Draft Class Questions

[geoffmatt17]

My specific questions are around the transition from an historical MLB league into a modern day MLB league.

Main question: why is it when I play a historical game and get to 2015, my draft class is 630 random fictional dudes, BUT if I do a quickstart, I've got a draft class of 1400 real life guys? Why don't these two scenarios merge??

Secondary question: Is there a database somewhere that gives the user the "1400 real life guys" classes from prior OOTP versions, and uses them as draft classes when you start in years prior to 2015? That would make a transition from historical leagues into a modern day league (from a full roster standpoint) seamlessly beautiful. I'm just curious why, for example, OOTP14 had ~1400 real players set for it's 2013 draft in a quickstart, but in my OOTP16 historical league when I get to 2013, its a set of 235 guys who debuted that year and nothing more?

Thanks for your insight!

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by geoffmatt17

Main question: why is it when I play a historical game and get to 2015, my draft class is 630 random fictional dudes, BUT if I do a quickstart, I've got a draft class of 1400 real life guys? Why don't these two scenarios merge??

Secondary question: Is there a database somewhere that gives the user the "1400 real life guys" classes from prior OOTP versions, and uses them as draft classes when you start in years prior to 2015? That would make a transition from historical leagues into a modern day league (from a full roster standpoint) seamlessly beautiful. I'm just curious why, for example, OOTP14 had ~1400 real players set for it's 2013 draft in a quickstart, but in my OOTP16 historical league when I get to 2013, its a set of 235 guys who debuted that year and nothing more?

Thanks for your insight!

1. Historical only includes players who've played in MLB. Historical doesn't include any other players, including recent MiLB guys or draft picks. Different db's, different gameplay philosophies etc.

2. There's probably a fairly time consuming way or two to do this, and I'll let someone else explain how, but there's no easy way. Our db just isn't setup in a way that we could easily do this.

[geoffmatt17]

Originally Posted by lukasberger

1. Historical only includes players who've played in MLB. Historical doesn't include any other players, including recent MiLB guys or draft picks. Different db's, different gameplay philosophies etc.

2. There's probably a fairly time consuming way or two to do this, and I'll let someone else explain how, but there's no easy way. Our db just isn't setup in a way that we could easily do this.

Well I would disagree that it's different gameplay and philosophies if I've gotten up to 2015.. but of course I understand they are different db's.

Is there a way for me to tell OOTP to grab players from the "quickstart" 's draft pools once I get to 2015? As in, can I change the player database to get the desired effect I'm looking for?

[geoffmatt17]

Can anyone with database expertise help guide me (or tell me it isn't possible)?

[jaysdailydose]

I think I understand your problem after a re-read.

What you want is the draft class you get for the first class in the MLB Quickstart to be the first class you get when you hit 2015 in the historical?

I'm 99% that is not possible, because I believe those draft classes are made up of players who were created solely for that Quickstart.

[geoffmatt17]

Originally Posted by jaysdailydose

What you want is the draft class you get for the first class in the MLB Quickstart to be the first class you get when you hit 2015 in the historical?

Precisely. It would be wonderful if there was a way to extrapolate those real life player draft classes out of the quickstart file in order to add them to the Master.csv file, which, I believe, would extend how far out the game imports 'historical' players (even if they're technically future players ).

This isn't at all a deal-breaker, but I'm still disappointed that there's one database over here, one database over there, and they can't be combined in the same game. It seems to me a simple database redirect would do the trick?