OOTP History v1.5.0 Update

[Killebrew]

Originally posted by Rich Tiger Fan
Hey I am a newbie to this Utility, after a few hours of messing with this program, I think I finally made a little progress, but now I seem to be stuck....after I finally learned how to export all the files to the data folder ......I think I got it right anyway....When I hit Import stats it first says "overflow" and I click ok...Then it says "converting Team files" but doesn't seem to be doing anything.... I let it run like this for almost an hour and nothing...hmmmm.....I am clueless with this utility....Damn..!OH well if you guys need any imfo from me to help out let me know?!

Follow the detailed readme file's instructions step by step. If you are stuck on one particular step, mention which one and many people here that use the utility (myself included) will be able to help you out. It kinda' sounds like you have not created the CSVReporter CSV files yet, let us know where you are at.

[Rich Tiger Fan]

9. Run OOTPHist.

10. Create a new database, or open an existing one, as described above and change any options that need changing.

11. Click Import Stats to import the team data files into the database

When I click on import I get a message that says overflow......Then it has something to click which says "ok"

When I click ok at the bottom it says "Converting Team Files"

but nothing seems to happen....I do have the csv file.....Do I have to create these file one at atime for each team...When I am in the CSV reporter I click all players...and save that to the Data folder of the Data base I have created is that correct or am I messing that up...........

"I have a headache" Grrrr!

It's prolly something so simple I am missing.......

[Rich Tiger Fan]

OKay I did a little more research on this...and would you believe it I figured it out...LOL....

I had to do each team individual....HMMMM!!!

I knew it would be something crazy easy like that

but I still have more to do, so there may be more questions to come!!

[fantom1979]

Yeah, it takes a little time to do, but the results are worth it.

[Rich Tiger Fan]

Hey guys ....jeees! Now that I've got passed that hurdle, now comes the next...

After I've entered the "Team Info" I get a mesage that says

Team" Romulus" not found
make sure team info has been entered..


Well it has been...hmmmm here we go again

I'm having fun though

[xpmike]

rich, i had the same error. If your using a Team NickName in OOTP History like...

TeamName: Baltimore
TeamNickName: Orioles

you gotta make sure both of those match what it says in OOTP Team Setup menu. Because if you don't you'll keep getting that error.

[fantom1979]

Originally posted by Rich Tiger Fan
Hey guys ....jeees! Now that I've got passed that hurdle, now comes the next...

After I've entered the "Team Info" I get a mesage that says

Team" Romulus" not found
make sure team info has been entered..


Well it has been...hmmmm here we go again

I'm having fun though

I could be wrong, but I think this is caused when the abbreviation you entered for the team in the Team Info screen doesnt match the abbreviation you gave that team when you created their CSV report.

[Cato]

Originally posted by Rich Tiger Fan
Hey guys ....jeees! Now that I've got passed that hurdle, now comes the next...

After I've entered the "Team Info" I get a mesage that says

Team" Romulus" not found
make sure team info has been entered..


Well it has been...hmmmm here we go again

I'm having fun though

You have to make sure the Team Name is exactly the same as in OOTP. My program uses what you type into the Team Info screen to match with the teams on the league.htm page. The Nickname and abbreviation do not have to match.

Another possibility is that you the league.htm file in the folder you entered as the Game HTML Files option, is from a different league.

[Rich Tiger Fan]

Thx guys, I'll look at all this stuff again........I thought everything was exacly the same..........but sometimes I am blind I guess...

GRRBAH!!!!

Hmm I figured out the problem there....I had a slash missing on the back of the folder where the HTML reports were........

and now I get runtime error 76 path not found.....LOL....Was it like this for you guys...or am I just nuts!!!!!!

Anyhow I did a search on that error and got nothing....hmmm!!

Gosh my wife hates me now, but I have to defeat this!!!!!

[Chappy]

Originally posted by fantom1979
Jeff, I think i have found another minor problem with the utility. In the League screen for each year, there is a place where it lists the awards for that year. For the Manager of the Year award, it lists that the managers team was defeated by the Athletics (or enter any other team here) by 3-2 in the world series. The only problem with this is that it was in the divisional series, not the world series. Basically what I am saying is, is that it doesnt matter when the Manager of the Years team was eliminated from the playoffs, it always says the world series. Check out the link below:

http://members.fortunecity.com/fanto...es/2001al.html

Alex Grammas (Milwaukee) won the AL Manager of the year and his team lost in the ALDS 3-2 to Oakland, but the awards screen shows that he lost in the World Series to Oakland. I hope I am making this clear, sometimes I cant type what I mean. Thanks as always for the great utility Jeff.. All your hard work is appreciated.

Fantom/Cato:

I'm having the same thing happen, so I don't think its user error (unless we're doing the same thing wrong).

If you were doing something wrong, Fantom, how did you fix it?

[LeeSkye]

Cato

After all my difficulties I have run your program with great success for a while now and it is great! Good work!!


After loooking over all the screens I have one thought. Would you be able to add a screen where we could have the league leaders listed for Batting Title, HR, RBI etc...somthing similar what we have now for best batter, best pitcher, fireman, manager of the year etc? We could manually input the leaders for each league for each year like we do the others since it is possible a player could show as a league leader in HR but we know he was traded half way through the season to a team in the other league. I find it fascinating to see a list of the winners in the categories now and more would only enhance the web pages. I have been trying to add an additional linked web page but my html skills are lacking but I'll keep working on it for now

Thanks again for the program.

[Seamhead]

Originally posted by Maverick
Cato,

Whilst viewing the fielding register for my league, I clicked on a player link and got the 'page not found' message. It appears that the links are going back to the root directory which is basically one level too far, if that makes sense.

You can see what I mean here and click on any of the players.

It doesn't do it for the pitching or batting register pages.

It looks like the "reference" part of the URL is missing. It should say ...reference/players/..., but it leaves out the reference part. I'm sure Jeff already knows that, though.

[Seamhead]

I haven't played with this yet, but I'd like to clarify something before I attempt it. Based on the posts I've read, I may end up pulling out what's left of my hair if I don't.

Step one says:

"1. Start OOTP and load your league. If this league has been going for a number of seasons, then start with the first season that was simmed..."

Does this assume that we've been making backups of our league or am I reading this wrong? In other words, my league started in 2001, proceeded to 2002, and is on the verge of completing 2003. I have the master league file, which has been running for three seasons now. How can I start with the first season that was simmed if I don't have a backup of that season?

I hope this isn't a ridiculous question. The instructions sound simple enough, but for some reason I'm not quite grasping the wording.

[Tekneek]

If you don't have a backup, then the obvious answer (to me) seems to be that you can't start with the first season simmed. What I think will happen is that Cato's utility will start creating a history from the first season you import into it. If that is what you want, then go for it. Be sure to use the career stats exporter tool as well so you can get the background stats for your guys into the history as well.

[JoeRockEHF]

I almost finally have got this to work. I've tried many times before but with little time on some days I haven't had the chance. Now I'm at the Import All Stars and Awards part but am having a problem. When I go to import the All Stars it says they import and everything but then there are no names. I seen the message about if names do not show up then toggle between the stats and they would show up but they still do not. If I go to input them manually a message pops up that says something about the script I believe. I went to the Awards screen and was going to input the players and no players are shown. I put the names in and then went to put in the NL Awards and went back to the AL but the names were gone. No clue what's going on here. I thought maybe something happened at the import team part for some reason but if I try to reimport teams it says the things would be duplicated or something to that effect. So, I guess I'm a little lost, but this is the closest I've gotten, I'm not gonna give up this time. Thanks for the help everyone! By the way Cato, I got the Gazette up and running just fine and I have to say that it is awesome. Makes things very easy to see and quick to get too.

[Chappy]

JoeRock,

Did you remember to export HTML files from the Online League Options screen in OOTP? If not, that could be your problem. If you did export them, go to the OOTP History options menu and make sure it's looking for them in the correct folder.

[JoeRockEHF]

Yeah I exported the files. I'll check again to see if they're looking in the right folder or not but I'm pretty sure they are. Thanks Chappy.

[JoeRockEHF]

Yeah, everything is pointing to the correct folder and the files were exported. Any other suggestions? Thanks.

[Drood]

Dumb question: If Cato adds a feature that is, say, "tallest player" (just an example of a totally new stat), am I right in assuming, if you don't have backups of earlier leagues, it will only start keeping records from that season on?

[Cato]

You did play an all-star game, right? If you open the General News section (lnews.htm), you should find the all-stars listed on whatever date the game was played.

As for no players on the award screen, I've seen that happen when there were problems with the team csv files. Usually what happens is that 1 team's league abbreviation is messed up. For instance, Atlanta is named ATL_ML_2002 instead of ATL_NL_2002. If this is the case, you would need to start from scratch again.

I hope to eliminate alot of these problems if CommishJoe gets his stats exporter fully functional. Or if OOTP5 includes an export utility. (hint, hint, Markus)