suicideking81 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 I am not sure if this was discussed before because I am fairly new to the site but has anyone every thought about making a mod with the Negro Leagues. Now I know that some people really don't care about those leagues but they had some of the best players and teams in the Leagues prime years. Don't get me wrong I really enjoy the Total Classics mods that are out but I have only found that there is only one Negro Team in all of the mods. I am not asking for a whole mod dedicated to the Negro Leagues but there were good teams in the league and that adding more than one team would be a good thing for the next mod. Also I anyone considers doing a mod and would like some help with researching stats for more Negro League teams let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 it's been discussed several times. no one's taken it on though. i will include about 200 negro league players in my mod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankee4Life Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Yes, this has been talked about since the days that Fuzzone was a daily visitor to this site. He always wanted to do one but one of his biggest obstacles was getting the correct stats for the players during those years. Many of these stats do not exist. I believe this was the thing that prevented him from doing this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suicideking81 Posted July 29, 2009 Author Share Posted July 29, 2009 Yeah I kinda figured that the stats might be hard to get a hold of but we could try to get the best possible stats available a go with that. I know it would take alot of work but I am willing to help as much as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patsen Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Jeff Pontolillo created a set of 20 teams of 500+ negro league players for a tabletop game, EIBB. The file can be found here: http://www.geocities.com/hdnewhouse/eibb1.htm It's a start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emath2432 Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Yeah, good stats do not exist. There are some good references out there though. "The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues" is one of my favorites. I have created about 35 players for a mod I have (both on High Heat, and MVP). The best I could do was research the players I wanted. Find white MLB players they were compared to most by their peers, and in the print media of the time. Then, use the stats that are available to find a comparable season by the white MLB player, and create them using those numbers. It's not all together realistic, but the fact I am truly ignorant of what real numbers they put up, I have no issues believing them to be pretty close to the real thing. Doing this for an entire league, or at least numerous teams would be an undertaking. Plus, mine were 35 of the greatest of all time. They are much easier to find data, and comparisons for then the role players would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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