Players coming out of retirement???
 

Here's a weird one:

I'm running a historical league starting in 1901. After the 1902 season Hugh Duffy retires and enters the Hall of Fame.

Fast forward to 1912...

I notice in the league leaders that some guy named Duffy is third in the league in batting average, hitting .338. So I investigate and find that it is the same Hugh Duffy who retired a full 10 years earlier.

What's really weird is that his career stats didn't show anything after 1902 - even though he was supposedly hitting .338 for 1912.

So I released him to free agency and he disappears. He doesn't show up in the free agent list, but the real Hugh Duffy is still in the Hall of Fame with the correct stats.

Very strange.

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The Michael Jordan or George Foreman of old time baseball.

I had a player "un-retire" also. He had retired at the beginning of the year, but apparently changed his mind, and so some team signed him midway through the year. Wasn't a ten year difference though :)

One thought -- and I don't know accurate this is -- but if Markus is using firstname, lastname as the primary key for the player database, it is theortically possible that the same name was created again and as such the records were confused with the original player. When you released him he didn't reappear because the original player (marked retired) was appearing first.

But this would be only a guess. :)

[quote]Originally posted by GamingVoice.com:
<strong>One thought -- and I don't know accurate this is -- but if Markus is using firstname, lastname as the primary key for the player database, it is theortically possible that the same name was created again and as such the records were confused with the original player. When you released him he didn't reappear because the original player (marked retired) was appearing first.

But this would be only a guess. :) </strong><hr></blockquote>

Well, in previous versions, players did have an internal ID number. I *hope* it's not keying on firstname, lastname, because in my 8-team org as it is I have two cases of duplicated names!

Then it's probably not doing what I guessed :)

players do have their own ID numbers...if you look at past box scores in your game files you'll see numbers preceeding a players name. i would believe thats the players id number...so there shouldnt be a confusion with the same names. and i hope not because i'm planning to make myself and i dont wanna be confused with the venezuelan kid carlos e. hernandez from the astros.

Yeah, it was definitely the same guy. He was still 30 years old for one thing, and all his other vitals were the same. I actually think it's a very cool feature, because that sort of thing happens very often in reality.

i think someone needs to check up on that guys birth certificate...i mean i've heard of guys being two years older and one guy even being one year younger, BUT this guy retired at 30 and ten years later came back at the age of...30??! hmm...is he dominican???

I drafted a starting pitcher in 2004, released him, and drafted him again in 2007.