Couple of improvement suggetions

[HerbD]

1. Ability to input stats to get ratings. Even better to be able to input splits to get Lefty/Righty ratings.

2. Ability to edit all past stats including post season and minor league. This is important for leagues that converted from 6.5 or earlier to the newest version.

3. The ability to export/import all the CSV files that can be generated not just the batting, pitching, and fielding.

[MustangLM]

The ability to move or hide former owners so that they don't clutter the current owner sign in screen. I hate to delete them as some return and it would be nice to have their prior history as part of their career stats.

[Millsy]

Ability to edit all portions of a players contract. As it stands now the only thing that we can edit is the base contract and a base extension. You can't add/remove options or incentive clauses.

[RichK]

Would be nice if we had the option to output the pitch/play results and dialog to a text file during the game simulations.

In my league, I have built a live GameCast function, that broadcasts the game to a internet-based Gamecast play-by-play "scoreboard" in our chatroom. (similar to ESPN's gamecasts)

Problem is, I also had to build a Windows desktop program to generate the results of every pitch, and generate play-by-play HTML text to drive the GameCast Web program. You execute the play/pitch in OOTP, then you have to use the desktop program to re-create the pitch/play, which generates everything for the gamecast. It also automatically FTPs the boxscore HTML up to the server after each 1/2 inning so the GMs can view the updated boxscore while watching the gamecast.

It took a lot of programming hours to develop this ability, and it is difficult to run. (I have 3 monitors and use all of them during gamecasts - 1 to run OOTP, 1 to run the desktop gamecast, 1 to monitor the scoreboard in the chatroom and take instructions from the managers of the teams playing via IM so they can call plays, make substituions, etc)

Since the pitch/play results and dialog are already being generated by OOTP, it would be nice if OOTP would record them as they happen in a .TXT, .CSV or even beterr, an XML or RSS feed file that developers like me could access in order to drive such add-ons.

I would gladly develop a Webcast utility for distibution to any online leagues if OOTP could provide this data feed. AS of now, the system I have built would not work for anyone else, as it requires a SQL Server database on your hosted site.

If OOTP had such a data feed file, this would be child's play to build, and would work for every online league with a host server.