Hi! I just got OOTP5 a few days ago, and quickly started an alternate-history league starting in 1901.
Things are going pretty great, it's a lot of fun, with some nice surprises (like Ty Cobb getting drafted by the Detroit Tigers #1 in 1906 as he should, but then they deal him at the deadline for Mordecai Richler to join the Cleveland Naps!)
At any rate, I have now run into the OOTP History Utility by Jeff Cato, which looks amazing!
I've been having troubles getting it to work, and had a look at a few threads, one that even went into some good detail about how to get things started, and I still can't get it to work, I always get a null error when I try to generate the pages. (And I've read of others problems with the null issue, and tried what they said worked for them, but no dice).
So I have a few questions.
1) Is there like a. OOTP History Utility for Dummies Reference somewhere. I thought I was pretty technologically adept, but apparently, Im VERY wrong!
2) This is the more important question. I am currently starting my 1907 season, and I have full-almanacs from each previous year, but I have *NOT* been exporting the league html files each year from the Online League Set-Up. Will I be able to fully use this utility to it's max with just the almanacs, or am I in a bit of a bind here.
The Bottom line is, id like to get it to work for this season, but, Im only in 1907, and I would have no problems starting over. (Well, not many anyways) Especially now that I have the proper logos, and stadium set-ups I want, as well as I have what I do in the off-seasons down pretty well, so Id be willing to treat this first league as a bit of a test run!
Any advice would be appreciated!
[Oh. PS. If I *do* start a new season. WHEN is the best time to run the Utility. Also, I have to keep my Abbreviations the same throughout the league? So when the Dodgers move to LA, I have to keep the abbreviation as BRO, or what? Thanks!!!]