GWJ OOTP League Thread

None of my offers are showing either. Damn.

Edit: Waaaait. If I try and offer a contract to someone I already offered a contract it says I've recently submitted one. Guess that means we didn't sim far enough for the responses to trigger. yup, everything is listed in the pending offers screen.

pizzaddict wrote:

hey, none of FA offers went through. I'm pretty positive I uploaded my file. However, if I look in the pending offer section there is nothing there.

Mine went through OK, so not a game glitch. Luckily, we only simmed a couple of days, you still have time - these guys take their damn time deciding.

And yeah, getting SP via free agency is hard but this year seems extra tough. Expect to pay through the nose for relative garbage, if you are going that route.

darn, well then I obviously either didn't export my team like I thought I did, or it just didn't go through for some reason. Now to remember what players I offered contracts to.

Mine is ok.

I've had times this offseason while attempting to resign my current players or sign new coaches where it didn't look like whatever I did took. No idea what happened, unless I messed up exporting the file several times. Nothing missing this time!

Ok, I made sure to export this time Hopefully it sticks.

New file! No major deals yet, as this year's FA collection only has 2-3 marquee names. But all it takes for a player to score a landmark contract is a owner willing to pay him. Most expect Herman Cherry, Miami's Golden Glove-winning outfielder to end up pulling a contract somewhere in the range of $25M a year.

New file!

Winter meetings will be coming along soon, when we'll slow down to a day-a-sim schedule again.

So the good news is my offers went through this time. However, now I have an offer showing up that I never did. I've withdrawn it, but can't figure out why it did it. My manager settings have transactions set to me, only minor league stuff is set to computer. Any ideas why the computer made an offer for me?

New file!

Bumped us forward just a day, so we can make sure we have some of these little kinks worked out.

Crazy-silly money getting tossed around. I am one of the worst this off-season.

I didn't throw money around (as if I had any to throw). Has the AI done anything crazy? Have I gotten anyone? I hate not having access...

I actually have money this year, trying to buy some bats. Awesome pitching staff from last year is intact, so I think this may be the year I can make a run for the playoffs, if I can only get a couple of bats. And maybe make this a longer-term thing; most of my guys are young and tied up with long-term contracts.

If not, it will be a glorious failure and I will struggle to reach .500 for the next 3-4 seasons.

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garion333 wrote:

I didn't throw money around (as if I had any to throw). Has the AI done anything crazy? Have I gotten anyone? I hate not having access...

Garion know you are not available however thought you should know SP Bob Dale showed up on Waivers. Know you just signed him, don't think you being of sound mind :>) thought you would put him on waivers. AI screw up or your vacation settings are allowing minor league mgrs make your release decisions. I have claimed him with the thought of holding him and then giving back to you because I hate to hear a grown man cry.
I am posting this as well as sending you a PM.

Or we could have Pred "fix" it with his magical commish powers.

Yeah, I didn't trust the AI enough to put it in charge of deals & such while I'm out of town. Hopefully my offseason isn't too borked; I was able to make some adjustments after I got back from Thanksgiving and before I left for Wisconsin for work. Looking forward to getting back tomorrow night and keeping up with managing my team again.

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garion333 wrote:

I didn't throw money around (as if I had any to throw). Has the AI done anything crazy? Have I gotten anyone? I hate not having access...

Garion know you are not available however thought you should know SP Bob Dale showed up on waivers. Know you just signed him, don't think you being of sound mind :>) thought you would put him on waivers. AI screw up or your vacation settings are allowing minor league mgrs make your release decisions. I have claimed him with the thought of holding him and then giving back to you because I hate to hear a grown man cry.
I am posting this as well as sending you a PM.

Pred I believe this waiver of Dale is in error. Don't see as fair to Garion. Could you fix it.

I don't even know who that is. Was it the veteran pitcher I threw a little money at or the guy in my farm system I threw a contract at?

garion333 wrote:

I don't even know who that is. Was it the veteran pitcher I threw a little money at or the guy in my farm system I threw a contract at?

He was a SP from the international free agency.

Isn't there a screen that shows a baseball diamond and at each position shows the top 3 or 4 players/prospects at that position? I swear I have seen something before but can't find it now.

front office -> player development

Alright, let's see what we can fix.

RE: Bob Dale - Part of the issue seems to be that he's not on Baltimore's 40-man roster, although the AI could've easily done that by itself. However, even as commissioner, I can't physically remove a player from irrevocable waivers once they're on it. Moreover, every time I tried to REMOVE Dale from waivers by putting him on another team and then sending him back to Baltimore, he'd reappear, on the waiver wire.

So, I found a temporary solution. I moved Dale to Vancouver's roster, and once the eight days of his time on the waiver wire are up, i'll reassign him back to Baltimore.

Something i'm noticing, the game is a bit weird about Payrolls/Budgets and the like. Remember to keep in mind your owner's personality and your current financial status, as you cannot take on more salary via trade if you're already over-budget. For instance, if you're $2.5M over budget, and want to take on a guy with a $1M contract, the other team will need to toss in at least $1M cash to offset the increase in salary.

Everybody who PM'ed or emailed me, I think I got back to all of you.

The file is new, of course. I only simmed two days, hopefully nothing else weird has happened since then.

Whatever's clever. Pred, if you can, please take me off vacation so this doesn't happen again. Thanks.

Seattle has two SP up for a trade
1. Manual Lopez 29 years old who had an off year last year but is a solid #3,4,5 pitcher, an innings eater check out 2011,12,and 13. On some teams a#2.
2. David Belcher 26 years old 4 star potential. Pitched in AAA last season FIP of 3.57 VORP was 42.1 and a 1.21 WHIP.
Will accept any reasonble offer in the way of draft choices and or prospects.
Send me a PM if interested.
Thanks

peedmyself wrote:

front office -> player development

Thank you, I looked all over for that stupid thing.

'pologies about the sudden delay everybody. Issues. We will sim tonight.

NP, m8y!

Alright, simmed! We're at the beginning of the Winter meetings. Hopefully, by the end of the meetings, we'll have all of this crap sorted out.

Hey, the update crashed the game, and it keeps crashing upon restart. I'll go back to the old game file I downloaded at setup and see how another update fares.

edit: I got it mostly working, but can't download updates now. Shooting Pred an email.

Another edit: That error was "Error: could not load file http:(league domain address)/files/GWJLeague.tar.gz". It was solved by copying over my old accountsdata_gms.dat file. It was missing from the restore.

Has anyone else had troubles with the newest update? Is it ok to download now?