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Charlatan · 04-16-2019, 08:47 PM

Orcin:

It appears to me that the mysterious part of the URL is a GUID, which is an id you can generate with a reasonable certainty that it's unique. I speculate this is because they want to generate a unique URLs for each league (incidentally, this is the programmer's way to generate a unique ID).

If they used the league name in the URL then if there was a Silver 287 in season 3 and a Silver 287 in Season 4 they would both have the same URLs. But by using a GUID in the URL, the URLs for the two leagues are different.

That implies that past season stats might be available..

P.S., On further reflection, they could have generated a unique URL for each team by encoding both the product year and the season alongside the league name.. something like "ootp20_4_s287" - that would have kept the URLs unique but would have been a pattern people could guess. Ideas like this often come up after a feature is implemented a certain way.

04-16-2019, 08:47 PM	#10
Charlatan All Star Starter Join Date: May 2006 Location: Leesburg, VA Posts: 1,492	Orcin: It appears to me that the mysterious part of the URL is a GUID, which is an id you can generate with a reasonable certainty that it's unique. I speculate this is because they want to generate a unique URLs for each league (incidentally, this is the programmer's way to generate a unique ID). If they used the league name in the URL then if there was a Silver 287 in season 3 and a Silver 287 in Season 4 they would both have the same URLs. But by using a GUID in the URL, the URLs for the two leagues are different. That implies that past season stats might be available.. P.S., On further reflection, they could have generated a unique URL for each team by encoding both the product year and the season alongside the league name.. something like "ootp20_4_s287" - that would have kept the URLs unique but would have been a pattern people could guess. Ideas like this often come up after a feature is implemented a certain way.