OOTPOU for OOTP X/11/12

[Afino]

Here's an example of something a lot of the GUBA owners have been seeing regarding pitch ratings. It seems to not separate Rating from Talent - they move in tandem without the Talent actually changing.

Roberto Martínez: Changeup Rating Increases from 4 to 5
Roberto Martínez: Changeup Talent Increases from 4 to 5

Only his rating has moved from 4 to 5 - not his talent. His talent is a 3.

Player Report for #21 Roberto Martínez
Development - Roberto Martínez



Development - Moscow Enforcers

Is it something we're doing or is it a known bug?

[Getch]

Here's an example of something a lot of the GUBA owners have been seeing regarding pitch ratings. It seems to not separate Rating from Talent - they move in tandem without the Talent actually changing.

You are using 3.1.0 of my utilities. 3.1.1 is when I fixed it to handle the individual pitch ratings/talents properly. Check my post on 08-16-2009 on how to properly install it to not cause some erroneous development reports.

[BobDylanRH]

Originally Posted by Getch

Make sure you fill out the parameters in the admin screen. Specifically, the Pythagorean Exponent and Seasons to Simulate. I suggest 1.83 and 100.

The error appears as if you did not fill the Seasons to Simulate value.

That fixed it. Thanks, I figured that's where the error was coming from, but I wasn't sure what values to enter.

[udbacker58]

Originally Posted by Getch

OOTPOU 3.1.1 is released! The big change is that the individual pitch ratings/talents are in the development utility (many thanks to Tony and Markus). Also, the HoF voting now displays the MVP/Cy Young/Gold Glove awards the player accumalted in his career. And of course, a few minor bug fixes here and there.

PLEASE NOTE! There are steps to upgrade properly so you don't get a whole assortment of bogus pitch rating/talent changes:

1. Before your next sim, unzip OOTPOUPatch.zip in the cgi-bin directory.
2. Go to OOTPOU/development and delete the file prevRatings.txt
3. Run the Development utility. This will regenerate prevRatings.txt but not display any new development
4. Now you're good to go. Run your sim as you normally would.

Okay, dumb question. I can only view 2000 files at a time and the prevRatings.txt file doesn't show up. I know it's there, because I can go directly to the link and see the text file. How can I get around this?

[Getch]

Originally Posted by udbacker58

Okay, dumb question. I can only view 2000 files at a time and the prevRatings.txt file doesn't show up. I know it's there, because I can go directly to the link and see the text file. How can I get around this?

Can you reverse sort by name? If not that, just upload a blank prevRatings.txt and overwrite it. A blank one should do the trick fine.

[mjdoom]

I just updated the utilities for our league and since All-Star voting has become active I went and enabled the All-Star voting utility and I've noticed one odd thing...

The utility is listing some people who are clearly SPs in the reliever list. Guys who have only started games (not a single game in relief) are being listed presumably based on the fact that they have passed the reliever IP threshold. I have double-checked and these guys *are* listed as SPs in game (so it's not like someone has their position set to MR). Is there any way I can change this so that it will only pull players who have pitched in relief for the reliever list?

[Getch]

Originally Posted by mjdoom

\ Is there any way I can change this so that it will only pull players who have pitched in relief for the reliever list?

Check your settings in the admin panel for "Minimum Games Started for Starting Pitchers" and "Minimum Innings Pitched for Starting Pitchers". If they do not meet both criteria, they will be listed as a reliever. Sounds like you set one of those values too high.

[mjdoom]

Originally Posted by Getch

Check your settings in the admin panel for "Minimum Games Started for Starting Pitchers" and "Minimum Innings Pitched for Starting Pitchers". If they do not meet both criteria, they will be listed as a reliever. Sounds like you set one of those values too high.

The three specific examples I saw at first glance are one guy who got called up from AAA a month and a half into the season and two guys who injured so they haven't played that many games. For reference:

Tenzig Cubitt (callup)
Manuel Leyva (injury)
Louie Pulaski (2 injuries!)

Does this mean that I should set the starting pitcher settings very low to be able to catch guys with injuries or callups? What if we don't want those guys to be listed?

[Getch]

Originally Posted by mjdoom

Does this mean that I should set the starting pitcher settings very low to be able to catch guys with injuries or callups? What if we don't want those guys to be listed?

OOTPOU does not show every possible pitcher that meets the criteria in the admin screen. It only takes the top 10 in ERA, top 8 in wins, etc (I forget the exact numbers). The parameters you see in the admin screen are just responsible for determining where the pitcher (or DH) is listed.

The only time the parameters would completely exclude a player is if they did not meet the minimum innings pitched for both starters and relievers.

Feel free to play around with the parameters until you get the ballots the way you want, then reset the votes.

[mjdoom]

Originally Posted by Getch

OOTPOU does not show every possible pitcher that meets the criteria in the admin screen. It only takes the top 10 in ERA, top 8 in wins, etc (I forget the exact numbers). The parameters you see in the admin screen are just responsible for determining where the pitcher (or DH) is listed.

The only time the parameters would completely exclude a player is if they did not meet the minimum innings pitched for both starters and relievers.

Feel free to play around with the parameters until you get the ballots the way you want, then reset the votes.

Ok, thanks.

[BMW]

Getch, a question:

Does the HOF utility know who is currently in your HOF? (I'm asking this not knowing if the CSVs have this data).

How would the players voted in during ballot year 2009 not appear on the 2010 ballot?

[Getch]

Originally Posted by BMW

Getch, a question:

Does the HOF utility know who is currently in your HOF? (I'm asking this not knowing if the CSVs have this data).

How would the players voted in during ballot year 2009 not appear on the 2010 ballot?

The csv files have a column for players in the HoF. So, if a player is in the HoF in-game, I'll know it and he won't appear on the ballot any more.

[BMW]

Originally Posted by Getch

The csv files have a column for players in the HoF. So, if a player is in the HoF in-game, I'll know it and he won't appear on the ballot any more.

Excellent! Thank you very much. I honestly hadn't noticed that flag.

[BMW]

I was using the HOF Voting, and it sorts the numbers as strings. So 10 comes after 2.

I changed:

    foreach $vote (sort {$votes{$b} cmp $votes{$a}} keys %votes) {

To:

    foreach $vote (sort {($votes{$b}/$votesCast) cmp ($votes{$a}/$votesCast)} keys %votes) {

And that sorts it properly.

After we upgraded, we suddenly have a problem with extended characters.

Juan Iñiguez now shows up as Juan Iñiguez on all the OOTPOU pages. Any ideas on what we can do?

Thanks!

[Getch]

The number sorting thing was fixed a while back. Make sure you have the latest version.

As for the character issue, yeah. It's known. Markus changed the encoding on the csv files. I bugged him about it but haven't heard back.

[fhomess]

Originally Posted by Getch

As for the character issue, yeah. It's known. Markus changed the encoding on the csv files. I bugged him about it but haven't heard back.

BZ3301 for anyone who's interested. Originally submitted 18-Jun-2009. It affects all the data dumps.

[BMW]

Originally Posted by Getch

The number sorting thing was fixed a while back. Make sure you have the latest version.

As for the character issue, yeah. It's known. Markus changed the encoding on the csv files. I bugged him about it but haven't heard back.

Getch, I put this function in the Utils (it's messy as I know nothing about PERL, but it does the job for every generated name in my league right now):

sub convertAscii {
    my ($text) = @_;

        my $HEXa0;
        $HEXa0 = "a0";
        $HEXa0 =~ s/([a-fA-F0-9]{2})/chr(hex $1)/eg;
        $HEXa0 = 'Ã' . $HEXa0;

        my $HEX81;
        $HEX81 = "81";
        $HEX81 =~ s/([a-fA-F0-9]{2})/chr(hex $1)/eg;
        $HEX81 = 'Ã' . $HEX81;

        $text =~ s/$HEXa0/à/g;
        $text =~ s/á/á/g;
        $text =~ s/ã/ã/g;
        $text =~ s/é/é/g;
        $text =~ s/Ã*/í/g;
        $text =~ s/ó/ó/g;
        $text =~ s/ú/ú/g;

        $text =~ s/$HEX81/Á/g;
        $text =~ s/É/É/g;

        $text =~ s/ç/ç/g;
        $text =~ s/ñ/ñ/g;

    return $text;
}

You just need to reference it any time you are about to put a name field into the HTML (which is an awful lot of places, or course).

[eodgooch]

I have added personality traits to the draft utility.

Rookie Draft Report

I can send you the files that I updated if you want to include this. A lot of people in my league wanted to see this information on the utility. I don't know if others want to see it.

[Getch]

I'll have to make some modifications for the next OOTP patch, so I will try to add these things as well to it. Been real busy with my newborn, sorry for the delay in response.

[thickman1]

I'm getting this error: Could not open awField0.html at OOTPOU/AWAdmin.pm line 606.

when I try to enable EOY awards voting...ideas?