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Originally Posted by murmur13
Chris,
That could be hairy...but the more hairy thing is that the game seems to be hard-coded to expect two leagues. So during the one league period (from 1937-1949), you can import and it will put all the teams in one league. But then the game wont start because of there being an uneven number of teams in each "league" (8 in one league, none in the other). In fact, I would recommend starting any historical sim (at the earliest) in 1958. Many of the seasons from 1950-1957 have uneven teams in the Central and Pacific, and the historical import engine seems to hate uneven teams.
Mgom,
The players are all real players. I have a few sources of ni-gun (Japanese AAA) stats, but I haven't included them for a variety of reasons. It might be something to add for the future...but I just want to get this out first.
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I've been working on a Japanese historical db as well, though it's nowhere near as close to completion as murmur's is. What I did for the 1936-38 half seasons was put the Summer season as 'stint' 1 in the Lahman-style db and the Fall season as 'stint' 2. That way, on import, the sim looks at it as one complete season, but you don't need to worry about combining the stats yourself.
My experience (I've got 1936-57 or so done, db-wise) has been that you have to basically manually set up the Japanese leagues because OOTP is set up for MLB and NPB and MLB have never really meshed because of odd-numbers of teams, the single-league setup of the 30s & 40s and so on. You can get around the odd number of teams problem (which is a schedule problem, the sim CAN handle an odd number of teams, it just can't schedule a league with an odd number of teams). So you'll have to do some workarounds, but it is possible to simulate the actual NPB setups of the 30s-50s.