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Live HTH sims would be cool, albeit only really possible/realistic/useful for a small piece of an online league's season.
I've seen some others in this thread give an elevator pitch for some alternate online league features, if online leagues are going to get some extra love in the upcoming version(s), so here's mine:
Completely automated simming. A feature where I could set OOTP to sim one day's worth of games every X hours, or maybe set a schedule like "sim one day's worth of games at 8 AM, 12 PM, 4 PM, and 8 PM." It follows whatever simple schedule I created, and goes through all steps of the process - i.e., importing all teams prior to simming, demoting/releasing DFA players, running the games, uploading the file to my server, uploading the reports, sending an email to the GMs...and then waiting there for the next sim timer to kick off.
The best part is that OOTP can do all these things now! The Commissioner Automator has all these features, and if I tell OOTP to it will execute all of them in the proper order. All that's missing is a way for OOTP to kick the process off itself on a timer or a schedule.
This feature would allow for, among other things, online league members to make game-to-game exports & changes when needed/wanted. Two players suffer injuries in a Monday game? Now you can export with changes before Tuesday's game runs, instead of playing shorthanded all week. Are you facing that killer lefty having a Cy Young season on Thursday? Totally re-do your lineup just for him after Wednesday's game.
Plus the game-by-game results give the online league a more realistic feel, game-to-game narratives develop, players can get back to a bit more micromanagement if that's their thing instead of being forced to view things from a macro perspective all the time.
Anyway, just wanted to weigh in with a change I feel (hope) would be less work and more useful than a new HTH game module would be to online leagues (though again, to be clear, I do think the HTH game module would have a useful place as well!).
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