OOTP Developments Forums - OOTP 10 Commissioner's Corner

Online league commissioner question

mikeastriker — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:59:42 GMT

Is there a way to make someone a co commissioner without giving them the league file password and letting them see the actual ratings...

Converting from 8 to X

Bristolduke — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:51:10 GMT

I didn't see anything here, and I know we are late in the process, but we are considering moving from 8 to 10. After doing the convert I noticed that all my on-line FTP settings were blank.

I how have a lot of options I didn't have before.

Given the problems I have seen after the patch on setting up leagues, what would be some recommendations on how to set this up?

Thanks
Bill

OOTP oversaturation ?

tarmer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:17:04 GMT

I have been following the new league announcements for a while now, I have watched several new leagues start, Several call for new GM's and I assume several wilt away...

I have not made the jump to OOTP X yet (well because it was something I could not get budgeted in yet) but I have also seen the issues that have been creeping in with the updates for 10 which has caused it seems some issues in the online community

My question really has to do with what everyone is doing ? I know that once the new version comes out everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon and be the first league to have a new version site up. Others follow and older versions get lost in the shuffle

I have put together a league (and what I think is an awesome site for it) using OOTP 8 (why you ask - well firstly because it was the last one I could upgrade to and since 10 is out there is no reason to buy 9 and secondly - Since 8 was released as free, I was hoping to also catch some "new" players now that they could well "afford" to try it)

HOME (<------ Site)

But I have had NO takers, no requests for teams, no anything - I have had a lot of hits but no one wanting to take a team.......

So to get finally to the question... does it make a difference if I move this league to X ? Would I suddenly get more managers than I could handle OR is it just that managers are not out there anymore ??? I can remember it the days of 6, 6.5, 2007 & 2008 - You could advertise crap and get a boatload of takers - Now you try and get nada...

Any Thoughts

After patch, reports still don't show personality ratings

Sabermetric Baseball — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:53:03 GMT

I have version 10.4.31 installed, and have successfully taken advantage of new features such as adding a player to the draft pool.

However the HTML reports do not show the player's personality ratings....
Player Report for #37 Grady Sizemore (hitter)
Player Report for #21 Kerry Wood (pitcher)

I've seen this work effectively in other leagues, so I'm guessing it's user error on my part.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Export not coming thru from owner

EKomrska15 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:50:13 GMT

For some reason, we were having the most difficult time getting his exports to take thru the FTP. When he would export from the manager screen it would say successful, however, nothing would show up on my end. I have no idea how I got one to take except that I individually grabbed his teams export thru the transactions tab. He said it's happening in his other league too, is there an easy fix for this owner?

Running A League Idea By You Guys

SebP — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:06:01 GMT

Alright, so I want to run an idea by you guys, let me know if this is a good idea and something that is worth attempting (I am posting it here instead of in the league forum, because I am not looking for people to join yet, I am merely trying to see if this is feasible or not).

The premise of the league is a promotion/relegation league that takes place in the United States. I know that the EAB/WBH does this, and they run great leagues, but I was hoping to get something started that was similar. The top league is a league that encompasses the whole country taking teams from everywhere (equivalent to the majors I guess). Then the bottom two leagues (where teams will be promoted from and demoted to) are leagues that runs out of one state. For example one could be the Garden State League (NJ) or the Florida League. Their goal is to finish in the top 2 or 4 (still deciding on how many promotions/relegations to do - I am leaning to 4 to keep it fresh) to get into the all encompassing American League. There will be no "playoffs" as the winners from each league will be crowned champs, but I was thinking about doing a league wide playoff. I was planning on starting out with 3 8-team leagues (One Major Two Minor) and go from there, with placement being based on first come first serve. As for the nuts and bolts, this is obviously going to be a fictional league. I was hoping to do it with just potential ratings being seen and scouts on. Inaugural Draft to fill up the minors, and a salary cap of $90,000,000, with budgets turned off.

What do you think, is this something feasible? If it is feasible, is it something that people will want to join? Now all the hosting/forum stuff will be handled by me, so that isn't going to be a problem.

What may be an issue is that I have never ran an online league before, so I would be looking for an experienced co-commish to help guide me/the league along the way.

So I ask you, the great OOTP commishes, is this something worth exploring?

patch

rutri01 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:13:01 GMT

I downloaded and installed the last patch and not the one before. I just noticed on the OOTP website it says 10.4.31 is fixes only. Should I of installed both patches? Will I not have the new features?

Anyone ever get zero KB exports for an online league team?

Killebrew — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:12:34 GMT

The CDL online league is trying to troubleshoot an issue one of it's teams has had since moving to Patches 4 and 5. The issue is 0 KB size exports.

The game import error is 'wrong game version' but I'm sure that is just the default error message if the export file is there but cannot be read by the game. The owner in question says his export is 70+ KB in size on his hard drive, so I am thinking he has a path issue of some kind. He tells the game to upload his export, and the game tries to upload his export, but from the wrong folder. It seems to me it is quite possible the game will send a file even if that file does not exist in that directory, so that might explain this.

Has anyone else ever had issues with 0 KB size export files? If so, what caused it and how did you solve the issue?

Arbitration Disaster?

kq76 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:37:56 GMT

Is there no way to disable managers having to deal with arbitration? I'm afraid it's going to be a huge mistake for our online league. We had a problem with aloof managers not protecting players from the rule 5 draft and many of those players a team can afford to lose. I imagine this is going to be a bloody disaster with many very good young players going to free agency because they haven't been offered arbitration. Is the only option really to disable arbitration completely?

question about online leagues

damientheomen3 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:36:03 GMT

I want to make a new online league and be the commisioner. Is it possible for me to get a free FTP connection thing for the file?

A possible trick to reduce your league file size

Alan T — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:28:46 GMT

Thanks to Corsairs who found this issue (I don't want to steal his credit), he noticed that the checkbox to only include updated images in the league file only works if you use OOTP to actually upload the file. Many commishes including myself choose to upload the league file outside of the game since it uploads much faster that way. If you choose to do it that way, ootp will choose to include -EVERY- image file in your league file since the last time you uploaded from within the game.

I have determined an effective way to handle this is to choose every so often (I do it once a week, but you can base it on what works best for you) to upload the file from within the game. Doing so takes longer, but it "resets" the image counter so to speak. From that point on, only images newer than that date will be included in the league file.

Effectively, my online leagues run 5 times a week, I choose to upload from within game once a week, and upload outside of the game the other 4 times.

This has helped me cut my online league in its 82nd season from ~120 MB down to a 17MB file once again.

I know for a fact this effects both OOTP9 and OOTPX, it might go back even further than that however (I have long since uninstalled older versions I am afraid)

Reports

knuckler — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:27:53 GMT

I'm having a bit of an issue with my reports since I patched and wanted to see if anyone else was experiencing something similar. The first shot is how they look in game, and the second is how it looks on the site now.

This morning, the same thing happened with my other league. Even the team pages are a little off now. I'm not sure if it's the patch or not, but they looked fine before installing it. Thanks in advance.

File Permissions

kq76 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:05:12 GMT

What's the lowest we can set the file permissions (by that I'm talking about the read, write, execute permissions you set on files/folders on your ftp) for the folder that OOTP uses for exports and reports? I take it OOTP needs to be able to write, but does it need to execute too?

What about say a folder that Getch's or Statslab is in?

Some Links for those who might not have a clue what I'm talking about:
FTP and Understanding File Permissions
[all variants] File permissions, Write vs. Execute (RWX) - Ubuntu Forums

cash maximum option

rutri01 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:32:32 GMT

Can this be turned? If it is set to 0 will all teams cash be set to zero when the off season starts. I originally set it up for no revenue sharing and 60 million cash max. I want to have no cash max but the manual seems to say either the extra cash goes to revenue sharing or its lost. Am I understanding this correctly. Thanks!

Importing Forum Posts from phpBB to my webpage.

Goody — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:42:35 GMT

Where do I start? I've seen it done before and somebody had set it up on my old league webpage (which is gone now).

I'm assuming it is php code with and some paths to the database?

Here's my forum. www.laseron-baseball.com • Index page (The storytime forum specifically)

I want my webpage to pull the title, content, and author/time posted info as seperate values so I can mark them up and place them with .css on my site.