Question about in-game generation of player pages

remington · 12-08-2004, 04:13 PM

I've been looking through ways to generate retired player web pages and to my excitement, I found in my almanac files that there were nearly 63 player pages for retired players (after season 5). I looked at the news report to find 74 players retired. I think, okay, no biggie, probably 11 players never made it to the bigs.

*BZZZZT* Wrong!

I opened all 63 files up only to find these are files of players who retired over the last 5 seasons. So now I start thinking, why would these 63 guys get pages created while the rest don't. Maybe it is based on years in the majors.
*BZZT*

Guys on the career leaderboard? Logical answer, right?
*BZZT* Found a guy who never played in the majors.

So, what determines if a retired guy gets his page created? Anyone?
Also, since OOTP already creates these pages, is there any way to get ALL of them created? I know there is no in-game button that does it and I haven't seen a utility that would do it either. The fact that some are being created and some aren't has me totally baffled and I hate to spend a lot of time trying to write a utility that will let me generate the retired player pages if someone else already has a good start (or completed method) of doing it.

Thanks,
Chris
ps. Steve/Markus, if you could at least give me an answer about why the game creates some of the players, it would be super-neato (and helpful).

Eckstein 4 Prez · 12-08-2004, 05:39 PM

It's issues like this that make me glad I use Catobase.

remington · 12-09-2004, 12:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eckstein 4 Prez

It's issues like this that make me glad I use Catobase.

Not having used Catobase as an administrator (but have used it as an end-user), is there a way in Catobase to get this list?
Our league does use it.

12-08-2004, 04:13 PM	#1
remington Minors (Double A) Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 186	Question about in-game generation of player pages I've been looking through ways to generate retired player web pages and to my excitement, I found in my almanac files that there were nearly 63 player pages for retired players (after season 5). I looked at the news report to find 74 players retired. I think, okay, no biggie, probably 11 players never made it to the bigs. BZZZZT Wrong! I opened all 63 files up only to find these are files of players who retired over the last 5 seasons. So now I start thinking, why would these 63 guys get pages created while the rest don't. Maybe it is based on years in the majors. BZZT Guys on the career leaderboard? Logical answer, right? BZZT Found a guy who never played in the majors. So, what determines if a retired guy gets his page created? Anyone? Also, since OOTP already creates these pages, is there any way to get ALL of them created? I know there is no in-game button that does it and I haven't seen a utility that would do it either. The fact that some are being created and some aren't has me totally baffled and I hate to spend a lot of time trying to write a utility that will let me generate the retired player pages if someone else already has a good start (or completed method) of doing it. Thanks, Chris ps. Steve/Markus, if you could at least give me an answer about why the game creates some of the players, it would be super-neato (and helpful). __________________ -Chris TWIB - Commish - Cleveland (1884 - present) MCBL - Commish - 50, 55, 59, 65, & 68 World Champion New York Yankees NTBL - Commish - Chicago Cubs (1918 - present)

12-08-2004, 05:39 PM	#2
Eckstein 4 Prez Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: The OC Posts: 6,358	It's issues like this that make me glad I use Catobase. __________________ Looking for an insomnia cure? Check out my dynasty thread, The Dawn of American Professional Base Ball, 1871.