New to Game : Starting Online League w/Friends

Jeremiah_Lee · 02-17-2014, 10:52 PM

I have a group of about 8-12 friends that are all interested in playing OOTP via the online leagues (together).

Any tips on making this an easy experience for us? We're likely going to want to keep it (partially) simple at first. Can we change settings mid-season, in between seasons, or never?

Is there a way to set up a fictional league, but have the teams be roughly balanced at the start (without going through a player-by-player draft)?

ukhotstove · 02-18-2014, 07:10 AM

You can change anything mid season but I'd advise not to, better changing during the off season. Best way to balance is change the fan loyalty, interest and market size to be the same. You could actually go as far as cloning the players so they'd be the same on each team but no idea what results you'd get from that, if I was you I'd either have you and your friends draft the players or why not pick your teams then let the AI draft them for you.

I personally enjoy the drafts the most and with some close friends be even better, if you live close by make a night of it at one of your houses. This is one thing I'd love to do but living in England were baseball fans are rare let alone OOTP fans it's just a pipe dream, but stateside were you may have friends living near you I'd do it in a heartbeat. In fact you could make a day of it, OOTP draft and watch a ballgame on the TV at someones house.

TGH-Adfabre · 02-18-2014, 11:25 AM

You can also use the draft utility in the game. It allows building draft lists for as many rounds as you have. Then GMs can select their players, upload to the server and the commissioner can run the sim. In my online league we do the draft with nightly sims over a week. You can run the 1st 5-6 rounds one round a night then 7-??? all together.

Jythier · 02-25-2014, 03:04 PM

Further questions - as a manager in the league, I want to retain maximum control over my team. However, when Mr. Lee sims the games, there could be an injury in the first game. 30 days out. But he's simming 7 days or whatever. What happens? Does the AI take over, make roster moves, create a new lineup? Or will there just be a hole in my lineup and someone from deeper in the depth chart gets called into that role?

Or do I put together an action plan for Mr. Lee to use should this occur? IE, call up X from the minors, fill the role with Y, but move him to the bottom of the order... etc.

Jythier · 02-25-2014, 11:12 PM

We ran into a problem tonight trying to do partial drafts.

We drafted 4 rounds, then I changed my draft list, then he imported the teams and drafted a 5th round.

All the round 1-4 players except mine are now free agents.

Anybody know what happened or how we can prevent this?

Jythier · 02-27-2014, 10:35 AM

We reset the draft, ran 1-5 again, and are making sure to export our teams prior to running the next set of rounds.

Luckily this is just a test league so it won't matter if we screw things up. When we get to the real one, we'll know what not to do!

02-17-2014, 10:52 PM	#1
Jeremiah_Lee Bat Boy Join Date: Feb 2014 Posts: 2	New to Game : Starting Online League w/Friends I have a group of about 8-12 friends that are all interested in playing OOTP via the online leagues (together). Any tips on making this an easy experience for us? We're likely going to want to keep it (partially) simple at first. Can we change settings mid-season, in between seasons, or never? Is there a way to set up a fictional league, but have the teams be roughly balanced at the start (without going through a player-by-player draft)?

02-18-2014, 07:10 AM	#2
ukhotstove Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: North of England Gods Country Posts: 7,175	You can change anything mid season but I'd advise not to, better changing during the off season. Best way to balance is change the fan loyalty, interest and market size to be the same. You could actually go as far as cloning the players so they'd be the same on each team but no idea what results you'd get from that, if I was you I'd either have you and your friends draft the players or why not pick your teams then let the AI draft them for you. I personally enjoy the drafts the most and with some close friends be even better, if you live close by make a night of it at one of your houses. This is one thing I'd love to do but living in England were baseball fans are rare let alone OOTP fans it's just a pipe dream, but stateside were you may have friends living near you I'd do it in a heartbeat. In fact you could make a day of it, OOTP draft and watch a ballgame on the TV at someones house. __________________ Detroit Diesel Dynasty San Antonio Calzones of Laredo Dynasty

02-18-2014, 11:25 AM	#3
TGH-Adfabre Hall Of Famer Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,599	You can also use the draft utility in the game. It allows building draft lists for as many rounds as you have. Then GMs can select their players, upload to the server and the commissioner can run the sim. In my online league we do the draft with nightly sims over a week. You can run the 1st 5-6 rounds one round a night then 7-??? all together. __________________ You mock me, therefore I am My wife

02-25-2014, 03:04 PM	#4
Jythier Minors (Single A) Join Date: Feb 2014 Posts: 86	Further questions - as a manager in the league, I want to retain maximum control over my team. However, when Mr. Lee sims the games, there could be an injury in the first game. 30 days out. But he's simming 7 days or whatever. What happens? Does the AI take over, make roster moves, create a new lineup? Or will there just be a hole in my lineup and someone from deeper in the depth chart gets called into that role? Or do I put together an action plan for Mr. Lee to use should this occur? IE, call up X from the minors, fill the role with Y, but move him to the bottom of the order... etc.

02-25-2014, 11:12 PM	#5
Jythier Minors (Single A) Join Date: Feb 2014 Posts: 86	We ran into a problem tonight trying to do partial drafts. We drafted 4 rounds, then I changed my draft list, then he imported the teams and drafted a 5th round. All the round 1-4 players except mine are now free agents. Anybody know what happened or how we can prevent this?

02-27-2014, 10:35 AM	#6
Jythier Minors (Single A) Join Date: Feb 2014 Posts: 86	We reset the draft, ran 1-5 again, and are making sure to export our teams prior to running the next set of rounds. Luckily this is just a test league so it won't matter if we screw things up. When we get to the real one, we'll know what not to do!