Good news for online leagues! - Page 5

Rainey · 07-29-2003, 09:28 PM

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Originally posted by Rainey
Here is a little something to think about.

Allowing online owners to vote for the all-stars in the all-star game.

Another note related to the All-Star game... allow commishes to set the size of the roster.

I know of this editor, but it would be better if it was an in-game engine vote.

Dunk44 · 07-29-2003, 10:31 PM

Being able to take on part of a players salary that your trading would be helpful. Right now its hard to trade your aging Joe SuperPlayer with a high salary for prospects/draft picks especially if teams are close to the salary cap. Adding the ability to tell the other owner that you'll pay 6 million of the players 12 million salary would be nice.

I don't know if any of you guys ever played Sierras' Football Pro series, but there was a utility some guy made called NetScoreBoard. Basically it read from the game logs and `played' out the game online. Graphics were lame but that wasn't the point. One of the leagues I was in got together every Saturday morning and watched the games be played out. Was a blast and league activity was always high. The program had the ability to watch 8 games at a time so if ya didn't have the time to watch all the games the commish could just put your game on another channel.

What I'm thinking is if Markus or one of our great utility makers could make a program like that. If I remember correctly I spent around $10 for the NetScoreBoard program years ago, would gladly pay that again to bring my team to `life'.

Matt from TN · 07-29-2003, 11:50 PM

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Originally posted by BruceM
This will be fine for minor league players, but most leagues require ML level players with 3 or more years to clear waivers before they can be released.

I can see some headaches coming for Commish's here...........

How about having the "team transactions" and "team news" (or even better, the league news) pages export to ftp... that way when a commish imported lineups, he could do a quick check of the league news page to see any released players... I'd also enjoy seeing the demotions/promotions from minors to majors export... fun to see what movement teams are making...

sjshaw · 07-30-2003, 12:43 AM

Please add the ability to include draft picks and cash in trades.

Ryan S · 07-30-2003, 04:27 AM

Allowing us to edit the length of the minimum salary contract will help a lot of leagues who plan to upgrade to OOTP 5. Many leagues, (Including my own) are not happy with the fact that the change from 5 to 6 years has been forced upon them if they want to upgrade.

Subby · 07-30-2003, 08:50 AM

Just gleaning from other posts that actually pertain to on-line leagues (and not just gameplay), I wanted to enumerate the changes that would be most beneficial to an active on-line league like FOBL:

1) League-wide dev report (viewable on one screen).
2) League-wide ballpark ratings report (viewable on one screen).
3) Ability to trade cash and draft picks.

Thanks for listening.

YoungEagle · 07-30-2003, 09:15 AM

Although this would apply to online and solo leagues, how about changing the lineup forms to be like this:

Home RHP
Home RHP+DH
Home LHP
Home LHP+DH
Away RHP
Away RHP+DH
Away LHP
Away LHP+DH

This would allow up to at least take advantage of park effects for our home stadiums (insert that power hitting lefty into the cleanup spot to favor a short RF porch)

halldorr · 07-30-2003, 09:15 AM

Since this is a patch and now another big release...here are the ones I think would be helpful and some have posted them already:

- teams can delete their own emails and the export would pick that up, this one isn't a huge pain but guys would like to delete their own emails
- teams can release players, as long as there is some kind of safety net to avoid as much cheating as possible I think it's a great idea
- teams can offer contract extensions, saw the argument that a team can just keep downloading the file but that's what most do now with their copy and then email the offer in to the league

For larger releases:

- allow trading of draft picks and cash. Major pain in the rear to make a one player for a pick trade happen currently

-voting for the all-star game would be great, I'm aware of the utility but if I remember correctly, those players selected by the utility don't get their names in the news for all-star selections. Even if the owner voting was used in conjunction with computer points
-voting for award winners at the end would be nifty too, same as above

Crackerjack · 07-30-2003, 11:35 AM

Two questions

1)From what I have seen is there really anything that adjusting your stadium ratings do? In our league we allow an owner to build new stadiums, one of the owners planning on doing this did a lot of testing 1st. It was noted that it did not matter if stadium had grass/astro, etc. Do these ratings matter (wall heigth, 400' to center, etc)?

2)Talking of FPS football, any active leagues still out there that play head to head?

mwallstar · 07-30-2003, 12:38 PM

ya i agree

Scott Vibert · 07-30-2003, 12:41 PM

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Originally posted by BruceM
Better yet, how about just make it an option. Then those leagues that want to use it can, and those that don't can turn it off.

Markus already said he did this for the releasing of players... first page of this thread, responding to your original post (this link will put his post at the top of the screen):

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...139#post386139

chrisj · 07-30-2003, 12:52 PM

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Originally posted by halldorr
[B]Since this is a patch and now another big release...here are the ones I think would be helpful and some have posted them already:

- teams can delete their own emails and the export would pick that up, this one isn't a huge pain but guys would like to delete their own emails

Agree... very much so!

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- teams can offer contract extensions, saw the argument that a team can just keep downloading the file but that's what most do now with their copy and then email the offer in to the league

But if you have the league password set, they can't even offer a contract to find out if the player will accept it.

Dunk44 · 07-30-2003, 10:34 PM

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Originally posted by Crackerjack
[2)Talking of FPS football, any active leagues still out there that play head to head? [/B]

I think there is a few '98 leagues still out there, a search may come up with a few.

As far as '97 goes, the only one I know of is the NFL97, a league that Slash of slashware.com started. Basically the same core of original owners, been playing since early 1998.

http://nfl97.homestead.com/NFL.html

Qrashman · 07-31-2003, 12:32 PM

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Originally posted by ATypicalGiantsFan
Don't allow owners to do contract extensions. It would be way too easy for owners to cheat. All that would be needed is to redownload the league file everytime the extension talks failed.

DEFINITELY a good idea there.

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In addition to everything mentioned so far (especially the changing league's internal name ), I'd LOVE to have a League-wide Player Development report in the News section.

Love it
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As far as contract extensions go, why is everyone asking to make it easier. ITS TOO DAMN EASY ALREADY.

In my online league, there's a maximum of 4 players per year that refuse to re-sign. It should be much, much, MUCH more difficult to sign players. If your league supports parity, it should be harder by default.

Qrashman · 07-31-2003, 03:45 PM

One last thing, may have been mentioned:

The ability to vote for all-stars as well as 1st, 2nd and 3rd place votes for end of season awards would be f'n amazing.

AccardoOutfit29 · 08-01-2003, 06:14 AM

We need to make this online function more sexified.

YoungEagle · 08-01-2003, 09:48 AM

Hope your still reading this thread...

How about adding this for the draft. Give each owner in the league the ability to rank all the players in an upcoming draft and export the results to the commish. The commish could then import these draft lists from each owner and or set an owner to have the CPU pick for him.

This would greatly automate the draft process for most leagues. Would also eliminate the headache of the commish having to manually keep track of draft lists.

blmeanie · 08-01-2003, 02:10 PM

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Originally posted by YoungEagle
Hope your still reading this thread...

How about adding this for the draft. Give each owner in the league the ability to rank all the players in an upcoming draft and export the results to the commish. The commish could then import these draft lists from each owner and or set an owner to have the CPU pick for him.

This would greatly automate the draft process for most leagues. Would also eliminate the headache of the commish having to manually keep track of draft lists.

Great catch. This had been mentioned a while ago but not recently. This would be very helpful.

Sudy Nym · 08-01-2003, 03:52 PM

The above is one of my favourite ideas, as well. I think there are a number of ways that we could accomplish this.

Qrashman · 08-01-2003, 07:50 PM

Just sign up for BOSI and you can have that.

www.jpbaseball.com

07-30-2003, 04:27 AM	#85
Ryan S Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: UK Posts: 25	Allowing us to edit the length of the minimum salary contract will help a lot of leagues who plan to upgrade to OOTP 5. Many leagues, (Including my own) are not happy with the fact that the change from 5 to 6 years has been forced upon them if they want to upgrade. __________________ FOBL: Enemies of the State since 2001

07-30-2003, 11:35 AM	#89
Crackerjack Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 362	Two questions 1)From what I have seen is there really anything that adjusting your stadium ratings do? In our league we allow an owner to build new stadiums, one of the owners planning on doing this did a lot of testing 1st. It was noted that it did not matter if stadium had grass/astro, etc. Do these ratings matter (wall heigth, 400' to center, etc)? 2)Talking of FPS football, any active leagues still out there that play head to head? __________________ Cheers Bird WWW.CRACKERJACKBASEBALL.COM

07-30-2003, 12:38 PM	#90
mwallstar Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Edmods Posts: 159	ya i agree __________________

07-31-2003, 03:45 PM	#95
Qrashman All Star Reserve Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: NY Posts: 651	One last thing, may have been mentioned: The ability to vote for all-stars as well as 1st, 2nd and 3rd place votes for end of season awards would be f'n amazing. __________________ ------------------- Montreal Expos / Calgary Storm, HBL HBL Baseball - Founded March 2001. HBL Waiting List

08-01-2003, 03:52 PM	#99
Sudy Nym Major Leagues Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Richmond Hill, ON Posts: 492	The above is one of my favourite ideas, as well. I think there are a number of ways that we could accomplish this. __________________ Tomorrow's Stars Today Baseball League - Portland Beavers <=> WL Wild Card: '11, '14 <=> WL North Divisional Champions: '02, '04-'10, '12, '13, '15-'18 <=> Western League Champions: '04-'06, '09, '10, '13, '18 <=> TSTBL World Champions: 2004, 2006, 2009, 2018

07-29-2003, 10:31 PM	#82
Dunk44 Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Joplin, Mo. Posts: 27	Being able to take on part of a players salary that your trading would be helpful. Right now its hard to trade your aging Joe SuperPlayer with a high salary for prospects/draft picks especially if teams are close to the salary cap. Adding the ability to tell the other owner that you'll pay 6 million of the players 12 million salary would be nice. I don't know if any of you guys ever played Sierras' Football Pro series, but there was a utility some guy made called NetScoreBoard. Basically it read from the game logs and `played' out the game online. Graphics were lame but that wasn't the point. One of the leagues I was in got together every Saturday morning and watched the games be played out. Was a blast and league activity was always high. The program had the ability to watch 8 games at a time so if ya didn't have the time to watch all the games the commish could just put your game on another channel. What I'm thinking is if Markus or one of our great utility makers could make a program like that. If I remember correctly I spent around $10 for the NetScoreBoard program years ago, would gladly pay that again to bring my team to `life'.

07-30-2003, 12:43 AM	#84
sjshaw Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 236	Please add the ability to include draft picks and cash in trades.

07-30-2003, 08:50 AM	#86
Subby Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 375	Just gleaning from other posts that actually pertain to on-line leagues (and not just gameplay), I wanted to enumerate the changes that would be most beneficial to an active on-line league like FOBL: 1) League-wide dev report (viewable on one screen). 2) League-wide ballpark ratings report (viewable on one screen). 3) Ability to trade cash and draft picks. Thanks for listening.

07-30-2003, 09:15 AM	#87
YoungEagle Major Leagues Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Wayne, MI Posts: 364	Although this would apply to online and solo leagues, how about changing the lineup forms to be like this: Home RHP Home RHP+DH Home LHP Home LHP+DH Away RHP Away RHP+DH Away LHP Away LHP+DH This would allow up to at least take advantage of park effects for our home stadiums (insert that power hitting lefty into the cleanup spot to favor a short RF porch)

07-30-2003, 09:15 AM	#88
halldorr Minors (Double A) Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada Posts: 179	Since this is a patch and now another big release...here are the ones I think would be helpful and some have posted them already: - teams can delete their own emails and the export would pick that up, this one isn't a huge pain but guys would like to delete their own emails - teams can release players, as long as there is some kind of safety net to avoid as much cheating as possible I think it's a great idea - teams can offer contract extensions, saw the argument that a team can just keep downloading the file but that's what most do now with their copy and then email the offer in to the league For larger releases: - allow trading of draft picks and cash. Major pain in the rear to make a one player for a pick trade happen currently -voting for the all-star game would be great, I'm aware of the utility but if I remember correctly, those players selected by the utility don't get their names in the news for all-star selections. Even if the owner voting was used in conjunction with computer points -voting for award winners at the end would be nifty too, same as above

08-01-2003, 06:14 AM	#96
AccardoOutfit29 All Star Reserve Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 531	We need to make this online function more sexified.

08-01-2003, 09:48 AM	#97
YoungEagle Major Leagues Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Wayne, MI Posts: 364	Hope your still reading this thread... How about adding this for the draft. Give each owner in the league the ability to rank all the players in an upcoming draft and export the results to the commish. The commish could then import these draft lists from each owner and or set an owner to have the CPU pick for him. This would greatly automate the draft process for most leagues. Would also eliminate the headache of the commish having to manually keep track of draft lists.

08-01-2003, 07:50 PM	#100
Qrashman All Star Reserve Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: NY Posts: 651	Just sign up for BOSI and you can have that. www.jpbaseball.com __________________ ------------------- Montreal Expos / Calgary Storm, HBL HBL Baseball - Founded March 2001. HBL Waiting List