100 Player All-time rosters

[pgd44]

Hello all. I am trying to create a complete roster of each franchises 100 best players. I would like to use Lahman's database and pull players off of different seasons. Is there anything I should know that will cause rosters to crash? For example, duplicate players, face assignments, etc .... ????

I would like a franchise to be able to have teams pull players from their minor league system and use them with the all time greats for each franchise.

Any ideas or suggestions that could assist me in this endeavor?

Thanks in advance,

PGD44

[Ace152]

great resource for making all time teams

http://www.thebaseballpage.com/past/att/default.php

[Homer]

if you've never modded before this is a great resource:

http://mvpmods.com/index.php?name=Forums&f...ewtopic&t=12410

secondly, don't mess with the all-star teams until you know what you're doing.

thirdly, MVPedit limits you to 3250 players or else >>>>crash. you can check to see how many you have on your rosters by using the "find player" tool. do an empty search and it'll show you all of the players on your roster. make sure all line ups and rotations are filled out. you can use the chek for errors option to find them. the major league rosters have to have 25 players. the minors must have 22 i believe.

fourthly, if you're using the lahman database to get stats, sometimes you'll get an error when importing the data. this is usually fine just by reopening MVPedit and doing it again. however, if it happens while you're importing stats for a pitcher, re-check his pitch tab. sometimes the pitches and the stamina get messed up when that happens.

if you're adding cyberfaces, the 04 face means it's the faces are from the o4 style of MVP. those are the ones with only half faces. you can create them, but you can't oedit the 04 style models.

otherwise good luck. i did a similar project for myself. i'm still working on all the cyberfaces. i did this because i like the total classics idea, but it doesn't really allow for franchise play, and it doesn't include some of today's players. that's the other problem i had with that resource page is that it lists each franchise's all time greats. really good if you're not familiar with the team. but it's essentially ranked by stats. but i think of it this way, for instance st. louis. the great debate is does mark mcgwire belong in oakland or in st. louis? most will say he's a cardinal, but i say he's an athletic. for one, the majority of his career was there. but secondly, st. louis has pujols. and i know he hasn't been playing long enough to make an all timers list, but if i had to choose between mcgwire or pujols, i'd choose pujols. i dunno if you plan on having repeats in the game, but i prefer not. but if you do, that won't be an issue. if this is for pesonal use, you can get a lot of the players from the total classics mod and jphidalgo's all-time rosters mod. the other issue i didn't like was that listing all time greats by stats doesn't paint a realistic picture. for instance, going by that criteria, the seattle mariners would have bobby ayala on the roster. what a joke. anybody who knows seattle baseball knows what i'm talking about. i'd rather include some of today's picthers (ie soriano, putz, hernandez, woods, lowe,...) than ayala.

now i'm just ranting. sorry.

[kgbaseball]

secondly, don't mess with the all-star teams until you know what you're doing.

thirdly, MVPedit limits you to 3250 players or else >>>>crash. you can check to see how many you have on your rosters by using the "find player" tool. do an empty search and it'll show you all of the players on your roster. make sure all line ups and rotations are filled out. you can use the chek for errors option to find them. the major league rosters have to have 25 players. the minors must have 22 i believe.

The part about 3,250 players is right, but the blank search option isn't the best way to check. My roster currently has almost 3300 players, but doesn't crash because 100 players are duplicated in the All Star teams. The best way that I know of to check is by exporting a roster, and then opening up the attrib.dat file, copying its contents and pasting it into Excel, and see how many lines there are. That'll give you a true sense of how many players you've got.

Yes, the ML roster need 25 players, but the minor leagues only need 20.

[SESbb30]

this sounds like a good idea.

[Homer]

hmmm. interesting. i like that method. thanks for the info.

[TxDodger73]

I guess your plan is to rank each Organizations players 1-100 and assign them like this?

ML: 1-25

AAA: 26-50

AA: 27-75

A: 76-100

To me something like that would be the ideal setup for "Classics" Rosters.

Also you could just assign them by decade ML:(1950-59), AAA(1960-69), AA(1970-79),AA (1980-89). Basically pick the best players of each decade and put them on a respective Organizational team ML-A.

IMO the 90's are too recent for Classics rosters but which decades used is not that important.

The newer Organizations would be tougher but it could be worked around.

Good Luck

Tx

[Hory]

The best way that I know of to check is by exporting a roster, and then opening up the attrib.dat file, copying its contents and pasting it into Excel, and see how many lines there are.

Or if you use textpad it already tells you how many lines there are without having to paste it into excel

Textpad > Everything else

As for these rosters, I would get Total Classics and steal most of the players you need from there, just remember to change the cyberface id to a generic one unless you install the face for that player into your models.big file