Have you lost a league because it got corrupted?

robc · 03-04-2010, 12:36 PM

I was wondering how prevalent this was. Have you ever had a league get corrupted so you either had to trash it or restore a backup of it?

I'm not counting problems caused by a computer or hard drive problem, just problems you believe were caused by an OOTP bug.

Please vote in new poll: http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...rupt-lost.html

TribeFanInNC · 03-04-2010, 01:03 PM

I can't think of any times I got a corrputed league. The only times I can think of are when I've setup things wrong.

Kelric · 03-04-2010, 02:04 PM

Ever? Yes. But I have been playing since 2002...

SandMan · 03-04-2010, 02:09 PM

I answered yes, but it only happened once and it has been a while since this happened. I was using OOTP 2007 when I got the dreaded "an error has occured in OOTP". Went to restart league and the file was toast. I have not had this issue with any other league.

Cooleyvol · 03-04-2010, 03:03 PM

I can honestly say never.

fhomess · 03-04-2010, 03:05 PM

Might be better to rephrase the question as relating to leagues created in OOTP10. I answered no, but I know that my OOTP6.5 online leagues have occasionally had to restore from backup. Usually, this has been the result of a wonky team export that messed up the league file.

snnort · 03-04-2010, 03:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fhomess

Might be better to rephrase the question as relating to leagues created in OOTP10. I answered no, but I know that my OOTP6.5 online leagues have occasionally had to restore from backup. Usually, this has been the result of a wonky team export that messed up the league file.

Yep. I have even had an export corrupt things in OOTP 10 once (about 6 months back).... but since I backup it was not that much of an issue other than time... but I certainly did not "lose the league."

Simmo13 · 03-04-2010, 03:12 PM

I started with 6.12 (just before 6.5 I think?) but fortunately have never lost a league.

Cryomaniac · 03-04-2010, 03:57 PM

Yes, but not recently.

robc · 03-04-2010, 04:01 PM

Yikes, it is a little scary how frequently things get screwed up. I didn't state this originally, but I didn't mean only multiplayer leagues. I am counting single player leagues too.

robc · 03-04-2010, 04:06 PM

Should I create another poll and make separate choices for version and single-player / online and allow multiple selections?

For example:
Pre OOTP 9
OOTP 9
OOTP 10
single player
online

pstrickert · 03-04-2010, 04:27 PM

Why not make a poll to find out if you should create another poll?

knockahoma · 03-04-2010, 04:40 PM

I've had that problem a few times.

In 9, I had a league three seasons deep go bye-bye.

I started a new 8 team league a few weeks ago. Since I play out all the games for all teams from the 5th inning on, I dread losing the league.

Maybe this will help diagnose the issue. I've had to restore this league three times in 45 games. A white screen comes up and says it's checking to see why OOTP stopped running while I was messing around with lineups. This has happened a few times. I shut down the game and re-open it without incident. But, other times I have no clue a problem exists. The shut down was fine and then on re-opening, the game tells me it failed to import a file.

The first time the file corrupted was just after I added some free agents. Because I like to know my players, I gave each team 25 to start. No minors. No extra players. I began filtering in free agents as the season progressed to fill in injuries (on low), or replace a guy who was 1-24, that kind of thing.

I got 15 agents in the pool and edited them to better fit my needs. Then I closed up game. Next time I went to play the file was corrupted. And the backup didn't work either.

Luckily, I have a habit of saving the game as a quick-start every week, or so. So, I just lost a couple of games.

About 30 games into the season, I did a small bit of editing on pitchers. My league was a bit low on lefties, so I transformed a few pitchers to southpaws. Closed the game. Tried to open it. File corrupted.

That time the backup worked. And I've had to use backup a third time. So, 3 crashes in 45 games. Not sure what's up. Most of the time I close the game and it opens right back up.

Hope that adds a bit of useful info.

Kelric · 03-04-2010, 04:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by robc

Yikes, it is a little scary how frequently things get screwed up.

I wouldn't say that. I've had hundreds of leagues and it has maybe only happened two or three times, if that.

kingcharlesxii · 03-04-2010, 05:26 PM

The OTBA has run into some corruption problems but we were able to work around them and didn't lose too much. This league has been imported through quite a few versions though.

It is the only league I've ever had corruption problems with.

robc · 03-04-2010, 05:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kelric

I wouldn't say that. I've had hundreds of leagues and it has maybe only happened two or three times, if that.

But almost 50% of players have reported corruption problems so far. That seems pretty bad.

I myself have not had any, but I have only had versions 9 and 10. I also play out my games so I don't get very far. I have only done single player leagues.

Cryomaniac · 03-04-2010, 07:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by robc

But almost 50% of players have reported corruption problems so far. That seems pretty bad.

I myself have not had any, but I have only had versions 9 and 10. I also play out my games so I don't get very far. I have only done single player leagues.

I've only had it happen once or twice out of hundreds of leagues.

robc · 03-04-2010, 08:00 PM

Please vote in new poll: http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...rupt-lost.html
Sorry I screwed up.

endgame · 03-04-2010, 08:00 PM

I've had the message that it was corrupt and couldn't load, but I've always managed to find a way or workaround to re-establish its integrity to almost, if not, 100%. Now I will add that this hasn't happened since . . . probably v9, and then only once, IIRC.

Athletics17 · 03-04-2010, 08:01 PM

I have had files get corrupted, but the game was able to restore the backups and ididn't lose anything.

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03-04-2010, 12:36 PM	#1 (permalink)
robc All Star Starter Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,660 Thanks: 412 Thanked 251x in 153 posts	Obsolete-----Have you lost a league because it got corrupted? I was wondering how prevalent this was. Have you ever had a league get corrupted so you either had to trash it or restore a backup of it? I'm not counting problems caused by a computer or hard drive problem, just problems you believe were caused by an OOTP bug. Please vote in new poll: http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...rupt-lost.html Last edited by robc; 03-04-2010 at 08:02 PM. Reason: Created new poll

03-04-2010, 01:03 PM	#2 (permalink)
TribeFanInNC Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,532 Thanks: 94 Thanked 268x in 209 posts	I can't think of any times I got a corrputed league. The only times I can think of are when I've setup things wrong. __________________ PEBA - Duluth Warriors

03-04-2010, 02:04 PM	#3 (permalink)
Kelric Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Greater Boston Area Posts: 3,983 Thanks: 7 Thanked 46x in 36 posts	Ever? Yes. But I have been playing since 2002... __________________ Former Co-Commish and owner of the Boston Red Sox, 1783-1144, .609%, of the defunct Overlords Baseball League (1930-48). 17 Division wins, 9 ALCS wins, 5 World Series wins.

03-04-2010, 03:03 PM	#5 (permalink)
Cooleyvol Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Woodland Mills, TN Posts: 5,993 Thanks: 57 Thanked 506x in 304 posts	I can honestly say never. __________________

03-04-2010, 02:09 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 answered yes, but it only happened once and it has been a while since this happened. I was using OOTP 2007 when I got the dreaded "an error has occured in OOTP". Went to restart league and the file was toast. I have not had this issue with any other league.

03-04-2010, 03:05 PM	#6 (permalink)
fhomess Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 2,749 Thanks: 15 Thanked 275x in 125 posts	Might be better to rephrase the question as relating to leagues created in OOTP10. I answered no, but I know that my OOTP6.5 online leagues have occasionally had to restore from backup. Usually, this has been the result of a wonky team export that messed up the league file. __________________ StatsLab11 - PHP/MySQL based utilities for Online Leagues Other Mods: 19th Century: Schedules, FaceGen BBCards: 1887 Allen & Ginter, 1934 Goudey, 1988 Score, 1996 fhomess, 2005 fhomess FaceGen: 1960-Pres MLB, 32 Colleges, Backgrounds PEBA - Connecticut Nutmeggers

03-04-2010, 03:12 PM	#8 (permalink)
Simmo13 All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: those blue remembered hills Posts: 664 Thanks: 50 Thanked 46x in 37 posts	I started with 6.12 (just before 6.5 I think?) but fortunately have never lost a league.

03-04-2010, 03:57 PM	#9 (permalink)
Cryomaniac Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2007 Location: Newark, Notts, UK Posts: 2,945 Thanks: 4,387 Thanked 301x in 232 posts	Yes, but not recently. __________________

03-04-2010, 04:01 PM	#10 (permalink)
robc All Star Starter Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,660 Thanks: 412 Thanked 251x in 153 posts	Yikes, it is a little scary how frequently things get screwed up. I didn't state this originally, but I didn't mean only multiplayer leagues. I am counting single player leagues too.

03-04-2010, 04:06 PM	#11 (permalink)
robc All Star Starter Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,660 Thanks: 412 Thanked 251x in 153 posts	Should I create another poll and make separate choices for version and single-player / online and allow multiple selections? For example: Pre OOTP 9 OOTP 9 OOTP 10 single player online

03-04-2010, 04:27 PM	#12 (permalink)
pstrickert Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 5,889 Thanks: 331 Thanked 385x in 223 posts	Why not make a poll to find out if you should create another poll?

03-04-2010, 04:40 PM	#13 (permalink)
knockahoma All Star Reserve Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 792 Thanks: 14 Thanked 77x in 31 posts	I've had that problem a few times. In 9, I had a league three seasons deep go bye-bye. I started a new 8 team league a few weeks ago. Since I play out all the games for all teams from the 5th inning on, I dread losing the league. Maybe this will help diagnose the issue. I've had to restore this league three times in 45 games. A white screen comes up and says it's checking to see why OOTP stopped running while I was messing around with lineups. This has happened a few times. I shut down the game and re-open it without incident. But, other times I have no clue a problem exists. The shut down was fine and then on re-opening, the game tells me it failed to import a file. The first time the file corrupted was just after I added some free agents. Because I like to know my players, I gave each team 25 to start. No minors. No extra players. I began filtering in free agents as the season progressed to fill in injuries (on low), or replace a guy who was 1-24, that kind of thing. I got 15 agents in the pool and edited them to better fit my needs. Then I closed up game. Next time I went to play the file was corrupted. And the backup didn't work either. Luckily, I have a habit of saving the game as a quick-start every week, or so. So, I just lost a couple of games. About 30 games into the season, I did a small bit of editing on pitchers. My league was a bit low on lefties, so I transformed a few pitchers to southpaws. Closed the game. Tried to open it. File corrupted. That time the backup worked. And I've had to use backup a third time. So, 3 crashes in 45 games. Not sure what's up. Most of the time I close the game and it opens right back up. Hope that adds a bit of useful info. Last edited by knockahoma; 03-04-2010 at 04:43 PM.

03-04-2010, 05:26 PM	#15 (permalink)
kingcharlesxii Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Madison, WI Posts: 2,525 Thanks: 194 Thanked 79x in 44 posts	The OTBA has run into some corruption problems but we were able to work around them and didn't lose too much. This league has been imported through quite a few versions though. It is the only league I've ever had corruption problems with.

03-04-2010, 08:00 PM	#18 (permalink)
robc All Star Starter Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,660 Thanks: 412 Thanked 251x in 153 posts	Please vote in new poll: http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...rupt-lost.html Sorry I screwed up.

03-04-2010, 08:00 PM	#19 (permalink)
endgame Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 10,771 Thanks: 894 Thanked 756x in 429 posts	I've had the message that it was corrupt and couldn't load, but I've always managed to find a way or workaround to re-establish its integrity to almost, if not, 100%. Now I will add that this hasn't happened since . . . probably v9, and then only once, IIRC. __________________ "Try again. Fail again. Fail better." -- Samuel Beckett _____________________________________________

03-04-2010, 08:01 PM	#20 (permalink)
Athletics17 All Star Starter Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: jackson Hole, Wy Posts: 1,169 Thanks: 182 Thanked 277x in 222 posts	I have had files get corrupted, but the game was able to restore the backups and ididn't lose anything. __________________ LRS-Hyakujuu Shinkansen(2011-) Team Shinkansen.com-For Hyakujuu Shinkansen Official Merchandise Compilation of Uniforms

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