OOTP Companion: dat file reader, Team Rater, Dev Tracker, HOF Stds, graphs, wOBA & more!

[lighthousekeeper]

A patch has been deployed.

v1.8 (8/21/2010)
* Fixed error in loading some league files
* Fix bug on playoff leaderboard showing minor league stats

[lighthousekeeper]

Originally Posted by Jeff1787

I get this same error message using Windows 7:

The latest patch will now work for your league files.

[Jeff1787]

Thanks!!

[darkcloud4579]

Wow. This is amazing.

[DCHepler25]

I don't know why I never checked this post out before, but this exactly what I've been looking for to use with my solo league.

Thanks!

[lighthousekeeper]

for anyone who is experiencing problems with text displaying (except when mouse hovers over), can you let me know which skin you are using?

[actionjackson]

I haven't read every single post, but I'm intrigued by this tool for solo league play. I play stats only though and I don't want to suddenly have the ability to "cheat". Is there a way to utilize the amazing looking stats features without gaining unwanted access to ratings?

[lighthousekeeper]

Originally Posted by actionjackson

I haven't read every single post, but I'm intrigued by this tool for solo league play. I play stats only though and I don't want to suddenly have the ability to "cheat". Is there a way to utilize the amazing looking stats features without gaining unwanted access to ratings?

You could still use the HOF, Playoff Leaderboard, and Team Rater screens and avoid clicking on the other screens.

[actionjackson]

Originally Posted by lighthousekeeper

You could still use the HOF, Playoff Leaderboard, and Team Rater screens and avoid clicking on the other screens.

Cool. Thanks.

[Mitch McQuick]

lighthousekeeper,

I managed to get your slick application running on my system pretty smoothly.

I've been looking for a way to input minor leaguers' real world seasonal batting, pitching, and fielding stats into the game via a method that is more efficient than using the Export Stats / Import Stats text file options on the Game Setup screen of OOTP 11. My primary motivation to do so is that many minor leaguers' 2008 and 2009 stats weren't made available in OOTP11, and besides those I'd also like to add real-world 2010 stats for minor leaguers that played in the lower levels during 2010 (perhaps even some higher 2010 MLB draft picks) before I proceed to a 2011 simulation.

With your dat file reader, I can edit the batting-season and pitching-season files but cannot save any of the edits (I assume that's why you call it a "reader" and not an "editor"). If I could save those edits, I'd be able to add rows to those files to incorporate new real-world seasons of stats as well as fix erroneous data in the OOTP-provided files. Do you foresee inclusion of the option to save edits to those files in your future releases of this application (or is it just not possible to reconstruct players.dat after you deconstruct it?)? And if not, how else might I be able to edit the batting-season and pitching-season files from the players.dat file in a spreadsheetish format?

Thank you.

[lighthousekeeper]

Originally Posted by Mitch McQuick

lighthousekeeper,

I managed to get your slick application running on my system pretty smoothly.

I've been looking for a way to input minor leaguers' real world seasonal batting, pitching, and fielding stats into the game via a method that is more efficient than using the Export Stats / Import Stats text file options on the Game Setup screen of OOTP 11. My primary motivation to do so is that many minor leaguers' 2008 and 2009 stats weren't made available in OOTP11, and besides those I'd also like to add real-world 2010 stats for minor leaguers that played in the lower levels during 2010 (perhaps even some higher 2010 MLB draft picks) before I proceed to a 2011 simulation.

With your dat file reader, I can edit the batting-season and pitching-season files but cannot save any of the edits (I assume that's why you call it a "reader" and not an "editor"). If I could save those edits, I'd be able to add rows to those files to incorporate new real-world seasons of stats as well as fix erroneous data in the OOTP-provided files. Do you foresee inclusion of the option to save edits to those files in your future releases of this application (or is it just not possible to reconstruct players.dat after you deconstruct it?)? And if not, how else might I be able to edit the batting-season and pitching-season files from the players.dat file in a spreadsheetish format?

Thank you.

i would like to do this as a long-term goal, but it's very difficult to implement

[longshotsoftball]

RE: Originally Posted by koohead
You guys get the menu tree on the left hand side of the screen at all?
No, all I get is File (Exit is the only drop down) Options (general is the only drop down) and Help. On the right hand side is League File with a "Load" button.


I have read through the posts and i am having the same problem as above...How do i get the program to load the files? am i doing something wrong?

I d/l version 1.8 running on a windows vista.

[lighthousekeeper]

Originally Posted by longshotsoftball

RE: Originally Posted by koohead
You guys get the menu tree on the left hand side of the screen at all?
No, all I get is File (Exit is the only drop down) Options (general is the only drop down) and Help. On the right hand side is League File with a "Load" button.


I have read through the posts and i am having the same problem as above...How do i get the program to load the files? am i doing something wrong?

I d/l version 1.8 running on a windows vista.

When you first install and run the game, what you describe is expected. Click on the button with the picture of a folder on it, which will popup a little screen asking you to pick a folder. Browser for the folder called "saved_games" (which for most people is stored under something like: [My Documents]/OOTP Baseball11/).

Once you pick the correct "saved games" folder (which contains all your league's xxx.lg folders), then more buttons will appear.

[PadresFan]

This has been posted to the Misc. page of my website....

[gglennwill]

Hi, I just loaded the program using the latest patch (11.2.28). The Team Rater and Playoff Leaderboard seemed to work, but the Dev Tracker and HOF utilities just gave me a blank screen. Can you help? I have a 64 bit Vista computer and am using the 1.8 version of the program.

[StyxNCa]

Originally Posted by lighthousekeeper

Well, Battists and the others have very valid concerns regarding online leagues, so I fully support their decision for taking the utility down. The utility makes it too easy to cheat in online leagues in a variety of ways (and you would never now who's cheating), which would in turn make playing in online leagues not as fun since there's always that spectre of potential cheating looming.

TonyM has provided me with some input that I can use to secure this up - hopefully I can get to it this weekend.

Seems to me that is the concern of the commissioners in on-line leagues and shouldn't effect those of us who play solo.

I wish someone would explain to me where the joy is in winning when you know you had to cheat to do it.

Anyway, this is a cool mod. It's basically what I've been hoping for.

However, on the development tracker page I am not getting any player names.

[cody8200]

Originally Posted by StyxNCa

However, on the development tracker page I am not getting any player names.

Me either.

[NYY #23]

Wow, this is really awesome! I stumbled across this while searching tonight, and love the Hall of Fame and playoff leaderboards! I've been manually exporting and using excel formulas, but this is going to save me a ton of time.

This is definitely one of the most useful utilities I've come across. Thanks for all of your work in putting this together!

[StyxNCa]

I guess the mod creator has dropped off the face of the earth. Too bad.

[Old Dog]

Maybe he is just taking a very well deserved break.
I sure hope he has not really disappeared. I just pre-ordered OOTP12

Old Dog