OOTP History 5 for OOTP5

Cato · 03-31-2003, 10:42 AM

It's now available here!

This is an update to version 4.x. If you don't have version 4.x installed, download the full install for version 4 and run setup. Then, download and unzip the version 5 update to the program folder.

If you want to use both ver 4 and ver 5, create a new folder and copy the contents of the ver 4 folder to this new folder. Then, apply the update to this new folder.

Changes and Fixes:

Now works with OOTP5. Previous versions will not work. I will keep the 4.x versions available. I will update as needed to eliminate bugs, but I will not be adding any new features to the 4.x versions.
Added support for park.csv and post_season.csv file, these files will be imported with the other csv files.
Added more indexes to database tables to (hopefully) reduce processing times.
Stadium name is now imported instead of having to be manually entered.
On Awards screen, added button to import league award winners. Winners can still be entered or edited manually.
Added a 'smart' case function to correctly capitalize names. The first character, and any character after one of the following characters, will be capitalized: space, comma, apostrophe, period, or dash. All other letters will be lowercase.
Added more bio data to player pages, Nickname, Height, Weight, and Hometown
Added ability to have team logos on team pages and player photos on player pages.
Added an Images tab to the options screen:
Get Team Logos: If checked, the program will copy the bmp files (logoX.bmp) from the specified location to the images\logos folder under the root web folder. Since team numbers change when expanding/contracting, the files are saved with the name [city]_[name].bmp. All non-alphabetical characters are removed from these names first. So, the logo for 'St. Louis (A) O'Douls' would be saved as stlouisa_odouls.bmp
Get Player Photos: Same as Get Team Logos, except the files (pXXX.bmp or fname_lname.bmp) are saved in \images\photos with the name [playerid].bmp
Use Team Logos (Extension): Check this to actually use the logos (with the specified extension) on the team pages. If you have your logos in jpeg format you could copy these to images\logos, rename them to the above format ([city]_[name].jpg), and specify an extension of .jpg. Then, you wouldn't need to check the Get Team Logos box, since they are already there in another format.
Use Player Photos (Extension): Same as Use Team Logos, only for player photos
If used, the player's photo will appear on his stat line on the HOF Register page.
On Team Index pages, added Players Traded section next to Player Salaries. This will list the date and the players involved in each trade for that year.

I hope I found most of the problems, but let me know if not! Have Fun!

slackmeisterPA · 03-31-2003, 10:57 AM

Oh yeah! I'm the first to comment. Well, I'm downloading now. Thanks Cato!

koohead · 03-31-2003, 11:16 AM

Dude...you rock! I almost started a new fictional league last night, but figured I'd wait for you! woohoo

chrisj · 03-31-2003, 11:18 AM

who hoo! New solo league here I come...

slackmeisterPA · 03-31-2003, 03:17 PM

I just ran the first season of my solo league through the utility. It took a while (2 hours-ish) but other than that everything looks great.

Thanks again Cato,

Scott Vibert · 03-31-2003, 04:59 PM

Cato is the database the same? I.E. my league that was using OOTP4 has just updated to OOTP5, will the old history created with the Version 4 of the History program still work with that database, or do I have to convert each old league file to OOTP5 and re-import?

Thanks a ton for this Jeff!

Cato · 03-31-2003, 05:34 PM

You can continue with your current database. When you open an existing (ver 4) database, it will be updated to work with ver 5. However, once updated, it will no longer work with ver 4, so make a backup first in case anything bad happens!

John C · 03-31-2003, 05:35 PM

Jeff, just a question...

I'm missing four season files. However, there's the opportunity to import rosters from CSV.

That said...is it possible to create CSV reports from those season files I'm missing, then get the data necessary to run your program? Ryan's extremely busy, and I don't see him making a v5 version of his history. I'd love to give this theory a try, but I'd like some advice on this before I give it a whirl.

-John

Qrusher14242 · 03-31-2003, 06:15 PM

any plans to update Gazette for use in v5?

Willy · 03-31-2003, 06:33 PM

... nm

Dargone · 03-31-2003, 06:52 PM

Thanks a bunch

JimServo · 03-31-2003, 10:33 PM

Great Work. I seem to be having some problems with historical rosters, I think due to all the overlong nicknames and city names

Dargone · 04-01-2003, 03:07 AM

I noticed it asks for the start and end dates of the season, will this mess anything up if I'm off by a day or two? Also, why is this info needed? Thanks Cato

chrisj · 04-01-2003, 10:08 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Dargone
I noticed it asks for the start and end dates of the season, will this mess anything up if I'm off by a day or two? Also, why is this info needed? Thanks Cato

It's needed to keep track of trade splits... if you're off by a day or two, the only thing it may mess up slightly are the trade splits (for example, if you say the season ended up October 4th, but in reality that was the first day of playoffs, then it will include the stats from those games in the players trade splits).

Dargone · 04-01-2003, 10:12 AM

Ahhh, thanks chrisj.

Cato · 04-01-2003, 10:17 AM

Quote:

From John C -
is it possible to create CSV reports from those season files I'm missing, then get the data necessary to run your program?

I don't think that will work. I'm not sure exactly what you're saying, but if you don't have the players.dat, team.dat,... files for a particular season, then you can't use the Exporter to create the CSV files. Also, I don't think skipping seasons will work. I think you'll have to start with the season after the missing ones and use the career exporter to include the earlier stats as 'pre-sim' stats.

Quote:

From Qrusher14242 -
any plans to update Gazette for use in v5?

I haven't thought about it, but maybe.

Quote:

From JimServo -
I seem to be having some problems with historical rosters, I think due to all the overlong nicknames and city names

By problem, do you mean you have to edit the players.csv file? I noticed this, too. It seems that there is a 15 character limit on nicknames in OOTP5. If, in OOTP5, you type (or import) a nickname that is more than 15 characters, the program puts odd characters at the end. I tried to check for these, but no matter what I tried it would still stop importing.

Quote:

From Dargone -
noticed it asks for the start and end dates of the season, will this mess anything up if I'm off by a day or two? Also, why is this info needed?

No, in fact, I usually add a day to the end, in case there is a play-off to get into the post-season, since those stats count in the season stats.

The dates are needed for 2 reasons. First, the start date is used to limit the number of records imported from the *_game.csv files. These are a very large files and would take way too long to import the whole thing. So, the program only imports for players traded after the start of the season. I don't think it would hurt anything if you type in 1/1 everytime, it would just take longer to import if there are pre-season trades.

Second, the end date is used to tell the program when to stop importing game data for each player. In the *_game.csv files, there is no indication when the post-season starts, so without an end date, post-season stats would be counted in with regular season and wouldn't match the totals imported from the player_batpitch.csv file.

A.J. Holz · 04-01-2003, 11:37 AM

This...is the coolest thing...that's ever happened.

Thanks for all your hard work Cato, I can't wait to try out the new program.

tcblcommish · 04-01-2003, 12:42 PM

Great job and really looking forward to running my league using this utility!!!

Thanks a million

tcblcommish · 04-01-2003, 03:47 PM

Just had a problem running the util.

It came up with this Error...

"Error 94, Use of Null" soemthing like that....

Help would be great!!

Cato · 04-01-2003, 05:48 PM

At what point did the error happen? Zip up the data files (including the 3 HTML files) and email them to me. I'll take a look.

03-31-2003, 10:42 AM	#1 (permalink)
Cato Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 328 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 posts	OOTP History 5 for OOTP5 It's now available here! This is an update to version 4.x. If you don't have version 4.x installed, download the full install for version 4 and run setup. Then, download and unzip the version 5 update to the program folder. If you want to use both ver 4 and ver 5, create a new folder and copy the contents of the ver 4 folder to this new folder. Then, apply the update to this new folder. Changes and Fixes: Now works with OOTP5. Previous versions will not work. I will keep the 4.x versions available. I will update as needed to eliminate bugs, but I will not be adding any new features to the 4.x versions. Added support for park.csv and post_season.csv file, these files will be imported with the other csv files. Added more indexes to database tables to (hopefully) reduce processing times. Stadium name is now imported instead of having to be manually entered. On Awards screen, added button to import league award winners. Winners can still be entered or edited manually. Added a 'smart' case function to correctly capitalize names. The first character, and any character after one of the following characters, will be capitalized: space, comma, apostrophe, period, or dash. All other letters will be lowercase. Added more bio data to player pages, Nickname, Height, Weight, and Hometown Added ability to have team logos on team pages and player photos on player pages. Added an Images tab to the options screen: Get Team Logos: If checked, the program will copy the bmp files (logoX.bmp) from the specified location to the images\logos folder under the root web folder. Since team numbers change when expanding/contracting, the files are saved with the name [city]_[name].bmp. All non-alphabetical characters are removed from these names first. So, the logo for 'St. Louis (A) O'Douls' would be saved as stlouisa_odouls.bmp Get Player Photos: Same as Get Team Logos, except the files (pXXX.bmp or fname_lname.bmp) are saved in \images\photos with the name [playerid].bmp Use Team Logos (Extension): Check this to actually use the logos (with the specified extension) on the team pages. If you have your logos in jpeg format you could copy these to images\logos, rename them to the above format ([city]_[name].jpg), and specify an extension of .jpg. Then, you wouldn't need to check the Get Team Logos box, since they are already there in another format. Use Player Photos (Extension): Same as Use Team Logos, only for player photos If used, the player's photo will appear on his stat line on the HOF Register page. On Team Index pages, added Players Traded section next to Player Salaries. This will list the date and the players involved in each trade for that year. I hope I found most of the problems, but let me know if not! Have Fun! __________________ OOTP Utilities Download Page - Home of OOTP History & OOTP Gazette GMC League History JOBL League History

03-31-2003, 11:16 AM	#3 (permalink)
koohead All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Litchfield Park, AZ Posts: 1,671 Thanks: 58 Thanked 30x in 19 posts	Dude...you rock! I almost started a new fictional league last night, but figured I'd wait for you! woohoo __________________ Mass Select feature in OOTP11! woot! GM - NC Clippers of the NPBL; 2001,2004,2007 FF Central Division Champs; 2001, 2004, 2007,2038 FFL Champions; 2004,2038 NPBL Champions

03-31-2003, 11:18 AM	#4 (permalink)
chrisj All Star Reserve Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Edmonton, Alberta (but still wishing I was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) Posts: 809 Thanks: 1 Thanked 14x in 5 posts	who hoo! New solo league here I come... __________________ Canadian Baseball League -- Commissioner -- Calgary GM

03-31-2003, 05:34 PM	#7 (permalink)
Cato Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 328 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 posts	You can continue with your current database. When you open an existing (ver 4) database, it will be updated to work with ver 5. However, once updated, it will no longer work with ver 4, so make a backup first in case anything bad happens! __________________ OOTP Utilities Download Page - Home of OOTP History & OOTP Gazette GMC League History JOBL League History

03-31-2003, 05:35 PM	#8 (permalink)
John C All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: CT Shoreline Posts: 1,729 Thanks: 50 Thanked 63x in 41 posts Infractions: 1/0 (0)	Jeff, just a question... I'm missing four season files. However, there's the opportunity to import rosters from CSV. That said...is it possible to create CSV reports from those season files I'm missing, then get the data necessary to run your program? Ryan's extremely busy, and I don't see him making a v5 version of his history. I'd love to give this theory a try, but I'd like some advice on this before I give it a whirl. -John __________________ Facebook \| My Videos The Baseball Association (redux): Coming soon....

03-31-2003, 10:57 AM	#2 (permalink)
slackmeisterPA Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 275 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 posts	Oh yeah! I'm the first to comment. Well, I'm downloading now. Thanks Cato!

03-31-2003, 03:17 PM	#5 (permalink)
slackmeisterPA Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 275 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 posts	I just ran the first season of my solo league through the utility. It took a while (2 hours-ish) but other than that everything looks great. Thanks again Cato,

03-31-2003, 04:59 PM	#6 (permalink)
Scott Vibert Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: My Computer Posts: 7,551 Thanks: 72 Thanked 48x in 30 posts	Cato is the database the same? I.E. my league that was using OOTP4 has just updated to OOTP5, will the old history created with the Version 4 of the History program still work with that database, or do I have to convert each old league file to OOTP5 and re-import? Thanks a ton for this Jeff!

03-31-2003, 06:15 PM	#9 (permalink)
Qrusher14242 All Star Starter Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: CA Posts: 1,145 Thanks: 605 Thanked 11x in 9 posts	any plans to update Gazette for use in v5?

03-31-2003, 06:33 PM	#10 (permalink)
Willy Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Regina, Sk Posts: 443 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 posts	... nm __________________ Consoles are for little kids.

03-31-2003, 06:52 PM	#11 (permalink)
Dargone Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Interwebs Posts: 2,681 Thanks: 0 Thanked 43x in 15 posts	Thanks a bunch __________________ I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.-Margaret Mitchell

03-31-2003, 10:33 PM	#12 (permalink)
JimServo Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Near Philadelphia, PA Posts: 413 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 posts	Great Work. I seem to be having some problems with historical rosters, I think due to all the overlong nicknames and city names __________________ "When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of the summer afternoon on a river bank, we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish." -Dwight D. Eisenhower

04-01-2003, 03:07 AM	#13 (permalink)
Dargone Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Interwebs Posts: 2,681 Thanks: 0 Thanked 43x in 15 posts	I noticed it asks for the start and end dates of the season, will this mess anything up if I'm off by a day or two? Also, why is this info needed? Thanks Cato __________________ I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.-Margaret Mitchell

04-01-2003, 10:12 AM	#15 (permalink)
Dargone Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Interwebs Posts: 2,681 Thanks: 0 Thanked 43x in 15 posts	Ahhh, thanks chrisj. __________________ I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.-Margaret Mitchell

04-01-2003, 11:37 AM	#17 (permalink)
A.J. Holz All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 650 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 posts	This...is the coolest thing...that's ever happened. Thanks for all your hard work Cato, I can't wait to try out the new program. __________________ NABA - Tijuana Toros / Commish ORB - Oakland Athletics (former owner) MBBA - Seattle Storm JOBL - Grand Forks Varmints (former owner) FIBB - Chicago Fire TMBU - Tulsa Tomcats (former owner) ACL - Oakland A's (former owner) ACB - Rockville Superbas

04-01-2003, 12:42 PM	#18 (permalink)
tcblcommish All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 1,813 Thanks: 5 Thanked 4x in 4 posts	GREAT JOB AGAIN.... Great job and really looking forward to running my league using this utility!!! Thanks a million

04-01-2003, 03:47 PM	#19 (permalink)
tcblcommish All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 1,813 Thanks: 5 Thanked 4x in 4 posts	Just had a problem running the util. It came up with this Error... "Error 94, Use of Null" soemthing like that.... Help would be great!!

04-01-2003, 05:48 PM	#20 (permalink)
Cato Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 328 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 posts	At what point did the error happen? Zip up the data files (including the 3 HTML files) and email them to me. I'll take a look. __________________ OOTP Utilities Download Page - Home of OOTP History & OOTP Gazette GMC League History JOBL League History

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