Minor leagues logo pack for OOTP2006

[Malleus Dei]

Several people have announced their intention to create OOTP2006 baseball universes that include the minor leagues as they currently exist.

Doing this properly, of course, will require a full minor league logo set, and it would therefore almost certainly help the game and the community to collect all of the minor league logos into a zipped-up logo pack. It would probably be a good idea to have it put together and ready to go before OOTP2006 is released.

Any thoughts on how best to do this? Is anyone well set up to do this?

[Hammer755]

Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

Several people have announced their intention to create OOTP2006 baseball universes that include the minor leagues as they currently exist.

Doing this properly, of course, will require a full minor league logo set, and it would therefore almost certainly help the game and the community to collect all of the minor league logos into a zipped-up logo pack. It would probably be a good idea to have it put together and ready to go before OOTP2006 is released.

Any thoughts on how best to do this? Is anyone well set up to do this?

http://jazzrack.us/corporate/?page_id=99

Here, here, and here.

[Malleus Dei]

Thank you, but those are from select minor league teams, and only contain some of the logos. What I was talking about was putting together an organized, comprehensive pack which would include all of the major league affiliates.

[Hammer755]

Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

Thank you, but those are from select minor league teams, and only contain some of the logos. What I was talking about was putting together an organized, comprehensive pack which would include all of the major league affiliates.

It appears as though jdew's set covers about 95% of all minor league teams, so it would probably be a pretty good place to start. The link to TCF's set only includes the team names beginning with A. I have the entire set on my home machine - I would assume most of the teams are covered there as well.

[marky32082]

Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

Thank you, but those are from select minor league teams, and only contain some of the logos. What I was talking about was putting together an organized, comprehensive pack which would include all of the major league affiliates.

I'm sure if somebody put a list together of all logos it could be divvied up. I for one would help out. It wouldn't be too difficult I'd think since there shouldn't need to be any editing to the logos, just sizing.

As an aside, do we even know yet what format 2006 will use for logos and such?

[Eugene Church]

Originally Posted by marky32082

I'm sure if somebody put a list together of all logos it could be divvied up. I for one would help out. It wouldn't be too difficult I'd think since there shouldn't need to be any editing to the logos, just sizing.

As an aside, do we even know yet what format 2006 will use for logos and such?

Quote:
Originally Posted by Malleus Dei
The TIF file format would be best (it's what the pros use) but JPG is a great choice for web-based or in-game images.

Markus' reply to MD:

Actually PNG is the way to go, since it's compression algorythm doesn't toss away quality and the format also supports alpha channels. So it's the best of both worlds (quality + file size)

[jdew]

This Excel file might help a bit.

It lists minor league teams, leagues and ML affiliations from the 1890's or so to 2005 (I didn't compile the list. Someone named J Webb did and I've since forgotten where I got it.)

The file is too large to attach to this post so I've made it available here

http://s25.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2...510FGXOLW4YAJP

That's good for 7 days or 24 downloads, whichever comes first.

[Malleus Dei]

I have a current (2006) list of minor league teams with league, level, and affiliation data if anyone wants it.

According to Markus, the preferred format for the OOTP2006 logos is 150x150 .png files. You can convert existing .bmp or .jpg or .gif files to .png files using the free program Irfanview.

Here are my thoughts on how could generate a full minor league logo set.

1. I could do it all myself. (This would be great if I had more graphic skills than a water buffalo, but I don't...but I could do it if I had to.)

2. I could try to persuade jdew or someone else to do a full, organized high-quality minor league logo set (say, a .zip file with subdirectories for each minor league, with the appropriate 150x150 .png logos in each one.)

3. I could start a separate thread for each league here in this forum, listing the teams in it, and we could all post .png logos there, and we could put the best ones together in a .zip file and have it ready for everyone before OOTP2006 comes out.

What do you guys think?

[Malleus Dei]

You can get Irfanview at www.irfanview.com

[Malleus Dei]

Since there seems to zero interest in having a full set of real 2006 minor league logos in one pack, it looks like it's option one for me.

[cephasjames]

Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

You can get Irfanview at www.irfanview.com

I have infranview, but will it format all of the logos into 150x150 and have them actually look good?

Most of the sites that I've found with logos have partial lists or most recent logos only. And the sizes vary drastically (from as small as 80x80). If I were pointed to a good site with quality logos that are at least 150x150 I'd be willing work on it some, though my only tools would be Paint and infranview.

[cephasjames]

Originally Posted by jdew

This Excel file might help a bit.

It lists minor league teams, leagues and ML affiliations from the 1890's or so to 2005 (I didn't compile the list. Someone named J Webb did and I've since forgotten where I got it.)

The file is too large to attach to this post so I've made it available here

http://s25.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2...510FGXOLW4YAJP

That's good for 7 days or 24 downloads, whichever comes first.

That's a pretty good file.

[Malleus Dei]

Originally Posted by cephasjames

I have infranview, but will it format all of the logos into 150x150 and have them actually look good?

If they are already 150 x 150, then yes.

Originally Posted by cephasjames

Most of the sites that I've found with logos have partial lists or most recent logos only. And the sizes vary drastically (from as small as 80x80). If I were pointed to a good site with quality logos that are at least 150x150 I'd be willing work on it some, though my only tools would be Paint and infranview.

The minor league league and team websites have a lot of good, high-quality logos. There are links to all of them on this page: http://www.geocities.com/big_bunko/bblinks.html

Two others places I know of to get decent minor league logos by league are

http://www.logoserver.com/Baseball.html

and

http://www.sportslogos.net/Site/sport.php?s=2

[cephasjames]

Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

The minor league league and team websites have a lot of good, high-quality logos. There are links to all of them on this page: http://www.geocities.com/big_bunko/bblinks.html

There are great logos here but the problem I'm running into is most of them are attached to a banner or are too small.

Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

Two others places I know of to get decent minor league logos by league are

http://www.logoserver.com/Baseball.html

and

http://www.sportslogos.net/Site/sport.php?s=2

I have these bookmarked. Logo Server tends to have logos that are too small. Chris Creamer's SportsLogos only has a few logos (in comparison to what we'd like to have), though they're big enough to make them look good at 150x150.

I'm not trying to be negative. I appreciate you answering my question with links to logos, but I'm still having a hard time finding logos that I, with my limited tools, can do anything with.

[WrightWing]

Does this site help? Looks like a ton of logos here...

http://web.brandsoftheworld.com/authors/58952/

[cephasjames]

Originally Posted by WrightWing

Does this site help? Looks like a ton of logos here...

http://web.brandsoftheworld.com/authors/58952/

Like you wouldn't believe. Thank you very much.

[Le Grande Orange]

Another place to get tons of sports team logos, including minor league baseball:

http://www.logoshak.com/

Just keep scrolling down and you'll eventually come to the various minor leagues the site has logos for.

Originally Posted by jdew

This Excel file might help a bit.

It lists minor league teams, leagues and ML affiliations from the 1890's or so to 2005 (I didn't compile the list. Someone named J Webb did and I've since forgotten where I got it.)

Yes, I remember that file. I'm glad someone's able to host it for awhile.

Jason Webb (gohorns98 was his board nickname) put together that reference file after seeing the trio of history files I did for the AA, IL, and PCL. The file is indeed a terrific resource, but it's still missing leagues and clubs.

I've mentioned this elsewhere, but I've taken that file and added more info to it. At present I'm sort of working with some other guys from SABR which will eventually result in a file which will be a massive reference file including spring training sites, team attendances, league schedule opening and closing dates, and lots more. No timeframe on when this will be completed; needless to say, it's a major endeavour.

[Malleus Dei]

Guys, I will collect all the logos that are being posted in the minor league threads and put them together in a zip file that will be available for download.

[cephasjames]

Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

Guys, I will collect all the logos that are being posted in the minor league threads and put them together in a zip file that will be available for download.

Thanks, MD.