Staff Photos

endgame · 06-05-2006, 09:49 PM

I'm still plugging away, between various projects, collecting Staff Photos for use in the game, but it's an arduous process. I would love to stumble on some corporate site with a zip file of photos of their 2000+ executives or even an archive of their last 10 year's softball teams.

But it isn't going to happen.

I've Googled (Image) coaches, staff, personnel, etc... and seldom find more than 2-3 pics on a single page. In addition some of those will have to be converted and resized. I think I've past the 300 mark now, but my personal goal (given the league sizes I've seen being selected) is to acquire about 10 times that number minimum.

I'll keep you posted when it gets large enough to be of any interest to anyone. On the other hand, please keep me posted if you encounter any site that has a great deal of "Staff-looking" faces by any other name or word search so I can add those as well.

Thanks in advance. And btw, I posted this in another thread (I think it was another thread) but FYI: if you're using the player_# method in your folders, you're staff is created first -- then your players. So if you plan to separate 'types' eventually remember that if you have 900 personnel slots open they will be filled by player_(1-900) and then your player #s will be assigned to players themselves. (I know, long-term stuff - but worth it when you finally get that league you're going to keep).

Layton is my Homeboy · 06-05-2006, 10:32 PM

I applaud the effort!

Here are some sites I stumbled upon:
http://www.calvin.edu/news/photos/staff/
http://www.law.ualberta.ca/faculty/profiles/
http://www.cps-ecp.ca/images/profiles/
http://www.wb.psu.edu/Admissions/profiles.htm
http://www.ds.psu.edu/Admissions/profiles.htm
http://www.fe.psu.edu/Admissions/profiles.htm
http://www.law.pitt.edu/faculty/profiles/headshots/
http://www.business.uiuc.edu/faculty...l_faculty.aspx
http://www.sph.umich.edu/iscr/faculty/index.cfm
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ssw/faculty/profiles/
http://www.indiana.edu/~ist/faculty/faculty.html
http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/Clubs/nels/...n/FAC2005.html
http://sandtiger.dbs.ucdavis.edu/Bio...gOfFaculty.cfm

Some google searches:
http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en...ch&sa=N&tab=wi
http://images.google.ca/images?svnum...or&btnG=Search

As well, I have a ZIP file containing 91 staff photos from the game Tournament Dreams College Basketball. Unfortunately, these photos are only 50 x 72 pixels, so they will look pretty bad if enlarged.

Raidergoo · 06-05-2006, 10:41 PM

This guy is so a GM

endgame · 06-05-2006, 10:42 PM

Oh man, thanks LH. I know your project is ultimately going to be the all to end all for this arena, but as long as there are traditionalists - I'd like to have a mainstay available to assist...my game if no one elses.

Thanks again for the tips. Greatly appreciated.

kevchod · 06-05-2006, 11:50 PM

I think I found my new team doctor.

endgame · 06-06-2006, 12:14 AM

Trust me, I found a couple along the way that made me feel better too.

witwerk8267 · 06-07-2006, 09:09 PM

Within my avatar the one on the left is my team doctor and the one on the right is my GM. I'll have no trouble signing free agents.

endgame · 06-08-2006, 09:35 AM

pat has been generous enough to contribute his time to collecting additional photos for the staff series of pics and I think we've accumulated a diverse and relevant assortment for use in the game.

Question. My original target number for these was based on a typical user's steeper individual league, i.e. parent league of 32 teams with 6 deep minor league affiliations with app. 11 or less pics per team. That was 2464 pics in that scenario. Between us, we've reach 2674 pics. In cases where you might need more, you can always 'go looking' or simply reverse the player_# order of this set, effectively giving you double that if the need arises.

Would all of you consider that a sufficient quanitity to utilize in your particular setting/s?

pat · 06-08-2006, 09:48 AM

And that's your 3,000th post.

Well, I'm just glad I could help. I could add more since the ones I got in the NFL is still short of NFC teams. Just let me know.

(I would have finished the NFL, if not the release of the demo. I'm familiarizing myself for hours.)

endgame · 06-08-2006, 10:07 AM

Well, I've uploaded the file for hosting. Just waiting to see where it actually ends up and I'll provide an address for downloading. Thanks again for your help on this, pat!

pat · 06-08-2006, 10:15 AM

No problem, endgame. If you need more, just let me know.

CHCfan · 06-08-2006, 10:22 AM

Well done, guys. I'll download it as soon as it's available.

endgame · 06-08-2006, 10:37 AM

All right. Let's see if I've done this right. Try this link for the Staff Photos:

http://www.sadleague.allsimbaseball....ages/staff.zip

Please let me know if it works or doesn't, as well as how the collection turned out.

endgame · 06-09-2006, 02:18 AM

The set's integrity has proven good. However, I plan to post a bug in the Tech Support area indicating, unless someone can explain otherwise, that IDs are being shared by personnel and players according to the csv files.

So the caveat to separate personnel may not be as tried and true as I had originally thought, or had worked previously. More later.

BigLou · 06-09-2006, 09:54 AM

awesome

Mr.Opinion · 06-09-2006, 10:22 AM

I think that the reason that the coached and players share IDs is because of the way that the retired player-to-coaches function works. Haven't figured a work around yet though.

endgame · 06-09-2006, 01:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr.Opinion

I think that the reason that the coached and players share IDs is because of the way that the retired player-to-coaches function works. Haven't figured a work around yet though.

I don't recall (I may be mistaken though) that this was a problem prior to adjustments made over the last couple of versions/fixes/patches. But this is where it currently stands and holds the fictional player up temporarily.

REPORTED TO TT

Quote:

Originally Posted by endgame

Rechecked my own information. Yes, the Personnel are sharing ID#s with Players. If you have 1350 Staff, they will share photos with the first 1350 players. Uncertain of any additional implications, but sharing ID#s does not bode well, regardless. Bound for conflict. What happens when a player becomes a coach? Future histories, when they are implemented will be affected. But this puts a crunch on the fictional player trying to complete his league without renaming, at least, all the coach photos to the name format. I have to remember if this is easily done or not. TT#1794

endgame · 06-09-2006, 04:01 PM

As you can see above, the issue has been reported. Hopefully there will be an easy fix. In the meantime, I'm working on a workaround. Using ctorg's Unique Image system formulas along with Irfanview, it looks like I'm able to rename all of the coaches to name format. Now, the trouble is that the names don't carry over all the little tildes and odd characters into the name file. I don't know if this will affect anything or not. Home very briefly, just to write this note.

Will check out more later tonight and hopefully arrive at a good workaround.

pat · 06-09-2006, 08:59 PM

Let me know if I can help again.

discodude5 · 06-10-2006, 01:12 AM

You may have them already but nhl.com and nfl.com have good pics of coaches/doctors/management if you look under each teams site.
Also nba.com and of course mlb.com
just using these sites should give you around 1000 pics

06-05-2006, 10:42 PM	#4
endgame Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 16,842	Oh man, thanks LH. I know your project is ultimately going to be the all to end all for this arena, but as long as there are traditionalists - I'd like to have a mainstay available to assist...my game if no one elses. Thanks again for the tips. Greatly appreciated. __________________ "Try again. Fail again. Fail better." -- Samuel Beckett _____________________________________________

06-06-2006, 12:14 AM	#6
endgame Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 16,842	Trust me, I found a couple along the way that made me feel better too. __________________ "Try again. Fail again. Fail better." -- Samuel Beckett _____________________________________________

06-08-2006, 09:35 AM	#8
endgame Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 16,842	pat has been generous enough to contribute his time to collecting additional photos for the staff series of pics and I think we've accumulated a diverse and relevant assortment for use in the game. Question. My original target number for these was based on a typical user's steeper individual league, i.e. parent league of 32 teams with 6 deep minor league affiliations with app. 11 or less pics per team. That was 2464 pics in that scenario. Between us, we've reach 2674 pics. In cases where you might need more, you can always 'go looking' or simply reverse the player_# order of this set, effectively giving you double that if the need arises. Would all of you consider that a sufficient quanitity to utilize in your particular setting/s? __________________ "Try again. Fail again. Fail better." -- Samuel Beckett _____________________________________________

06-08-2006, 09:48 AM	#9
pat Hall Of Famer Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Quezon City, Philippines Posts: 2,748	And that's your 3,000th post. Well, I'm just glad I could help. I could add more since the ones I got in the NFL is still short of NFC teams. Just let me know. (I would have finished the NFL, if not the release of the demo. I'm familiarizing myself for hours.) __________________ Co-Founder & Technical Director at ExaWeb Corporation, an SEO company in the Philippines. Previous Leagues - Time Warp Baseball / International Federation of Baseball / Professional Baseball Replay League / No Pepper Baseball League / MLB Pro Current OOTP 24 Leagues - Sim Sports Gaming - (2016-Present) Washington Nationals (2016-2022) *2017 Champions Oakland Athletics (2023-Present)

06-08-2006, 10:07 AM	#10
endgame Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 16,842	Well, I've uploaded the file for hosting. Just waiting to see where it actually ends up and I'll provide an address for downloading. Thanks again for your help on this, pat! __________________ "Try again. Fail again. Fail better." -- Samuel Beckett _____________________________________________

06-05-2006, 09:49 PM	#1
endgame Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 16,842	Staff Photos I'm still plugging away, between various projects, collecting Staff Photos for use in the game, but it's an arduous process. I would love to stumble on some corporate site with a zip file of photos of their 2000+ executives or even an archive of their last 10 year's softball teams. But it isn't going to happen. I've Googled (Image) coaches, staff, personnel, etc... and seldom find more than 2-3 pics on a single page. In addition some of those will have to be converted and resized. I think I've past the 300 mark now, but my personal goal (given the league sizes I've seen being selected) is to acquire about 10 times that number minimum. I'll keep you posted when it gets large enough to be of any interest to anyone. On the other hand, please keep me posted if you encounter any site that has a great deal of "Staff-looking" faces by any other name or word search so I can add those as well. Thanks in advance. And btw, I posted this in another thread (I think it was another thread) but FYI: if you're using the player_# method in your folders, you're staff is created first -- then your players. So if you plan to separate 'types' eventually remember that if you have 900 personnel slots open they will be filled by player_(1-900) and then your player #s will be assigned to players themselves. (I know, long-term stuff - but worth it when you finally get that league you're going to keep). __________________ "Try again. Fail again. Fail better." -- Samuel Beckett _____________________________________________

06-05-2006, 10:32 PM	#2
Layton is my Homeboy Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Winnipeg, Mb Posts: 429	I applaud the effort! Here are some sites I stumbled upon: http://www.calvin.edu/news/photos/staff/ http://www.law.ualberta.ca/faculty/profiles/ http://www.cps-ecp.ca/images/profiles/ http://www.wb.psu.edu/Admissions/profiles.htm http://www.ds.psu.edu/Admissions/profiles.htm http://www.fe.psu.edu/Admissions/profiles.htm http://www.law.pitt.edu/faculty/profiles/headshots/ http://www.business.uiuc.edu/faculty...l_faculty.aspx http://www.sph.umich.edu/iscr/faculty/index.cfm http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ssw/faculty/profiles/ http://www.indiana.edu/~ist/faculty/faculty.html http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/Clubs/nels/...n/FAC2005.html http://sandtiger.dbs.ucdavis.edu/Bio...gOfFaculty.cfm Some google searches: http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en...ch&sa=N&tab=wi http://images.google.ca/images?svnum...or&btnG=Search As well, I have a ZIP file containing 91 staff photos from the game Tournament Dreams College Basketball. Unfortunately, these photos are only 50 x 72 pixels, so they will look pretty bad if enlarged.

06-05-2006, 10:41 PM	#3
Raidergoo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 9,005	This guy is so a GM

06-05-2006, 11:50 PM	#5
kevchod Minors (Single A) Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: South Bend, IN Posts: 62	I think I found my new team doctor.

06-07-2006, 09:09 PM	#7
witwerk8267 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 111	Within my avatar the one on the left is my team doctor and the one on the right is my GM. I'll have no trouble signing free agents.

06-08-2006, 10:15 AM	#11
pat Hall Of Famer Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Quezon City, Philippines Posts: 2,748	No problem, endgame. If you need more, just let me know. __________________ Co-Founder & Technical Director at ExaWeb Corporation, an SEO company in the Philippines. Previous Leagues - Time Warp Baseball / International Federation of Baseball / Professional Baseball Replay League / No Pepper Baseball League / MLB Pro Current OOTP 24 Leagues - Sim Sports Gaming - (2016-Present) Washington Nationals (2016-2022) *2017 Champions Oakland Athletics (2023-Present)

06-08-2006, 10:22 AM	#12
CHCfan All Star Starter Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Grand Island, NE Posts: 1,117	Well done, guys. I'll download it as soon as it's available.

06-08-2006, 10:37 AM	#13
endgame Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 16,842	All right. Let's see if I've done this right. Try this link for the Staff Photos: http://www.sadleague.allsimbaseball....ages/staff.zip Please let me know if it works or doesn't, as well as how the collection turned out. __________________ "Try again. Fail again. Fail better." -- Samuel Beckett _____________________________________________

06-09-2006, 02:18 AM	#14
endgame Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 16,842	The set's integrity has proven good. However, I plan to post a bug in the Tech Support area indicating, unless someone can explain otherwise, that IDs are being shared by personnel and players according to the csv files. So the caveat to separate personnel may not be as tried and true as I had originally thought, or had worked previously. More later. __________________ "Try again. Fail again. Fail better." -- Samuel Beckett _____________________________________________

06-09-2006, 09:54 AM	#15
BigLou Minors (Double A) Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 122	awesome

06-09-2006, 10:22 AM	#16
Mr.Opinion All Star Reserve Join Date: May 2003 Location: SkiFree Lodge Posts: 883	I think that the reason that the coached and players share IDs is because of the way that the retired player-to-coaches function works. Haven't figured a work around yet though. __________________

06-09-2006, 04:01 PM	#18
endgame Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 16,842	As you can see above, the issue has been reported. Hopefully there will be an easy fix. In the meantime, I'm working on a workaround. Using ctorg's Unique Image system formulas along with Irfanview, it looks like I'm able to rename all of the coaches to name format. Now, the trouble is that the names don't carry over all the little tildes and odd characters into the name file. I don't know if this will affect anything or not. Home very briefly, just to write this note. Will check out more later tonight and hopefully arrive at a good workaround. __________________ "Try again. Fail again. Fail better." -- Samuel Beckett _____________________________________________ Last edited by endgame; 06-09-2006 at 04:58 PM.

06-09-2006, 08:59 PM	#19
pat Hall Of Famer Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Quezon City, Philippines Posts: 2,748	Let me know if I can help again. __________________ Co-Founder & Technical Director at ExaWeb Corporation, an SEO company in the Philippines. Previous Leagues - Time Warp Baseball / International Federation of Baseball / Professional Baseball Replay League / No Pepper Baseball League / MLB Pro Current OOTP 24 Leagues - Sim Sports Gaming - (2016-Present) Washington Nationals (2016-2022) *2017 Champions Oakland Athletics (2023-Present)

06-10-2006, 01:12 AM	#20
discodude5 Major Leagues Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Saskatchewan Posts: 371	You may have them already but nhl.com and nfl.com have good pics of coaches/doctors/management if you look under each teams site. Also nba.com and of course mlb.com just using these sites should give you around 1000 pics Last edited by discodude5; 06-10-2006 at 01:20 AM.