POW gibberish

hefalumps · 06-13-2003, 04:58 PM

This is a new one.

Historical season in career mode - I'm in my second year. I have done nothing different to the teams as far as realignment or abbreviation. We just had our All-Star break. The schedule was the default generated by OOTP5. So there were only two games that week.

When the POW news was generated, it came out as gibberish.
Also, neither player had the POW noted in their history or in the League News Log.

Last year's All-Star Break week POWs were fine. The POWs were pitchers, just like this year's, who had started the last game before the break and first game after the break and had performed well. Everything worked as expected on that, so it's not directly related to the All-Star week off. Anyone else seen this before? Thanks...

hefalumps · 06-18-2003, 12:55 AM

Okay... this happened to me again. This time it was just a random week in August (8/11/1990, to be exact), and again - the players did not get credit in the team news logs or in their history for their POW award.

Because Bonilla is on my team, I'm a bit more peeved than I was before. Is there a way to edit a file to give them credit for these POW awards - if so, how?

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? I have made no graphic modifications to my team. One of my guys won POW early in the year - so it shouldn't be something wrong with my team abbreviation (just the standard "BAL").

Oh - and my first garble happened with OOTP 5.10. This one happened with OOTP 5.11.

Thanks...

Edit: I take it back - Kevin Mitchell DID get credit for the POW - but Bonilla didn't.

hefalumps · 06-18-2003, 01:05 AM

Oh my system info... though I doubt it matters on this particular occasion.

Dell Dimension 8850
Pentium 4 2.5 GHZ
256 MB RAM
60 GB hard drive

The league file was originally started under OOTP 5.01 on a different computer; I copied the league over to my new computer on a game date of 05/30/1989. I'm currently at a game date of 08/11/1990 running OOTP 5.11.

hefalumps · 06-18-2003, 01:26 AM

In doing some more research, I found the actual text files for each garbled news story. Here is the raw HTML of the first news story:

Code:

Witt and Howell win Player of the Week award
The 's best player of the week was G¢7¨l’Nšæ’¹¹±’×0ô"øÀV¨’—HÆ>L'&¥dDÚõÎÊÜorB}2e|ˆM³Q]Z&m¬×ÁDœÃk‡"õ’n	„_dzö=^Uâþq)Òç—\Úþ?Ì_”."uXø€ãä–ùØj2èôEíÁ‚:¤VžÂê’;XÂÂî?=(ñ¥§¦îO¯?©Ž$3¾îÂR%O
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ŠÀ?-pì_XÙlogo35.bmp's <a href=p549.html>Mike Witt</a>, 
who wins the award for the 0th time in his career. 
Witt was overpowering all week long, going 2-0 with 
an ERA of 5.40. Along the way he struck out 7 in 13.1 
innings. In 16 starts this year Mike struck out 59 
batters in 108 innings of work. His ERA is 4.50, his 
record 6-6. G¢7¨l’Nšæ’¹¹±’×0ô"øÀV¨’—HÆ>L'&¥dDÚõÎÊÜorB}2e|ˆM³Q]Z&m¬×ÁDœÃk‡"õ’n	„_dzö=^Uâþq)Òç—\Úþ?Ì_”."uXø€ãä–ùØj2èôEíÁ‚:¤VžÂê’;XÂÂî?=(ñ¥§¦îO¯?©Ž$3¾îÂR%O
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ŠÀ?-pì_XÙlogo35.bmp's pitcher <a href=p732.html>Ken 
Howell</a> had some reason to celebrate as well, as 
the league named him the Howell was overpowering all 
week long, going 0-1 with an ERA of 4.91. Along the 
way he struck out 10 in 11 innings.

And for the second story...

Code:

Bonilla (XÙlogo35.bmp) and Mitchell (SFN) win P.O.W. award
G¢7¨l’Nšæ’¹¹±’×0ô"øÀV¨’—HÆ>L'&¥dDÚõÎÊÜorB}2e|ˆM³Q]Z&m¬×ÁDœÃk‡"õ’n	„_dzö=^Uâþq)Òç—\Úþ?Ì_”."uXø€ãä–ùØj2èôEíÁ‚:¤VžÂê’;XÂÂî?=(ñ¥§¦îO¯?©Ž$3¾îÂR%O
æÝ_A…§e!óR<õ
¢â¶œX~Ü™&«°t¢"¦±€N5èÓµ¶zM–\-_|-€Ôq2/„X…¢ùåÌ8i{h±<Ë_Ê‡Éû˜<Ùn›ë™5Êš’öF^ý•Àšâ,}ŽRõåmÉ¾ÝrƒÊo7ÜÌç{ýçS#ê7‘ÿÛV@û-[9 
ŠÀ?-pì_XÙlogo35.bmp's third baseman <a href=p599.html>Bobby 
Bonilla</a> had some reason to celebrate, as the league 
named him the He hit .519 with 8 RBI and slugged 1.037 
in 27 at bats. Bonilla has hit 20 bombs this year while 
batting .269. He adds 19 doubles, along with 65 runs 
scored. It's the 5th time that the NL Player of the 
Week award goes to San Francisco's leftfielder <a href=p815.html>Kevin 
Mitchell</a>. Kevin went 12 for 25 (.480), while hitting 
4 HR and collecting 10 RBI. He hit in every game this 
week and extended his hitting streak to 9 games. He 
now has homered in 3 consecutive games as well!

So the garble seems to be the same, even though it's showing up for three different team names. I don't know where it's coming from, as I searched the entire OOTP5 directory for "logo35" and it only came up in these two news story files. Hope this helps one of the developers figure out what's going on!

Thanks again...

hefalumps · 06-20-2003, 04:08 PM

BUMP... someone must have some idea what's going on here...

I found all the news story places so I could give Bonilla credit for his Player of the Week, but in the "Streaks/Records" section of the Batting Stats view for Bonilla, it tallies the number of POW wins as 0 still. Is there any way to fix that - or is in the player DAT file?

Hope someone can help... thanks.

06-13-2003, 04:58 PM	#1
hefalumps All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,392	POW gibberish This is a new one. Historical season in career mode - I'm in my second year. I have done nothing different to the teams as far as realignment or abbreviation. We just had our All-Star break. The schedule was the default generated by OOTP5. So there were only two games that week. When the POW news was generated, it came out as gibberish. Also, neither player had the POW noted in their history or in the League News Log. Last year's All-Star Break week POWs were fine. The POWs were pitchers, just like this year's, who had started the last game before the break and first game after the break and had performed well. Everything worked as expected on that, so it's not directly related to the All-Star week off. Anyone else seen this before? Thanks... Attached Images

06-18-2003, 12:55 AM	#2
hefalumps All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,392	Okay... this happened to me again. This time it was just a random week in August (8/11/1990, to be exact), and again - the players did not get credit in the team news logs or in their history for their POW award. Because Bonilla is on my team, I'm a bit more peeved than I was before. Is there a way to edit a file to give them credit for these POW awards - if so, how? Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? I have made no graphic modifications to my team. One of my guys won POW early in the year - so it shouldn't be something wrong with my team abbreviation (just the standard "BAL"). Oh - and my first garble happened with OOTP 5.10. This one happened with OOTP 5.11. Thanks... Edit: I take it back - Kevin Mitchell DID get credit for the POW - but Bonilla didn't. Attached Images Last edited by hefalumps; 06-18-2003 at 12:58 AM.

06-18-2003, 01:05 AM	#3
hefalumps All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,392	Oh my system info... though I doubt it matters on this particular occasion. Dell Dimension 8850 Pentium 4 2.5 GHZ 256 MB RAM 60 GB hard drive The league file was originally started under OOTP 5.01 on a different computer; I copied the league over to my new computer on a game date of 05/30/1989. I'm currently at a game date of 08/11/1990 running OOTP 5.11. Last edited by hefalumps; 06-18-2003 at 01:11 AM.

06-20-2003, 04:08 PM	#5
hefalumps All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,392	BUMP... someone must have some idea what's going on here... I found all the news story places so I could give Bonilla credit for his Player of the Week, but in the "Streaks/Records" section of the Batting Stats view for Bonilla, it tallies the number of POW wins as 0 still. Is there any way to fix that - or is in the player DAT file? Hope someone can help... thanks.