Need Advice on Creating a New Custom League With Just One League... No Minors - Page 2

Eugene Church · 05-29-2016, 02:46 PM

I clicked on OPEN on the OOTP screen

Chose Documents in my computer and highlighted Southern Association 1937 folder.

Eugene Church · 05-29-2016, 02:55 PM

Went to DOCUMENTS on my computer and highlighted SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION 1937.

Eugene Church · 05-29-2016, 03:02 PM

Double clicked on SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION 1937.

SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION 1937.lsdl came up on the screen.

I doubled clicked on it and the LEAGUE SCHEDULE appeared.

Once I reached this point, I didn't know how to get the schedule into OOTP17.
Do I copy and paste the league schedule into the game? If so, where exactly?

Am I on the right track?

If so, what do I do now?

If not, tell me what I should do... you should tell me to get lost and stop wasting your time... I have worn out my welcome with you, I think.

Eugene Church · 05-29-2016, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Bigrod

Here you go...You might need 7zip (It's free) to unzip it. Any problems, let me know.
The files are open office files. Just open them with that and all the data you need is there. You can create the rosters.txt files and the stats.txt files from within open office. Just copy what you need one of the blank sheets and save it as a csv. Once saved, rename the stats files from csv to .txt. No need to rename the extension for rosters as ootp will import rosters.csv just fine.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dqllclbnwz...iation.7z?dl=1

Another way to get the data is to export your rosters and stats in ootp. Open or import those in open office and just copy/replace/add to those, save and reimport into ootp..
You can do everything ootp needs with open office including schedules.
BTW....check your post in the mods/schedule section..

I unzipped your Minor League Spread Sheets and they opened up in Open Office.

Thanks for the help.

Is there a "simple" way to put the players into my league using your spread sheet?

I'm willing to manually put them into my league each year, but if I can do it easier and quicker, that would be great.

Hey, you and Spitze did a tremendous job on the Historical Minor Leaguers... I hope you had some help on it... but if it's like the Beta Text Team... you only had a few active participants who did all the work on the News and PBP.

Kudos to you, Spitze and others who helped on the Historical Minor League project.

Bigrod · 05-29-2016, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Eugene Church

I unzipped them and they opened up in Open Office.

Thanks for the help.

Is there a "simple" way to put the players into my league using your spread sheet?

I'm willing to manually put them into my league each year, but if I can do it easier and quicker, that would be great.

Hey, you and Spitze did a tremendous job on the Historical Minor Leaguers... I hope you had some help on it... but if it's like the Beta Text Team... you only had a few active participants who did all the work on the News and PBP.

Kudos to you, Spitze and others who help on the Historical Minor League project.

The historical minors was all Markus (Programming), Spritze (Converting it all to ootp usable data) and I did the data collecting. That's it.

Unfortunately, there's no easy way to do it. You'll have to manually add the new players each year. However if you prepare now for the future, then you can get everything ready at once.

Note 1: The first column in all the open office files should be a sort column that can be used to keep everything in order as long as you sort by column A.
Note 2: The rosters.txt file column headings/labels are off by 3 cells. Move those over so that the data below lines up with them. Helps keeping one from getting confused and putting correct data in wrong cells.

1. Make a copy of and open the rosters.ods file and delete everything that you're not going to need for now and future years. Now you should have just the new player's for each year. Add up the number of new players left.

2. Now you need to create the same number of fake player's in your game and send them to free agency. Reason is that you can't just import new players without ootp ids.
Best way to do this is to add 1 more team to your league. Keep filling it with fake players and release them to free agency until you have the same number of players you're going to need for future years. You can delete the extra team once you have everyone in free agency.

3. Export the rosters and open it with OO (Open Office).
The free agents are at the bottom of the file. Replace those player's with the future new player's data. Don't touch the player ids as you must keep them.
You can delete everything after the Position column except the very last column containing eol. You need to keep the eol. eol tells ootp that row is done and it needs to go to the next row of data. If it's not there, things will not get imported.
If you want to, you can rate the players now. Just add the correct data in the correct column. Leave cells that don't apply to that particular player blank.
4. Now save the file as a csv and reimport the rosters and all your needed future players should be showing on the free agents screen.
5. On Jan. 1 of next year, all you have to do is to export rosters (make a copy first) then open it in OO and assign the team ids to the new players in the free agent section by replacing the 0 (zero) with the team id you want them on. The team ids can be found at the top of the rosters.txt file or the top row above the teams players.
6. Move any players that won't be playing that year but may return in a future year to free agency by replacing the team id with a zero.
If you want to move the player to/from team/free agent section, just cut and paste, but ootp should no what to do with them if you don't.
7 . Save the file as a csv file to your saved game's import/export folder and reimport. All should be great.
8. Do the same for the next year when it rolls around.

Stats..
Each year after you import the rosters. Export the players stats. Make copies. Open with OO and add the new player's stats save as csv. Change csv to txt and reimport.
It helps a lot to format the stats in the OO file first. Just insert a new row and copy the column headings from the stats.txt file to it. Cut and paste the data in the OO file to the correct column. When done just copy it to the stats.txt file.

When done...check everything in ootp to make sure all is correct.
Enjoy you're hard work!!

For the schedule...place that in ootp's schedules folder and import it. You don't have to wait till preseason to do it, But when preseason rolls around, double check to make sure it's still correct just in case.

Thinks I covered everything...good luck.

I'll be out of comission for the next few days as I need to prepare for some medical procedures (sucks to get old), but will be in and out when I can till June 1 or 2.
Rod

Eugene Church · 05-29-2016, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Bigrod

For the schedule...place that in ootp's schedules folder and import it. You don't have to wait till preseason to do it, But when preseason rolls around, double check to make sure it's still correct just in case.

Thinks I covered everything...good luck.

I'll be out of comission for the next few days as I need to prepare for some medical procedures (sucks to get old), but will be in and out when I can till June 1 or 2.
Rod

I hope all goes well with your health... I'll be saying a special prayer for you.

Just one final request... sorry to be so dense about this, but I don't understand the schedule import procedure.

[/B][/I]What do I put in the OOTP schedules folder?... I opened up the OOTP17 game folder and went to schedules and saw that the schedules are coded for each league... how do I code my Southern Association schedule to get it into the game?... it looks like it will have to be an lsdl file (see screenshot)

Do I copy and paste SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION 1937.lsdl into the OOTP schedule folder?

Once it is in the OOTP schedule folder... properly encoded... then I can go to the schedule editor and import the SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION.lsdl file.

Is that the correct procedure?

Can you code my league so that I can place it in the OOTP17 schedules folder?

Bigrod · 05-30-2016, 12:07 AM

You can name it anything you want and copy it to ootp's schedule folder. Just remember the name so you can find it easy. I'd name it 1_southern_association. Then it will be first in the list and you won't have to hunt through the hundreds of schedules to find it.
The only thing with this is that ootp may or may not auto import it in following years. You'll need to manually import it yourself each year.
If you want it to auto import, then you'll need to give it a unique generic name and hope that there's no other schedule like it.
A generic name goes like this and any league that matches this criteria will use it:
ILN_BGY_G54_T8_C_.lsdl
ILN=Interleague N=No Y=Yes (has to be set the same as what it's set in ootp on the schedule options page)
BGY=Balanced games N=No Y=Yes (has to be set the same as what it's set in ootp on the schedule options page)
G=# of games your season has (has to be set the same as what it's set in ootp on the schedule options page)
T=# of teams in the league (has to be the same as the # of teams in your league)
C=Comment you can add the year here after the _.
Then go to the edit schedule import page and click the available options dropdown and select clear schedule. Click the available options dropdown again and select Import from file. Navigate to the schedule you added and select it. It should import fine..if not let me know..we may have to edit the element line a bit..The Element line always starts with this:
<SCHEDULE type=
Hope this helps

Eugene Church · 05-30-2016, 08:44 AM

Bighorn,

Thank you so much... those instructions are perfect.

Thanks to you, I have greatly improved my knowledge of OOTPB... I have learned how to unzip files and how to import schedules... in the past I have had to tediously and manually create my schedules... you are a really special OOTPB Community member.

Because of you I will get to replay my beloved Southern Association complete with the real players and a realistic schedule for each season.

I wanted to replay the Southern Association with OOTP6.1, but couldn't get complete player rosters for each season... I got about 18-21 players per team by spending two long weeks at the library researching Southern Association newspapers.

Instead, I created the All-Time All-Star Association with the original 16 MLB franchises... each team was composed of its top 25 players of all-time... I would use the players of the early decades first and then use the rest of the years as the source of new players.

It was my first dynasty league and it really went well... with one exception... there were some great players that were mediocre in my league.

Thanks a million for your great help.

And I wish you well on your medical procedures.

Get well soon!

Eugene Church · 05-31-2016, 09:09 PM

Well, how a-bout that!

(my bad impersonation of the great Mel Allen, the Voice of the New York Yankees)

I actually successfully unzipped Bigrod's schedule and even installed it successfully into my Southern Association test league.

Can you believe it?

Thanks, Bigrod... you are the man!

05-29-2016, 02:46 PM	#21
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 36,218	I clicked on OPEN on the OOTP screen Chose Documents in my computer and highlighted Southern Association 1937 folder. Attached Images

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Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 36,218	Went to DOCUMENTS on my computer and highlighted SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION 1937. Attached Images Last edited by Eugene Church; 05-29-2016 at 02:57 PM.

05-29-2016, 03:02 PM	#23
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 36,218	Double clicked on SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION 1937. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION 1937.lsdl came up on the screen. I doubled clicked on it and the LEAGUE SCHEDULE appeared. Once I reached this point, I didn't know how to get the schedule into OOTP17. Do I copy and paste the league schedule into the game? If so, where exactly? Am I on the right track? If so, what do I do now? If not, tell me what I should do... you should tell me to get lost and stop wasting your time... I have worn out my welcome with you, I think. Attached Images Last edited by Eugene Church; 05-29-2016 at 03:45 PM.

05-30-2016, 12:07 AM	#27
Bigrod OOTP Stats Master Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Maine Posts: 3,075	You can name it anything you want and copy it to ootp's schedule folder. Just remember the name so you can find it easy. I'd name it 1_southern_association. Then it will be first in the list and you won't have to hunt through the hundreds of schedules to find it. The only thing with this is that ootp may or may not auto import it in following years. You'll need to manually import it yourself each year. If you want it to auto import, then you'll need to give it a unique generic name and hope that there's no other schedule like it. A generic name goes like this and any league that matches this criteria will use it: ILN_BGY_G54_T8_C_.lsdl ILN=Interleague N=No Y=Yes (has to be set the same as what it's set in ootp on the schedule options page) BGY=Balanced games N=No Y=Yes (has to be set the same as what it's set in ootp on the schedule options page) G=# of games your season has (has to be set the same as what it's set in ootp on the schedule options page) T=# of teams in the league (has to be the same as the # of teams in your league) C=Comment you can add the year here after the _. Then go to the edit schedule import page and click the available options dropdown and select clear schedule. Click the available options dropdown again and select Import from file. Navigate to the schedule you added and select it. It should import fine..if not let me know..we may have to edit the element line a bit..The Element line always starts with this: <SCHEDULE type= Hope this helps Last edited by Bigrod; 05-30-2016 at 12:38 AM.

05-30-2016, 08:44 AM	#28
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 36,218	Bighorn, Thank you so much... those instructions are perfect. Thanks to you, I have greatly improved my knowledge of OOTPB... I have learned how to unzip files and how to import schedules... in the past I have had to tediously and manually create my schedules... you are a really special OOTPB Community member. Because of you I will get to replay my beloved Southern Association complete with the real players and a realistic schedule for each season. I wanted to replay the Southern Association with OOTP6.1, but couldn't get complete player rosters for each season... I got about 18-21 players per team by spending two long weeks at the library researching Southern Association newspapers. Instead, I created the All-Time All-Star Association with the original 16 MLB franchises... each team was composed of its top 25 players of all-time... I would use the players of the early decades first and then use the rest of the years as the source of new players. It was my first dynasty league and it really went well... with one exception... there were some great players that were mediocre in my league. Thanks a million for your great help. And I wish you well on your medical procedures. Get well soon! Last edited by Eugene Church; 05-30-2016 at 08:50 AM.

05-31-2016, 09:09 PM	#29
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 36,218	Well, how a-bout that! (my bad impersonation of the great Mel Allen, the Voice of the New York Yankees) I actually successfully unzipped Bigrod's schedule and even installed it successfully into my Southern Association test league. Can you believe it? Thanks, Bigrod... you are the man! Last edited by Eugene Church; 05-31-2016 at 09:10 PM.