Players with the same name

[Skip]

If this has been addressed elsewhere, I apologize. When you have two active players with the same name, numbers are attached to their photo IDs to distinguish them. However, when you have two players with the same name who were not active at the same time, the computer doesn’t seem to distinguish them. Frank Thomas of the 50’s Pirates and Thomas of today are both frankthoma. I know you can edit the players temporarily, but any ideas on how to distinguish their photo IDs permanently?

[ohms_law]

There isn't a way, currently. Clay is probably going to fix this for 2k8 though. it's been on the radar of things to fix for a while.

[Skip]

Thanks. I wanted to make sure I wasn't overlooking something.

[ohms_law]

Your welcome.

Welcome to the Baseball Mogul community as well.
:)

for future reference, you can post these sorts of questions in the Baseball Mogul: General Questions (http://forum.sportsmogul.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1726) forum. You'll get more replies there. This forum is more for... well, general OT discussion, I guess.

[robinhoodnik]

So far as I know, the numbers deal works. You just have to go back and number all of the players correctly. I believe that my baseball card photo set works correctly under this setup.

[HoustonGM]

Actually, I'm not positive, but give this a whirl: Change the photo file names to match up with the player's lahman id. thomafr04 would be the Frank Thomas of today. thomafr03 would be the older one. (To find out the id number for othe players, go to www.baseball-reference.com and search for the desired player. open up his profile page, and look in the url: http://www.baseball-reference.com/t/thomafr03.shtml)

[Skip]

Thanks, HoustonGM, that seems to be the solution. I've pulled up different seasons with the Frank Thomases, the Griffeys and the Dutch Leonards using the Lahman IDs as photo IDs and every photo has matched. Great tip -- I never would have thought of it.