Can You Run a Test League in OOTP?

[Eugene Church]

Is it possible to run a test league to set the stats output?
Can I use the league I have just set up?
Can I sim a year?
And then, reset the league stats back to the first day of that season, make adjustments to the league modifiers and run another test league and keep doing this until I have perfected the league stats?

I have set up a custom league, but would like to refine the stats output to make be similar to recreational league baseball where there are more errors, pass balls and stolen bases than in pro baseball.

I have set the modifiers in the past, but it is a tedious process of trial-and-error.

I would be great if I can just do a test league... then delete the stats for the test season and get them back to zero as at the start of a season.

Can I do this?
I have spent a lot of time creating this custom league... I don't want to mess it up and have to start all over again.

Would appreciate your help.

[WIUPIKE]

I do something similar creating a template as a quickstart

[Eugene Church]

How do you create a template?
Can you do it the first day of the season?
Or can that only be done in the preseason?

So if I can create a template of my league, I can change the template and run a test league and it will not affect the custom league I created?

Each test season, I would just use the original template.

Thank you for your help.

[Eugene Church]

It would be nice if I could just reset the league stats back to opening day after I do a test season.

Is this possible?

[BradG223]

You should be able to do this with the Simulation Module, right?
I think the process should be

1. Change stats as desired
2. Play -> Simulation Module
3. Set 'Simulation Mode' to Entire Season
4. Press Simulate

You may need to be in commissioner mode.

[WIUPIKE]

Originally Posted by Eugene Church

How do you create a template?
Can you do it the first day of the season?
Or can that only be done in the preseason?

So if I can create a template of my league, I can change the template and run a test league and it will not affect the custom league I created?

Each test season, I would just use the original template.

Thank you for your help.

What i do is i go through the settings make my adjustments and save game as quickstart. All Settings are there.

I also do it anytime i expand a league to have files before the expansion and before the draft in case i set a wrong thing up i can go back and restart that process, but with all the teams, logo's and stadiums already saved.

For it being a critical test league for you my suggestion would be to keep the initial file and not sim forward, but to start the quickstart and use those league files as your test leagues to come back to the main file when you are comfortable.

[Giants44]

I have done this 100 times using this method

backup league I want to test

restore from backup - use orginalleaguename_TestX as the leaguename

sim 1 year, 5 years, 100 years...

never had an issue

also worth noting I am an obsessive backup guy and have a backup for every month or so of leagues I care about on a NAS - no matter how bad I screw something up I can almost always get back to a previous backed up point in a league

[Eugene Church]

Much appreciate all the help... thank you.

[Eugene Church]

Originally Posted by Giants44

I have done this 100 times using this method

backup league I want to test

restore from backup - use orginalleaguename_TestX as the leaguename

sim 1 year, 5 years, 100 years...

never had an issue

also worth noting I am an obsessive backup guy and have a backup for every month or so of leagues I care about on a NAS - no matter how bad I screw something up I can almost always get back to a previous backed up point in a league

Which choice do I select?

Do I click on "start backup"?
Or "Copy all files"?
Which one produces the best backup?

Sorry to be so dense... not good with computers at all.

Is this the proper procedure:

1. backup my current league.
2. use my current league to make test runs.
3. after setting my league modifiers in test runs.
4. then use my "restore backup" to replace my test league.

In the "restore backup" do I need to change the league modifiers in the original backup league to the new league modifiers that I got during the test leagues?

[silvam14]

Just throwing this out there, but you could just make a copy of your current league and then run the test on the copy without ever having to touch your current league.

I can't fathom how many files are in your league's directories though EC. I've never come close to playing a league as long as you have

[Eugene Church]

Originally Posted by silvam14

Just throwing this out there, but you could just make a copy of your current league and then run the test on the copy without ever having to touch your current league.

I can't fathom how many files are in your league's directories though EC. I've never come close to playing a league as long as you have

My long-running Islandian Pro Alliance had over 5 million files the last time I noticed it... I have been playing it for 14 years and reporting on it in the OOTP Dynasty Forum... I have played 68 seasons so far...it took 18 hours to convert from OOTP20 to OOTP21.

Thanks for the suggestion.. much appreciate it.

[silvam14]

Originally Posted by Eugene Church

My long-running Islandian Pro Alliance had over 5 million files the last time I noticed it... I have been playing it for 14 years and reporting on it in the OOTP Dynasty Forum... I have played 68 seasons so far...it took 18 hours to convert from OOTP20 to OOTP21.

Thanks for the suggestion.. much appreciate it.

Absolutely amazing. Good luck!


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