How are you setting yours up? I've created a 6 team league, I am trying to populate the teams with historical players from various seasons. No duplicate players though. I've been importing them and trying to assign them to teams via the edit function, but I am having terrible problems with the game crashing or not saving.

Adam B · 04-10-2020, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Rocket94

I created a 6 team custom league, I then import the historical players for the team I am playing. I edit the players contract status putting them on my team, and I seem to be able to get that far. If I import players and edit them to put them on another team, the game crashes whenever I try to save it. I have attempted to take over another team and import players while managing another team and this does not work either. It's frustrating.

Okay, so this is what I've done

- Start a new game
- Kept all the settings, but moved it to a 6 team, 60 game schedule. Left everything else.
- Added a Minor League. 6 teams. Changed Nothing
- Added the CHL and left everything.
- Named my game Custom League Test
- Not Challenge Mode
- Quickly clicked through everything.
- Game Started.
- Turned on Commissioner Mode.
- League > Edit > Import

- Searched Wayne G
- Clicked on Wayne Gretzky (1961)
- Selected Year - 1981
- Clicked Ok.
- Edited Player
- Edited Current Team and Contracted Team to Team 1.
- Put League Rights to Team 1
- Gave him a salary of 5 million a year for 3 years.
- Click SAVE
- Saved.

- League > Edit > Import

Redo Steps, added players fine.

Are you doing something different?

Rocket94 · 04-10-2020, 08:24 PM

I don't think so. That's how I'm importing players. I can fill two teams that way, and then it will start to crash once I start populating team 3. Are you doing anything with the players originally placed on the teams? Are you just leaving them or releasing them?

Adam B · 04-10-2020, 10:16 PM

My teams are empty to begin with.

Rocket94 · 04-11-2020, 10:35 AM

Have you imported more than 48 historical players? That seems to be the limit for me. It works until I try and import the 49th and then it crashes the first time I try and save it after that. How do your teams start empty? Do you start with an initial draft, but just not do the draft?

Adam B · 04-11-2020, 05:59 PM

I just spent time and had no issues adding players. I was at 53 when I stopped.

I started doing in on the first day after I got in. What day are you doing it on?

JeffR · 04-11-2020, 06:31 PM

Can you upload the save you're trying to add the players to? There may be some speicific thing in it that's not happening when we try to re-create it. There shouldn't be any limit on how many players you can import.

Rocket94 · 04-11-2020, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by JeffR

Can you upload the save you're trying to add the players to? There may be some speicific thing in it that's not happening when we try to re-create it. There shouldn't be any limit on how many players you can import.

I uploaded it via FTP. It's called the Social Distance League. If I didn't upload it properly please let me know. Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

JeffR · 04-13-2020, 02:50 AM

OK, I'm able to get the crash-on-save with that file, but not dependably, sometimes I can import and assign a bunch of players with no crashes when I try to save the league, other times it's dying when it tries to write the player file. But there's clearly something not right there, we'll have to dig into that file and do some more testing to see exactly what's going wrong.

Rocket94 · 04-17-2020, 07:16 PM

I just received an error message for the first time when my game crashes upon saving. I have attached it to this post. I don't know if it helps, but I am still having issues.

Thanks

JeffR · 04-18-2020, 02:50 AM

We're working on a fix for the historical import problems, testing it now so hopefully we'll be able to get it to you quickly.

1993BuccsForever · 07-21-2020, 10:42 PM

Good evening all,
I'm moving away from my old SOMBB / Hockey to OOTP but am very new to the latest generations of either.
Just checking but will I be able to create a custom league that is populated with different eras (94 Canucks (Fav player all time is Gino Odjick), 92 Penguins, 93 Habs, etc) AND create a few truly custom teams via cloning and editing/renaming?

it's not a league with other human players, just custom league sim if that helps. I'm badly undereducated with computer systems and beg your patience. Stay safe -

Jason Edgar

JeffR · 07-22-2020, 12:28 AM

You could mix different eras, but it would be a lot of manual work importing every player one-by-one - there's no option to import entire historical teams yet. The customization stuff, no problem.

04-10-2020, 02:10 PM	#1
Rocket94 Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2016 Posts: 11	Please Help Historical League To pass the time, my friends and I wanted to pick our favourite historical players and sim to see which team is the best. I am trying to set up a 6 team league and am having trouble populating the teams with the players/seasons we want, ie. Gretzky 81, Forsberg 02, Recchi 92. For some reason the game keeps crashing. Is there a limit on the number of historical players I can import? It seems I can get one team and that's it. Is there an easy way to do this? I am manually importing each player, which is time consuming, but I don't mind if the game didn't crash for unknown reasons. It crashes during saves.

04-17-2020, 07:16 PM	#13
Rocket94 Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2016 Posts: 11	I just received an error message for the first time when my game crashes upon saving. I have attached it to this post. I don't know if it helps, but I am still having issues. Thanks Attached Images

07-21-2020, 10:42 PM	#15
1993BuccsForever Bat Boy Join Date: Jul 2020 Posts: 3	i'm new to OOTP line - ? about creating leagues Good evening all, I'm moving away from my old SOMBB / Hockey to OOTP but am very new to the latest generations of either. Just checking but will I be able to create a custom league that is populated with different eras (94 Canucks (Fav player all time is Gino Odjick), 92 Penguins, 93 Habs, etc) AND create a few truly custom teams via cloning and editing/renaming? it's not a league with other human players, just custom league sim if that helps. I'm badly undereducated with computer systems and beg your patience. Stay safe - Jason Edgar

04-10-2020, 04:16 PM	#2
Adam B Hockey Community Manager Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: A Hockey Rink Posts: 2,369	Can you walk us through exactly what you're doing? Step by step? I've been getting a Stream ready and haven't had any issues myself.

04-10-2020, 04:53 PM	#3
Rocket94 Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2016 Posts: 11	I created a 6 team custom league, I then import the historical players for the team I am playing. I edit the players contract status putting them on my team, and I seem to be able to get that far. If I import players and edit them to put them on another team, the game crashes whenever I try to save it. I have attempted to take over another team and import players while managing another team and this does not work either. It's frustrating.

04-10-2020, 06:52 PM	#4
Rocket94 Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2016 Posts: 11	How are you setting yours up? I've created a 6 team league, I am trying to populate the teams with historical players from various seasons. No duplicate players though. I've been importing them and trying to assign them to teams via the edit function, but I am having terrible problems with the game crashing or not saving.

04-10-2020, 08:24 PM	#6
Rocket94 Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2016 Posts: 11	I don't think so. That's how I'm importing players. I can fill two teams that way, and then it will start to crash once I start populating team 3. Are you doing anything with the players originally placed on the teams? Are you just leaving them or releasing them?

04-10-2020, 10:16 PM	#7
Adam B Hockey Community Manager Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: A Hockey Rink Posts: 2,369	My teams are empty to begin with.

04-11-2020, 10:35 AM	#8
Rocket94 Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2016 Posts: 11	Have you imported more than 48 historical players? That seems to be the limit for me. It works until I try and import the 49th and then it crashes the first time I try and save it after that. How do your teams start empty? Do you start with an initial draft, but just not do the draft?

04-11-2020, 05:59 PM	#9
Adam B Hockey Community Manager Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: A Hockey Rink Posts: 2,369	I just spent time and had no issues adding players. I was at 53 when I stopped. I started doing in on the first day after I got in. What day are you doing it on?

04-11-2020, 06:31 PM	#10
JeffR FHM Producer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Kelowna, BC Posts: 16,623	Can you upload the save you're trying to add the players to? There may be some speicific thing in it that's not happening when we try to re-create it. There shouldn't be any limit on how many players you can import.

04-13-2020, 02:50 AM	#12
JeffR FHM Producer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Kelowna, BC Posts: 16,623	OK, I'm able to get the crash-on-save with that file, but not dependably, sometimes I can import and assign a bunch of players with no crashes when I try to save the league, other times it's dying when it tries to write the player file. But there's clearly something not right there, we'll have to dig into that file and do some more testing to see exactly what's going wrong.

04-18-2020, 02:50 AM	#14
JeffR FHM Producer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Kelowna, BC Posts: 16,623	We're working on a fix for the historical import problems, testing it now so hopefully we'll be able to get it to you quickly.

07-22-2020, 12:28 AM	#16
JeffR FHM Producer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Kelowna, BC Posts: 16,623	You could mix different eras, but it would be a lot of manual work importing every player one-by-one - there's no option to import entire historical teams yet. The customization stuff, no problem.