Spirit of '76 League

[Malleus Dei]

I've been working on a 1976 OOTP6 league, in the model of the great "Born in '69" and "1987 and Beyond" leagues. So far I've got the the rosters, minor league teams, managers, logos, schedule, and stadiums done and am working on an installer package. I used Ankit's career data base, Frohike's old stadiums, and Tiger Fan's 24-team 162-game schedule for the time period, and the league sure looks good to me.

1976 was baseball's 100th anniversary, our country's 200th, the last year of 24 teams, and was just before free agency hit, so I thought it was the best of the seventies years for which to do a league. Look for it as soon at the usual places just as I put together a package that installs the league and the stadiums all at once.

[jbmagic]

awesome

[Malleus Dei]

I think it's going up without the stadiums; I can't get the package with stadiums down to anything smaller than 25 MB otherwise.

[halofan26]

let me know and ill put it up at my site Malleus

[Malleus Dei]

It's in your mailbox, Mike, I gave up on the stadiums.

[jbmagic]

where we get the stadium for it at?

will the readme tell us?

thanks

[JoeRockEHF]

Spirit of '76 up at the Download Center!

[halofan26]

file is up and running at the site as well! Another great set!

[Malleus Dei]

Originally Posted by jbmagic

where we get the stadium for it at?

If you can find Frohike's old set, use it; that's what I use for the images. If not, use Henry's old stadiums; they'll work too.

Frohike's set was originally done for OOTP3, but it works if you play with it. I keep hoping that one of the stadium gurus will update it and repackage it for OOTP6.

[Malleus Dei]

Joe and Mike:

You guys are amazing.

[jbmagic]

awesome league file ..i am very impress...great job


just curious how did you come up with the league totals?

why this time very hard and heavly favor prospect instead of hard and favor prospect liek your texas league?

and why 10% for the hitter development speed and for pitcher development speed?

why in team transaction it shows players on the 40 man roster if its disabled and why are there players showing there on waivers if waivers is disabled too .

anyway to make a seperate download available for the stadium file, so they will match what the teams are in 1976...

thanks

[dougaiton]

Great stuff, MD! I can't wait to get it 'unwrapped' when I get home tonight!

[eriqjaffe]

MD -

This may be a little late, but you may want to check out djpeg, which is what I used with my all-in-one installer. Most installer creators will allow you to specify a file to run after install...you can just point the installer at djpeg and tell it to go...

Packaging jpg files with my installer cut the file size down from 83mb to 24mb.

Just so you know...

[jnshmoo]

I'd officially like to file a protest against Malleus Dei and all of you league creators!!

I barely have enough time to keep my own league going at a decent pace. Now, you guys keep coming up with all of these all-in-one packages that I need to get my grubby hands on. Now I've got 6 different solo leagues installed, and I'm considering joining an online league. Cripes! I shudder to think of how much of my total HD space OOTP is currently taking up!

PS: GREAT work guys.

[Malleus Dei]

Originally Posted by dougaiton

Great stuff, MD! I can't wait to get it 'unwrapped' when I get home tonight!

Doug:

Please feel free to tune it up or make suggestions.

[Malleus Dei]

Originally Posted by jbmagic

why this time very hard and heavly favor prospect instead of hard and favor prospect liek your texas league?

Because I ran one with the Texas League settings and the trades didn't look right. I ran it this way and they did.

Originally Posted by jbmagic

and why 10% for the hitter development speed and for pitcher development speed?

Because when I ran it the rookies weren't developing properly. With a 10% boost they were.

Originally Posted by jbmagic

why in team transaction it shows players on the 40 man roster if its disabled and why are there players showing there on waivers if waivers is disabled too .

No clue, blame the import engine.

Originally Posted by jbmagic

anyway to make a seperate download available for the stadium file, so they will match what the teams are in 1976...

Someone stadium/graphics guy (I'm not one, hello Henry, hello Ankit, hello ctorg) needs to do that with the Frohike stadium set; I've been saying that since OOTP5. FYI, the Frohike .bmps run 2-3 megs and the .jpgs run 0.5 megs each.

[Malleus Dei]

I say this every so often but here I am saying it again:

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE LEAGUE SETTINGS, THEN CHANGE THEM!

[jbmagic]

i love your league setting..there awesome....


i ask because gives me idea if i do a regular solo league for my league setting..and learning the reason behind your setting..i learn alot that way ..

again i love your new league file and love that texas league file too...glad i found that crash bug for you on your texas league...


i found out the reason why there players showing up on the 40 man roster and players showing on waivers...even if you have those disabled on your new league file..


the reason is when you run computer manager on all teams with waivers and 40 man roster enabled it will do that...

the way to fix this is be sure to have 40 man roster off and waivers off, then run computer manager on all teams or place the 25 man roster the way you want per team and remove all the players off the 40 man roster and waiver box...

thanks

[Malleus Dei]

Originally Posted by jbmagic

i love your league setting..there awesome....


i ask because gives me idea if i do a regular solo league for my league setting..and learning the reason behind your setting..i learn alot that way ..

again i love your new league file and love that texas league file too...glad i found that crash bug for you on your texas league...


i found out the reason why there players showing up on the 40 man roster and players showing on waivers...even if you have those disabled on your new league file..


the reason is when you run computer manager on all teams with waivers and 40 man roster enabled it will do that...

the way to fix this is be sure to have 40 man roster off and waivers off, then run computer manager on all teams or place the 25 man roster the way you want per team and remove all the players off the 40 man roster and waiver box...

thanks

This assumes that I ran the computer manager at all...unless my wife's cat has been on the keyboard again, it was never run. But, given that the Texas League 1.6 on my computer runs fine on my computer but that the zipped versions crash, go figure. I think I am going to quit the mod business. It's bad luck.

Guys, is this problem significant enough to warrant another version? Bear in mind that finances are off anyway because it's 1976.

[jbmagic]

Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

This assumes that I ran the computer manager at all...unless my wife's cat has been on the keyboard again, it was never run. But, given that the Texas League 1.6 on my computer runs fine on my computer but that the zipped versions crash, go figure. I think I am going to quit the mod business. It's bad luck.

Guys, is this problem significant enough to warrant another version? Bear in mind that finances are off anyway because it's 1976.

its up to you...the 1976 is awesome...

but it does look weird to see players on the 40 man roster and players showing on the waiver box...

i guess we can all just drag all the players off every team on the 40 man roster and remove all the players off the waiver box in the team transaction.... but then i think it will show up on player history report that he was remove..etc...