Import player problem

[CBL-Commish]

I have a hybrid fictional-real league that started in 2006. I decided I wanted to import a bunch of real MLBers who've debuted in the time since that didn't make it into my universe.

To accomplish this the easiest thing seemed to be to go to the historical import function under free agents, come up with a list of player IDs, set the import date to 2013, and hit go.

And it seemed to work. I have Buster Posey and Mike Trout some other guys now in the free agent list. Oh, I didn't mention my game date is December 27th, 2012.

But... all of the new imports have terrible ratings. Posey has all of his great real life stats. As do Trout and the others. But they're all rated in the 30s and 40s on the 20-80 scale. Flat-out awful. Ratings of guys who wouldn't make it out of AA. Scouting reports reflect this. If I go into the editor the "example stats in modern MLB setup" (I'm paraphrasing) says they'd hit .150 with 5 homers.

So what's the deal? Did I do something wrong? Was doing a historical import of a current player not the best way to do this? Ideas?

[CBL-Commish]

I believe I figured this out. My game date is still in December of 2012.

So if I set the import year to 2012 the ratings seem to be more on par with what you'd expect.

My guess is that OOTP was importing a 2013 year into a 2012 season and since nobody had 2013 stats it was somehow messing up the ratings calculations. Maybe giving everyone a year of zeros that averaged in with their real numbers.

[CBL-Commish]

So, here's a related question. What happens when I import a player who's already in the game? Will it overwrite?

In other words, if I already (incorrectly) imported a list of players, then re-import with the correct settings will the game replace the incorrectly imported guys with the right ones?

[statfreak]

Originally Posted by CBL-Commish

So, here's a related question. What happens when I import a player who's already in the game? Will it overwrite?

In other words, if I already (incorrectly) imported a list of players, then re-import with the correct settings will the game replace the incorrectly imported guys with the right ones?

No overwrite, you will have duplicate players. Best to delete the players from the bad import and re-import using the correct season.

[CBL-Commish]

Originally Posted by statfreak

No overwrite, you will have duplicate players. Best to delete the players from the bad import and re-import using the correct season.

So I did that, deleted all the incorrectly imported players. Then did a new mass import, which seems to have worked ok with a couple issues.

1) Potential for young guys is messed up. I suppose that's unavoidable, or difficult to code when you're importing a guy who only has a year or two in his career. So a 20-year-old who has a .750 OPS, while that's pretty impressive, gets imported by OOTP with .750 OPS potential. Which isn't. But I can work around that.

2) I don't know if this is an issue or just a quirk. 2012 rookies like Bryce Harper and Manny Machado have OSA ratings on import that are flat-out terrible. Like all 20s and 30s. But go into the editor and it looks like they're fine, with projected numbers that match reality. It might just be a scouting issue that gets corrected over time. But definitely something I need to watch.