Copy this team's market conditions to all teams

jmknpk2 · 10-17-2017, 12:36 AM

Equalize market and financial conditions.

I just created a 112 team league. Equalizing the market conditions manually, team by team, takes me a considerable amount of time.

A feature to "Copy this team's finances to every team in the league" would seem to involve relatively low development effort.

A perhaps even lower-development-effort alternative would simply be an option:
"Do not adjust market conditions after the inaugural draft".
Development effort: Simple "if" statement around that section of code. And the option interface.

Basing market and financial conditions on the inaugural draft (or default players) is a fine default.

However, there are many valid reasons to equalize market conditions. For example, I prefer playing my solo universes where no specific team is advantaged or disadvantaged when the league is in it's infancy. Then allow the league to unfold as it will. (As early National and American Leagues or even earlier history was less dependent on huge Stadiums and marketing. Or how the Babe Ruth trade affected MLB history, or Branch Rickey's affect, etc..).

I would imagine a lot of online leagues would prefer a default where no human-managed team had a market advantage.

Sometimes I create leagues with teams that do not closely resemble our American MLB city-based team system. For example, state-wide teams (with several cities of various market conditions). Or national teams (perhaps similar to World Cup soccer), where market conditions are not a huge relative factor between teams (but population and baseball quality are distinguishing factors).

I guess I could write some SQL statements. But most OOTP users don't possess this skill.

jmknpk2 · 10-18-2017, 09:02 PM

I ran an inaugural draft with the draft to budget feature and things turned out more or less how I had wanted them.

So the priority of this requested has decreased some.

However, It still would be nice to have the ability to automatically set all teams to identical conditions.

TGH-Adfabre · 10-18-2017, 09:28 PM

Agreed, I like this request, particularly for online leagues.

10-17-2017, 12:36 AM	#1
jmknpk2 All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 982	Copy this team's market conditions to all teams Equalize market and financial conditions. I just created a 112 team league. Equalizing the market conditions manually, team by team, takes me a considerable amount of time. A feature to "Copy this team's finances to every team in the league" would seem to involve relatively low development effort. A perhaps even lower-development-effort alternative would simply be an option: "Do not adjust market conditions after the inaugural draft". Development effort: Simple "if" statement around that section of code. And the option interface. Basing market and financial conditions on the inaugural draft (or default players) is a fine default. However, there are many valid reasons to equalize market conditions. For example, I prefer playing my solo universes where no specific team is advantaged or disadvantaged when the league is in it's infancy. Then allow the league to unfold as it will. (As early National and American Leagues or even earlier history was less dependent on huge Stadiums and marketing. Or how the Babe Ruth trade affected MLB history, or Branch Rickey's affect, etc..). I would imagine a lot of online leagues would prefer a default where no human-managed team had a market advantage. Sometimes I create leagues with teams that do not closely resemble our American MLB city-based team system. For example, state-wide teams (with several cities of various market conditions). Or national teams (perhaps similar to World Cup soccer), where market conditions are not a huge relative factor between teams (but population and baseball quality are distinguishing factors). I guess I could write some SQL statements. But most OOTP users don't possess this skill. Last edited by jmknpk2; 10-17-2017 at 12:45 AM.

10-18-2017, 09:28 PM	#3
TGH-Adfabre Hall Of Famer Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,601	Agreed, I like this request, particularly for online leagues. __________________ You mock me, therefore I am My wife

10-18-2017, 09:02 PM	#2
jmknpk2 All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 982	I ran an inaugural draft with the draft to budget feature and things turned out more or less how I had wanted them. So the priority of this requested has decreased some. However, It still would be nice to have the ability to automatically set all teams to identical conditions.