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Le Grande Orange · 06-01-2006, 10:02 PM

Okay, found the post at last.

As I mentioned earlier, Markus made the decisions that statistical categories which historically never got came close to exceeding the 255 number were given 8 bits of space to store the number, limiting them to 255 before rolling over. These would include BB, SH, SF, R, RBI, HR, etc. This was done in order to help reduce the size of the league files and was a decision made early in the database design process.

Note however that R and ER for pitchers can go over 255, as extra space was alloted to them since folks sometimes ran into these limits in OOTP6 when doing historical leagues.

EDIT: Sporr beat me to it. Ah well, I'll just leave my post as is for reinforcement.

06-01-2006, 10:02 PM	#29
Le Grande Orange Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Up There Posts: 15,644	Okay, found the post at last. As I mentioned earlier, Markus made the decisions that statistical categories which historically never got came close to exceeding the 255 number were given 8 bits of space to store the number, limiting them to 255 before rolling over. These would include BB, SH, SF, R, RBI, HR, etc. This was done in order to help reduce the size of the league files and was a decision made early in the database design process. Note however that R and ER for pitchers can go over 255, as extra space was alloted to them since folks sometimes ran into these limits in OOTP6 when doing historical leagues. EDIT: Sporr beat me to it. Ah well, I'll just leave my post as is for reinforcement.