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soxman · 04-29-2002, 10:03 AM

Further to mastro's comment I've also noticed it resets, on the League Setup screen, both Trade Frequency and Trade Frequency to ENABLED. It also resets the current Era setting to a blank line.
Also (Sorry Dave!!) when you play the first game of the season, the PbP speed is set to NO.

None of these are biggies as it only takes a couple of clicks to right the situation.

davep1967 · 04-29-2002, 10:24 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by soxman:
Further to mastro's comment I've also noticed it resets, on the League Setup screen, both Trade Frequency and Trade Frequency to ENABLED. It also resets the current Era setting to a blank line.
Also (Sorry Dave!!) when you play the first game of the season, the PbP speed is set to NO.

None of these are biggies as it only takes a couple of clicks to right the situation.<hr /></blockquote>Ok-- Thanks for letting me know. Let me know of any additional problems. I will try to fix these.

Dargone · 04-30-2002, 03:01 AM

Awesome Dave. Great program

Steve Kuffrey · 05-01-2002, 04:49 PM

Dave,

Fantastic job, my first chance to use it was tonight with a historical league beginning in "MY" first year as a baseball fan 1969.

Thanks for all your work and support.

alinkens · 05-01-2002, 04:58 PM

I've been using the generator in 3 leagues and have never had it reset any of the league setup options. I've played 3 seasons in one league, 4 in the 2nd, and 2 in the 3rd..

davep1967 · 05-02-2002, 03:46 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by alinkens:
I've been using the generator in 3 leagues and have never had it reset any of the league setup options<hr /></blockquote>You're welcome Steve-- Thanks

Sorry guys---I haven't had time to look at this, but I might know why this is happening.

I am guessing that if you have OOTP4 open when you create the scheudles, the options you select for the league are being overwritten.

I suggest closing OOTP4, then generate your schedules. Then reopen OOTP4 and see if your options were changed.

I think that if you have OOTP4 open, and you generate the schedule--- your league options are not "saved" yet (still in memory)... and then are not written to disk.

Just an idea.... I will try to look at it early next week. My weekend is already shot.

[ 05-02-2002, 09:47 AM: Message edited by: davep1967 ]

soxman · 05-02-2002, 06:24 AM

Sorry, OOTP4 is always closed when I create a schedule.

davep1967 · 05-02-2002, 08:46 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by soxman:
Sorry, OOTP4 is always closed when I create a schedule.<hr /></blockquote>Hmmmmmmm---ok..thanks for the info.

RobertB · 05-03-2002, 07:04 AM

I would like to bring back a piece from early in this thread. A person was talking about wanting to be able to have a perfectly balanced schedule of 12 games per opponent, and you had mentioned that the program wasn't designed to solve that problem. Can that be a possible re-design? Maybe a separate program?
Here is what I was thinking (and I'm not a programmer/designer, I just play one on my PC, so you will have to tell what's blue sky thinking), that you would put in how many division games you want, how many out-of-division games you want, how many interleague series you want (always 3 per series), and it tells you how many games in the season and then runs the calculations to fit them the best into the 26 week time frame.
I'm figuring that since you already have your engine built, you would be able to use that as the jumping-off point, so you would know best if that is possible.

Thank you for your time!

davep1967 · 05-03-2002, 07:14 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by RobertB:
I would like to bring back a piece from early in this thread. A person was talking about wanting to be able to have a perfectly balanced schedule of 12 games per opponent, and you had mentioned that the program wasn't designed to solve that problem. Can that be a possible re-design? Maybe a separate program?
Here is what I was thinking (and I'm not a programmer/designer, I just play one on my PC, so you will have to tell what's blue sky thinking), that you would put in how many division games you want, how many out-of-division games you want, how many interleague series you want (always 3 per series), and it tells you how many games in the season and then runs the calculations to fit them the best into the 26 week time frame.
I'm figuring that since you already have your engine built, you would be able to use that as the jumping-off point, so you would know best if that is possible.

Thank you for your time!<hr /></blockquote>Ummmmmm.....Sorry - that will be pretty much impossible the way the program is written. I will think about it to see if there is a possible solution though....but I would not hold my breath for it. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

mastro · 05-04-2002, 04:04 AM

I found out how to prevent the schedule generator from changing the system settings. I was running schedule.exe from within my league folder (\ootp4\mlb.lg). I moved it out to my desktop and ran it from there and the system settings did not change anymore.

soxman · 05-04-2002, 06:32 AM

Good spot!!

That's sorted it for me as well.

Willy · 05-04-2002, 10:06 AM

Just want to say thanks Dave. Great program!!! Got a chance to use it tonight and had no problems at all. Thanks again.

Willy

Psicosis · 05-04-2002, 05:36 PM

Okay, I'm having a weird problem, and I'm not sure if it's related to the schedule generator or not. It's 2006 in my MLB league, and I was going along happily. Lalalalalalala. Then comes May, and the date on all the pages except the main news page and schedule page rolls over to... April 1st. It hasn't really affected the progress of the season, just some minor stuff, but it's now early August, but most of the stuff is saying it's early July, and teams can still make trades. It's okay as a one-year thing, but it's still weird and I'm not sure what caused it.

AcesFull · 05-05-2002, 06:20 AM

Dave, first off--great program. Thanks.

I am having a strange problem, though. I am running a fictional league, in it's first year, with only 8 teams--4 teams in each league with only one division in each league. (I plan on many expansions, but I am keeping it small while I learn the game.)

So, I set up the scheduler for a 162 game season, with 7 series against interleague opponents, and an all-star break. When I ran the scheduler, I got a "game # must be even" error. 162 IS even. I changed it to 161, and it worked -- making a 160 game schedule.

I had to go into the OOTP scheduler and manually add the other two games for each team. A curious and possibly related offshoot of this is that, in the expanded league standings, the magic number is based on 160 games, even though I have added the 2 extras to make it 162.

So, a great program -- much better than the OOTP scheduler, but just thought I'd tell you about the bug. Thanks.

davep1967 · 05-05-2002, 09:59 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by AcesFull:
Dave, first off--great program. Thanks.

I am having a strange problem, though. I am running a fictional league, in it's first year, with only 8 teams--4 teams in each league with only one division in each league. (I plan on many expansions, but I am keeping it small while I learn the game.)

So, I set up the scheduler for a 162 game season, with 7 series against interleague opponents, and an all-star break. When I ran the scheduler, I got a "game # must be even" error. 162 IS even. I changed it to 161, and it worked -- making a 160 game schedule.

I had to go into the OOTP scheduler and manually add the other two games for each team. A curious and possibly related offshoot of this is that, in the expanded league standings, the magic number is based on 160 games, even though I have added the 2 extras to make it 162.

So, a great program -- much better than the OOTP scheduler, but just thought I'd tell you about the bug. Thanks.<hr /></blockquote>Thanks for letting me know...

I just fixed it and will update a new version very soon. (duh...I did something with that variable before I checked if it's even of not)

davep1967 · 05-05-2002, 10:01 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Psicosis:
Okay, I'm having a weird problem, and I'm not sure if it's related to the schedule generator or not. It's 2006 in my MLB league, and I was going along happily. Lalalalalalala. Then comes May, and the date on all the pages except the main news page and schedule page rolls over to... April 1st. It hasn't really affected the progress of the season, just some minor stuff, but it's now early August, but most of the stuff is saying it's early July, and teams can still make trades. It's okay as a one-year thing, but it's still weird and I'm not sure what caused it.<hr /></blockquote>Ummmmm.. wow, that is weird. I honestly don't know what caused that....

04-29-2002, 10:24 AM	#82
davep1967 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Cleveland, OH Posts: 176	</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by soxman: <strong>Further to mastro's comment I've also noticed it resets, on the League Setup screen, both Trade Frequency and Trade Frequency to ENABLED. It also resets the current Era setting to a blank line. Also (Sorry Dave!!) when you play the first game of the season, the PbP speed is set to NO. None of these are biggies as it only takes a couple of clicks to right the situation.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Ok-- Thanks for letting me know. Let me know of any additional problems. I will try to fix these. __________________ Try the StickWare Schedule Generator!

04-30-2002, 03:01 AM	#83
Dargone Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Interwebs Posts: 2,862	Awesome Dave. Great program __________________ I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.-Margaret Mitchell

05-01-2002, 04:49 PM	#84
Steve Kuffrey Administrator Join Date: Jul 1999 Location: S.E. TN - Georgia born and raised Posts: 17,036	Dave, Fantastic job, my first chance to use it was tonight with a historical league beginning in "MY" first year as a baseball fan 1969. Thanks for all your work and support. __________________ Steve Kuffrey DABS Atlanta Braves - 2008 Eastern Division Champ *DBLC Atlanta Braves - 2011, 2014 East Division Champ, 2012, 2013 NL Wildcard Baseball Maelstrom-Montreal Expos-2013 Tourney winner, 2014 WC Team Sparky's League - Tampa Bay D'Rays Epicenter Baseball League - Astros 2014 The CBL Rewind - Phillies '95

05-01-2002, 04:58 PM	#85
alinkens All Star Starter Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: CT Posts: 1,072	I've been using the generator in 3 leagues and have never had it reset any of the league setup options. I've played 3 seasons in one league, 4 in the 2nd, and 2 in the 3rd.. __________________ Owner of the Coast to Coast League's Regina Pride

05-02-2002, 03:46 AM	#86
davep1967 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Cleveland, OH Posts: 176	</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by alinkens: <strong>I've been using the generator in 3 leagues and have never had it reset any of the league setup options</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">You're welcome Steve-- Thanks Sorry guys---I haven't had time to look at this, but I might know why this is happening. I am guessing that if you have OOTP4 open when you create the scheudles, the options you select for the league are being overwritten. I suggest closing OOTP4, then generate your schedules. Then reopen OOTP4 and see if your options were changed. I think that if you have OOTP4 open, and you generate the schedule--- your league options are not "saved" yet (still in memory)... and then are not written to disk. Just an idea.... I will try to look at it early next week. My weekend is already shot. <small>[ 05-02-2002, 09:47 AM: Message edited by: davep1967 ]</small> __________________ Try the StickWare Schedule Generator!

04-29-2002, 10:03 AM	#81
soxman Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Christchurch, England Posts: 283	Further to mastro's comment I've also noticed it resets, on the League Setup screen, both Trade Frequency and Trade Frequency to ENABLED. It also resets the current Era setting to a blank line. Also (Sorry Dave!!) when you play the first game of the season, the PbP speed is set to NO. None of these are biggies as it only takes a couple of clicks to right the situation.

05-02-2002, 06:24 AM	#87
soxman Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Christchurch, England Posts: 283	Sorry, OOTP4 is always closed when I create a schedule.

05-02-2002, 08:46 AM	#88
davep1967 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Cleveland, OH Posts: 176	</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by soxman: <strong>Sorry, OOTP4 is always closed when I create a schedule.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Hmmmmmmm---ok..thanks for the info. __________________ Try the StickWare Schedule Generator!

05-03-2002, 07:04 AM	#89
RobertB Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 17	I would like to bring back a piece from early in this thread. A person was talking about wanting to be able to have a perfectly balanced schedule of 12 games per opponent, and you had mentioned that the program wasn't designed to solve that problem. Can that be a possible re-design? Maybe a separate program? Here is what I was thinking (and I'm not a programmer/designer, I just play one on my PC, so you will have to tell what's blue sky thinking), that you would put in how many division games you want, how many out-of-division games you want, how many interleague series you want (always 3 per series), and it tells you how many games in the season and then runs the calculations to fit them the best into the 26 week time frame. I'm figuring that since you already have your engine built, you would be able to use that as the jumping-off point, so you would know best if that is possible. Thank you for your time! __________________ The secret to success is knowing who to blame for your failures.

05-03-2002, 07:14 AM	#90
davep1967 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Cleveland, OH Posts: 176	</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by RobertB: <strong>I would like to bring back a piece from early in this thread. A person was talking about wanting to be able to have a perfectly balanced schedule of 12 games per opponent, and you had mentioned that the program wasn't designed to solve that problem. Can that be a possible re-design? Maybe a separate program? Here is what I was thinking (and I'm not a programmer/designer, I just play one on my PC, so you will have to tell what's blue sky thinking), that you would put in how many division games you want, how many out-of-division games you want, how many interleague series you want (always 3 per series), and it tells you how many games in the season and then runs the calculations to fit them the best into the 26 week time frame. I'm figuring that since you already have your engine built, you would be able to use that as the jumping-off point, so you would know best if that is possible. Thank you for your time!</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Ummmmmm.....Sorry - that will be pretty much impossible the way the program is written. I will think about it to see if there is a possible solution though....but I would not hold my breath for it. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> __________________ Try the StickWare Schedule Generator!

05-04-2002, 04:04 AM	#91
mastro Bat Boy Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 10	I found out how to prevent the schedule generator from changing the system settings. I was running schedule.exe from within my league folder (\ootp4\mlb.lg). I moved it out to my desktop and ran it from there and the system settings did not change anymore.

05-04-2002, 06:32 AM	#92
soxman Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Christchurch, England Posts: 283	Good spot!! That's sorted it for me as well.

05-04-2002, 10:06 AM	#93
Willy Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Regina, Sk Posts: 443	Just want to say thanks Dave. Great program!!! Got a chance to use it tonight and had no problems at all. Thanks again. Willy __________________ Consoles are for little kids.

05-04-2002, 05:36 PM	#94
Psicosis Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Memphis, TN Posts: 228	Okay, I'm having a weird problem, and I'm not sure if it's related to the schedule generator or not. It's 2006 in my MLB league, and I was going along happily. Lalalalalalala. Then comes May, and the date on all the pages except the main news page and schedule page rolls over to... April 1st. It hasn't really affected the progress of the season, just some minor stuff, but it's now early August, but most of the stuff is saying it's early July, and teams can still make trades. It's okay as a one-year thing, but it's still weird and I'm not sure what caused it.

05-05-2002, 06:20 AM	#95
AcesFull Minors (Single A) Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 76	Dave, first off--great program. Thanks. I am having a strange problem, though. I am running a fictional league, in it's first year, with only 8 teams--4 teams in each league with only one division in each league. (I plan on many expansions, but I am keeping it small while I learn the game.) So, I set up the scheduler for a 162 game season, with 7 series against interleague opponents, and an all-star break. When I ran the scheduler, I got a "game # must be even" error. 162 IS even. I changed it to 161, and it worked -- making a 160 game schedule. I had to go into the OOTP scheduler and manually add the other two games for each team. A curious and possibly related offshoot of this is that, in the expanded league standings, the magic number is based on 160 games, even though I have added the 2 extras to make it 162. So, a great program -- much better than the OOTP scheduler, but just thought I'd tell you about the bug. Thanks.

05-05-2002, 09:59 AM	#96
davep1967 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Cleveland, OH Posts: 176	</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by AcesFull: <strong>Dave, first off--great program. Thanks. I am having a strange problem, though. I am running a fictional league, in it's first year, with only 8 teams--4 teams in each league with only one division in each league. (I plan on many expansions, but I am keeping it small while I learn the game.) So, I set up the scheduler for a 162 game season, with 7 series against interleague opponents, and an all-star break. When I ran the scheduler, I got a "game # must be even" error. 162 IS even. I changed it to 161, and it worked -- making a 160 game schedule. I had to go into the OOTP scheduler and manually add the other two games for each team. A curious and possibly related offshoot of this is that, in the expanded league standings, the magic number is based on 160 games, even though I have added the 2 extras to make it 162. So, a great program -- much better than the OOTP scheduler, but just thought I'd tell you about the bug. Thanks.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Thanks for letting me know... I just fixed it and will update a new version very soon. (duh...I did something with that variable before I checked if it's even of not) __________________ Try the StickWare Schedule Generator!

05-05-2002, 10:01 AM	#97
davep1967 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Cleveland, OH Posts: 176	</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Psicosis: <strong>Okay, I'm having a weird problem, and I'm not sure if it's related to the schedule generator or not. It's 2006 in my MLB league, and I was going along happily. Lalalalalalala. Then comes May, and the date on all the pages except the main news page and schedule page rolls over to... April 1st. It hasn't really affected the progress of the season, just some minor stuff, but it's now early August, but most of the stuff is saying it's early July, and teams can still make trades. It's okay as a one-year thing, but it's still weird and I'm not sure what caused it.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Ummmmm.. wow, that is weird. I honestly don't know what caused that.... __________________ Try the StickWare Schedule Generator!