Am I playing with a bot in my league?

Dirwulf · 03-14-2019, 01:05 PM

I started a new team. I am in the Ypsilon Tau entry pool. I was looking at the schedule and noticed all the teams I was playing had CLE as their abbreviation. I checked the standings and noticed a lot of teams with the name Cleveland. So I checked the manager names and they are all the same except with a different sequential number at the end. This seems very strange to me. Like someone is somehow funneling PP or...? I did report all of them.

Findest2001 · 03-14-2019, 01:53 PM

That sounds incredibly strange unless it's a bunch of friends from Cleveland who found a way to be in the same entry pool? Can't you select friends? If that's the case maybe you just got unlucky and they were 1 or 2 teams short of a full entry league and you were the filler. I'm only guessing. If I saw that I would think it's strange, as well.

<Pion> · 03-14-2019, 02:21 PM

It's possible they are filler teams so there are enough teams in the Entry Pool, I don't know. Will be interesting to find out. I've always thought that it "might" be necessary to have filler teams. One example, what if there are an odd number of teams registered for PT. Is there a league somewhere in the PT Universe with an odd number of players, does a filler team even them out?

atabakin · 03-14-2019, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by <Pion>

Is there a league somewhere in the PT Universe with an odd number of players, does a filler team even them out?

Yes, there's a league each season with 20-some teams, at least at the perfect level. It's rough and not ideal.

<Pion> · 03-14-2019, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by atabakin

Yes, there's a league each season with 20-some teams, at least at the perfect level. It's rough and not ideal.

I knew there were small leagues, but had not seen any with an odd number of teams. So if there were 25 teams, they could have 12 games for the 24 teams on a day with one team having a day off?

atabakin · 03-14-2019, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by <Pion>

I knew there were small leagues, but had not seen any with an odd number of teams. So if there were 25 teams, they could have 12 games for the 24 teams on a day with one team having a day off?

Ah, I see what you're saying. Good question.

My guess would be no for everything above bronze since an even number of teams get promoted and relegated. There may be an odd number of teams in a bronze league based on what comes in from the entry pool.

KleineBiere · 03-14-2019, 09:56 PM

Dirwulf · 03-15-2019, 01:24 AM

Yes, that's the user name, but I'm in the entry pool so that person is in other leagues too. Or whoever that is.

HRBaker · 03-15-2019, 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by KleineBiere

It also could be that this "raslavens" person somehow created 10 email addresses, and created 30 teams. If so, the OOTP staff should definitely stop that.

I find it hard to assume that if these are bots, they wouldn't have been more generic - and why "Cleveland" ?

I can't help but think it's someone trying to screw up the works by overloading duplicates to see what would happen.

daveh2018 · 03-17-2019, 10:39 AM

Maybe they bought 8-10 copies of the game when it was $5 and were looking for the major PT hit with the starter packs x3 licenses, then put $ into the team(s) that hit the card lotto going forward.

Rest of them are then left to languish in Bronze forever.

Mat · 03-17-2019, 10:51 AM

Im intrigued.

HiDesertAce · 03-17-2019, 02:03 PM

is it possible those are filler teams set up by AI to fill out bronze leauges? i can''t imagine there are many ppl starting new teams in feeder leagues last two weeks.

Dirwulf · 03-18-2019, 03:48 PM

I went back and checked the team's rosters and most of the teams one gold player was gone. Sold or?...

Lukas Berger · 03-18-2019, 03:55 PM

Just fyi, for those wondering, this was a group of users who are now banned for violating the TOS.

03-14-2019, 01:05 PM	#1
Dirwulf Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Nov 2018 Posts: 30	Am I playing with a bot in my league? I started a new team. I am in the Ypsilon Tau entry pool. I was looking at the schedule and noticed all the teams I was playing had CLE as their abbreviation. I checked the standings and noticed a lot of teams with the name Cleveland. So I checked the manager names and they are all the same except with a different sequential number at the end. This seems very strange to me. Like someone is somehow funneling PP or...? I did report all of them.

03-18-2019, 03:55 PM	#14
Lukas Berger OOTP Developments Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Nice, Côte d'Azur, France Posts: 21,034	Just fyi, for those wondering, this was a group of users who are now banned for violating the TOS. __________________ lukas@ootpdevelopments.com PreOrder Out of the Park Baseball 26! Need to upload files for us to check out? Instructions can be found here

03-14-2019, 01:53 PM	#2
Findest2001 All Star Reserve Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Boston Posts: 960	That sounds incredibly strange unless it's a bunch of friends from Cleveland who found a way to be in the same entry pool? Can't you select friends? If that's the case maybe you just got unlucky and they were 1 or 2 teams short of a full entry league and you were the filler. I'm only guessing. If I saw that I would think it's strange, as well.

03-14-2019, 02:21 PM	#3
<Pion> All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,428	It's possible they are filler teams so there are enough teams in the Entry Pool, I don't know. Will be interesting to find out. I've always thought that it "might" be necessary to have filler teams. One example, what if there are an odd number of teams registered for PT. Is there a league somewhere in the PT Universe with an odd number of players, does a filler team even them out?

03-14-2019, 09:56 PM	#7
KleineBiere Minors (Double A) Join Date: Dec 2018 Posts: 108

03-15-2019, 01:24 AM	#8
Dirwulf Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Nov 2018 Posts: 30	Yes, that's the user name, but I'm in the entry pool so that person is in other leagues too. Or whoever that is.

03-17-2019, 10:39 AM	#10
daveh2018 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Jan 2019 Posts: 139	Maybe they bought 8-10 copies of the game when it was $5 and were looking for the major PT hit with the starter packs x3 licenses, then put $ into the team(s) that hit the card lotto going forward. Rest of them are then left to languish in Bronze forever.

03-17-2019, 10:51 AM	#11
Mat All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Australia Posts: 652	Im intrigued.

03-17-2019, 02:03 PM	#12
HiDesertAce Major Leagues Join Date: Jan 2019 Posts: 315	is it possible those are filler teams set up by AI to fill out bronze leauges? i can''t imagine there are many ppl starting new teams in feeder leagues last two weeks.

03-18-2019, 03:48 PM	#13
Dirwulf Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Nov 2018 Posts: 30	I went back and checked the team's rosters and most of the teams one gold player was gone. Sold or?...