Question about online Leagues

[Ed_Farias]

Hello all, I am pretty new to the world of OOTP. I was turned onto version 4 a few weeks ago and promptly purchased 5 as soon as I could.

I have a few questions about online leagues, I am very confused about it all. Here is my plan for a league. I have a few friends, maybe 6 or 7 that would like to play in a league together, but still have Computer AI control the remaining teams.

1. Can my above idea be done? Mixing Computer AI and Users in an online league?

2. How do you do a draft? Does one person choose, update the the file to the FTP, then the next person goes?

3. What is the purpose of the FTP? What does it update etc.

4. Does the commish have to make all the changes for each team that the users want? Or is this what the FTP is for? I assume if all the files are kept on the FTP, then it would be accessed by each person so they can update their rosters.

5. If I am correct on #4, how do you stop people from editting other peoples teams?

I am sorry, I know these are very general questions, I am just super confused, but my buddies and I would love to get a great league going between us.

On top of that, if anyone has any links or tutorials on what is involded in setting up a league etc. I would love to have any info I can get.

Thanks.

[Cooleyvol]

1. Absolutely.

2. They could email their picks to you and you could input them into the game. A new league file would need to be uploaded after each round so everyone would know who's still available. When a cpu team came up, just do 'cpu pick'.

3. Ftp is the method by which you would upload the zipped league file and all other HTML files for the league to the website.

4. Commish would make all changes to the 'master' league file (your OOTP game) and then zip it up and put it up as a league file. The other owners would get it, unzip it to their OOTP game and theirs would match yours.

5. Only lineups and roster moves are exported. The only person that could 'cheat' by changing players would be the commish (you).


Hope this helps, but my advice to you as a newbie is to get into an online league and learn the ins and outs of that before you take on the task of running a league of your own.

[fhomess]

As an added comment to question 2, many leagues will draft at least part of their league via a chat room online. The commish enters all picks into his game.

[Ed_Farias]

Hey thanks guys. I would love to get into a league that someone else runs, but there would need to be room for like 3 or 4 of us. Plus we like playing with fictional players as if it is a whole new baseball universe .

I was mistaken on what the FTP did exactly. I figured when each person setup their league as online, when you start the game it would automatically pull down the latest league file, or team file for that persons team. They could then make their changes and upload it. Assuming there was individual files for each team. Not sure if that is making sense, I am a network admin so it makes sense in my head .

Anyway, thanks again for all the help and I will keep my eye out for new leagues starting that are with Fictional Teams and Players.