OOTP 12 League?

Prederick wrote:
Donan wrote:

I just sent you what you requested, but it just dawned on me, is the GM Name the one I used when I first signed into the on-league module (which I did a week ago or so). So is that the name (Donevyn) the one I should of given you? (I gave you another at time of post).

I think I understand what you're confused about, so let me try to explain. Your GM name is whatever you want it to be. If you want to be known as Lord Balderdash, then i'll enter your username as that. If you started up a different league for your own fun (I have), it doesn't transfer or or anything. Whatever you want it to be, it will be. Right now, i'm just going to leave everyone's GM names as their forum names, unless everyone here is okay with using their real names.

As far as how this works, it's really, really easy. The commish handles pretty much all of the simming, so all a user would do is download the most recent league file, check his team, set his lineups/staff, maybe make some transactions, and then export a team file, and either e-mail it to the commish who will then upload it to the server, or upload it to the server yourself via FTP.

Thanks. What is the filename extension or whatever so I can identify it? And where would I find it?

Here is my team the Seattle Rain.

Donan wrote:

Thanks. What is the filename extension or whatever so I can identify it? And where would I find it?

There's documentation that answers this question and others here. Yes, it's last year's manual, but it's still largely relevant. That said, I encourage everyone, if you haven't before/yet, to start a quick game and poke around for a bit in the functionality of the game.

I would say 99% of last year's manual is still applicable. The iOS version really sucked the life out of 12's development. It's not as thorough, if that makes sense.

I think I want to jump in.

Can I bring professional baseball to Buffalo?

I'll think of a team name and send an email later.

Edit: And email sent. Hopefully the Buffalo Breakfast Burritos are going to be contenders!

Prederick you may know about all this kind of thing, but here's a nice thread from OOTP 12 about setting up
fictional leagues by simming a few years first.

http://tiny.cc/24umf

I emailed Pred, but I'll post here:

Brooklyn Sandwiches - Slumberland

There's a common food theme in the team names.

I'm hungry.

Donan wrote:

Prederick you may know about all this kind of thing, but here's a nice thread from OOTP 12 about setting up
fictional leagues by simming a few years first.

http://tiny.cc/24umf

We'd broached the idea earlier, I mean, the thread does have a point. Fictional Leagues that start from Year 1 (so to speak) have an abundance of rather talented 24-year olds bopping around. So yeah, simming 15-20 years would create the most realistic-looking league. If our owners are interested, we can do it, it won't take me more than an evening.

The catch is that there will be greater variance between highest and lowest payrolls (since we don't have a salary cap), so it matters what everyone's okay with.

I'm fine with simming a few years, or not.

I'm in favor of simming some years. In particular, I'd like to see us sim years, then reset stats and redraft so we don't end up with teams that are totally lopsided at one position.

Alright, so here's what i'm doing:

I have re-created the league, and will sim 25 years of history, starting in 1976. Once the game is done, I will delete the entire league's history, and schedule a fantasy draft with a $90M max budget that the AI will take care of for us. We'll start from there.

Here is the current owner list:

Northern League - Eastern Division:

Baltimore Bridgeburners - garion333
Boston Waving Whiteflags - Landshrk83
Brooklyn Sandwiches - slumberland
Pittsburgh Fighting Pierogies - Novocain

Northern League - Western Division:

Denver
Buffalo Breakfast Burritos - The Counselor
Seattle Rain - mitchson
Vancouver Kings - Prederick

Southern League - Eastern Division:

Atlanta
Charlotte
Miami
New Orleans

Southern League - Western Division:

Dallas Dirigibles - jakeleg
Los Angeles
Phoenix
San Diego Surfers - Donan

IF YOU ARE MISSING FROM THIS LIST OR WOULD LIKE TO MAKE ANY CHANGES TO THE LEAGUE, LET ME KNOW BEFORE SUNDAY.

As far as i'm concerned, when Sunday rolls around, we're locked in. That night i'll create the new league thread with rules, direct everyone to the league website, give all the relevants about how to play the league, et cetera. So if you have any suggestions, RE: salary cap, what era we should play in, whether or not someone roughly as good as Craig Counsell should be able to belt 35 HRs a year, whatever, you've got less than 48 hours to let me know.

If you want in, and are hemming and hawwing over joining, decide by Sunday, after which, i'm not going to allow any new owners until the offseason begins. That won't take super-long, but it'll still be a while.

The competition in the North-East is very, um, human. While the South-East is robotic.
I wonder what kind of drama (in a good way) this is going to create.

Looking forward to starting the game. In the meantime, I'd be re-reading my copy of Moneyball for the 5th time.

I'm stoked.

EARLY FUNSIES:

League Payrolls Post-Inaugural Draft:

1 Phoenix Blue Jackets $102,391,600
2 Atlanta Cosmopolitans $100,048,200
3 Boston Waving Whiteflags $99,421,300
4 New Orleans Llamas $99,368,700
5 Miami Immortals $99,066,000
6 Seattle Rain $98,402,800
7 Los Angeles Ventures $98,180,000
8 Buffalo Breakfast Burritos $98,171,500
9 Dallas Dirigibles $98,156,700
10 Baltimore Bridgeburners $97,514,000
11 Brooklyn Sandwiches $96,738,700
12 Vancouver Kings $96,687,800
13 Charlotte Golden Seals $96,231,000
14 San Diego Surfers $95,574,900
15 Pittsburgh Fighting Pierogies $88,338,100
16 Denver Millers $85,238,700

Highest Player Salaries
[table]
1 Bill Bailey Seattle $20,000,000
2 Bing-zhang Gou Dallas $19,000,000
3 Javier Esparza Miami $18,000,000
4 António Árias Atlanta $17,000,000
5 Gauthier Lafon Buffalo $17,000,000
6 Tyler Morris Phoenix $17,000,000
7 Bob Wright Buffalo $17,000,000
8 Eric Davis Seattle $16,000,000
9 Gustavo Padilla New Orleans $16,000,000
10 José Torres Vancouver $16,000,000
11 César Morán New Orleans $14,500,000
12 Alex Williamson Boston $14,000,000
13 Dallas Graham Atlanta $13,500,000
14 Edwin Harrison Phoenix $13,500,000
15 Rich Lewis Charlotte $13,500,000
16 Jerry Herman Brooklyn $13,000,000
17 Dustin Tansell Seattle $13,000,000
18 Mason Moore Boston $12,500,000
19 Ángel Pagán Los Angeles $12,500,000
20 Jorge Rodríguez Buffalo $12,500,000
21 Claudio Aguilar Boston $12,000,000
22 Francisco Fuentes New Orleans $12,000,000
23 Javier Durango Pittsburgh $11,500,000
24 Blair Owen Seattle $11,000,000
25 Pedro Cruz Los Angeles $10,500,000 [/table]

Hmmm, I have the 10th highest payroll, but not a player in the top 20 salaries. I hope to god that means I have a good team.

I have three top 20 salaries. Of course, those won't matter because you're simming 25 years, right?

Bing-zhang Gou!!!

Slumberland wrote:

Bing-zhang Gou!!!

Wow. I think he's probably worth his paycheck for his name alone.

Holy Monoly...who's got the purse strings in Seattle. Ouch!! *'chuckle*

A BIG 'thanks again!' to Prederick for taking on the Commish role and getting this going.

Landshrk83 wrote:
Slumberland wrote:

Bing-zhang Gou!!!

Wow. I think he's probably worth his paycheck for his name alone.

I don't even know what position he plays, but I now nickname him 'Flaming Dragon'. The Dirigibles are going places in 2011!

I don't know where it's at, but we definitely want to make sure the functionality, 'rehab' is in play. Evidently this will take folks who have been on the DL for awhile and take the rust off them by playing them in the minors etc. I can attest to the usefulness of this by a league I'm playing. My ace closer had been on the 60 DL. I put him him straight away, and 'bang!' one inning = 23.04 era. Rust!!

Well, my guess is the rehab assignment ability is a default setting as it's always on in my sp games. I agree, it's to be used.

TheCounselor wrote:

I have three top 20 salaries. Of course, those won't matter because you're simming 25 years, right?

No, that's how the league shook out after I simmed 25 years, released every player on every team, and had the AI run a inaugural draft with budgets set at $90M. Obviously, the game allows for some flex, and after that point, there was still two months of middling free-agency, so these are the payrolls and salaries that we'll be looking at as of opening day. Also, if memory serves, Buffalo has a owner willing to bankroll this kind of financial funsies as well.

EDIT: Moreover, one of those guys is signed for one year, another for two, and the last, who is 28, is signed for 6 years. (NOTE: The financial information for every team is public, so anyone can see what anyone else's salaries are.)

garion333 wrote:

Well, my guess is the rehab assignment ability is a default setting as it's always on in my sp games. I agree, it's to be used.

Here's an answer I got from the OOTP forums:

'...

When he's ready to come off the DL, the "rehab" option will show up when you right click on his name under transactions.

...'

Looks like case by case. I missed this option altogether.

Yeah, that's actually what I meant by "default." The option is there. It just doesn't jump out, which is definitely a problem for a game this complex. They can't make everything jump out of you otherwise it'd take 8 hours to get through one day.

KEEP TABS, NEW THREAD WILL GO UP BEFORE MIDNIGHT.

Prederick wrote:

KEEP TABS, NEW THREAD WILL GO UP BEFORE MIDNIGHT.

You mean this thread?