CATO and Contraction

Bluenoser · 02-21-2005, 07:38 AM

Anyone ever done this? Used CATO for a few years, then contracted your league?

If so, were there any issues you had to deal with?

TIA.......

Hammer755 · 02-21-2005, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by BruceM

Anyone ever done this? Used CATO for a few years, then contracted your league?

If so, were there any issues you had to deal with?

TIA.......

I've never done contraction, but theoretically it should work. I've run it using teams that have re-located, which, in the eyes of the program, is like folding one team and creating a brand new one except they're linked together.

I have also had instances where somehow the link between the old franchise location and new location became broken, and didn't experience any problems. They just looked like two different franchises, but everything was complete for both.

Operation Shutdown · 02-21-2005, 12:23 PM

We've run contraction in our league twice with no problems. The nice thing about CATObase is it doesn't use the team id's from OOTP, but it uses the team abbreviation instead. If you wanna take a look at a CATObase after contraction, look at www.fast.ootp-online.com/catobase/index.html. Click on the teams link and at the bottom you'll see that Baltimore, Detroit, Philadelphia, Portland, San Diego, and Seattle were all contracted.

SandMan · 02-21-2005, 12:48 PM

I have done contractions and expansion, and I have never had problems with CATOBASE. You just have to remember not to use the same team abbreviations. I had Waukesha, Wausau, and Wauwatosa in my Wisconsin League - OOTP assigned WAU to each team. To get this to work in CATO I had to change the abbreviations to WAK, WAS, WAW. Also, if you add teams in the future do not use the previous used abbreviations. CATOBASE will link the team with the previous team with this abbreviation. Learned this by experience - had a Chicago team, shifted the franchise to Indy. Two years later added a Chicago team in expansion. CATOBASE freaked because of the circular reference to the original Chicago team.....changed the abbreviation to CHG and all was fine...

Also remember that if you change cities but want to keep a franchise affiliation to use the CATOBASE program to link the franchises.....

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Operation Shutdown All Star Reserve Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Pittsburgh PA Posts: 840 Thanks: 1 Thanked 5x in 5 posts	We've run contraction in our league twice with no problems. The nice thing about CATObase is it doesn't use the team id's from OOTP, but it uses the team abbreviation instead. If you wanna take a look at a CATObase after contraction, look at www.fast.ootp-online.com/catobase/index.html. Click on the teams link and at the bottom you'll see that Baltimore, Detroit, Philadelphia, Portland, San Diego, and Seattle were all contracted. __________________ "And Shepherds we shall be, For thee, my Lord, for thee. Power hath descended forth from Thy hand, Our feet may swiftly carry out Thy commands. So we shall flow a river forth to Thee, And teeming with souls shall it ever be. In Nomeni Patri Et Fili Spiritus Sancti."

02-21-2005, 12:48 PM	#4 (permalink)
SandMan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Kenosha, Wisconsin Posts: 2,490 Thanks: 220 Thanked 142x in 110 posts	I have done contractions and expansion, and I have never had problems with CATOBASE. You just have to remember not to use the same team abbreviations. I had Waukesha, Wausau, and Wauwatosa in my Wisconsin League - OOTP assigned WAU to each team. To get this to work in CATO I had to change the abbreviations to WAK, WAS, WAW. Also, if you add teams in the future do not use the previous used abbreviations. CATOBASE will link the team with the previous team with this abbreviation. Learned this by experience - had a Chicago team, shifted the franchise to Indy. Two years later added a Chicago team in expansion. CATOBASE freaked because of the circular reference to the original Chicago team.....changed the abbreviation to CHG and all was fine... Also remember that if you change cities but want to keep a franchise affiliation to use the CATOBASE program to link the franchises..... Last edited by SandMan; 02-21-2005 at 12:51 PM.

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