Beginning an Online League

Hulk4Life316 · 07-30-2003, 06:41 PM

Hey. I have never participated in an online league, but was interested in doing so. I would like to know how they work. Any specifics you can give will be helpful. Thanks in advance.

blmeanie · 07-30-2003, 07:12 PM

Online leagues consist of teams run by individual participants. Usually the pace of online leagues is one weeks worth of games per sim with maybe 2-3 sims per week or real time. Some leagues do operate on one game per day simming but many/most go for the week or more per sim.

Trades are negotiated entirely with other humans, and blessed by commish or by a review group.

Team "owners" download latest results from the previous sim, check out their team and the league and make any lineup changes and either export and email or ftp the file back to the commish running the league who imports the file and your changes would then be used in the next sim period. This repeats until the season is complete.

The offseason consists of free agency where a similar process is used, download the latest file, make your offers to players, export to commish, commish sims, commish posts new file, repeat.

Offseason also consists of an amateur draft as well as spring training. Then the entire process repeats, season after season.

The best part IMO is the dealings with real live counterparts.

paulywerner · 07-30-2003, 08:00 PM

Take a look at my league website.. You can view the message boards, and league rules to get an idea of how things run....

AOBL

jbone · 07-30-2003, 10:03 PM

You should consider joining my league!
Check out Jamie's Baseball League . We'll be glad to help you along.
Thanks,
Jamie

07-30-2003, 06:41 PM	#1
Hulk4Life316 Bat Boy Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3	Beginning an Online League Hey. I have never participated in an online league, but was interested in doing so. I would like to know how they work. Any specifics you can give will be helpful. Thanks in advance.

07-30-2003, 07:12 PM	#2
blmeanie All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Atlanta Posts: 1,044	Online leagues consist of teams run by individual participants. Usually the pace of online leagues is one weeks worth of games per sim with maybe 2-3 sims per week or real time. Some leagues do operate on one game per day simming but many/most go for the week or more per sim. Trades are negotiated entirely with other humans, and blessed by commish or by a review group. Team "owners" download latest results from the previous sim, check out their team and the league and make any lineup changes and either export and email or ftp the file back to the commish running the league who imports the file and your changes would then be used in the next sim period. This repeats until the season is complete. The offseason consists of free agency where a similar process is used, download the latest file, make your offers to players, export to commish, commish sims, commish posts new file, repeat. Offseason also consists of an amateur draft as well as spring training. Then the entire process repeats, season after season. The best part IMO is the dealings with real live counterparts. __________________ blmeanie email me at blmeanie Above link works for some email client programs but not all, email me at blmeanie33@earthlink.net

07-30-2003, 08:00 PM	#3
paulywerner Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Queens, NY Posts: 319	Take a look at my league website.. You can view the message boards, and league rules to get an idea of how things run.... AOBL __________________ "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it." OTBA Manhattan Millionaires The Juiced Baseball League Kansas City Royals United Baseball League Montreal Expos Bricks and Ivy Washington Nationals

07-30-2003, 10:03 PM	#4
jbone Minors (Double A) Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Boston Posts: 156	You should consider joining my league! Check out Jamie's Baseball League . We'll be glad to help you along. Thanks, Jamie __________________ "Ain't no use steppin' if you don't step hot" -Roots Manuva