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suzerain · 11-09-2008, 01:26 PM

Actually, this isn't about historical leagues in the strictest sense, but it deals with the Lahman databases, so I put it here:

Suggestion:

Allow real-world players (from Lahman database) to be stored as feeder database for fictional league playback.

Reason:

More fun. I want to create a fictional league but have it populated with "real" players, just selected randomly, so that my teams might have a lineup of Paul Molitor, Bill Madlock, Joe DiMaggio and Jeff Bagwell. You get the point. It would have to adjust the player's historical stats to the equivalency of the year you select as your year for the sim, but anyway it would be much more fun to have real major leaguers' careers re-created in your fictional universe.

When/if the sim runs out of real players (when that happens would depend on the number of teams in your league and how many years you play), then it could fall back on the fictional player generator, and that would be fun, too...to see if the fictional ones can beat the real major's career records by that time.

Priority:

Medium. Not a necessity, but it would make the game a lot more fun.

11-09-2008, 01:26 PM	#11 (permalink)
suzerain Minors (Single A) Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Beijing, China Posts: 58 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2x in 2 posts	Historical Players as fictional ones Actually, this isn't about historical leagues in the strictest sense, but it deals with the Lahman databases, so I put it here: Suggestion: Allow real-world players (from Lahman database) to be stored as feeder database for fictional league playback. Reason: More fun. I want to create a fictional league but have it populated with "real" players, just selected randomly, so that my teams might have a lineup of Paul Molitor, Bill Madlock, Joe DiMaggio and Jeff Bagwell. You get the point. It would have to adjust the player's historical stats to the equivalency of the year you select as your year for the sim, but anyway it would be much more fun to have real major leaguers' careers re-created in your fictional universe. When/if the sim runs out of real players (when that happens would depend on the number of teams in your league and how many years you play), then it could fall back on the fictional player generator, and that would be fun, too...to see if the fictional ones can beat the real major's career records by that time. Priority: Medium. Not a necessity, but it would make the game a lot more fun.