Need help creating my own Online League

MetsFan19 · 03-23-2020, 04:01 PM

Hello,

First time user on OOTP 21 due to the MLB shutdown.

Looking to create an online league with my family/friends. Need some guidance on getting started.

Have created the league on OOTP and converted it into a online league. Not sure how to create my own site/whether I should use on of the other paid websites to manage it/how to use google drive/email to do this.

Thanks for your help.

davidtaylorjr1985 · 03-24-2020, 03:23 PM

Bump

bulldog55 · 03-25-2020, 11:13 AM

Probably the easiest way to get started is using Statsplus. They give you web space and online tools and Dave is very responsive.

https://statsplus.net/web-overview.html

davidtaylorjr1985 · 03-25-2020, 11:30 AM

Are there alternatives to Statplus? Can't swing the price.

bulldog55 · 03-25-2020, 11:46 AM

Well, you need some sort of web space with FTP to host the league files and team exports. You as the commissioner would run the sim, then you create a ZIP file of the league folder and upload it to the web space, which the other team GMs can then download; they set their rosters and upload those as individual team files to the web space, you download them, run the sim, and repeat the process. So if not Statsplus, you'd need to find another hosting service. I don't know how versed you are in managing websites but it takes some technical knowhow. That's why Statsplus is nice - it's pretty competitively priced to setting up your own space, and it's geared specifically at running OOTP leagues. (I have no financial interest in Statsplus, but I do run two leagues on it, and gave up our own web host for it.)

This part of the manual addresses how to set up online leagues: http://manuals.ootpdevelopments.com/...at_is_required

If it's just a small league of friends and family, you could always skip the FTP part and email or upload files/exports to someplace like Dropbox, but you'd have to download and unpack everything manually and wouldn't have a league website. If it were just a handful of people playing a casual league, that would probably work, but it would get unwieldy in a hurry. With an FTP server, you can do all this with the click of a button.

Desolate · 03-25-2020, 04:18 PM

There is another alternative that I have used a few times called allsimbaseball that is what I’m using for mine currently.

http://www.allsimbaseball.com/

Their prices are pretty reasonable, and you get to choose your access. It takes between 12-24 hours to set up, but once he sets it up he will email you all instructions needed to get your league started.

03-23-2020, 04:01 PM	#1
MetsFan19 Bat Boy Join Date: Mar 2020 Posts: 3	Need help creating my own Online League Hello, First time user on OOTP 21 due to the MLB shutdown. Looking to create an online league with my family/friends. Need some guidance on getting started. Have created the league on OOTP and converted it into a online league. Not sure how to create my own site/whether I should use on of the other paid websites to manage it/how to use google drive/email to do this. Thanks for your help.

03-24-2020, 03:23 PM	#2
davidtaylorjr1985 Minors (Single A) Join Date: Mar 2020 Posts: 76	Bump __________________

03-25-2020, 11:13 AM	#3
bulldog55 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: California's Canada Warnings: 17 Posts: 2,475	Probably the easiest way to get started is using Statsplus. They give you web space and online tools and Dave is very responsive. https://statsplus.net/web-overview.html __________________ Commissioner, Trans-Continental Base Ball Association Owner/GM, Los Angeles Electrics (TCBA), Beaverton Rangers (OTBL), Portland Mavericks (Union League), and Los Angeles Superbas (Century League) Being smart, don't always make you popular.

03-25-2020, 11:30 AM	#4
davidtaylorjr1985 Minors (Single A) Join Date: Mar 2020 Posts: 76	Are there alternatives to Statplus? Can't swing the price. __________________

03-25-2020, 11:46 AM	#5
bulldog55 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: California's Canada Warnings: 17 Posts: 2,475	Well, you need some sort of web space with FTP to host the league files and team exports. You as the commissioner would run the sim, then you create a ZIP file of the league folder and upload it to the web space, which the other team GMs can then download; they set their rosters and upload those as individual team files to the web space, you download them, run the sim, and repeat the process. So if not Statsplus, you'd need to find another hosting service. I don't know how versed you are in managing websites but it takes some technical knowhow. That's why Statsplus is nice - it's pretty competitively priced to setting up your own space, and it's geared specifically at running OOTP leagues. (I have no financial interest in Statsplus, but I do run two leagues on it, and gave up our own web host for it.) This part of the manual addresses how to set up online leagues: http://manuals.ootpdevelopments.com/...at_is_required If it's just a small league of friends and family, you could always skip the FTP part and email or upload files/exports to someplace like Dropbox, but you'd have to download and unpack everything manually and wouldn't have a league website. If it were just a handful of people playing a casual league, that would probably work, but it would get unwieldy in a hurry. With an FTP server, you can do all this with the click of a button. __________________ Commissioner, Trans-Continental Base Ball Association Owner/GM, Los Angeles Electrics (TCBA), Beaverton Rangers (OTBL), Portland Mavericks (Union League), and Los Angeles Superbas (Century League) Being smart, don't always make you popular.

03-25-2020, 04:18 PM	#6
Desolate Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Mar 2019 Posts: 25	There is another alternative that I have used a few times called allsimbaseball that is what I’m using for mine currently. http://www.allsimbaseball.com/ Their prices are pretty reasonable, and you get to choose your access. It takes between 12-24 hours to set up, but once he sets it up he will email you all instructions needed to get your league started.