Inside The Park Functionality?

chimanbj · 03-05-2007, 11:08 AM

Is there functionality in the game to convert a retired player to a coach? I'm thinking along the lines of following a player's career from draft to retirement, and then into the world of coaching. If the person is lucky, there could be a 40-50 year career in the making in baseball....

But of course, this works only if you can control if a retired player can become a coach...

Tony M · 03-05-2007, 11:20 AM

In the players.csv file that you do in a database export there is a field called 'turned_coach'

This is in 2006. They seem to all be 0 though...

Solonor · 03-05-2007, 11:57 AM

I have done extensive testing on this since the issue was reported that players were not turning coach in great enough numbers. As of the last build, if you run a 30-year sim with the default MAL setup, 50% of the coaches are former players.

There is no way to force a player into becoming a coach, yet, and though you can push a button on the coach's profile to see his former player profile, you can't go the other way (this has been TT'd).

I do know that in the coaches.csv there is a former_player_id column. Don't know why the player one doesn't have the coach id in it.

CHCfan · 03-05-2007, 02:25 PM

I remember a v.2006 league I started in 1980. Twenty years later I was looking at the personnel pool and noticed Bruce Bochy as a manager. It took me a few minutes to realize how strange this was, that this light hitting player actually became a manager just as in real life!

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chimanbj All Star Reserve Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 705	Inside The Park Functionality? Is there functionality in the game to convert a retired player to a coach? I'm thinking along the lines of following a player's career from draft to retirement, and then into the world of coaching. If the person is lucky, there could be a 40-50 year career in the making in baseball.... But of course, this works only if you can control if a retired player can become a coach... __________________ People ask if I'm a Cubs or White Sox fan...I tell them, proudly, I'm a Phillies Phan!

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Solonor Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Orlando Posts: 3,002	I have done extensive testing on this since the issue was reported that players were not turning coach in great enough numbers. As of the last build, if you run a 30-year sim with the default MAL setup, 50% of the coaches are former players. There is no way to force a player into becoming a coach, yet, and though you can push a button on the coach's profile to see his former player profile, you can't go the other way (this has been TT'd). I do know that in the coaches.csv there is a former_player_id column. Don't know why the player one doesn't have the coach id in it. __________________ SGCBL Commissioner "Beings will come, Frodo. The one constant through all the years has been baseball. Middle Earth has rolled by like an army of Mumakil. It has been erased like a slate, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Frodo. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... beings will come Frodo. Beings will most definitely come." - Gladden Field of Dreams

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CHCfan All Star Reserve Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Lincoln, NE Posts: 854	I remember a v.2006 league I started in 1980. Twenty years later I was looking at the personnel pool and noticed Bruce Bochy as a manager. It took me a few minutes to realize how strange this was, that this light hitting player actually became a manager just as in real life! __________________

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03-05-2007, 11:20 AM	#2 (permalink)
Tony M Global Moderator Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,528	In the players.csv file that you do in a database export there is a field called 'turned_coach' This is in 2006. They seem to all be 0 though...