GWJ OOTP League Thread

Are we new filing today? My inability to micro-manage my way out of a second straight #1 draft pick is fascinating me.

I'm not sure...Is *this* the new file where we should have our draft picks set now? I'm so confused.

I downloaded a new file this morning.

REally? I checked this morning and I didn't get anything. I will check again.

EDIT: Well, I'll be damned.

DOUBLE EDIT: ..I shouldn't have downloaded the file. I just got a SP and a LF out on injury. yaaaay

LOL, yes, new file, my bad.

So Friday's sim will take us up to the draft. I'm going to spend Saturday coming up with our plan for the draft and how we'll handle it.

I'm up for whatever as far as the draft goes. I will be away from OOTP on Tuesday and Wednesday though.

FWIW I through together a super-simple basic draft list for my top picks and am letting the AI do the rest. Barring any workable plan for how we may run the draft otherwise.

Farscry wrote:

FWIW I through together a super-simple basic draft list for my top picks and am letting the AI do the rest. Barring any workable plan for how we may run the draft otherwise. :)

Yeah, this is what my weekend will consist of. I kind of like the idea of just putting together a list of 40 and copying that list for all rounds.

Okay, so I thought about it, and here's what we're gonna do.

I will personally handle the first five rounds of the Amateur draft. Manually.

What all of YOU need to do, is PM me your draft list and preferences. What does that entail?

1.) List at least 10 of your preferred prospects, from most-wanted to least. So if come to your team, and #4, 7 and 10 are left on the board, i'll take #4.

2.) Tell me what you're looking for in the draft. Nothing too specific, but are you trying to find pitching? Hitting? A new Shortstop? A closer? Or do you just want the best talent available at all times?

Have any other specifics? Let me know and I'll do the best I can to try and give you the best first few rounds possible. You have until CHRISTMAS to get me the information, after that, i'm running the draft.

EDIT: Oh, and new file!

Hey, is there any way to find your draft list once the draft has started? I had around 28 guys picked out and I can't remember who they all were.

This season is slowly running away from me (okay, totally out of reach.) So after the draft, Pittsburgh will look to unload some of our current talents in hope of building for the future.

While my record doesn't reflect much, I do have some reasonable offensive talent at various point of their careers on my big league roster. Depending on my draft and some re-evaluation of my current minor league talent (no much there) I think I should be willing to part with quite a few of my players, including -

C Allen Osborne, 1B/3B Jeff Jollymour, 1B Fred Snyder, all in the .270/30HR mode, while Snyder should hit .300 on a consistent basis.
IF/OF Roger Jones has been the cornerstone of my team and RF Craig Peterson has provided the power.

I dont have a whole lot of pitching to offer. But if there's anything off my roster that interests you, feel free to ask, I'm pretty certain I'm willing to make a deal on just about anyone.

Check yo' PM's, Novo!

Feel free to make an offer for ANYONE on my team, including Jose Duran (you know, the reigning ROTY). You'll have to come with guns blazing for him, but everyone is on the table.

CptDomano wrote:

Hey, is there any way to find your draft list once the draft has started? I had around 28 guys picked out and I can't remember who they all were.

Is there? I could not find it although it may be buried somewhere I haven't looked. Not real psyched to recreate my top 50 but will do so if I have to.

Pred, are you running this Christmas or the day after? Hmm, creative time management for me it looks like.

I won't be able to create any type of draft list before I head out of town so I guess I'll just hope the AI doesn't draft a bunch of "Extremely Hard" to sign guys who want millions.

I had the briefest bit of time to pull down the new file and make sure nothing was wrecked on my team, and was unhappy to find that my (albeit short) draft list was somehow lost. *sigh* Hopefully the AI will do better than I would anyway!

Farscry wrote:

I had the briefest bit of time to pull down the new file and make sure nothing was wrecked on my team, and was unhappy to find that my (albeit short) draft list was somehow lost. *sigh* Hopefully the AI will do better than I would anyway! :)

Is it lost? I just think it doesn't show on the day of the draft for some reason. Or maybe I just cannot find it.

I think its lost; I was able to find the draft list screen but it was empty.

Not at home (had to take off for Christmas gatherings) so I can't double check. Either the AI or Pred can do better than me I'm sure anyway

tboon wrote:
Farscry wrote:

I had the briefest bit of time to pull down the new file and make sure nothing was wrecked on my team, and was unhappy to find that my (albeit short) draft list was somehow lost. *sigh* Hopefully the AI will do better than I would anyway! :)

Is it lost? I just think it doesn't show on the day of the draft for some reason. Or maybe I just cannot find it.

If it's in there, I can't find it either. I didn't write down my draft list, and I don't have time tonight to try to redo it, so I guess I'll just go with what the AI selects for me.

Laarrs wrote:
tboon wrote:
Farscry wrote:

I had the briefest bit of time to pull down the new file and make sure nothing was wrecked on my team, and was unhappy to find that my (albeit short) draft list was somehow lost. *sigh* Hopefully the AI will do better than I would anyway! :)

Is it lost? I just think it doesn't show on the day of the draft for some reason. Or maybe I just cannot find it.

If it's in there, I can't find it either. I didn't write down my draft list, and I don't have time tonight to try to redo it, so I guess I'll just go with what the AI selects for me.

Well PM Pred what your needs are at least. He said to do that.

Oh, I did find it! Man...

1. I started the game
2. Did *not* "Check for updated League Files"
3. On the NABL menu I selected "Draft Pool"
4. Under "Draft Pool" tab select "Draft List"

Guess I had a major senior moment there.

THE DRAFT IS DONE!

Okay, so, I did the best I could with draft lists for those of you who turned one in, and those of you who didn't. If a player you wanted was available, I picked them, otherwise, I went with the best available player.

Now, by about midway through the 2nd round, we were down to 2* prospects, so i'm going to apologize to everyone and say that I let the AI finish off the job.

Anyway, new file! Take a look at your drafts, I hope they went well, and if they sucked, I swear I'll do all five rounds next year because AAARGH.

Oh man, merry freaking Christmas to me!

Thanks for doing the draft Pred.

Now, to sign everyone!

Next year I need to remember to write down my draft order so I can do some evaluation.

Pred -

Any idea why my exports don't seem to be going through? I've placed Corey Campbell on the DL the last two times now but he's still on my active roster. The first time I just assumed that I hadn't gotten the export in on time, but that's definitely not the case with the most recent sim. The only thing I can think of is that I'm on a slightly different version since I'm on a Mac (14.6.34 vs 14.6.33 for PCs). When the small Mac-only patch was released I asked if it'd impact playing in an online league and they indicated that it should work fine.

I have had the same problem with the exports.

I had a similar problem, there was a guy I *know* I placed on the DL in the previous export that was not on the DL when I re-fetched the file this morning.

Maybe drafting by hand meant that the sim did not get executed? Was only one day (and we won ) so no big deal, for me at least.

I wonder if the export issue might have happened to me; could explain the draft list going missing.

As for draft results, looks like the couple guys I would've preferred to draft for my first pick were all taken before my turn anyway.

Is it a matter of not bring up-to-date with the latest version, perhaps? I also had a draft list put together before Pred announced he was running it himself, and that disappeared. No matter, because Pred you did marvelously by the Sandwiches, I really could not be more pleased.

Who needs an established catcher to make a playoff push? Look no further than my Allen Osborne, who's on his usual pace for 25-30HR and .800 OPS.

How about a young lefty 1B, who hits for average and power, that you can build your future team around? Look no further than Fred Snyder and his .900 OPS.

I'm terrible at trade negotiation so you can probably swindle me and get them for peanuts. I'm looking for prospects in return, looking to re-build a winning team that hits on all cylinder in 2 or 3 years.

Oh wow, actually had a good draft, too! Thanks a bunch, Pred--I'm sure you put in some time making this one happen, and I appreciate it!