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03-23-2007, 05:41 PM | #1 |
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Historically accurate names - OOTP2007
I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY like the fact that league financials and strategies are easily aligned with the years were are playing in.
But what about names? (Fictional league here) I can't find this on 2007. Is the process the same as 2006, that is, changing the names file to eliminate all the Rodriguezes et. al. from my 1947 league? As I recall, it wasn't easy (or maybe even possible) to adjust this over time. Is that still accurate? Can someone run me through the basics of this? TIA! cbbl |
03-25-2007, 12:04 PM | #2 |
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a friendly bump because I'm interested in knowing this as well.
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03-26-2007, 11:32 AM | #3 | |
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I guess what I'm looking for is something like Questdog's name sets for 2007 (I'm assuming his name sets won't work with '07 as more parameters have been added). I'd create one of these name sets myself, but I cannot locate the underlying data (historical name popularity for both first and surnames). All I can find is data from the 1990 census. Maybe the answer is to modify the current txt files using the popularity parameters from Questdog's old files. Anyway -- further discussion requested!! cbbl |
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03-26-2007, 11:38 AM | #4 |
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Your best bet is probably to convert Questdog's files, but I can't remember how much his last names were modified, as only the first names changed from decade to decade IIRC. I'll check into the bookmarks I have for "census" name data (first name only IIRC) as I used some for creating an unpublished nameset for women in the 1940s (ie, born in 1925). I haven't looked at the changes that came with 2007 yet, however.
**EDIT** Here is the source I used for OOTP 2006. http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/index.html It will give baby first name data for any year. Be sure to enter a specific year and select "Name rankings may include: Number of births." I selected the top 1000 names and copied the results into Excel to adjust the format for compatability. Again, I only selected one year but one could compile a decade to get more accurate results. But I think doing so might be more work than is really necessary.
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04-05-2007, 01:43 PM | #6 |
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Any progress yet. I want a fictional league in 1918 but not with hispanic names.
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You can do it by switching the first name set used for the US from 0 to 39.
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06-01-2007, 11:40 AM | #9 |
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I rebuilt the names files and the nations.txt and ethnicities.txt files in order to provide more realistic names for the early days of baseball. Combining this with the state flag mod and a purely U.S. cities.txt file has yielded some very realistic-looking results.
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