Old box scores

[Torontorock]

Just starting to play around with OOTP8 and having alot of fun. So many things to try though and have a quick question. I was wondering how (if you even can), you can check out a boxscore from a game you played a few years back. I was trying to figure out how to view it by clicking on the league history tab but haven't been able to figure it out yet. One of the pitchers in my league threw a no-hitter and I'd like to go back and check out the box score but it was a few years back. Anyways thx for your attention

[1998 Yankees]

Unfortunately, unless you saved that box score manually or within an Almanac, it is probably gone forever. The game recycles box scores and game logs to save space; the ones from the previous season are generally overwritten by those from the following year as the season progresses.

If you choose to save any manually, they can be found in this folder (default file location):

\My Documents\Sports Interactive\OOTP Baseball 2007\data\saved_games\[your league name].lg\news\html\box_scores

[Kelric]

To expand upon that answer: the in-game league history saves an overall view of history of your league up to that point. You'll get always current leaderboards, player pages, records and team histories (among other things). An Almanac saves a view of your league history year by year. If you want to see how your records looked in 1942 rather than in 2008, you'd look at your 1942 Almanac. If you have the option selected to save Box Scores and Game Logs, you can use the 1942 Almanac to look up any 1942 game. And so on and so forth.

[English_Ray]

What I tend to do is, at the end of each season, export the HTML reports of all box scores and game logs, then zip the two folders up and store them in a "history" folder, so if I ever get the urge I can go back and relive great games from the past...

Zipped up, each folders only 5 or 6MB, and thats with all my minor league games as well, so it doesn't take a lot of space. Doesn't help with getting an old box score now I'm afraid, but something to consider for the future.

[whitesocks]

How do you archive the baseball logs and box scores? Is there a good way to do this? Just curious I pre-ordered and so I would have to be told as you were talking to a child..... ;->

[Torontorock]

Ah yes I found it in the almanac. Funny cause I didn't really know what the almanac did until now but I vaguely rememeber fiddling with the settings at the start of my game. Nice to know what its actually good for now hehe. Soooooo many features to learn in this game

Thx for all your replies

[Kelric]

Originally Posted by whitesocks

How do you archive the baseball logs and box scores? Is there a good way to do this? Just curious I pre-ordered and so I would have to be told as you were talking to a child..... ;->

Well, kiddo, load whatever game you want to play. Go to the Game dropdown menu at the top of the screen. Go to Game Setup and make sure you're on the Global Setup tab (when creating a new game, you'll also see the Global Setup tab). The second to last section is Auto-Save & Log Options. From there you can tell the game to Auto-Save Daily/Weekly/Monthly/Annually. You can save Box Scores from All Leagues/Human Leagues/Human Organizations/Human Teams or none at all. The same can be done for Game Logs.

What I usually do is save Game Logs for Human Teams (so just my team will have Game Logs) and keep Box Scores for Human Leagues. If I've created a world with a few leagues I would have interest in following (such as a Pacific Coast League or Cape Cod League) I'll save Box Scores for All Leagues, instead.

[whitesocks]

If I do as you do, which is probably what I would do, save only the human teams logs and recaps how much room does that take up????
Also thank you for the information.

[whitesocks]

Also saving the box scores too.

[Comedian2004]

I have always told people it is a good thing to save the old box scores. Now that you have them saved, go to my Mod site and find my AuBoxScore deluxe program. With it, you can have it go through ALL your old box scores and add banner items automatically. It will add no-hitters, cycles, basically accomplishments. It is nice to be looking at old box scores and find one that says 'Hank Aaron hits his 600th home run', or 'Pete Rose ends his hitting streak at 44 games.'

[whitesocks]

Originally Posted by Comedian2004

I have always told people it is a good thing to save the old box scores. Now that you have them saved, go to my Mod site and find my AuBoxScore deluxe program. With it, you can have it go through ALL your old box scores and add banner items automatically. It will add no-hitters, cycles, basically accomplishments. It is nice to be looking at old box scores and find one that says 'Hank Aaron hits his 600th home run', or 'Pete Rose ends his hitting streak at 44 games.'

This sounds great except does it take a lot of memory to keep them this way????

[Kelric]

Honestly, I have no idea how much room it takes up. A lot, I'd say. But I have almost a terabyte of storage space, so it doesn't really affect me.

[Bluenoser]

Originally Posted by whitesocks

This sounds great except does it take a lot of memory to keep them this way????

No more memory than is required to run the game.

Storage space would be a different issue though.

[1998 Yankees]

Originally Posted by BruceM

No more memory than is required to run the game.

Storage space would be a different issue though.

That's probably what he meant. And yes, saving a series of full-blown Almanacs can take up tons of storage space. Fortunately, you can dial down what you choose to save in almanacs, and saving just stuff like boxscores and game logs may not be too cumbersome.

As far as using Comedian2004's AuBoxScore deluxe program for this purpose, you would have to try it and see. Probably not too much space needed, either.

The thing that makes Almanacs tremendous are the image and HTML files (things like player photos, logos, player profiles, team reports, and league history). If you don't select those to keep, then Almanacs are much smaller.

[whitesocks]

I am not sure if I need this or not. What is the purpose of this? I have microsoft office which has microsoft Access, but what would the data dump do. Sorry if this is a simple question I just am not sure if I need to use this option....