Before I mention anything else- let me clarify that this is Cubby's set 90%. I have made several additions, modifications and tweaks- but the work is still mostly his.
Additionally, I have cobbled together uniforms, team and league logos from several sources- some heavily modified- some not- but you can assume most of the work was done by someone else who loves the game. There are just too many to mention by name (although I will try)- and frankly I have lost track as I have been working on bits and pieces of this since March (the feeder leagues- specifically talent distribution modifiers- for example). If anyone has problems with this- I'll just have to pull the whole project. No player pictures- download one of a number of excellent files- it just makes an already large download that much larger.
This is still very much a work in progress -and I want to thank Redsoxford for his excellent editor- through which I have been able to accomplish much of what you see here. He has helped me personally through a few snags. There are still things I will be working on- but I want to get this out there- I know a lot of people would like to play with feeder leagues- and I think this is a very good start (time will tell).
I have tweaked almost everything to work together- from talent change randomness- to player development and aging modifiers. Some will approve- others will want to play with these to suit themselves- but nothing that was changed was random- so don't play with these settings unless you mean to.
What's in this set?:
I am going to try and list what's in here- all from memory- I am sure to forget some stuff- but I will add in as I recall it:
* 112 Team Division I Feeder League (based on Foz's template) with completely correct logos (thanks to Truthserum) and colors. Partially correct uniforms- at least for about 80 of the 112 teams 9 (I believe magic8ball did these...excellent quality). All players (well, almost all) are fictional.
* 48 Team High School Feeder League. Completely generic at the moment- but I have some future plans to spice this up a bit. All players are fictional.
* Both above mentioned feeder leagues have PCM's adjusted (after endless tinkering) to work very well player development wise- at least to my eye. High school players typically develop in 3-6 years- college ball players in 2-4. There are, of course, exceptions. In some sims I have seen a top prospect move up to the majors during September call-ups (only from college, though). I really spent a lot of time trying to get this part right- so play with PCM modifiers at your own risk. There is a 25 round draft- all Feeder league players. The draft's initial year will run a little short of players (20 rounds I believe) as well as talent- but is fine from there.
* All top prospects have been tweaked (in the neighberhood of 100-500 guys, all according to the 2007 version of Baseball Prospectus) - some prospects have been added. Young prospects were developing way too fast (as has been noted). I needed to dovetail the game's prospects into the upcoming draft's talent so that things would operate smoothly.
* Modified league totals and modifiers for all MLB and all MiLB teams to accurately represent real league totals.
* Several Coach issues from ghost coaches- to coaches with expired contracts (2005 and 2006) at all levels except the majors were present and corrected. This includes the Cub's farm teams.
* Team park factors- which were set generically for many teams- at least in my set- were corrected.
* A few missing players such as Byrnes and a couple others were added- though I think i may still be missing on or two. Cubby did a good job of adding most of these guys back.
* MLB history was imported back into the game....Sort of. All the individual player statistics are now there- so if you wanted pull up the '23 Yankees- you could see all the players pitching, batting and fielding stats for that year. What hasn't beed added yet is the All-time league leaders -such as Aaron with 755 homers- etc. Also missing HOF playes. I know how to get this working- but to do so is currently fudging other things up. I am working with Redsoxford on this a bit- so we will see how things turn out.
* Added murmur13's wonderful Japanese leagues with full history. Some slight edits here- especially to pitching talent. In fact I globally edited all pitchers a bit- but I was seeing too many Japanese free agent pitchers dominating in the MLB. It's much better now- but may require further tweaks.
*Added Dominican, Venezuelan, Mexican and Puerto Rican Winter leagues- as well as the Cuban Series. Again, I have adjusted PCM's to allow for free agents to move around after service time settings- but not so much that these players dominate the Majors.
That's all I can think of for now.... Compressed its coming in at ~82 MB. Just use WinRAR to unpack and place the league file in your saved game folder:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/198981/