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Post ID	Date & Time	Game Date	Function

#5048	10/21/2013 1:22:44 pm
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	Yeah, I think those would be interesting features. In terms of birth dates, that has been suggested before and is doable. But it complicates the game implementation a lot without a lot of real improvements to the game play. Not that we wouldn’t implement that eventually, but I just think there are things that would offer more payoff for the effort. In terms of cities of origin or high schools/colleges players originated from – I would really like to add that. However, I haven’t found any web services that will generate a random city from a country, so I would have to compile huge lists of cities/high schools/colleges for each country (still doable), but just a lot of work. Steve

#5051	10/21/2013 2:57:18 pm
curtisp5286 Joined: 08/25/2012 Posts: 95 Inactive	At least for US cities, couldn't you just use your list of cities that are selectable as team locations?

#5170	10/26/2013 7:59:18 am
Legends Joined: 06/14/2013 Posts: 13 Inactive	I see you put where the players were born from the recent draft.

#5174	10/26/2013 11:16:52 am
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	Yes, new players will have birthplaces and college draftees with have a college or university they came from. I tried to use reasonable demographic information...but I did find a bug while testing whereby half the American players were coming from Worcester, MA. Steve

#5178	10/26/2013 1:41:57 pm
Sweetness Joined: 03/29/2013 Posts: 80 Inactive	I had drafted a pitcher from Worcester,MA.

#5187	10/26/2013 6:59:14 pm
StuffedTV Joined: 10/26/2013 Posts: 1 Inactive	What does it mean when a player has a college and high school name next to each other? For example:http://brokenbat.org/player/78972

#5188	10/26/2013 8:00:15 pm
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	College: California State University, Northridge This is just a college. No high school are listed. Steve

#5198	10/27/2013 10:06:19 am
bigmanchris Joined: 06/01/2013 Posts: 20 Gastonia Cowboys III.2	Steve are you going to do this for all players or just new players

#5199	10/27/2013 6:10:56 pm
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	At the moment, only new players. We may add birthplaces for existing players in the future. It will be difficult to retro-actively add colleges to those type of draftees, just because of the way the data is stored. Steve

#5241	10/31/2013 12:30:21 am
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	Hmmm...I think I solved a few of the issues and now all players have a birthplace and many have colleges listed. Steve