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ADVANCED TOOLS
The Advanced Tools dialog is found
on the Baseball Mogul Tools Menu.
Export Team File
Exports a ".team" file for the currently selected team. The filename will match the 3-letter abbreviation for the current team (e.g. "nyy.team"). This file contains the rosters, lineups, pitching rotation, bullpen configuration and other information (such as team strategies and financial settings).
In conjunction with the "Import Team Files" feature, this can be used to help a league commissioner run a multiplayer online league, by removing the need to enter team lineups and other changes by hand.
Import Team Files
Imports all ".team" files in the Baseball Mogul folder that match the 3-letter abbreviations in the curently loaded universe (e.g. atl.team, bal.team, bos.team). When importing files, Baseball Mogul will implement all of the following changes registered in each ".team" file:
1) Lineups, defensive alignments, starting rotation and bullpen.
2)
Financial settings (e.g. ticket prices and scouting staff expenditure).
3)
Minor league assignments for each player.
In conjunction with the "Export Team File" feature, this can be used to help a league commissioner run a multiplayer online league, by removing the need to enter team lineups and other changes by hand.
Clear Transactions
Erases all Transaction Data from the current game, including historical transactions (that is, those awards and any other transactions accrued by players BEFORE the start of the game).
Clear Injuries
This button immediately heals all injuries to all players in the database. This can be useful for league play, or for building a database from an existing database that contains injured players (e.g. creating an updated database by altering the default database).
If you wish to assign injuries to many players within your database, you can use the Import Stats feature, and specify that you are importing 'Injured Days'.
Clear YBY Stats
Erases all Year-By-Year stat lines for every player (these are the rows of stats in the Scouting Report). Career totals and player ratings will be unaffected.
Clear All-Time Leaders
Erases the All-Time Leaders in the current game, allowing you to fill the All-Time Leader list with entirely new records.
Auto-Sort Teams
This feature will use the computer's artificial intelligence to sort the rosters, lineups and bullpens of all teams in the database. This can be useful for assessing player quality, or just for examining the computer AI in more detail.
Total Career Stats
Updates career totals for all players by clearing any existing totals and adding up all the Year-By-Year stats shown in the Scouting Report.
Import Career Paths
This button loads career path data for historical players from a file called CareerPaths.csv in the 'players' folder inside Baseball Mogul's 'input' folder:
[Baseball Mogul Folder]/Input/Players/CareerPaths.csv
(You can view the folder where Baseball Mogul is installed by choosing 'Open Game Folder' from the Help Menu).
This file provides the following data for historical players: 'Projected Debut', 'Projected Retirement', 'Peak Start', 'Peak End', 'Potential' and 'Longevity'. Loading this data will make the career trajectories of historical players more similar to their actual historical careers. The Player Editor can also be used to adjust these fields for individual players. This page has more information about career path parameters.
Note: This 'Import Career Paths' button is provided as an experimental feature in Baseball Mogul 2010. In future versions, we plan to automatically load this data for historical players, without the need to press a button every season.
Revert Photo Filenames
This button changes the 'Photo File' entry for each player to a format that was used prior to Baseball Mogul 2008. The new filename for each player will equal their full name, minus any spaces and other punctuation, shortened to 10 characters. For example, a player named "Clayton J. Dreslough" would be assigned the photo filename of "CLAYTONJDR.BMP".
If two players would be given the same name (such as "Clayton J. Dreslough" and "Clayton J. Dresser") this function will add a number to each filename (e.g. "CLAYTONJDR1.BMP" and "CLAYTONJDR2.BMP") and then inform you of any such changes.
Reset Team Grades
Resets (to an "Average" level) all team ratings linked to the Expenses Dialog: Loyalty, Farm System and Medical Staff.
Reset Prices
Resets all ticket and concession prices to average levels.
Calculate Salaries
This gives every player in the database a new salary figure based on what they would be awarded in contract negotiations if their contract expired immediately. This is useful if you wish to create a database of new players and let the computer assign an appropriate salary value to each player.
| Warning: Calculate Salaries will erase all current salary data and cannot be undone. |
Output Rosters / Input Rosters Baseball Mogul automatically loads the Rosters.csv file in the 'Input' folder when you start a game in the most recent season (for Historical Seasons, Baseball Mogul used the Lahman Database to assign players to teams).
The Output/Input Rosters file is a variation on this functionality. Before you can 'Input Rosters', you must first create a rosters.txt file by selecting 'Output Rosters'. This will create a file named rosters.txt in the 'Output' directory of Baseball Mogul. This file will list the names of all the players in the game file you are using.
Edit this file, by cutting and pasting player names to the team you'd like them to be on. Move this file to Baseball Mogul's 'Input' directory. Then choose 'Input Rosters' from the Advanced Tools Dialog and the players will be moved to the teams they were listed under in the file.
Note: The 'Roster File' feature is meant to
help you move players between teams. It is NOT meant to be used to
CHANGE player names. If you wish to change the player names, you must
either use the Player Editor, or download a database from the Baseball Mogul Forums.
Export / Import Cities
Export Cities creates a file called
'cities.txt' in your Baseball Mogul folder that contains all city
data in the active game file. This data is stored as follows:
City Name, City Population, Region Population, Annual Population
Growth, Income, Altitude, Longitude (x1000), Latitude (x1000), Time
Zone (0=Pacific), Fan Base Modifier, NOT USED
For example:
Albany,104960,875000,1680,26155,275,73000000,42000000,3,0,0
To edit this data in the active game
file, click 'Export Cities', then edit 'cities.txt', then click
'Import Cities'.
Export / Import Stadium Data
Export Stadium Data creates a file
called 'stadiumdata.csv' in the 'Output' folder inside your Baseball
Mogul folder.
This file contains data for each
stadium in the game (one row per team) as follows:
Year, Team, NOT USED, Hits, 2B, 3B, HR, K, DP, Errors, Righty Power
Shift, Righty Average Shift, Capacity, LF, LCF, CF, RCF, RF, Type,
Surface, Infield Quality, Infield Grass, Visibility, Foul Ground
Size, NOT USED, NOT USED, Year Opened, Construction Cost, Convenience,
Comfort, Sight Lines
- Hits, 2B, 3B, HR, K and DP represent
the percent of those events that occur in this stadium compared
to an average stadium. For example, '110' in the HR column indicates
that home runs occur 10% more often than normal in that stadium.
- Righty Power Shift and Righty
Average Shift are bonuses (or penalties) that accrue to right-handed
hitters as compared to left-handed hitters in that stadium.
- Type: 0 = Open; 1 = Dome; 2 =
Convertible
- Surface: 0 = Grass; 1 = Artificial
Turf
- Infield Quality,
Infield Grass, Visibility and Foul Ground Size are ranked from
0 (lowest) to 4 (highest).
- Convenience, Comfort
and Sight Lines are ranked from 700 (lowest) to 1300 (highest).
For example:
2008,"CLE",0,105,95,105,118,100,100,90,5,0,42865,325,370,405,375,325,0,0,3,2,2,1,0,0,0,0,1100,1200,1200
To edit this data in the active game
file, click 'Export Stadium Data', then edit the text file, then
click 'Import Stadium Data'.
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