Era specific nations file

[Biggio509]

I am starting a new project that I am working on and testing. I am trying to get a feel for making the game give more accurate foreign players in the early years. It seems the nations file is the way to do it.

Here is the plan.
1. Gather data on MLB players birth place. So far I have done 1876-1889.
2. Calculate foreign percentage each year and for the decade.
3. Calculate players from each nation as a percentage of foreigners.
4. Use the nations file to replicate the findings.

The main thing here that will be edited is baseball level. So all nations not having a player in the MLB will have non-existent level 0. Until baseball spreads beyond North America baseball level represent only the foreign percentage of players from that country, eg. # of English players/# of foreign players. That percentage helps determine level.

The manual states 70% of foreign players come from level 5, 15% from level 4, 10% from level 3, .5% from level 2, .1% from level 1. So if you have 2 level 5 teams and it is random then each should contribute 35% of the foreign players. This makes the big jumps a little less clunky but makes it hard to replicate a situation where country A has 50% of foreign players and country B has 35% of foreign players.

An example is the 1870's file.
You find England has from 70 to 12.5 of the foreign players from 1876 to 1879 and Ireland 57 to 71% of players over this time period. Both at level 5, if it is fully random puts 35% each. Ireland is under represented each year and England is under represented early on and over represented later on. So it won't be perfect but it could give a little more historical feel.

[Biggio509]

Data

Decade foreign 6% Canada 10%, England 33%, Germany 3%, Ireland 43%, Scotland 6%, Czech 3% Note: Canada 10% means 10% of the foreign players were Canadian. Also note we are only talking about 7 or 8 players each year that is why Czech seems high they only had 1 player.

[Biggio509]

Data
Foreign % 7
Australia 2%
Austria 2% (Austria-Hungary)
Canada 47%
England 8%
Germany 9%
Ireland 27%
Scotland 7%
Sweden 0% (1 player in the decade percentage did not show in excel)

[Biggio509]

Additional notes these files have hispanic set to 0 for name generation in the US, they use US modern, UK, Germany, and Holland to set names. I haven't fixed the facegen either. Each country needs to be set to only generate Caucasian faces.

[Questdog]

Originally Posted by Biggio509

Additional notes these files have hispanic set to 0 for name generation in the US, they use US modern, UK, Germany, and Holland to set names. I haven't fixed the facegen either. Each country needs to be set to only generate Caucasian faces.

I do not believe that the nations file is imported when you do a re-import of names and ethnicities, so you have to make these adjustments by hand as you go.

[Kobeck]

nice work Biggio509