Catobase: Player stats for final year missing

[ctorg]

In my current league, I had a player suffer a career ending injury one week after hitting his 500th homer, his 21st of the season. When the season was over, I ran Catobase, and was surprised to see that, on the Catobase pages, he only had 479 homers. The stats for his final year were entirely absent. Has anyone else had a similar problem? If so, is there a workaround?

[gordyhulten]

I just checked my last season, 2013.

Only one career-ending injury, to Ken Sparrow

Here's his CatoBase entry, which I ran after the 2013 season: Ken Sparrow

His CatoBase is missing the stats for 2013 entirely, but his player history correctly lists his contract and injury from 2013. His stats and salary are also missing from his team's page for 2013, but he's listed in the team CatoBase transaction log as having signed on 2/3.

[gmo]

I have seen this also. It appears to be a problem with all players who suffer the dreaded CEI. I had thought maybe the reason why this happened had something to do with how these players seem to just teleport from CPU teams to the FA pile with no note of a transaction. However, from ctorg it seems human-controlled teams' players also have this happen. Or was it?

[ctorg]

Originally posted by gmo
I have seen this also. It appears to be a problem with all players who suffer the dreaded CEI. I had thought maybe the reason why this happened had something to do with how these players seem to just teleport from CPU teams to the FA pile with no note of a transaction. However, from ctorg it seems human-controlled teams' players also have this happen. Or was it?

No, actually. Sorry, didn't mean to give that impression. All teams in my league are currently AI-controlled. I figure it has something to do with that as well.

Perhaps a workaround for that is, at the end of each year, to place each of these players back on their teams. I guess you could turn off financials, do it, and turn them back on. Hopefully that would work. Otherwise, I could perhaps editing the transaction file and putting in a release for the players would do it. I'll have to give these a test try or something.

Hopefully the great Mr. Cato will see this and be able to fix it somehow. I don't think this happened in earlier versions of the catobase.

[Cowboys3356]

In the meantime a way around this problem is that if you see a player go down with a CEI and he is a Hall Of Famer type then I would suggest editing him to remove the injury and list him as healthy. Then edit all of his ratings & potentials to zero so he will still retire and not be resigned by a team. This would mean keeping an eye on Free Agency but that isn't a big deal since I am sure most people always check that anyway or at least be sure to check it before the end of the season.

[Markmeister]

Atually the best way to handle this is to:

1) Back up your league files
2) Edit the player so that he is uninjured.
3) Resign him back to his team
4) Run CatoBase
5) Restore your league files

This way, he will go ahead and retire after the season and you don't mess up anything the game (i.e. financials)

[jcato]

Or, what for the next update where this is fixed.

[gmo]

Originally posted by jcato
...next update where this is fixed.

Awesome again, Jeff. Keep up the great work.

Well, just maybe don't put out updates too frequently because they compel me to go back and reimport and redo the databases.

[ctorg]

Originally posted by Markmeister
Atually the best way to handle this is to:

1) Back up your league files
2) Edit the player so that he is uninjured.
3) Resign him back to his team
4) Run CatoBase
5) Restore your league files

This way, he will go ahead and retire after the season and you don't mess up anything the game (i.e. financials)

If you turn financials off and sign him back to his original team after the season ends, it will sign him to a minor league deal and he will retire at the end of the year, which will also take care of things (I checked it out and it worked). The only thing is that, on his batting/pitching line for his last year, the team will appear twice. If that bothers you you should do it the way Markmeister said, which takes a little more time but is cleaner in its result.

I'm really glad to hear that this will be fixed, anyway. Thanks, Jeff. The catobase has come a long, long way from its beginnings, when it was a lot of work just to do one season. It's at the point now where Markus really needs to consider it as something to integrate into the game in the future.