Almanac?

[jinif]

What is the purpose of the almanac?
Do you use it? What does it do?
Does it somehow track records of players?

Thanks I was looking at the options for it and was intrigued.

[1998 Yankees]

25.3. The Almanac

The Almanac is a new addition in OOTPB 2007 that allows you to “archive” some or all of your records from a specific season. One way to think of the Almanac is like a high school yearbook. You are taking a snapshot all of your league reports as of a specific date, so that you can go back and look at them later.

The Alamanc can also automate the process of exporting league data to raw data formats.

By default, certain files in OOTPB are deleted after each season to conserve disk space, most notably box scores and game logs. With the Almanac, you can preserve these records for the life of your league. You can also store a copy of all the HTML reports from the most recently completed season, so that you can stroll back through time.

The Almanac is turned off by default. It’s only needed if you feel a particular desire to retain certain records year after year – those “snapshots” of specific years. Even with the Alamanac off, all player historical statistics are retained!

If you choose not to have an almanac, you will lose the following:

• the individual box scores and game logs from specific seasons
• the ability to look at a snapshot of a specific year, for example the ability to look at a team’s home page from 10 years ago

Refer to the manual for more information about the almanac feature, or search for the topic in these forums.

[Eugene Church]

1998 Yankees, thanks for that explanation.

I have yet to start my 2007 Universe...waiting for the final patch.

This is good information.

[Kaitiaki]

One other nice thing that you get with the Almanac as probably the most literal part of the "snapshot" concept is that it can save your players' FaceGen images each season. So you can go back after twenty years and see what that 38-year-old slugger with Team C looked like as a teenager in the uniform of the team he broke in with.

- Kai

[jinif]

How big are the files? and how long does it usually take to make an almanac?

[1998 Yankees]

Originally Posted by jinif

How big are the files? and how long does it usually take to make an almanac?

Ah, there's the rub, as they say.

Depending on what you choose to include in the almanacs, they can be humongous in size and can slow simulation time down considerably.

I remember people discussing this on either this board or the noob forum. Again, search in both forums for "almanac" and you will get more information on the benefits and drawbacks of almanacs.