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Bonedwarf · 05-18-2005, 04:17 AM

I'll endeavour to get some serious play time in tomorrow with this. Today got away from me for various reasons.

It's sounding like this is, for me at least, turning into the coolest util since Ryan's one. I mean ultimately I would love a program like that again. As I've said before, Cato's is awesome, but I was looking through the output today, and really, it goes far FAR beyond the scope of what I want. I don't want anyone to think I'm disrespecting it. I'm not. It's an awesome achievement. But it's overkill for my needs.

You're already nailed the player index it seems. The only other thing I can think of right now is producing a page of stats leaders, with links to their player pages. For career leaders, obviously link to their final page (if they're retired obviously). For single season... Not sure what the best option would be. Linking to the most recent page for that player probably.

I wish I still had some sample output from Ryan's util around, to show you the sort of thing I mean. But you can get the idea at Baseball Reference. Though you've pretty much made my day with the player index.

I'm going to give this some more thought. I'm sure I can come up with other cool ideas. I'll try and give the program a thorough pounding tomorrow. Will need to sim a few more seasons of one of my leagues, though.

Another thought... How hard would it be to pull together pages on TEAMS? Listing their results for each year etc... Maybe list all the players that have ever played for them. Not sure if trades could make that a nightmare. And if a player returned to the team later, that could probably cause chaos.

What other cool info could be gleaned for team pages? The team they do best against? The team they do the worst against? Say maybe the 10/20/50 players in the history of the league who've had the best performances against them. (Of course now you're venturing into game log territory. A scary place

)

The one thing that has always irked me with OOTP6 is the fact you have, say, the list of perfect games. How about a link to the actual box score/game log attached to that info? I guess you'd have to pull the date, find the appropriate file etc...

Another idea: When a player has a milestone that's listed in his history, so like "hit first homerun off..." or "Had 5000th hit...", have that link to the game log/box score.

I don't know. Just randomly spouting nonsense now.

I'm gonna sleep on it, see what I can come up with. I'm enjoying throwing all this stuff out

If it doesn't make it in, that's cool. It's just fun to brainstorm on what would be my ideal OOTP app.

05-18-2005, 04:17 AM	#76
Bonedwarf All Star Starter Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,339	I'll endeavour to get some serious play time in tomorrow with this. Today got away from me for various reasons. It's sounding like this is, for me at least, turning into the coolest util since Ryan's one. I mean ultimately I would love a program like that again. As I've said before, Cato's is awesome, but I was looking through the output today, and really, it goes far FAR beyond the scope of what I want. I don't want anyone to think I'm disrespecting it. I'm not. It's an awesome achievement. But it's overkill for my needs. You're already nailed the player index it seems. The only other thing I can think of right now is producing a page of stats leaders, with links to their player pages. For career leaders, obviously link to their final page (if they're retired obviously). For single season... Not sure what the best option would be. Linking to the most recent page for that player probably. I wish I still had some sample output from Ryan's util around, to show you the sort of thing I mean. But you can get the idea at Baseball Reference. Though you've pretty much made my day with the player index. I'm going to give this some more thought. I'm sure I can come up with other cool ideas. I'll try and give the program a thorough pounding tomorrow. Will need to sim a few more seasons of one of my leagues, though. Another thought... How hard would it be to pull together pages on TEAMS? Listing their results for each year etc... Maybe list all the players that have ever played for them. Not sure if trades could make that a nightmare. And if a player returned to the team later, that could probably cause chaos. What other cool info could be gleaned for team pages? The team they do best against? The team they do the worst against? Say maybe the 10/20/50 players in the history of the league who've had the best performances against them. (Of course now you're venturing into game log territory. A scary place) The one thing that has always irked me with OOTP6 is the fact you have, say, the list of perfect games. How about a link to the actual box score/game log attached to that info? I guess you'd have to pull the date, find the appropriate file etc... Another idea: When a player has a milestone that's listed in his history, so like "hit first homerun off..." or "Had 5000th hit...", have that link to the game log/box score. I don't know. Just randomly spouting nonsense now. I'm gonna sleep on it, see what I can come up with. I'm enjoying throwing all this stuff out If it doesn't make it in, that's cool. It's just fun to brainstorm on what would be my ideal OOTP app.