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mnyakko · 02-09-2007, 03:06 PM

The league is/was Beginner's Luck Baseball League and has undergone many transformations.

It initially started in 1990 using Pursue the Pennant (yep, dice game) until I moved away. We were using the 1988 season. We went through 2 seasons (not full 162 G seasons) over a few real years and then switched to the 1991 season cards. The BLBL season 3 never was completed.

I moved and at that time found a disc for Pursue the Pennant (don't remember the version or year, but the season stats were 2001). We began in 2003 went through 3 seasons. Regardless of where we were in the season it came to halt once the NFL began. Last spring we voted to take the chance and upgrade the league to OOTP and so I pre-ordered.

Everything looked identical in structure so we were hoping to import the old league. That did not go well and the owners voted to begin anew. Most of those that did not agree with scraping the previous 3 seasons left the league. While running the test season we discovered the outrageous number of files that needed to be uploaded to the server. My host was bravenet and their FTP was average 15 sec per 1KB file. A new host was needed to handle these and other requirements. The search took a while but the conversion was made this past summer. We got one season (the test season) in on the new platform and server before the NFL started again.

I decided last month to begin converting the website to a wiki-based site, writing the macros to translate the OOTP files into Wiki-text and so-on and so-forth. Some changes to the league that have been discussed have been implemented, the removal of all owners who have not been active during the previous season and re-learning the programming for the translations have the starting date at risk of a 2-week delay (pushed to March 3).

All that to say, the link is http://blblwiki.racetotheright.com, we are using 2006 and we have many openings. (Oh, and the site is still under construction.)

02-09-2007, 03:06 PM	#31 (permalink)
mnyakko Bat Boy Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 9	Late answering the question... The league is/was Beginner's Luck Baseball League and has undergone many transformations. It initially started in 1990 using Pursue the Pennant (yep, dice game) until I moved away. We were using the 1988 season. We went through 2 seasons (not full 162 G seasons) over a few real years and then switched to the 1991 season cards. The BLBL season 3 never was completed. I moved and at that time found a disc for Pursue the Pennant (don't remember the version or year, but the season stats were 2001). We began in 2003 went through 3 seasons. Regardless of where we were in the season it came to halt once the NFL began. Last spring we voted to take the chance and upgrade the league to OOTP and so I pre-ordered. Everything looked identical in structure so we were hoping to import the old league. That did not go well and the owners voted to begin anew. Most of those that did not agree with scraping the previous 3 seasons left the league. While running the test season we discovered the outrageous number of files that needed to be uploaded to the server. My host was bravenet and their FTP was average 15 sec per 1KB file. A new host was needed to handle these and other requirements. The search took a while but the conversion was made this past summer. We got one season (the test season) in on the new platform and server before the NFL started again. I decided last month to begin converting the website to a wiki-based site, writing the macros to translate the OOTP files into Wiki-text and so-on and so-forth. Some changes to the league that have been discussed have been implemented, the removal of all owners who have not been active during the previous season and re-learning the programming for the translations have the starting date at risk of a 2-week delay (pushed to March 3). All that to say, the link is http://blblwiki.racetotheright.com, we are using 2006 and we have many openings. (Oh, and the site is still under construction.)