Considering Purchase: Importing "Career Average" Players?

[texasmame]

Hey, all!

Long time Baseball For Windows user here. I'm about to take the plunge with OOTP! The only thing missing, for me, was some audio play-by-play. Ernie Harwell did the PBP for BBW and it added a lot to the game, for me anyhow.

One question, tho. I know you can't do it on the demo version, but if you import players for drafting, etc. can you import a "career average" of that player?

For example, Player X played 10 seasons in the majors and had a .300 20 100 line for his career. Can you get ONE "Player X" with his career stats, averaged out to one 162 game season?

The had this option in BBW and loved it, using it for all my leagues.

LMK if they have that or something similar for OOTP!

Thanx,
John in TX

[The Wolf]

OOTP uses ratings, not stats, but the ratings are based on stats. When you import players from one of the historical databases you can choose to import the players based on one of the following four choices :

1. Career totals

2. Remaining years of career

3. Peak seasons of career

4. Remaining peak seasons

And to answer your underlying question: just buy the game. OOTP 2007 is the best baseball sim ever - and this is coming from a guy who hated OOTP 2006.

[texasmame]

Originally Posted by The Wolf

OOTP uses ratings, not stats, but the ratings are based on stats. When you import players from one of the historical databases you can choose to import the players based on one of the following four choices :

1. Career totals

2. Remaining years of career

3. Peak seasons of career

4. Remaining peak seasons

And to answer your underlying question: just buy the game. OOTP 2007 is the best baseball sim ever - and this is coming from a guy who hated OOTP 2006.

Hmm. . . from the looks of it, the answer to my question is not only "yes" but "yes, AND you can do these other cool things, too!"

(cartman)
Sweeeeeet!
(/cartman)

Thank you, sir!

[The Wolf]

You can do a lot of really cool things with this game.

Do yourself a favor and buy yourself a copy, Tex.

[fantom1979]

From someone who was very disappointed in 2006 (I only played for about a week and spent the rest of the time doing testing for the dream team), 2007 is the best OOTP i have played. I am already 6 seasons into my fictional league, which is about 5 1/2 years farther then i ever got into 2006.

[texasmame]

Thanx, guys! JUST finished DL the demo - too bad I have to go to work now, tho!

BTW, Fantom, I've never seen that sig banner - that one that changes (Tigers, Halo, etc.) Where can I get one?

Can't wait to try OOTP,
John in TX

[Jose Cardenal's Afro]

http://www.ubanimator.com

[eriqjaffe]

Somebody (gambo? ankit?) made a career-averaged DB, but I'm not sure how up-to-date it is, or whether it is compatible with 2007...

[texasmame]

Originally Posted by Jose Cardenal's Afro

http://www.ubanimator.com

Cool. Thank you, sir. Nice hair!

[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by texasmame

Cool. Thank you, sir. Nice hair!

Bah, Bake Mcbride had a much cooler 'fro.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/play..._autograph.jpg
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/NYJeterFan1/81mcbride.jpg

And so did Oscar Gamble!

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/NYJeterFan1/76tgamble.jpg
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/NYJeterFan1/75gamble.jpg

Heck, even Ross Grimsley had better hair.

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/NYJete...81grimsley.jpg