Looking For "Friends" to join "Our League".

[OMGPuppies]

Originally Posted by HRBaker

True, but as I said originally, you could have each team submit screen shots of their transactions log each week or so. Not perfect but a help.

I'd join this year, but I got bored once or twice even with my two F2P teams and bought a pack or two lol. Next year I think I'll avoid the P2P team(s) altogether.

Will be happy to have you next year. I was initially planning to go p2p but am very glad I didn't. I would be a minnow among whales. Plus, with a year to play this game, what is the rush, eh?

[Kushiel]

I agree that it would be a sorry individual that joined Our League and fed money to his team. He would not get a trophy or any kind of PP bonus for winning one of Our League Championships like in regular PP. All he would have are bragging rights over FTP players that he would always know that he did not deserve. If he received enjoyment for that he would be a special kind of low life.

Now, the team I do spend some money on has had a couple hundred dollar investment and I am really thinking hard of adding a hundred more today to get me a direly needed top starter. Having one pay team should appease most folks.

[Charlatan]

Sorry for the late update but I had a non-OL team advance to the WS plus there was TV to watch last night!

In Iron 171 The Retros lost the WC game to Toronto. Mudville lost the Division Series 1-3 to the Athens Sinners. And Arkham lost the wild card game to Ann Arbor. So everyone's staying in Iron.

Here's the final playoffs tree and the box score for the Retros game (since I know you're out of town):

[Charlatan]

Stanley:

You are AWESOME for doing those crowns. They look fabulous. The only teeny weeny minor suggestion I would make is that I don't think we need the "Our League" text on the crown since we know it's for Our League. That way you could make the year bigger on the crowns - which would be easier on my old eyes!

Regardless they look great and you're a champ for doing a bunch of work because some schmoe threw out an idea!

[Stanley Kuppchaser]

Originally Posted by Charlatan

Stanley:

You are AWESOME for doing those crowns. They look fabulous. The only teeny weeny minor suggestion I would make is that I don't think we need the "Our League" text on the crown since we know it's for Our League. That way you could make the year bigger on the crowns - which would be easier on my old eyes!

Regardless they look great and you're a champ for doing a bunch of work because some schmoe threw out an idea!

I guess great minds think alike. When I saw them, I had the same reaction. Expect that going forward.

[Germaniac]

Originally Posted by Charlatan

Sorry for the late update but I had a non-OL team advance to the WS plus there was TV to watch last night!

In Iron 171 The Retros lost the WC game to Toronto. Mudville lost the Division Series 1-3 to the Athens Sinners. And Arkham lost the wild card game to Ann Arbor. So everyone's staying in Iron.

Here's the final playoffs tree and the box score for the Retros game (since I know you're out of town):

Thanks a lot!

Wow, we're just horrible in the play-offs

[Charlatan]

Originally Posted by Germaniac

Wow, we're just horrible in the play-offs

I bought a second copy of the game so I have 6 PT teams. 4 of them made the playoffs. The records:

Diamond: lost WC game 11-7
Silver: lost WC game 11-4
Bronze: lost WC game 11-4

Iron: ok, I did make it to the world series but I lost

That's why I absolutely HATE the wild card game - too much is dependent on one game.

[stl jason]

new Silver league is up:

[Charlatan]

Nothing personal but I'm glad I'm not in the same division as Waffletown this year - that means I have a chance!

Also it looks like a couple of teams lost their custom logos. I hate when that happens.

[Charlatan]

I have 39 teams accounted for. Please let me know if I missed anyone.

Diamond 357
Aina Haina Parakeets
Battery Point Energizer Bunnies
Green Lake Cowboys
Seattle Pilots
Transylvania Impalers

Gold 321
Luckenbach Armadillos
CliffMarkle Roadrunners
Ewa Beach Fighting Chickens
Harlem Hatchets
Kaneohe Mokes
Sanguine Classics

Silver 251
Annandale Atom Smashers
Asylum Keepers
Bluffton Boomerangs
Cooper Gutter Cats
Palolo Puppies
Port Ruppert Mundys
Salem Witches
Shasta Black Bears
Terra Incognita Rustlers
Waffletown Syrups
Wheatland Jets

Bronze 248
Asheboro Road Dogs
Daytona Beach Pickleballers
Janesville Onyx
New York Patriots
Ozark Bobcats
Philadelphia Patriots

Iron 207
Arkham Horrors
Fancher Creek Pirates
Frankenthal Retros
Gotham Knights
Melaka Armada
Motown Stars
Mudville Muffins
Philadelphia Athletic Club
Stephensville Bears
Victoria Vikings

Iron 237
New Zealand Silver Ferns - add sabakon2 to your friends lists!

[Charlatan]

Here's the Iron 207 divisions for reference

[stl jason]

Originally Posted by Charlatan

Nothing personal but I'm glad I'm not in the same division as Waffletown this year - that means I have a chance!

Also it looks like a couple of teams lost their custom logos. I hate when that happens.

heh.... sometimes the luck just sticks with a team...

looks like Salem and Waffletown are the red-headed step-children this season.... isolated in their own divisions....

on the plus side, the possibility of an all-our-league playoffs is there with the spread of teams across the AC and NC divisions.

[Magus978]

Having a look at the Bronze .248 schedules for this week...someone may feel free to correct me if I've gotten it wrong again.

Asheboro Road Dogs: 16 Home, 19 Away
Daytona Beach Pickleballers: 6 Home, 4 Away
Janesville Onyx: 17 Home, 18 Away
New York Patriots: 9 Home, 8 Away
Ozark Bobcats: 10 Home, 9 Away
Philadelphia Patriots: 10 Home, 13 Away

Daytona Beach got stiffed as far as Our League matchups, but will still qualify for the championship. New York & Ozark got handed a limited schedule as well compared to Asheboro and Janesville, who ended up in the same division.

[Tiger Fan]

ROADRUNNERS LOOK AHEAD AFTER 2026 COLLAPSE

Expectations were high entering the 2026 season for the CliffMarkle Roadrunners. A demotion from Diamond to Gold, where they spent 3 years, had the team expecting a playoff berth and perhaps dreams of it's first Perfect Team championship. The year started well enough with the Roadrunners in contention for a wildcard spot at the all-star break and coming off a 17-11 month of June, but a dismal second half to the season left the club wondering what went wrong as they finished the season 8 games below .500 at 77-85.

Steve Carlton (17-12, 2.98) had an outstanding year but the rest of the rotation was a merry-go-round as the club gave 15 pitchers at least one start in a futile effort to find 4 other consistent starters. Defense was also an issue although the outfield was greatly improved with the early season addition of 75 rated Kenny Lofton, who also led the league in stolen bases. Robin Ventura earned a gold glove for his work at the hot corner but the rest of the infield was suspect defensively.

Aside from late season additions to the pitching staff in Dizzy Dean(89), Claude Passeau(88) and George Uhle(84) the only newcomer to the active roster for 2026 will be shortstop Larry Bowa. Alan Trammell (.300,21,80) led the club in hitting in 2025 but it was clear the club needed an upgrade at shortstop so Tram will DH a lot more this season allowing Bowa and his 94 rated defense to hopefully help the team.

The Roadrunners lineup for 2026 - at least to start the season

#  POS  NAME		RT    2025 STATS
1  CF Kenny Lofton	75    .231, 57 SB 
2  DH Alan Trammall	89    .300,21,80
3  RF Chuck Klein	84    .267,13,33 in 52 games
4  LF Willie Stargell	95    .291,39,84
5  1B Hank Greenberg	86    .243,33,94
6  2B Charlie Gehringer 92    .239,12,45
7  C  Bill Freehan	96    .263,18,66
8  3B Robin Ventura  	89    .269,15,56 won gold glove
9  SS Larry Bowa	67    rookie

PITCHING ROTATION
T  NAME			RT  2025 STATS
L  Steve Carlton	98	17-12, 2.98  258k's
R  George Uhle		84      3-0, 2.14 in 3 starts
R  Dizzy Dean		89	3-5, 3.38
L  Whitey Ford		88	5-9, 4.02
R  Claude Passeau	88	3-7, 4.67

[sabakon]

SALEM update - Okay, three straight seasons of .500 pitching has gotten Salem's Diamond Wilbur Cooper a role in Middle Relief. His starting slot will be taken over by Silver Harvey Haddix - who will almost certainly do MUCH better.

ARKHAM update - When all else fails, improve your pitching! That's my motto! With that in mind, I upgraded a two of my starters (one because of a minor theme violation and the other because...hey...Lefty Grove!)

NEW ZEALAND update - No one wants to play with me, so you don't really care. I'm going to go play rugby and not make any changes to this team until SOMEONE want's to play with me.

[OMGPuppies]

Originally Posted by Tiger Fan

ROADRUNNERS LOOK AHEAD AFTER 2026 COLLAPSE

Expectations were high entering the 2026 season for the CliffMarkle Roadrunners. A demotion from Diamond to Gold, where they spent 3 years, had the team expecting a playoff berth and perhaps dreams of it's first Perfect Team championship. The year started well enough with the Roadrunners in contention for a wildcard spot at the all-star break and coming off a 17-11 month of June, but a dismal second half to the season left the club wondering what went wrong as they finished the season 8 games below .500 at 77-85.

Steve Carlton (17-12, 2.98) had an outstanding year but the rest of the rotation was a merry-go-round as the club gave 15 pitchers at least one start in a futile effort to find 4 other consistent starters. Defense was also an issue although the outfield was greatly improved with the early season addition of 75 rated Kenny Lofton, who also led the league in stolen bases. Robin Ventura earned a gold glove for his work at the hot corner but the rest of the infield was suspect defensively.

Aside from late season additions to the pitching staff in Dizzy Dean(89), Claude Passeau(88) and George Uhle(84) the only newcomer to the active roster for 2026 will be shortstop Larry Bowa. Alan Trammell (.300,21,80) led the club in hitting in 2025 but it was clear the club needed an upgrade at shortstop so Tram will DH a lot more this season allowing Bowa and his 94 rated defense to hopefully help the team.

The Roadrunners lineup for 2026 - at least to start the season

#  POS  NAME		RT    2025 STATS
1  CF Kenny Lofton	75    .231, 57 SB 
2  DH Alan Trammall	89    .300,21,80
3  RF Chuck Klein	84    .267,13,33 in 52 games
4  LF Willie Stargell	95    .291,39,84
5  1B Hank Greenberg	86    .243,33,94
6  2B Charlie Gehringer 92    .239,12,45
7  C  Bill Freehan	96    .263,18,66
8  3B Robin Ventura  	89    .269,15,56 won gold glove
9  SS Larry Bowa	67    rookie

PITCHING ROTATION
T  NAME			RT  2025 STATS
L  Steve Carlton	98	17-12, 2.98  258k's
R  George Uhle		84      3-0, 2.14 in 3 starts
R  Dizzy Dean		89	3-5, 3.38
L  Whitey Ford		88	5-9, 4.02
R  Claude Passeau	88	3-7, 4.67

How did you make that file? I want to do the same.

[OMGPuppies]

The Puppies have nine games vs. Shasta this month. Pitching upgrades have done well so far.

[Jeff1787]

Originally Posted by OMGPuppies

The Puppies have nine games vs. Shasta this month. Pitching upgrades have done well so far.

Shasta has started the league 0-5!!

[Tiger Fan]

Originally Posted by OMGPuppies

How did you make that file? I want to do the same.

I do it as a text file first using codes for it to format properly.

To make it into a chart use {code} at the beginning and {/code} at the end of what you want. However replace { these brackets } with normal brakcets like these ones [ ]

To make your heading in bold letters do the same with {b} at the front of it and {/b} at the end.

See the attachment I posted for how you type it in a text file to get it to look like this.

#  POS  NAME		RT    2025 STATS
1  CF Kenny Lofton	75    .231, 57 SB 
2  DH Alan Trammall	89    .300,21,80
3  RF Chuck Klein	84    .267,13,33 in 52 games
4  LF Willie Stargell	95    .291,39,84
5  1B Hank Greenberg	86    .243,33,94
6  2B Charlie Gehringer 92    .239,12,45
7  C  Bill Freehan	96    .263,18,66
8  3B Robin Ventura  	89    .269,15,56 won gold glove
9  SS Larry Bowa	67    rookie

PITCHING ROTATION
T  NAME			RT  2025 STATS
L  Steve Carlton	98	17-12, 2.98  258k's
R  George Uhle		84      3-0, 2.14 in 3 starts
R  Dizzy Dean		89	3-5, 3.38
L  Whitey Ford		88	5-9, 4.02
R  Claude Passeau	88	3-7, 4.67

Hard for me to try and explain but hopefully that makes sense.

[Stanley Kuppchaser]

Originally Posted by Charlatan

Nothing personal but I'm glad I'm not in the same division as Waffletown this year - that means I have a chance!

Also it looks like a couple of teams lost their custom logos. I hate when that happens.

Every season I've had to reload Asylum, but this year it was all three of my teams. It would be helpful if folks will check their teams and reload the stuff that got nixed. Some +'s and OL's would look nice. I'll spare you my usual whining about how OOTP places Friends. Oh, I guess I just did it.

Now I'm off to get the S251 schedule together. At least I can avoid looking at my teams for another hour or so. Couldn't manage to concince myself to make any big changes during the off season. It's so hard when you're using players that you liked back in the day. I did finally shuffle a few things around and made the big addition of Jack Billingham to one of the staffs. I seem to recall "seeing" him pitch a nice game from one of the top rims at Shea Steadium. We could get free general addmission with 15 (I think) coupons clipped from Borden's milk cartons. We could generally sneak lower down later in the game.