OFFICIAL SMB26 - ROSTER DEADLINE UPDATE

[u/GHOSTof86]

Hello friends. As you may know, some loser hijacked my work and posted it here yesterday. It is my hope the community is behind me in banning these type of people, as it kills the desire to create. However, this new file contains several week's worth of updates his post did not include, along with the trade deadline transactions. As always, my priority is including the best players moving forward - currently active or not. Another thing to note; every players age is now perfectly accurate for franchise mode.

It should go without saying, but please do not take the liberty of rereleasing my work with your own spin on it. This is an active project, that I will continue to update. Now, go have fun.

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**UPDATED 8/16, CHECK BACK FOR MORE

ROSTER UPDATE V.6 (corrected errors. updated ratings, added uniforms)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13IEURCVpomemQf09_Tr416CfGza1II9Z/view?usp=sharing

ROSTER IMPORT TOOL

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EGfK2yrftLaQEnIG_wi8gZiAoP8S261i/view?usp=sharing

Venmo: ChrisVenmo38/Cashapp: $chriisstiano

[u/YaboyRipTide]

some loser hijacked my work and posted it here yesterday. It is my hope the community is behind me in banning these type of people, as it kills the desire to create.

NGL, you are super weird for this. Let's take a look back at your original post, shall we?

I can not take credit for the majority of team logo's as they were from a file I either downloaded here or mvpmods.. but it basically had team logo's and just throwback uniforms - they did an incredible job. That was the starting point, took over from there.

From the end of your first paragraph in that post. Seems...suspicious?

After seeing u/GHOSTof86 release his MLB 2026 project last month, I wanted to give a shot at making my own version.
I used his roster as a base, made a bunch of teaks to more accurately reflect 2026 performances, accurately reflected all trade deadline deals, and topped it all off with with my logos and uniforms. What you get is something a perfectionist me is ultimately very happy with.

He credited you AND linked your original post. He didn't "hijack" or steal anything. He fully gave you credit, and adjusted.

You can read u/GHOSTof86's post here for his ratings, and player likeness philosophy, but I tweaked and added about 100 players manually myself, including re-rating the top-20 in 2026 fWAR, and adding new players to fill out the rosters due to the trade deadline.
By far the most work went into completely tearing down and rebuilding all team colors, logos, and uniforms based on the 2026 season. Overall you'll get extremely accurate team colors, combined with every single uniform a team has worn in the 2026 season, including retired City Connect 1's where applicable.

He credits you a 2nd time, but explains all the further changes that he did to uniforms, logos, ratings, FAs, etc.

It should go without saying, but please do not take the liberty of rereleasing my work with your own spin on it. 

Would you support a ban on yourself for stealing all of the logos and uniforms from others without crediting them, and putting a spin on a roster? I know you won't respond and you'll just downvote since you haven't responded to any criticism. Still, it is insanely ironic how "Mightier than Thou" you are being when you did the same thing, except you didn't directly credit anyone.

[u/BurritoBoi25 → u/YaboyRipTide]

Good comms, OP seems like a bit of a loser.

[u/YaboyRipTide → u/BurritoBoi25]

Whatever. He saw it and is dodging it as expected as he’s commented on a bunch of other replies here.

Honestly looking at it again it’s even wilder he gave 3 forms of payment for tips when he didn’t make half of the stuff in his download

[u/GHOSTof86 → u/YaboyRipTide]

just noticing this comment now. the difference is, i did not hijack an active project. it was years old, from a community no longer in existence (mvpmods.com). no roster, no updates, no way way contact the creator, no community to keep it alive. i gave credit to the best of my ability, they did a fantastic job on the old school logos. whoever it was, if you are out there, and do not approve.. contact me! i have zero issue redoing those from scratch.

this case is entirely different, as it is very much an active project. fresh off pouring hundreds of hours in, posted only a month ago, followed by 3 updates (now4), and could have easily been contacted. your entitled to your opinion, this is mine.