Hey guys i relly am enjoying my historical replay with your database, but i do have a few questions and observations to pass along. Where to start ? btw this is not intended as a knock against your work just an experience i am having and not complaing, just pointing a few things out; so here goes. I am getting alot of positives as far as player results, and i know the game doesn't recognize names, but it's refreshing to see your Ruth's, Cobb's, and Mantle's have nice careers, as well as the Walter Johnson's, Warren Spahn's, and Doc White's of the world have less than stellar one's. I love the not so certain predictability the database allows for. Observation 1- Eric Davis comes into the league in 1948, has a decent showing over an 8 year span then retires. I honestly forgot about that guy as a Red in the mid '80's, but there he is photo and all in 1948
I do wonder if he'll reappear in 1984 to resume his career. Now under normal cicumstances when i catch this happening i just release the player and delete him from the league, some get by me and i end up with doubles, duplicate players whatever you wanna call them, and they're just stuck that way in the history books no big deal.
Observation 2 - Warren Spahn, Ted Williams, and Sandy Koufax did not import at all i had to import them individually when i caught it. I only know the big name guys so when it's apparent they're not there i'm all over it to bring them in. Again easy fixes when you have the Baseball Encyclopedia at your disposal as i do.
Observation 3 - This was kind of cool kind of strange, and very out of the ordinary but i like it. Now i am a huge Willie Mays fan. He came into the league normally in February but with very poor potential according to the editor so normally he's going to struggle in his career and come nowhere close to where he should, and that's ok it's my universe afterall lol. Anyway Mays joins in 1951, and is in the big leagues in 1952. In 8 years he has 1100 hits and 246 homeruns. In 1959 at the age of 27, on a 20-80 scale contact, gap, power of 46,59,61 not bad numbers, but not really Mays like to this fan is traded to the KC Athletics for a 41 year old outfielder and $73,500. I'm thinking one of two things here. The now San Francisco Giants who just moved into Seals stadium, a much smaller venue than in NY (props to Bruce and his BB chronlogy) can no longer afford their best player and off he goes OR his ratings just aren't good enough to warrant mortgaging the farm to keep him. At any rate a stud and some cash are dealt to free up some space for the future in Sanfran. Very cool though as history takes an unforseen turn, but i guess i say all that to say should the "Say Hey" kid deserved better numbers(potnetial) you think ? I realize the database is huge, but in this case do you think maybe this one got by?
One question does keep coming to mind and i need to know if you believe that this may be the case. Along with using this great database i am using Anderson's photo's importing on a random basis for my fictional players that i generate once the minors leagues get depleted. Do you suppose that in the case of Eric Davis coming in so early that since his photo was randomly generated that the game itself matched the face with the player ? I don't know if that's possible, i mean the game continues to wow me everyday with it's core abilities that the question has come to mind. As far as i can tell he is the only player that i have noticed to make an early appearance.
In summary of this long winded post the positives far out weigh the rare anomalies throughout my replay, and thanks again for your continued work. btw i am running your current version database.