PBRL - An OOTP 6.5 league we need an emergency GM

rudel.dietrich · 01-15-2011, 02:22 AM

Hopefully it is ok to post here since the OOTP 6.5 forums are dead

I am a member of a fantastic online league called the PBRL.
It is ran by forum member metsgeek and has several long time forum members as GMs.
We are entering our 90th! season and our 5th real world time year which makes us one of the longest, if not the longest, lasting league in OOTP history.
We started with a MLB setup in 1901 and have evolved over the decades into our own history. We still use real ML teams but they have different histories than their real life counterparts.
We use NO finances and use completely fictional players.

We still use the tried and trued OOTP 6.5 for our simming.
Unfortunately due to the age of the game it is hard to find good GMs these days. We reached 26 teams but are finding it hard to keep them filled.
Thus, we had to make some very hard and agonizing decisions. Namely, we are contracting two teams.
The Seattle Mariners and the Boston Red Sox

We are an EXTREMELY active league with 20-100 board posts a day. We just need some new blood to step in and help us out.

We have two teams that need GMs
The Milwaukee Brewers owner is going to move his team to Boston and turn them into the Red Sox
This means that the current Red Sox team is going to be contracted.
They are a bad team with a medium quality farm system who desperatly need a talented and loving GM.
You get the fantastic opportunity to move them to a new city and start a brand new franchise with the existing team in place.
So you don't have to be an awful expansion team but you get all the benefits of an expansion franchise.
i.e. Florida Marlins, Texas, Tampa Bay or a fantasy location. Your call and an oppurtunity that does not come up very often at all.

The other team that is available is the Seattle Mariners. Your options here are either to keep them in Seattle or move them where you wish.
This team is also bad but has the 9th best farm system in the league.

We need a GM very quickly. i.e by the end of this weekend. We move fast, we sim seven days a week.
If you don't hurry then the team could be contracted by the time you act.

If you are interested send me a PM or go to
PBRL and go to the forums and give your information

Here are the details of the league for the interested.
Thanks for reading

Here are some current features of the league:
As the commissioner, I do NOT own a team. I take care of teams in owners' absences and I pride myself on being completely impartial.
We use actual park factors based on data from an owner who worked for MLB
The league totals are tweaked throughout the season in order to accurate match the historical totals as closely as possible.
We use actual MLB historical schedules
Players are fictional, but we use actual teams (though some of them entered the leagues earlier or later than in reality).
We have a complete Catobase with additional stats coded in: Pro Replay History - League Statistics and History
We have an owner-made Hall of Fame based on the Cato Template: Hall of Fame - Pro Replay History
PBRL is a talent-only league using the 1-10 scale. Ratings are invisible.
There are no financials. Instead of Free Agency, we have had an international league called the IPL (OOTP 6 Generated Website) running simultaneously since 1970 with actual teams from Asia, Mexico and the Caribbean. Each season, 25-30 players from the IPL declare themselves eligible for "free agency" and teams submit blind bids on them. The signed players are imported to their new PBRL teams the following season.
Random free Agents added each year to teams to represent the "diamonds in the rough" discovered by your scouts
All playoff games and the All Star game are broadcast live.
PBRL has at least 6 sims per week, including a live End of Season sim posted on the forums.
In the past we have had:
The Federal League
The Negro Leagues with teams breaking the color barrier
Players left for WWI and WWII. Some were wounded or killed. Some returned better than before.

pearjas · 01-17-2011, 12:06 PM

Hey there.. just a general question. How do you make changes to your lineup, etc? Do you make the changes in the game and upload them via ftp?

YardDog · 01-29-2011, 06:38 PM

Disappointed. I saw this post and I have been a GM in a 6.5 league for quite some time and was looking for another league to join. So, I followed the link and registered for the forum... Still have not yet got my approval and now the season has already started. If I was to take over a team, I was hoping to do it before the season started so I could make some move and turn the team around. But, still no approval so if that's how things are operated there, then I don't think I want to be a part of it anyone.

rudel.dietrich · 01-29-2011, 09:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by YardDog

Disappointed. I saw this post and I have been a GM in a 6.5 league for quite some time and was looking for another league to join. So, I followed the link and registered for the forum... Still have not yet got my approval and now the season has already started. If I was to take over a team, I was hoping to do it before the season started so I could make some move and turn the team around. But, still no approval so if that's how things are operated there, then I don't think I want to be a part of it anyone.

We have had lot's of problem with bots and spammers and even had our league file hacked and replaced with a file with a virus. So we had to enact some pretty harsh security measures.
If you will PM me your username and e-mail that you used to sign up to our site then I will make sure you get approved.

01-15-2011, 02:22 AM	#1 (permalink)
rudel.dietrich Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Zürich, Switzerland Posts: 4,983 Thanks: 4 Thanked 147x in 94 posts	PBRL - An OOTP 6.5 league we need an emergency GM Hopefully it is ok to post here since the OOTP 6.5 forums are dead I am a member of a fantastic online league called the PBRL. It is ran by forum member metsgeek and has several long time forum members as GMs. We are entering our 90th! season and our 5th real world time year which makes us one of the longest, if not the longest, lasting league in OOTP history. We started with a MLB setup in 1901 and have evolved over the decades into our own history. We still use real ML teams but they have different histories than their real life counterparts. We use NO finances and use completely fictional players. We still use the tried and trued OOTP 6.5 for our simming. Unfortunately due to the age of the game it is hard to find good GMs these days. We reached 26 teams but are finding it hard to keep them filled. Thus, we had to make some very hard and agonizing decisions. Namely, we are contracting two teams. The Seattle Mariners and the Boston Red Sox We are an EXTREMELY active league with 20-100 board posts a day. We just need some new blood to step in and help us out. We have two teams that need GMs The Milwaukee Brewers owner is going to move his team to Boston and turn them into the Red Sox This means that the current Red Sox team is going to be contracted. They are a bad team with a medium quality farm system who desperatly need a talented and loving GM. You get the fantastic opportunity to move them to a new city and start a brand new franchise with the existing team in place. So you don't have to be an awful expansion team but you get all the benefits of an expansion franchise. i.e. Florida Marlins, Texas, Tampa Bay or a fantasy location. Your call and an oppurtunity that does not come up very often at all. The other team that is available is the Seattle Mariners. Your options here are either to keep them in Seattle or move them where you wish. This team is also bad but has the 9th best farm system in the league. We need a GM very quickly. i.e by the end of this weekend. We move fast, we sim seven days a week. If you don't hurry then the team could be contracted by the time you act. If you are interested send me a PM or go to PBRL and go to the forums and give your information Here are the details of the league for the interested. Thanks for reading Here are some current features of the league: As the commissioner, I do NOT own a team. I take care of teams in owners' absences and I pride myself on being completely impartial. We use actual park factors based on data from an owner who worked for MLB The league totals are tweaked throughout the season in order to accurate match the historical totals as closely as possible. We use actual MLB historical schedules Players are fictional, but we use actual teams (though some of them entered the leagues earlier or later than in reality). We have a complete Catobase with additional stats coded in: Pro Replay History - League Statistics and History We have an owner-made Hall of Fame based on the Cato Template: Hall of Fame - Pro Replay History PBRL is a talent-only league using the 1-10 scale. Ratings are invisible. There are no financials. Instead of Free Agency, we have had an international league called the IPL (OOTP 6 Generated Website) running simultaneously since 1970 with actual teams from Asia, Mexico and the Caribbean. Each season, 25-30 players from the IPL declare themselves eligible for "free agency" and teams submit blind bids on them. The signed players are imported to their new PBRL teams the following season. Random free Agents added each year to teams to represent the "diamonds in the rough" discovered by your scouts All playoff games and the All Star game are broadcast live. PBRL has at least 6 sims per week, including a live End of Season sim posted on the forums. In the past we have had: The Federal League The Negro Leagues with teams breaking the color barrier Players left for WWI and WWII. Some were wounded or killed. Some returned better than before.

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01-17-2011, 12:06 PM	#2 (permalink)
pearjas Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 8 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 posts	Hey there.. just a general question. How do you make changes to your lineup, etc? Do you make the changes in the game and upload them via ftp?

01-29-2011, 06:38 PM	#3 (permalink)
YardDog Bat Boy Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 posts	Disappointed. I saw this post and I have been a GM in a 6.5 league for quite some time and was looking for another league to join. So, I followed the link and registered for the forum... Still have not yet got my approval and now the season has already started. If I was to take over a team, I was hoping to do it before the season started so I could make some move and turn the team around. But, still no approval so if that's how things are operated there, then I don't think I want to be a part of it anyone.