Adding historical players into a fictional league

Thunderwing1974 · 03-09-2013, 03:43 PM

I would like to know how to proceed to add historical players from any era or season into your fictional season?

Déjà Bru · 03-09-2013, 07:36 PM

Procedure:

In Manager Options, go into Commissioner Mode.
In League Menu, select Free Agents.
At bottom of screen, click Import Historical Players.
Use navigation buttons to find your game folder (this is where many people get lost - the first thing you see is your program folder but you need to go where the game stores your league files; for example, C:\Users\[your name]\Documents\Out of the Park Developments\OOTP Baseball 13).
Find the stats folder and open it (see the first screen print).
Select either Master.csv or historical_database.odb and click Confirm.
Enter the Historical Player ID in the top box (look them up at www.baseball-reference.com; the code is embedded in the player page URL, for example, www, baseball-reference.com/players/r/ruthba01.shtml).
Choose the desired options, most importantly which year of the player's career that you wish to import as to stats and ratings (see the second screen print).
Click Import Player.
After it loads the player, you will find him in your Free Agents pool (see the third screen print).

03-09-2013, 03:43 PM	#1
Thunderwing1974 Bat Boy Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 19	Adding historical players into a fictional league I would like to know how to proceed to add historical players from any era or season into your fictional season?

03-09-2013, 07:36 PM	#2
Déjà Bru Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: United States Posts: 10,456	Procedure: In Manager Options, go into Commissioner Mode. In League Menu, select Free Agents. At bottom of screen, click Import Historical Players. Use navigation buttons to find your *game* folder (this is where many people get lost - the first thing you see is your *program* folder but you need to go where the game stores your league files; for example, C:\Users\[your name]\Documents\Out of the Park Developments\OOTP Baseball 13). Find the stats folder and open it (see the first screen print). Select either Master.csv or historical_database.odb and click Confirm. Enter the Historical Player ID in the top box (look them up at www.baseball-reference.com; the code is embedded in the player page URL, for example, www, baseball-reference.com/players/r/ruthba01.shtml). Choose the desired options, most importantly which year of the player's career that you wish to import as to stats and ratings (see the second screen print). Click Import Player. After it loads the player, you will find him in your Free Agents pool (see the third screen print). Attached Images __________________ - Bru Last edited by Déjà Bru; 03-09-2013 at 07:41 PM.