set the channel topic: 2034 Playoffs Sim 4: League Championship Series G4-6 on 5/4/17
has renamed the channel from "commishannouncements" to "commishnews"
Sim 4 Status...
Ready per Export Tracker: CA, VA, WA
Waiting for go-ahead or Export: OH @ohio
@mstreeter06 uploaded a file: Pasted image at 2017-05-03, 3:26 PM and commented: When you login and associate your account in StatsPlus, anything related to your team will be highlighted
I'm going to pause the draft. Illinois GM just let me know that he just can't keep up with the league and his schedule unfortunately. If you have a friend that'd be interested, let me know asap.
wow... afbl is such a slow league compared to others anyway... must be tough times 😄
HTML Reports are updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
Ivan Leon, a 2 star pitcher forced into the rotation by injuries, I can't take him out now
Sim is complete
File is updated: In game date is October 26, 2034
Reports: Updated
Statslab: Updated
Missed exports: Not tracked during playoffs/offseason
Exports due: Thursday, May 4th before 5:30am CT
Next sim info: 2034 Playoffs Sim 5: League Championship Series Game 7 or Federation Cup Series Games 1-3 on Thursday, 5/4/17 (or whenever all playoff teams are ready)
Sim notes:
-AFBL is now a beta tester for a new OOTP utility called StatsPlus to run alongside StatsLab. See my email, forum post, or Slack messages about it from earlier today.
-Playoffs are underway
-Offseason Tasks are ongoing/due.. please get these done!
-Double check your rosters for injuries and size limit violations
-Continue to stay active with exports; checking the forum, Statslab, and now StatsPlus; and Slack
set the channel topic: 2034 Playoffs Sim 5: League Championship Series Game 7 or Federation Cup Series Games 1-3 on Thursday, 5/4/17
I believe I have a replacement for our Illinois Warhawks vacancy. I'll know more hopefully later tonight. We'll continue with the draft once we have this filled.
Sim 5 (FCS G1-3) will happen whenever WA and OH are ready. We can do our normal simming or if both have the availability we can do a live sim. @darktrc @ohio
Season Awards needed from: WV @claphamsa, VA @jeheinz72, OR @thempen3, KY @Zach - KY, WA @darktrc, PA @qdog915pa, NY @nytowers, GA @tjsmith7georgia, NJ @mikenew_jersey, ON @x24rocks, NM @mikewilkinson, TX, MD, IL (vacant)
HOF Ballots needed from: WV @claphamsa, VA @jeheinz72, OR @thempen3, KY @Zach - KY, WA @darktrc, PA @qdog915pa, NY @nytowers, GA @tjsmith7georgia, NJ @mikenew_jersey, ON @x24rocks, NM @mikewilkinson, TX, MD, IL (vacant)
We also have an opening with the Oregon Explorers franchise. Let me know if you know of anyone for either vacancy. Thanks guys!
OH is ready to start the FCS. We'll start with a normal sim as OH isn't available for a live sim whenever WA is ready. @darktrc
We can continue with Sim 6 (FCS G4-6) when I get the go-ahead or a new export from both teams.
OH is ready via the Forum and Export Tracker. Any changes for WA @darktrc?
HTML Reports are updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2034 Playoffs Sim 7: Federation Cup Series Games 7-9 whenever ready
OH and WA are both ready for the final sim of the FCS. Let's see who will be our 2034 Federation Cup winner!
HTML Reports are updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
We have found a replacement for Oregon! More news to come. We just need to find a replacement for Illinois now.
set the channel topic: 2034 Offseason Tasks: Ammy Draft, Season Awards, HOF Ballot, Team MVPs, Postseason MVP
I'll release a new file tomorrow morning that brings us to the start of the Offseason in the game along with getting Dave in the game.
The file will also include NC's updated logo and uniforms 😄 @chappy
I don't see why we couldn't do 35 at AAA and AA. I made it 30 for those to try to increase player movement. Any thoughts?
That won't increase player movement. But that aside I am fine with going to 35
I'll create a post about it but assuming there aren't any issues with it, we can make it happen for the 2035 season.
I have @davezissou created in the game. Now getting the updated graphics for NC inputted @chappy.
HTML Reports are updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
- Sim is complete
File is updated: In game date is November 7, 2034
Reports: Updated
StatsLab: Updated
StatsPlus: Updated
Missed exports: Not tracked during playoffs/offseason
Exports due: TBD
Next sim info: TBD
Sim notes:
-Offseason Tasks are ongoing/due.. please get these done!
-Welcome to the league, David Damrel! He is the new Oregon Explorers GM and comes to us from SBC.
-We still need to fill a vacancy with Illinois so if you know of anyone, please send them my way!
-Double check your rosters for injuries and size limit violations
-Continue to stay active with exports, checking the forum for new posts, logging into StatsLab and StatsPlus, and joining us on Slack
~Matthew
Regarding the 35-man rosters for AAA, I'm not trying to hoard players. I just ran into an issue this season when I had 5 outfielders on the DL between my ML and AAA clubs. I carry 4 OF in NC and 6 in Raleigh, but that left me with just 5 between the two clubs. That left me with a few options - (1) renting a FA I'd cut when somebody came back, (2) calling up a player from AA who wasn't ready for AAA, (3) playing somebody out of position, or (4) (gulp!) starting Joe Unknown. I'm morally opposed to #4, I had enough other injuries where #3 wasn't really an option, and #2 could have negative developmental implications. Since ML and AAA injuries both affect the AAA squad (whereas injuries at other levels only affect one team), it makes sense to have a little extra cushion there. Expanding to 35 would give me (and others of course) the option to add a FA but then not have to cut him the second somebody gets healthy. 🙂
I'd also like to see teams get their minor league teams with at least enough players to field a team without any ghost players. It's not like we have a shortage of FAs 🙂.
I'm about to post this proposed change in the Winter Meetings thread @chappy. I can't imagine there being any push back however 🙂.
Need Season Awards voting from: TX, WV @claphamsa, MD, KY @Zach - KY, WA @darktrc, NY @nytowers, GA @tjsmith7georgia, ON @x24rocks, NM @mikewilkinson
Need HOF Ballots from: TX, WV @claphamsa, KY @Zach - KY, WA @darktrc, NY @nytowers, GA @tjsmith7georgia, ON @x24rocks, NM @mikewilkinson
If you haven't already for 2034 (and for any missing years 🙂 ), please name your Team MVPs in this thread for your team: http://www.afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php/board,11.0.html
I'll try to get the Postseason MVP poll up in the Forum this morning as well
If you have any options either way about increasing the max roster size to 35 from 30 for AAA and AA, do so here: http://www.afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php/board,30.0.html
/poll "Should we increase the AAA and AA roster size from 30 to 35?" "Yes" "No"
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2034 Postseason MVP poll up in the Forum http://www.afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php/topic,1997.0.html
I'll grab any new exports in the morning, advance the game a day, process the OH-ID trade, process any valid FA claims, get Blake created in the game, and then release a new file.
@blake-warhawks is created in the game. I'll get a new starter league file uploaded and then email/Slack you with more details about getting setup in the game and how to login into StatsLab and StatsPlus.
HTML Reports are updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
I'm going to cut off voting for Season Awards and HOF by Friday morning so please get this done if you haven't already. Next new file will be Friday with these results.
We'll need to get the Ammy Draft completed by Tuesday so please be alert, ready, and prepared for your pick (live, list with enough players to cover until your pick plus 1 more, or set yourself to auto).
Spring Training 2035 sims will be Wed (5/17) or Thurs (5/18) and Fri (5/19).
Opening Day 2035 will be Mon (5/22).
Need Season Awards voting from: WV @claphamsa, NM @mikewilkinson (missing MVH for both leagues), IL @blake-warhawks (only if you want to 😁)
Need HOF Ballots from: WV @claphamsa, IL @blake-warhawks (only if you want to 😁)
Also a reminder to get Team MVPs and Playoff MVPs done on the forum if you haven't already
Grabbing exports for today's sim of inputting Season Awards and HOF results
Frontier League
Most Valuable Hitter: 3B Mike Garza (CA)
Most Valuable Pitcher: SP Jeremy Emery (CO)
Reliever Of The Year: CL Jeff McNeal (KY)
Rookie Of The Year: CA Jose Mer (NM)
Best Defender Award...
Pitcher: Toshikuni Fukumitsu (IL)
Catcher: Bart Marsland (CO)
First Baseman: Jesus Camacho (CO)
Second Baseman: Nelson Romero (IN)
Third Baseman: Alessandro Boccherini (IL)
Shortstop: Jimmy Williams (IN)
Left Fielder: Bryan Soliben (CO)
Center Fielder: Devlyn Blais (IN)
Right Fielder: Jose Aguilar (OR)
Platinum Stick Award...
Catcher: Chong-chin Kang (KY)
First Baseman: Ogai Tsuji (IN)
Second Baseman: Nelson Romero (IN)
Third Baseman: Mike Garza (CA)
Shortstop: Jesus Bruno (KY)
Left Fielder: Bryan Soliben (CO)
Center Fielder: Devlyn Blais (IN)
Right Fielder: Koto Matsui (CO)
Designated Hitter: Joe Godfrey (WA)
Patriot League
Most Valuable Hitter: LF Mason Hayter (VA)
Most Valuable Pitcher: SP Greg Goff (OH)
Reliever Of The Year: LF Billy Kaufman (MD)
Rookie Of The Year: CL Rex O'Brian (OH)
Best Defender Award...
Pitcher: Don Wilson (NC)
Catcher: Steve Downs (WV)
First Baseman: Eric Schultz (NC)
Second Baseman: Cheng-ji Ec (NY)
Third Baseman: Dave Ross (NY)
Shortstop: Yu-hsui Chio (OH)
Left Fielder: Sake Remeeus (NJ)
Center Fielder: Teruo Hamada (GA)
Right Fielder: Stan Turner (NY)
Platinum Stick Award...
Catcher: Anrrique Juliao (VA)
First Baseman: Chris Curry (ON)
Second Baseman: Jose Ramirez (OH)
Third Baseman: Nobuhito Sakata (OH)
Shortstop: Chris MacIntosh (NY)
Left Fielder: Mason Hayter (VA)
Center Fielder: Valdemar Legarth (VA)
Right Fielder: Cedric Boyd (MD)
Designated Hitter: Joe Baraja (ON)
General Manager Of The Year: Matthew Streeter (CO), 104-58, FL West title, eliminated in Wildcard Series
Left Fielder: Sake Remeeus (NJ) - hahaha.. about all he could do
Glass is 5th all-time in AFBL wins with 230 but ya he was just on that line for me
wow.. I traded for Glass and Dan Allen in the same deal and both went on tot he HoF 🙂
2034 Postseason MVP... Ohio 1B Randy Long: .307/.333/.547, 23/75, 15 R, 3 2B, 5 HR, 23 RBI, 6 SB
HTML Reports are updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
Reminder that we have to get the Ammy Draft done by Tuesday! We'll have our 2 Spring Training sims on Wed/Thurs and Fri next week and then Opening Day 2035 will be Monday 5/22.
set the channel topic: 2034 Offseason Tasks: Team MVPs <- get these done please!
We're rolled over to 2035. AAA and AA roster max is now 35 players. We're at the start of Spring Training.
set the channel topic: 2035 Spring Training Sim 1: Feb 26 - Mar 12 on THURSDAY 5/18
Remember to name Team MVPs on the Forum and to check out the Winter Meetings threads about league ideas on the Forum as well
I forgot to include all of the messages in the recent new file to get us into 2035 so if you want them here is the zip of the 'messages' folder. Just download and extract into your \saved_games\AFBL.lg folder. afblbaseball.com/afbl/downloads/messages.zip
^ this didn't work. Uploading a new file to include all messages. You don't need to download if you have already exported for tomorrow and/or don't care about seeing the messages that were missing 🙂.
New file is up with everything getting updated soon. Remember this is the same file as yesterday just with all messages included. We begin ST tomorrow!
I'm sure everyone experienced their first S+ Slack bombardment too 🙂
HTML Reports are updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
- Sim is complete
File is updated: In game date is March 13, 2035
Reports: Updated
StatsLab: Updated
StatsPlus: Updated
Missed exports: Illinois (11/15/2034), Kentucky (10/1/2034), New Mexico (9/1/2034), Ontario (7/9/2034), Oregon (11/15/2034), Virginia (11/7/2034, vacation)
Exports due: Friday 5/19/2017 by 5:30am CT .. you MUST export at least 1 of the 2 ST sims!
Next sim info: 2035 Spring Training Sim 2: March 13-27 on FRI 5/19
Sim notes:
-ST concludes tomorrow (Friday) 5/19 .. mandatory export for anyone that missed today’s export
-Opening Day is Monday 5/22 .. mandatory export for everyone
-Double check your rosters for injuries and size limit violations
-Continue to stay active with exports, checking the forum for new posts, logging into StatsLab and StatsPlus, and joining us on Slack
~Matthew
set the channel topic: 2035 Regular Season Sim 1: April 2-10 on MONDAY 5/22/17
HTML Reports are updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
No ST exports from: NM @mikewilkinson, VA @jeheinz72 (John emailed me about returning from being away and will export for Monday).
Opening Day 2035 is Monday and is a mandatory export. Please make this happen guys. Good luck this season!
Missing Opening Day exports from: NM (also missed both ST sims), IL, PA, ON. @mikewilkinson @blake-warhawks @qdog915_pa @x24rocks
Grabbing exports. Any GM that missed Opening Day exports and has more than 25 players on their AFBL roster, I'll auto their organization.
HTML Reports are updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2035 Regular Season Sim 3: April 21-30 on 5/26/17
HTML Reports are updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
Missed exports: New Mexico (9/1/2034), Illinois (3/13/2035), Kentucky (4/11/2035), Pennsylvania (4/11/2035), West Virginia (4/11/2035) @mikewilkinson @blake-warhawks
HTML Reports are updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2035 Regular Season Sim 5: May 11-20 on 5/31/17
HTML Reports are updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2035 Regular Season Sim 6: May 21-31 on 6/2/17
Missed exports for Sim 5: Illinois (3/13/2035), Kentucky (4/11/2035), New Jersey (5/1/2035), New Mexico (5/1/2035), Ontario (4/21/2035), Pennsylvania (5/1/2035), Texas (4/21/2035), Washington (5/1/2035) @blake-warhawks @Zach - KY @x24rocks @mukerka
Missed exports: Illinois (3/13/2035), Kentucky (4/11/2035), Ontario (4/21/2035), Texas (4/21/2035), Maryland (5/11/2035, traveling), New Mexico (5/1/2035), Virginia (5/11/2035), Washington (5/1/2035) @blake-warhawks @Zach - KY @x24rocks @mukerka
set the channel topic: 2035 Regular Season Sim 7: June 1-10 on 6/5/17
All-Star voting has been enabled in StatsLab. Be sure to get this done as this is an expected league task.
I haven't heard from Illinois since Spring Training so that franchise is now open. New Mexico will be open at the end of the season but if we can fill it sooner I will. Please let me know if you know of anyone that would be a good fit for the league.
Ugh my OOTP17 crashed after day 1 of the sim. That is why you'll see duplicate posts for Jun 1.
Reminder to get your ASG ballots submitted in StatsLab by next week
set the channel topic: 2035 Regular Season Sim 8: June 11-20 on 6/7/17
set the channel topic: 2035 Regular Season Sim 10: July 1-8 on 6/12/17
July 8th games have been played but the game hasn't been advanced to avoid the CPU from selecting the ASG rosters.
ASG voting is due by next sim (Wed 6/14). This is a mandatory league task so get this done if you haven't already. Voting is done in StatsLab.
Still need ASG voting from: TX @mukerka, WV @claphamsa, CA @JasonMallards, VA @jeheinz72, IN @jkguy16-indiana, WA @darktrc, PA @qdog915pa, NY @nytowers, GA @tjsmith7georgia, NJ @mikenewjersey, ON @x24rocks, NM (open), IL (open).
set the channel topic: 2035 Regular Season Sim 11: July 9-15 on 6/14/17 - ASG and break, no games!
Congrats to our 2035 All-Stars!
2035 All-Star Game Selections
Frontier League
Starters
CA: Bart Marsland (CO)
1B: Orlando Gomez (IL) [injured]
2B: Nelson Romero (IN)
3B: Mike Garza (CA)
SS: Rodney Noseworthy (CO)
LF: Bryan Soliben (CO) [injured]
CF: Ken Calhoun (NM)
RF: Junior Nash (IL)
DH: Antonio Padilla (CO)
SP: Jose Silva (CO)
Reserves
CA: Jose Mer (NM)
1B: Ben Johnston (WA)
1B: Jesus Camacho (CO) [Commish selection] [injury replacement for Gomez]
2B: Alfredo Martinez (NM) [Commish selection]
3B: Jake White (CO)
SS: Jimmy Williams (IN)
LF: Lucien Collina (CA) [Commish selection]
OF: Devlyn Blais (IN) [Commish selection] [injury replacement for Soliben]
CF: Pete Anderson (CO) [Commish selection]
RF: Jose Cuevas (TX)
SP: Jonathan Wilson (IL)
SP: Ron Davis (NM)
SP: Sean Fontenot (CO)
SP: Pat Bowles (NM)
SP: Raul Otero (OR)
RP: Terrence Beck (IN)
RP: Dan Butler (CO)
RP: Bob Jones (CO)
RP: Mario Cardenas (TX)
RP: Dan Brantley (IN)
RP: Ed Johnson (CA)
Patriot League
Starters
CA: Bernard Foijens (VA)
1B: Pat Jones (MD)
2B: Razan Koumura (ON)
3B: Jorge Beltre (WV) [injured]
SS: Stan MacIntyre (ON)
LF: Mason Hayter (VA)
CF: Josh Ross (ON) [injured]
RF: Cedric Boyd (MD)
DH: Shunen Kobayashi (GA) [Commish selection]
SP: Kiyoshi Oishi (ON)
Reserves
CA: Ignacio Jaramillo (WV) [Commish selection]
1B: Tim Davis (VA) [Commish selection, injured]
1B: Eric Lee (GA) [Commish selection] [injury replacement for Davis]
2B: Dennis Christopher (VA) [Commish selection]
3B: Dave Ross (NY) [Commish selection]
3B: Ahilocana Gopalakrishnan [Commish selection] [injury replacement for Beltre]
SS: Jose Martinez (NC)
LF: Leo Washington (WV) [Commish selection, injured]
OF: Stan Turner (NY) [Commish selection] [injury replacment for Washington]
CF: Francis Ridley (NC)
CF: Teruo Hamada (GA) [Commish selection] [injury replacement for Ross]
RF: Nate Wagner (VA) [Commish selection]
SP: Tim Duncan (ON)
SP: Ruben Ferreira (NY)
SP: Ed Walker (OH)
SP: Ernesto Candeleria (MD)
SP: Chris Roberson (PA) [Commish selection]
RP: Tim Brown (NC)
RP: Raul Garcia (OH)
RP: Kichisaburo Azuma (ON)
RP: Jimmy Williams (NY) [injured]
RP: Steve Dukes (OH) [Commish selection]
RP: Yu-zeng Sung (NC) [Commish selection]
RP: Bob Bell (NY) [Commish selection] [injury replacement for Williams]
Friday's sim will be a shorter one that goes July 16-22. Monday's sim will be July 23-31. Trade Deadline is by Wednesday's sim.
set the channel topic: 2035 Regular Season Sim 12: July 16-22 on 6/16/17
set the channel topic: 2035 Regular Season Sim 13: July 23-31 on 6/19/17
Just a heads up guys, my wife and I are expecting twins within the next 9 days (yes 2 at once 😬). C section is scheduled for June 26th. We'll take a small sim break whenever that happens. I'll keep everyone posted.
We don't get to play a full court press and have to go directly to man to man defense 😄
@lt - Idaho uploaded a file: Image uploaded from iOS and commented: Congrats guys - enjoy it cause eventually they turn into this...
set the channel topic: 2035 Regular Season Sim 14: August 1-10 on 6/21/17 | Trade Deadline is by next sim!
Congrats @mstreeter06 — we have twins girls and another girl 13 months older… 9 and 10 now! Enjoy the ride, it’s gonna get crazy!
Thanks! Yeah it's going to be crazy. Lucked out getting a boy and a girl so we can also be done after 1 pregnancy 🙂.
@mstreeter06 ha! nice. Going from 1 to 3 in a short time, I had to make sure we were done too. lol
Current missing yearly Team MVPs:
Frontier League
TX: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034 @mukerka
NM: 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034
IN: 2032, 2033, 2034 @jkguy16-indiana
IL: 2033, 2034
Patriot League
MD: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034 @steve e
NY: 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034 @nytowers
PA: 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034 @qdog915pa
ON: 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034 @x24rocks
WV: 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034 @claphamsa
set the channel topic: 2035 Regular Season Sim 15: August 11-20 on 6/23/17
Missed exports: Illinois (3/13/2035, open), New Mexico (5/1/2035, open), Ontario (7/1/2035), Pennsylvania (7/16/2035), Kentucky (8/1/2035), New York (8/1/2035), Washington (8/1/2035). @x24rocks @qdog915_pa
We'll be taking a sim break after today. We'll sim sometime next week but not sure when yet. Definitely not on Monday. Shooting to have a chance on Wednesday morning to continue with the 2035 season.
set the channel topic: 2035 Regular Season Sim 16: August 21-31 on TBD (hopefully Wed 6/28)
I'll be able to run a sim on Wednesday 6/28 morning before I head back to the hospital sometime between 5-8am CT. Friday's sim will be sometime around then but I'll just have to wait and see how things go when we all get discharged Thursday 🙂.
set the channel topic: 2035 Regular Season Sim 17: September 1-10 on 6/30 @ TBD
I didn't deal with injuries this sim so be sure to check your rosters
We'll actually take Monday off for the long holiday weekend in the US and get started again on Wednesday 7/5
set the channel topic: 2035 Regular Season Sim 18: September 11-20 on 7/5 @ TBD | No sim on Mon 7/3
Got about an hour before chaos times two starts haha. Sim 18 coming up.
I didn't deal with injuries this sim again so be sure to check your rosters
set the channel topic: 2035 Regular Season Sim 19: September 21-30 on 7/7 @ TBD
Sim 19 is completed. File upload started. Didn't deal with injuries since rosters are expanded.
I'll be able to update HTML Reports, StatsPlus, and StatsLab in a bit.
set the channel topic: 2035 Regular Season Sim 20: October 1-3 on 7/10 @ ~7am CT | Final Regular Season sim!
Regular Season is completed. We'll start the Playoffs tomorrow morning (or later today if all are ready). Exports due by 7am CT.
set the channel topic: 2035 Playoffs Sim 1: Wildcard Series Games 1-3 on 7/11 @ ~7am CT
I need to advance the game 2 days to get us to the start of the playoffs. So I'm grabbing any new exports and doing that now. You'll need to redownload and reexport if you've already done that.
Actually only needed to advance 1 day to October 4th. New file is being uploaded now.
I'll be running the CPU on the New Mexico organization for each sim (as I've been doing all year for them and IL) in the playoffs. Just wanted to make everyone aware.
Season Awards and HOF Voting has been enabled in StatsLab. These are due by the end of the playoffs and/or draft. You should have a week or so to get these done.
These are a mandatory task for being in the league. Starting this year, failure to do so will result in a loss of a 1st round draft pick for 1 missed vote and loss of your 2nd round draft pick as well for missing both.
This isn't a problem for most of the league so thank you to everyone that I don't have to badger about these things 😄
That seems like it'll just either A) Get semi-ish active people to just drop the league or B) Get a bunch of nonsense votes
jeheinz72: Hmm ya possibly. It's really only 1 person that it's a problem for 😄.
We'll start the playoffs this morning as soon as I can sneak away from double trouble 🙂
set the channel topic: 2035 Playoffs Sim 2: Wildcard Series Games 4-6 on 7/12 @ ~7am CT
set the channel topic: 2035 Playoffs Sim 3: Wildcard Series Games 7 or League Championship Series Games 1-3 on 7/13 @ ~7am CT
Time to see who will advance in the PL to the LCS to join Indiana and Colorado.
set the channel topic: 2035 Playoffs Sim 4: League Championship Series Games 1-3 on 7/14 @ ~7am CT
set the channel topic: 2035 Playoffs Sim 5: League Championship Series Games 4-6 on 7/17 or when all ready this weekend
I'm back in the office starting on Monday so we'll be back to our normal export due and sim time of 530am CT.
set the channel topic: 2035 Playoffs Sim 6: League Championship Series Game 7 or Federation Cup Series Games 1-3 on 7/17 or when all ready this weekend
Grabbing exports for Sim 6 (LCS G7). Let's see who will claim their league's title!
set the channel topic: 2035 Playoffs Sim 7: Federation Cup Series Games 1-3 on 7/17 or when all ready this weekend
Missing Season Awards voting: IN @jkguy16-indiana, NY @ny_towers, ON @x24rocks, IL (open), NM (open)
Missing HOF voting: TX @mukerka, CA @JasonMallards, IN @jkguy16-indiana, PA @qdog915pa, NY @ny_towers, ON @x24rocks, IL (open), NM (open)
set the channel topic: 2035 Playoffs Sim 8: Federation Cup Series Games 4-6 when all ready
Everyone please welcome Paul Nicholls who will be taking over the Illinois Warhawks. He just registered on the forum and should be on Slack later.
Looks like both IN and VA are ready to go via Export Tracker. Good luck guys! @jkguy16-indiana @jeheinz72
If we want, we can try to do a live sim too. Either way works for me.
shoot wait on that.. I wanted to create Paul in the game. I'll reupload in a moment.
We'll see who will claim the 2035 FCS whenever Indiana is ready to go. Good luck guys! @jkguy16-indiana
set the channel topic: 2035 Playoffs Sim 9: Federation Cup Series Games 7-9 (Series tied at 3) when all ready
set the channel topic: 2035 Offseason: Ammy Draft (StatsPlus), Season Awards (StatsLab), HOF (StatsLab), Team MVP (Forum), Postseason MVP (Forum)
I'll be closing the Season Awards and HOF voting in StatsLab then inputting the results for a new file today.
I'd like to run Spring Training 2036 next week on Wednesday or Thursday and then on Friday. So we need to finish the draft by Tuesday or Wednesday!
Feel free to help test and explore the StatsPlus voting too if you haven't ☺️
set the channel topic: 2035 Offseason: Ammy Draft (StatsPlus), Team MVP (Forum), Postseason MVP (Forum)
Ammy Draft completed. I'll get the results imported, process the trade WA-KY trade, rollover to 2036, and advance to the start of ST for the next new file to be released later today.
We'll do this for the coming sim schedule:
-Spring Training Sim 1 on Thursday 7/27
-Spring Training Sim 2 on Friday 7/28
-Opening Day 2036, Regular Season Sim 1 (April x-10) on Monday 7/31
Grabbing exports then Ammy Draft results, WA-KY trade, 2036 rollover, then simming to ST
There were 3 FA claims that had to be voided due to the player going back to school after going undrafted. WV had 2 and IL had 1 of those. @claphamsa @cmyru82
File upload started. Should be ready in 10-15 minutes. I'll update Reports, StatsPlus, and StatsLab in the morning.
I'll be posting the forgotten about (party_parrot) Postseason MVP poll this morning. Also remember to name your Team MVPs on the Forum too.
set the channel topic: 2036 Spring Training Sim 1: March 3-17 on Thursday 7/27
Upcoming sim schedule:
-Spring Training Sim 1 (March 3-17) on Thursday 7/27
-Spring Training Sim 2 (March 18 - April 1) on Friday 7/28
-Opening Day 2036, Regular Season Sim 1 (April 7-10) on Monday 7/31
Exports will be due at 530am CT as always and starting on Friday we'll be back to our normal MWF sim schedule.
I might have someone to take over for NM via the OOTP boards. Fingers crossed!
reminder that Spring Training Sim 1 is tomorrow morning. I expect you to export at least 1 of the 2 ST sims so plan accordingly. ST Sim 2 is Friday.
pretty sad seeing one of our potential mid range pitchers in ken mendelsen take a big dive in ratings the past 12 or so months.. thankfully we've drafted a hatfull of of younger guys that could become studs
I'll process FA claims next sim (tomorrow). Sorry to those that had some for today's sim.
Putting up the 2035 Postseason MVP poll now on the Forum. Oops sorry guys 🙂.
We'll skip RTS today. I'm thinking about doing it for Regular Season Sim 1 since it's a short sim range.
Oops forgot to do FA claims again 😬. Definitely on Monday. Sorry guys 😢
set the channel topic: 2036 Regular Season Sim 1: April 7-10 on Monday 7/31 .. MANDATORY EXPORT
Missed Opening Day exports from: MD, ON, PA, WV. @steve e @x24rocks @qdog915_pa @claphamsa
@kdog36_newmexico http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
Yeah it is. We discovered its best when its just a few games instead of 10-15 like ST or a normal Regular Season sim. I'm thinking we can do RTS for the Playoffs though!
Jesus Ortega weathers (pun intended) a rain delay of 35 minutes and pulls off the CG Shutout on opening day.... Fanned 12, allowed 5 hits. 🙂
I didn't deal with injuries this sim FYI. Sorry guys. Just a fluke with RTS and then double trouble before I leave for work in a moment 😉. HTML Reports extracting and SQL dump in progress. Those will be updated later this morning.
Just realized I never finished updating Reports, StatsPlus, and StatsLab from Sim 1. Doing that now!
set the channel topic: 2036 Regular Season Sim 2: April 11-20 on 8/2
set the channel topic: 2036 Regular Season Sim 3: April 21-30 on Friday 8/4
set the channel topic: 2036 Regular Season Sim 4: May 1-10 on Monday 8/7
We'll sim later this morning guys. Probably around 8am central time. Double trouble and have to get to work early.
Crap sorry guys work turned into a long day ugh. Will sim when I get home from work.
set the channel topic: 2036 Regular Season Sim 5: May 11-20 on Wednesday 8/9
set the channel topic: 2036 Regular Season Sim 6: May 21-31 on Friday 8/11
set the channel topic: 2036 Regular Season Sim 7: June 1-10 on Monday 8/14
set the channel topic: 2036 Regular Season Sim 8: June 11-20 on Wednesday 8/16
Shit I got pulled away and never imported exports. Ignore the Slack posts from today so far. Going to a backup and starting over. Sorry guys 😞.
Alrighty sorry about all that and of course I forgot to start StatsPlus for the first 2 days on the restart haha. Sim 8 is completed. File upload started.
set the channel topic: 2036 Regular Season Sim 9: June 21-30 on Friday 8/18
ASG Voting is getting close in StatsPlus. We might be able to use it this year. I'll know more by Friday.
Good news everyone... All-Star Game voting is ready to go in StatsPlus! Go ahead and check it out and vote. This is due by Wednesday's sim. https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
set the channel topic: 2036 Regular Season Sim 10: July 1-13 on Monday 8/21
FYI, Monday's sim is slightly longer than usual to take us up to the start of the All-Star Game and break sim. July 1-13
We'll run the rest of the sim later this morning once things are settled at work. So hopefully around 9am central or so.
July 13th games have been played but the game has not been advanced.
set the channel topic: 2036 Regular Season Sim 11: July 14-20 on Wednesday 8/23 .. All-Star Game and Break!
All-Star Game voting is due by Wednesday's sim. https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
No ASG votes from: TX @mukerka, NY @flexd, @MD @steve e, ON @x24rocks
2036 All-Star Game Selections
Frontier League
Starters
CA: Jose Mer (NM)
1B: Jesus Camacho (CO)
2B: Nelson Romero (IN) [unanimous 14/14]
3B: Orlando Hernandez (IN)
SS: Rodney Noseworthy (CO) [unanimous 14/14]
LF: Bryan Soliben (CO) [unanimous 14/14]
CF: Devlyn Blais (IN)
RF: Tony Macias (KY)
DH: Joe Godfrey (NM)
SP: Alex Pacheco (TX)
Reserves
CA: Ruben Benitez (KY) [commish selection]
1B: Jon Simpson (OR)
2B: Ron Simmons (TX) [commish selection]
3B: Mike Garza (CA)
SS: Jesus Bruno (KY) [commish selection]
LF: Dwight Nuijs (IL) [commish selection]
CF: Ken Calhoun (NM) [commish selection]
OF: Lucien Collina (CA) [commish selection]
SP: Juan Salas (OR)
SP: Jorge Rivera (TX)
SP: Hector Martinez (NM)
SP: Jake Ashley (CO)
SP: Sancho Gonzales (IN)
RP: Juan Gutierrez (NM)
RP: Mario Cardenas (TX)
RP: Dan Butler (CO)
RP: Cisco De Jesus (ID)
RP: Mike Dalton (KY)
RP: Louwe Roocke (IN)
Patriot League
Starters
CA: Anrrique Juliao (VA)
1B: Tim Davis (VA)
2B: Cheng-ji Ec (NY)
3B: Ahilocana Gopalakrishnan (NC)
SS: Yu-hsui Chio (OH) [injured]
LF: Mason Hayter (VA)
CF: Josh Ross (ON)
RF: Magobei Goto (OH)
DH: Joe Baraja (ON)
SP: Ed Tyler (ON)
Reserves
CA: Arturo Marquez (GA) [commish selection]
1B: Daisuke Ine (WV)
2B: Dennis Christopher (VA)
3B: Marty Bence (VA) [commish selection]
SS: Jose Martinez (NC)
SS: Jeff Young (VA) [injury replacement for Chio]
LF: Sal Belcher (NC)
OF: Billy Kaufman (MD) [commish selection]
RF: Jose Cervantes (MD) [commish selection]
SP: Chris Roberson (PA)
SP: Greg Goff (OH)
SP: Ruben Ferreira (NY)
SP: Bertil Aarden (NC)
SP: Norm Brown (ON)
RP: Bob Grant (NY)
RP: Chris Gamble (PA)
RP: Sandy Lee (OH)
RP: Jari Hupkes (ON)
RP: Bob Bell (NY)
RP: Cam Dean (GA) [commish selection]
Sim 11 is completed. The 2036 All-Star Game is finished. File upload started.
set the channel topic: 2036 Regular Season Sim 12: July 21-31 on Friday 8/25
set the channel topic: 2036 Regular Season Sim 13: August 1-10 on Monday 8/28 | TRADE DEADLINE IS BY MONDAY'S SIM
Not a huge deal since everyone is fairly current with their exports but only 10/20 teams exported for today 😞
Sim 13 is completed. File upload started. There are some good playoff races developing!
set the channel topic: 2036 Regular Season Sim 14: August 11-20 on Wednesday 8/30
set the channel topic: 2036 Regular Season Sim 15: August 21-31 on Friday 9/1
@AFBL Commish uploaded a file: Pasted image at 2017-09-01, 9:20 AM and commented: Sneak peak at the combined Draft Pool (includes just announced International FAs)
set the channel topic: 2036 Regular Season Sim 16: September 1-10 on TUESDAY 9/5
we'll take Monday off for the Labor Day holiday and sim on Tuesday instead
AFBL rosters expanded to 40. Ammy Draft Pool revealed.. remember that the International FAs are part of the draft eligible players.
set the channel topic: 2036 Regular Season Sim 17: September 11-20 on 9/6
New file is up. I'll get everything else updated when we get back from dropping off the twins at daycare for the 1st time 😬☺️.
set the channel topic: 2036 Regular Season Sim 18: September 21-30 on 9/8
Sim 18 is completed. File upload started. The final 6-7 games on Monday are going to be fun with seeding and playoff spots still yet to be decided!
HTML Reports updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2036 Regular Season Sim 19: October 1-8 on 9/11
Sim 19 is completed along with the 2036 Regular Season. File upload started.
I'll try to get that updated this morning assuming work isn't crazy 😄
set the channel topic: 2036 Playoffs Sim 1: Wildcard Series Games 1-3 on 9/12 or whenever all are ready
Guys I totally forgot that we needed to sim today haha. We'll just start tomorrow since ON needs until tonight.
I'll get the Draft setup in StatsPlus today (I promise haha).
Alrighty.. let's start the Playoffs (and get the draft finally setup 😁)
set the channel topic: 2036 Playoffs Sim 2: Wildcard Series Games 4-6 on 9/14 or whenever all are ready
set the channel topic: 2036 Playoffs Sim 3: Wildcard Series Game 7 on 9/15 or whenever all are ready
Season Awards voting has been enabled in StatsPlus https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
HOF voting has been enabled in StatsLab. URL: http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/statslab/hall_of_fame_vote.php
New on HOF ballot:
CA Sancho Fierro
CA Luis Hernandez
SP Juan Castillo
SP Joe Crowder
RP Steve Robinson
Minimum years since retirement moved to 3 years from 1 year. Maximum number of years on ballot moved to 5 years from 10 years.
I feel this is a good change so our ballots don’t get huge and to give not-first-ballot HOFers a chance to earn a HOF spot. I think we should have more of a gap for players that retire to appearing on our HOF ballot.
I can't get any players to load on the PLMVhitter page. All the others were fine and I voted.
I just refreshed that module. Can you check again? I see players in that section. @chappy
I think I can sneak in PL Wildcard Series G7 now. Grabbing exports @chappy @x24rocks
CO and NC are ready for Round 2 in the League Championship Series. Whenever IN and MD are ready we can begin. Good luck guys! @jkguy16-indiana @steve e
set the channel topic: 2036 Playoffs Sim 4: League Championship Series Games 1-3 on 9/15 or whenever all are ready
MD is ready. Just need IN's new export or go-ahead to start. http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/statslab/exports.php
I'm going to let it run as a RTS. Totally forgot to do that for the Wildcard Series 😄
StatsLab updated (finally, been getting timeouts when loading SQL files with our host)
set the channel topic: 2036 Playoffs Sim 5: League Championship Series Games 4-6 on 9/18 or whenever all are ready
Looks like we're ready so let's start Sim 5 (LCS G4-6). Grabbing exports.
set the channel topic: 2036 Playoffs Sim 6: League Championship Series Game 7 or Federation Cup Series Games 1-3 whenever all are ready
Not going to update Reports/StatsPlus/StatsLab as we plan to continue with the FCS tonight
set the channel topic: 2036 Playoffs Sim 7: Federation Cup Series Games 4-6 whenever all are ready
Maryland is ready to finish this out. No injures and no changes for either team. Will this cinderella Maryland team finish this off with Federation Cup Series title or will Colorado storm back with 3 in a row to win their 7th FCS win?
set the channel topic: 2036 Offseason: Ammy Draft, Season Awards, HOF Voting, Team MVP, Playoff MVP
Still have most of the league needed to vote for Season Awards https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
Only 1 team has voted for HOF too. Get this done please! http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/statslab/hall_of_fame_vote.php
I can see FL pitcher, rookie and RP ballot lists, but no hittters are shown when I go to the FL hitter ballot
Ya I had to reload the page for it to show batters for PL. I'll check with Dave about it.
I'm about to grab any new exports, import the draft results, then advance the game until just before Awards are announced in-game (late Nov) followed by releasing a new file tonight or in the morning. You have until Wednesday morning if you haven't voted for Season Awards or HOF. I expect you to do this as a member of the league. I'll release another file Wednesday taking us to the start of Spring Training. Thursday will be the 1st half of ST and Friday will be the 2nd half of ST. Opening Day 2037 will be Monday 10/2.
Still need Season Awards voting from: NM @kdog36_newmexico, NY @flexd, IN @jkguy16-indiana, WA @darktrc, ON @x24rocks
Still need HOF voting from: NM @kdog36newmexico, TX @mukerka, CA @JasonMallards, NY @flexd, IN @jkguy16-indiana, WA @darktrc, ON @x24rocks
File upload started. I advanced 1 day further than I intended but not a big deal as the CPU picks the Best Defender Awards anyway. New file will be up in a few minutes. I'll update Reports/StatsLab/StatsPlus in the morning.
Congratulations to SP Katsuyoshi Nakamura being voted into the AFBL HOF!
SP Juan Castillo, SP Ron Gregory, and SS Damian Robertson were all just 1 vote short
@AFBL Commish uploaded a file: Pasted image at 2017-09-27, 6:06 AM and commented: @Jason_Mallards
Frontier League
Most Valuable Hitter: LF Bryan Soliben (CO)
Most Valuable Pitcher: SP Hector Martinez (NM)
Reliever Of The Year: CL Jonathan Wiley (CA)
Rookie Of The Year: RF Tony Macias (KY)
Best Defender Award...
Pitcher: Pat Bowles (NM)
Catcher: Jose Mer (NM)
First Baseman: Orlando Gomez (IL)
Second Baseman: Nelson Romero (IN)
Third Baseman: Eric Alexander (IL)
Shortstop: Jimmy Williams (IN)
Left Fielder: Bryan Soliben (CO)
Center Fielder: Ty Wilkerson (ID)
Right Fielder: Jose Cuevas (TX)
Platinum Stick Award...
Catcher: Jose Mer (NM)
First Baseman: Ogai Tsuji (IN)
Second Baseman: Nelson Romero (IN)
Third Baseman: Mike Garza (CA)
Shortstop: Rodney Noseworthy (CO)
Left Fielder: Bryan Soliben (CO)
Center Fielder: Devlyn Blais (IN)
Right Fielder: Tony Macias (KY)
Designated Hitter: Joe Godfrey (NM)
Patriot League
Most Valuable Hitter: CA Anrrique Juliao (VA)
Most Valuable Pitcher: SP Ed Tyler (ON)
Reliever Of The Year: CL Bob Grant (NY)
Rookie Of The Year: SP Raul Fernandez (NY)
Best Defender Award...
Pitcher: David Lopez (VA)
Catcher: Ignacio Jaramillo (WV)
First Baseman: Tim Davis (VA)
Second Baseman: Sean Stroud (PA)
Third Baseman: Manny Herrera (GA)
Shortstop: Manny Garcia (NJ)
Left Fielder: Ben Gill (NY)
Center Fielder: Ivan Yanez (NJ)
Right Fielder: Ron Sanders (NJ)
Platinum Stick Award...
Catcher: Anrrique Juliao (VA)
First Baseman: Tony Frazier (PA)
Second Baseman: Razan Koumura (ON)
Third Baseman: Marty Bence (VA)
Shortstop: Jeff Young (VA)
Left Fielder: Mason Hayter (VA)
Center Fielder: Josh Ross (ON)
Right Fielder: Jose Cervantes (MD)
Designated Hitter: Joe Baraja (ON)
General Manager Of The Year: John Heinz (VA), 102-60, PL South title
yeah, not much else those guys can do though.. .although to be fair sanders I'm expecting a bit of a breakout with the bat anytime now
NC is about the team and not individual accolades anyhow...... yeah, I'll go with that.
I'll get a new file up asap. I screwed up by simming an extra day the last sim so I wasn't able to manually enter the Season Award winners 😞. Game picked most of them as we voted but a few are correct. I don't know of a way to fix this. Sorry guys. I'm simming up to ST 2037 now.
I've always wished there were a master database editing tool for OOTP. The NPBL has several players whose histories have been messed up over the course of 15 conversions to new versions of the game. Editing the award winners would be nice too, especially since modern versions of the game have more awards than older versions did.
At one point I figured out how to edit players using the import/export database function, but they would lose their career postseason stats when they were re-imported so it hurt as much as it helped.
i hadn't realized that was Maryland's first time making the playoffs. From the perspective of someone with 0 titles in 10 playoff appearances, that kinda hurts!
Yeah that was quite the first appearance. That does really stink for you though 😕
Waiting for the almanac to finish then I'll be able to get to Spring Training. New file should be out within the hour.
Pretty cool that Juliao won, though I am a bit surprised at how much he beat Hayter by (11 1sts to 3). They were probably equally valuable but catcher WAR is always way higher for equal production
Just did the Team MVP post for Juliao - his 82 RTO looks to be a league record
it looks like the big all-time leaderboards on the HTML's aren't updated past 2030 - is there a way to fix that?
I was planning on tomorrow unless we need to give everyone a day to get their ST rosters set
set the channel topic: 2037 Spring Training Sim 1: March 2-16, 2037 on THURSDAY 9/28
We'll still plan to do the 1st half of Spring Training tomorrow with exports due by 530am central time and the 2nd half on Friday. Opening Day 2037 is Monday!
Missed exports: CA (10/9/2036), GA (11/23/2036), IL (10/14/2036), MD (11/14/2036 - messaged me), NJ (11/23/2036), OH (10/1/2036 - vacation), ON (10/19/2036), PA (10/9/2036), WA (10/1/2036)
This will run for a bit. Once it finishes, I'll get a new file up along with updating Reports/StatsPlus/StatsLab.
can you turn off the highlights? really just after results in the private channels
well no, I want to see the scores, just not the highlight junk.. have asked dave for some user confirgurable options
my team channel was full of everything... when we play ST especially it takes time to then look at scores ... will see what options dave comes up with
ya it'd be nice to also have #teamhighlights #teamscores #teaminjuries #teamscores etc
set the channel topic: 2037 Spring Training Sim 2: March 17-31, 2037 on FRIDAY 9/29
Missed both ST sims: CA @JasonMallards, IL @cmyru82, NJ @mikenewjersey, OH (vacation), ON @x24rocks, PA @qdog915pa, WA @darktrc
Sorry. This league has been in offseason and my other one took a break and I got out of the habbit of exporting. I'll export for Monday.
RTS is only being used during Spring Training and the Playoffs. We'll run sim as we normally do during the season.
set the channel topic: 2037 Regular Season Sim 1: April 6-10, 2037 on 10/2
Missed exports: NM @kdog36_newmexico, NY @flexd, OH (vacation, sent instructions), ON @x24rocks (missed both ST too, cmon Johnny), TX @mukerka, WV @claphamsa
Oops I forgot to handle FA claims. I'll do those on Wednesday's sim. Sorry guys.
set the channel topic: 2037 Regular Season Sim 2: April 11-20, 2037 on 10/4
set the channel topic: 2037 Regular Season Sim 3: April 21-30, 2037 on 10/6
Sorry guys busy day with work and our night is just about to start yipee
I'll sim in a bit. Been a busy extended weekend with family and late nights for work. We'll be back on schedule on Wednesday
set the channel topic: 2037 Regular Season Sim 5: May 11-20, 2037 on 10/11
Missed export: KY 4/6/2037 @Zach - KY, NM 4/11/2037 @kdog36newmexico, NY 4/11/2037 @flexd, ON 4/11/2037 @x24rocks, PA 4/11/2037 @qdog915pa, WV 4/21/2037 @claphamsa
set the channel topic: 2037 Regular Season Sim 6: May 21-31, 2037 on 10/13
set the channel topic: 2037 Regular Season Sim 7: June 1-10, 2037 on 10/16
Sim coming later this morning. I might need to move sim times to night time since the twins usually get up when I need to sim in the morning haha. I'll let you guys know.
Missed exports: KY (4/6/2037) @Zach - KY, NM (4/11/2037) @kdog36_newmexico, NY (4/11/2037) @flexd, ON (4/11/2037) @x24rocks
set the channel topic: 2037 Regular Season Sim 8: June 11-20, 2037 on 10/18
Wed 10/18 sim will be at our normal sim time in the morning (as of right now 😀). All-Star Game voting has been enabled in StatsPlus https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist.
set the channel topic: 2037 Regular Season Sim 9: June 21-20, 2037 on 10/20 | Vote for ASG in StatsPlus!
set the channel topic: 2037 Regular Season Sim 10: July 1-12, 2037 on 10/23 | Vote for ASG in StatsPlus, due by WED sim!
July 12th games have been played but the game hasn't been advanced to avoid the CPU from picking the ASG rosters. Voting in StatsPlus is due by Wednesday's sim!
set the channel topic: 2037 Regular Season Sim 11: July 13-19, 2037 on 10/25 | Vote for ASG in StatsPlus, due by next sim!
We're still missing a good number of ASG ballots. We'll be simming later tomorrow instead of in the morning so get it done if you haven't already.
Missing ASG ballots: @mukerka, @claphamsa, @davezissou, @flexd, @Zach - KY, @qdog915pa, @mikenew_jersey, @x24rocks
ASG sim happening later today so get your ballot in soon if you haven't
Cedric Boyd, probably going to win 3rd straight batting title, getting snubbed in PL RF for second straight year
He has 9, Goto 3, Boyd 2 you can see current results after you submit in statsplus
No ASG ballots from: TX @mukerka, WV @claphamsa, NY @flexd, NM (vacant)
2037 All-Star Game Selections
Frontier League
Starters
CA: Jorge Ortega (WA)
1B: Ogai Tsuji (IN)
2B: Ron Simmons (TX)
3B: Mike Garza (CA) [commish selection]
SS: Rodney Noseworthy (CO) [injured]
LF: Bryan Soliben (CO) [unanimous 14/14]
CF: Devlyn Blais (IN)
RF: Koto Matsui (CO)
DH: Ollie Little (ID)
SP: Mario Cardenas (TX)
Reserves
CA: Quincy Thompson (CA)
1B: Eric Lee (KY)
2B: Loren Dobson (ID)
3B: Jose Rodriguez (KY)
SS: Jimmy Williams (IN)
SS: Jesus Bruno (KY) [injury replacement for Noseworthy]
LF: Migel Entrevinhas (TX) [commish selection]
CF: Ty Wilkerson (TX) [commish selection]
RF: Jose Aguilar (OR) [commish selection]
SP: Curt Peterson (KY)
SP: Hector Martinez (NM)
SP: Sean Fontenot (CO)
SP: Jose Melendez (CA)
SP: Aurelio Garcia (KY) [commish selection]
RP: Pete Adams (CO)
RP: Dan Butler (CO)
RP: Pancho Padilla (OR)
RP: Anibal Gonzalez (ID)
RP: Juan Colon (CO)
RP: Mike Mosley (ID)
Patriot League
Starters
CA: Anrrique Juliao (VA)
1B: Tony Frazier (PA)
2B: Jose Ramirez (OH)
3B: Jorge Beltre (WV) [injured]
SS: Jeff Young (VA)
LF: Pacho DeJesus (NY)
CF: Josh Ross (ON)
RF: Belay Saadauri (VA)
DH: Joe Baraja (ON) [injured]
SP: Robby Peterson (PA)
Reserves
CA: Ignacio Jaramillo (WV) [commish selection]
1B: Chris Curry (ON)
2B: Diederick Kooijman (MD)
3B: Ahilocana Gopalakrishnan {NC) [commish selection]
3B: Eddie Taylor (MD) [commish selection, injury replacement for Beltre, injured]
3B: Bubba Pelan (PA) [commish selection]
SS: Bob Starrett (ON)
LF: Mason Hayter (VA) [injured]
LF: Billy Kaufman (MD) [injury replacement for Hayter]
CF: Jorge Baca (NC) [commish selection]
RF: Magobei Goto (OH) [injured]
RF: Cedric Boyd (MD) [commish selection, injury replacement for Goto]
OF: Jayson Preston (PA) [injury replacement for Baraja, injured]
CA: Arturo Marquez (GA) [injury replacement for Preston]
SP: Bob Grant (NY)
SP: Tim Duncan (ON)
SP: Ed Tyler (ON)
SP: Bob Phelps (MD)
SP: Joel Reece (WV) [commish selection]
RP: Bob Bell (NY)
RP: Tommy Green (WV)
RP: Cesar Sandoval (GA)
RP: Cereneo Agdeppa (VA)
RP: Paolo Huigen (MD)
RP: Orlando Perez (VA)
I missed the MD-VA trade. I'll process that on Friday's sim. Sorry guys! @steve e @jeheinz72
set the channel topic: 2037 Regular Season Sim 12: July 20-31, 2037 on 10/27
set the channel topic: 2037 Regular Season Sim 13: August 1-10, 2037 on 10/30 | Trade Deadline is by Monday's sim!
set the channel topic: 2037 Regular Season Sim 14: August 11-20, 2037 on 11/1
Slack posts in the Team results, afbl highlights, and afbl final scores channels will be fixed next sim
set the channel topic: 2037 Regular Season Sim 15: August 21-31, 2037 on 11/3
Personal news: we're in the process of moving back to the KC area from the ATX area which has been adding to my busyness 🙂. Wife and kids are moved up to her parents house so it's just me for about 2 weeks. So sims will be back on our normal sim times for a week or two 😉.
Grabbing exports for Sim 15!
set the channel topic: 2037 Regular Season Sim 16: September 1-10, 2037 on 11/6 | AFBL rosters expanded to 40 | Ammy Draft pool revealed
You guys weren't in ATX very long. I'm sure you excited to return to KC!
Ya its been just about 1.5 years here. We always planned on getting back but having the twins made it easier to do it now when the opportunity opened up for me.
You're back in KC? I plan on visiting soon. Two of my best friends live there.
set the channel topic: 2037 Regular Season Sim 17: September 11-20, 2037 on 11/8 | AFBL rosters expanded to 40 | Ammy Draft pool revealed
set the channel topic: 2037 Regular Season Sim 18: September 21-30, 2037 on 11/10 | AFBL rosters expanded to 40 | Ammy Draft pool revealed
The final 2037 Regular Season sim will not be on Monday 11/13. It'll either be on Tuesday 11/14 or Wednesday 11/15. We're moving late Sunday into Monday so my OOTP computer will be packed up 🙂.
set the channel topic: 2037 Regular Season Sim 19: October 1-7, 2037 on Tues 11/14 or Wed 11/15
set the channel topic: 2037 Regular Season Sim 20 (Game 163) or Playoffs Sim 1 (Wildcard Series Games 1-3) will be when all involved are ready to go
Grabbing exports for Game 163 between Maryland and Georgia. I'll run it as a Real-Time Sim. Good luck!
set the channel topic: 2037 Playoffs Sim 1 (Wildcard Series Games 1-3) will be when all involved are ready to go
We'll start the 2037 Playoffs whenever all involved are ready to go or at the latest on Wednesday 11/15 morning then we'll be at the minimum on a daily sim for the playoffs. Good luck to our playoff field!
Wow, ended the regular season on a 6-game losing streak and 1-9 in the last 10 games! Gonna have to make some changes as we head into the postseason....
Everyone is ready so I’ll sim soon. I’ll run it as a realtime sim. The 2037 Wildcard Series Games 1-3 are coming up!
set the channel topic: 2037 Playoffs Sim 2 (Wildcard Series Games 4-6) will be when all involved are ready to go
set the channel topic: 2037 Playoffs Sim 3 (Wildcard Series Game 7) will be when all involved are ready to go
set the channel topic: 2037 Playoffs Sim 4 (League Championship Series Games 1-3) will be when all involved are ready to go
New file is up. I'll get everything updated when back from lunch. We can continue with Sim 5 whenever all are ready.
set the channel topic: 2037 Playoffs Sim 5 (League Championship Series Games 4-6) will be when all involved are ready to go
set the channel topic: 2037 Playoffs Sim 7 (Federation Cup Series Games 1-3) will be when all involved are ready to go
We'll start the FCS tomorrow (Sunday 11/19). Good luck to Kentucky and North Carolina!
Vote for Season Awards in StatsPlus! https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
set the channel topic: 2037 Playoffs Sim 8 (Federation Cup Series Games 4-6) will be when all involved are ready to go
set the channel topic: 2037 Playoffs Sim 9 (Federation Cup Series Games 7-9) will be when all involved are ready to go
Sim 9 (FCS G7) is completed. File upload started. @chappy @Zach - KY
I rolled the dice by flipping Cornell for Luna last game... Was hoping Cornell would shut you down and win the series for me, but your pitcher outperformed him. Now I've got to use my worst pitcher for game 8. He's got a 5+ ERA this postseason.
Looks like NC and KY are ready to go for Sim 10 (FCS G8). Grabbing exports. @chappy @Zach - KY
I've also moved the Ammy Draft to December 1st in-game. I didn't think I could edit that midseason 😄.
Game 9 of a best-of-9. Federation Cup Series. Here we go! http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
@AFBL Commish What do you think about doing a live stream of FCS games, or at least like G9s in the future?
Ya I'm always down but today is just crazy busy otherwise we could have done that.
you don't make it to game 9 of the finals if you dont have some fight in ya
Playoffs are completed. Congrats to NC @chappy. File upload started.
Reminder to get Season Awards done in StatsPlus, HOF Voting in StatsLab, and Team MVP in Forum. I'll get a Postseason MVP thread up in the Forum soon too.
set the channel topic: 2037 Offseason Tasks: Season Awards (StatsPlus), HOF Voting (StatsLab), Team MVP (Forum), Postseason MVP (Forum)
Reminder to get Season Awards, HOF Voting, Team MVP done. I will get the Postseason MVP poll posted tonight!
About to grab exports then will import the draft results. Not sure I'll get the Postseason MVP poll up tonight but I will have it up by tomorrow 🙂.
Moved the draft date up to before the Season Awards in-game announcements so we can get the final few guys to vote over the weekend. Draft results imported.
So this will mean I'll enter Season Awards and HOF voting on Monday 12/4 and then roll the game over to 2038 simming up to the start of ST. This will move the Spring Training sims to Wednesday 12/6 and Friday 12/8. Then we'll have Opening Day 2038 on Monday 12/11.
Passed out at my computer haha. I'll get the new file out in the morning 😂.
I’ll get the new file out this morning. It’s been a little crazy for me recently haha.
I won't be doing much in it besides posting positions and weeding through applicants, and I hope my guys never leave so I don't have to do that even.
Sweet. I’m just in the PeopleAdmin IT department so I’m not involved in any of their softwares 😉.
Okay grabbing exports again and will actually get the Season Awards and HOF Voting entered in before I fall asleep in the recliner again 😂
We sadly need a New York GM now as well joining New Mexico as our open teams.
2037 Almanac uploaded to the AFBL Downloads page http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/downloads/almanacs/
HTML Reports updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2038 Spring Training Sim 1: March 1-15 on THURSDAY 12/7
No exports from: Maryland @steve e, Ontario @x24rocks, Oregon @davezissou, Pennsylvania @qdog915_pa, Washington @darktrc, West Virginia @claphamsa.
New York and New Mexico are vacant which I'll be running CPU on their organizations each sim until we find new GMs.
File will be up in 5-10 minutes then I'll get Reports/StatsPlus/StatsLab updated this morning at work. ST Sim 2 will be TOMORROW!
That sucks, I dumped a bunch of minor leaguers. Have to do that again now.
set the channel topic: 2038 Spring Training Sim 2: March 16-30 on FRIDAY 12/8
No exports for both ST sims from: Ontario @x24rocks, Oregon @davezissou, Washington @darktrc, West Virginia @claphamsa.
Still need Opening Day exports from: California @JasonMallards, Illinois @cmyru82, Kentucky @Zach - KY, Pennsylvania @qdog915pa, Ontario @x24rocks, Georgia @tjsmith7_georgia
Awesome thanks man. I'll have to run the sim at work.
I am probably going to move our exports due and sim time from 5:30am to like 8 or 9pm starting next sim. Mornings just won't work consistently and I shouldn't be doing sims all the time at work 😂.
crap.. another league I'm in moves to US evenings 😞 makes it a lot tougher for me at the moment, but all good.. 😉
Ya my preference would be to stay in the morning but right now I just can't do them consistently
set the channel topic: 2038 Regular Season Sim 2: April 11-20 on 12/13
I'll close the 2037 Postseason MVP poll next sim if you haven't voted yet http://www.afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php/topic,2169.0.html
Well didn’t work out this morning but I’ll be able to sim this afternoon after lunch
set the channel topic: 2038 Regular Season Sim 3: April 21-30 on 12/15
set the channel topic: 2038 Regular Season Sim 4: May 1-10 on 12/18
HTML Reports updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2038 Regular Season Sim 5: May 11-20 on 12/20
@AFBL Commish uploaded a file: image.png and commented: Ugh my OOTP17 crashed after simming the first day of the sim. 😕
set the channel topic: 2038 Regular Season Sim 6: May 21-31 on 12/22
set the channel topic: 2038 Regular Season Sim 7: June 1-10 on 12/27
We will take Monday off for the Christmas holiday and resume things on Wednesday 12/27 at some point that day as I'll be on vacation but available and willing to sim 🙂. Enjoy the holiday weekend guys!
set the channel topic: 2038 Regular Season Sim 8: June 11-20 on 12/29
Sim 8 is completed. File upload started. New file will be ready in 5-10 minutes. I'll get the rest updated tonight.
set the channel topic: 2038 Regular Season Sim 9: June 21-30 on 1/3 | No sim on Monday 1/1
lolol nevermind I'm all thrown off. I said we'd sim on Wed 1/3. So just ignore me haha
Okay now that we're actually on Wed 1/3 haha, I'm about to start Sim 9 😄
Well once I get caught up on some work stuff. Emails have piled up 😬 🙄
Missed exports: Illinois @cmyru82 (6/11/2038, instructions sent via Slack), Ontario @x24rocks (5/1/2038), Oregon @davezissou (5/1/2038), New Mexico (vacant), New York (vacant)
set the channel topic: 2038 Regular Season Sim 10: July 1-11 on 1/5 | All-Star Game is MONDAY 1/8
All-Star Voting has been enabled in STATSPLUS. This is due by Monday's (1/8) sim and I expect you to get it done! It really should only take 5-15 minutes unless you really get into it and you can easily do this from your phone too 😄 https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
July 11th games have been played but the game was not advanced to avoid the CPU from selecting the ASG rosters
set the channel topic: 2038 Regular Season Sim 11: July 12-18 on 1/8 | All-Star Game is MONDAY, Voting in StatsPlus DUE!
Reminder to get your ASG ballots submitted by Monday's sim https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
Need ASG ballots from: Texas @mukerka, Oregon @davezissou, Maryland @steve e, Washington @darktrc, Pennsylvania @qdog915_pa, Ontario @x24rocks
I'm in the middle of manually getting the ASG roster inputted in the game but I need to step away for a bit. I'll get the sim finished up after that.
Congrats to our 2038 All-Star Game rosters!
2038 All-Star Game Selections:
Frontier League
Starters
CA: Jose Mer (NM) [injured]
1B: Mario Cruz (CO)
2B: Nelson Romero (IN) [unanimous]
3B: Eric Alexander (IL) [injured]
SS: Jimmy Williams (IN) [unanimous]
LF: Jorge Vildesola (IN)
CF: Orlando Rosado (CA)
RF: Tony Macias (KY) [unanimous]
DH: Antonio Padilla (CO) [unanimous]
SP: Ron Davis (NM)
Reserves
CA: Jorge Ortega (WA) [commish selection]
CA: Raul Silva (ID) [injury replacement for Mer - commish selection]
1B: Ogai Tsuji (IN)
2B: Roger Peck (KY) [commish selection]
3B: Mike Garza (CA)
3B: Rob Cornford WA) [injury replacement for Alexander - commish selection]
SS: Dave White (OR) [commish selection]
LF: Dwight Nuijs (IL)
CF: Devlyn Blais (IN)
RF: Shawn Munoz (CA) [commish selection]
SP: Jorge Ramirez (CO)
SP: Jose Silva (CO)
SP: Alex Pacheco (TX)
SP: Pancho Padilla (OR)
SP: Sergio Lugo (NM)
RP: Juan Gutierrez (NM)
RP: Florent Tessier (IN)
RP: Mike Russell (WA)
RP: Nelson Juhl (OR)
RP: Jose Sanchez (KY)
RP: Hector Maldonado (WA)
Patriot League
Starters
CA: Garry Taylor (MD) [commish selection]
1B: Daisuke Ine (WV)
2B: Dennis Christopher (VA)
3B: Eddie Taylor (MD)
SS: Cal Simmons (GA)
LF: Billy Kaufman (MD)
CF: Teruo Hamada (GA)
RF: Mike Carlton (VA)
DH: Joe Baraja (ON) [unanimous]
SP: Bob Grant (NY) [commish selection]
Reserves
CA: Anrrique Juliao (VA) [injured]
CA: Dan Curry (NC) [injury replacement for Juliao - commish selection]
1B: Pat Hatfield (NJ)
2B: Steve Moyer (MD) [commish selection, injured]
2B: Slappy Orozco (NC) [injury replacment for Moyer - commish selection]
3B: Jorge Beltre (WV) [commish selection]
3B: Juan Baez (NC) [injury replacement for Orozco - commish selection]
SS: Jeff Young (VA)
LF: Fa-hsien Roux (NJ) [commish selection]
CF: Francis Ridley (NC) [commish selection]
RF: Cedric Boyd (MD)
SP: Jesus Ortega (NC)
SP: Norman Cornell (NC)
SP: Tim Duncan (ON)
SP: Dani Romero (OH)
SP: Bob Phelps (MD) [commish selection]
RP: Joe Berry (MD)
RP: Chris Beard (NC)
RP: Kichisaburo Azuma (ON)
RP: Clive Laverack (MD)
RP: Steve Forbes (NJ)
RP: Bob Bell (NY)
Ugh my OOTP17 crashed when trying to start the ASG after adjusting the rosters. Restarting my game but will just keep the CPU selected starting lineups for the game. 😡
set the channel topic: 2038 Regular Season Sim 12: July 19-25 on 1/10
Sorry guys. I might be able to squeeze it in before I have to leave in an hour or so but if not, I’ll run it tonight.
set the channel topic: 2038 Regular Season Sim 13: July 26-31 on 1/12 | Trade Deadline is by Monday 1/15 sim
I might have found someone to take over New York. Still working on it.
set the channel topic: 2038 Regular Season Sim 14: August 1-10 on 1/15 | Trade Deadline is by Monday 1/15 sim
Okay well maybe in like an hour. Sorry guys.. it turned into a crazy busy day.
set the channel topic: 2038 Regular Season Sim 15: August 11-20 on 1/17
set the channel topic: 2038 Regular Season Sim 16: August 21-31 on 1/19
I forgot to adjust the Ammy Draft Pool reveal date to line up with Sept 1 after adjusting the draft due to Nov 20 from Nov 15 so we'll get that announced next sim (this will be fixed for next season and beyond). IAFAs have been revealed but remember that these guys aren't available until draft time and if they go undrafted, then they can be claimed per normal FA rules.
set the channel topic: 2038 Regular Season Sim 17: September 1-10 on 1/22
Sorry guys.. today has been a cluster. I should be able to sim soonish.
Well it's going to be tonight probably around 8-9p central. Sorry guys
NJ waits in anticipation of a great winning sim or a huge come down 😄
set the channel topic: 2038 Regular Season Sim 18: September 11-20 on 1/24
Kentucky holding out hope of a wildcard spot with just a few sims left in 2038!
set the channel topic: 2038 Regular Season Sim 19: September 21-30 on 1/26
set the channel topic: 2038 Regular Season Sim 20: October 1-6 on 1/29 | Final regular season sim!
RTS about to start http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
NC has exported..... Strange season in NC; due to injuries and rookies stealing other peoples' jobs mid season, we wound up with just one player with enough at bats to qualify (Francis Ridley and his whopping .249 avg).
I stuck with Dobson in Idaho despite far and away his worst year and in the last 2 games the old pro came through
man, losing Carlton at the end stings. That's 5.3 WAR in a thin OF on the DL
yeah Carlton was the bees knees this season, especially leading off in front of the hit man Dennis Christopher (8th all-time in a season for hits with 241)
set the channel topic: 2038 Playoffs Sim 1: Wildcard Series Games 1-3 when all ready or 1/31 at the latest
I'll process the FA claims missed today the next sim. Sorry about that.
New Mexico is still vacant. I'll be running CPU on their organization each sim as I've been doing while they've been vacant.
We are waiting for @jkguy16-indiana and @steve e to begin the playoffs.
Once we start, the playoffs are simmed daily at the minimum but we can run more than 1 sim a day if all involved are ready to go or say continue with no changes in Slack or on here. Good luck!
Season Awards enabled in StatsPlus https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
HOF Voting enabled in StatsLab http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/statslab/hall_of_fame_vote.php
Looks like we're all ready to start the playoffs! I'm about to grab exports and get this started. We'll run Playoff Sims as RTS. Good luck!
set the channel topic: 2038 Playoffs Sim 2: Wildcard Series Games 4-6 when all ready or 2/1 at the latest
G4s starting now http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
Well, that was a swift exit. Congrats on MD for the win, and your likely eventual championship, since we only lose to winners
Thanks @jeheinz72 hopefully keep the cup in our division for a third straight year
set the channel topic: 2038 Playoffs Sim 3: League Championship Series Games 1-3 when all ready
set the channel topic: 2038 Playoffs Sim 4: League Championship Series Games 4-6 when all ready
Sim 5 completed. File upload started. I'll get everything updated tonight. We can start the FCS whenever @chappy and @lt - Idaho are ready. Congrats and good luck!
Grabbing exports for Game 1 of the Federation Cup Series. RTS is about to start. Good luck!
RTS link: http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
Game 1 completed. Do we need a new file, any adjustments, or just continue? @lt - Idaho @chappy
Looks like both Cornell and Guevara are out of the game. Fantastic work by those two.
Man, the only real difference between winning and losing in that game was a wild pitch
he is my best pitcher, but I keep waiting for him to get injured cause he always does
I'm glad Virginia traded Hector away, because I wouldn't want to face him all the time.
lets go when Matt is ready. I may want to make a change after this game...
Stepped away. Wow there was some offense @lt - Idaho. Do you guys need a new file or let it ride for Game 4?
let it ride for me. as mentioned i would like a new file after this game
like I told Streeter my bp has struggled. chip away and you don't know what will happen
Chewie Baca has been disappointing this year after his huge year last season
I work NHL games and I'll always say something like "Jeff Skinner has been quiet lately" and then he'll score.
Wow, game winning HR by Wakeling (who was 0-for-17 in the regular season)
RTS (Real Time Sim) when in action http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
i liked the Whale, cause we use to crush them every year in the playoffs
They just started selling whalers gear at the Canes team store... first time ever.
And guys like Ron Francis and Glen Wesley still work for the team, so it's dumb to act like the whalers never existed.
unless a guy gets hurt i am good to go through game 8 if it gets that far
i moved wilkerson down - he is off injury and sucking ass, but i need him to be there for me to win
I also pulled the highest rated hitter on my team out vs RHP. He only has 3 RBI this postseason. Probably a dumb move but I'll put him back in if Martinez can't do any better.
Damn hosting provider. Can't wait to move everything to S+ 😁. I'll get StatsLab updated when I can haha.
set the channel topic: 2038 Playoffs Sim 7: Federation Cup Series Game 5 when all ready
Do we think this speed factor is good for RTS, too fast/slow? it's progressing a minute in game time in about 4 seconds real time.
it’s fine for me to follow along while I’m “working” but I can see where somebody with a dog in the fight might want it slower
the advantage of faster is it would probably be a full half inning per refresh so I didn’t have to scroll over in the broken table
@yuda uploaded a file: Screen Shot 2018-02-02 at 11.26.58 AM.png and commented: The code hasn’t closed all of the
I blame the really terrible HTML that the game generates, but Dave could probably account for it
Man, my team is striking out sooo much... Is that typical for your staff lt?
No injuries. Game 8 whenever you guys are ready. I can release a new file if needed.
looking over the Oregon system, this team can probably break into contention really quickly with a little care and feeding
I feel like I should reprise @chappy’s old Rebuilding a Champion dynasty thread. Oregon won the first title and has been shut out since.
I've exported. I'm also heading out to lunch, so I guess I'll see what happened when I return. I am good for game 9 (if necessary) as long as there are no injuries.
set the channel topic: 2038 Playoffs Sim 8: Federation Cup Series Game 8 when all ready
Lol oops we went to lunch and forgot we were both ready. Game 8 coming up. Grabbing exports.
Can the Aviators win 2 in a row to defend their FCS title or will Idaho claim their 1st title?
i am fine for Game 9 - Lets see if Fish steps up or if we will regret not going to Guevara on short rest
I thought we had a 2-2-1-1-1-1-1 (not an option in the game) setup for FCS but it's actually 2-2-2-2-1 with the lower seed getting HFA in G9. Should we keep this format after this year or go to 2-3-2-1-1?
I like the 2-2-2-2-1 but the higher seed should get the final game at home.
Double agree. Why I think the 2-2-1-1-1-1-1 would be the best but not an option 😞
Maybe I can manually adjust to that schedule in the future? Or we do 2-3-2-1-1 so best record gets HFA in a G9.
Correct
Since it's best of 9, I don't mind the 2-3-2-1-1. If it was best of seven, I'd say no way to 3 games in one place.
set the channel topic: 2038 Offseason: Ammy Draft, Season Awards, HOF Voting, Team MVP, Postseason MVP
Reminder to vote for Season Awards and keep tabs of the Ammy Draft in StatsPlus, HOF Voting in StatsLab, and Team MVP and Postseason MVP in Forum.
I forgot to process the KY-NC trade after the FCS. I'll do this for our next file which will be when we get Season Awards wrapped up.
@AFBL Commish when you get a chance, I need a download with me as an active manager so I can update in-game
I'll get a new file uploaded later today for everyone and create a new starter file for you @yuda. Not sure if it'll work but if you still have AFBL on your system from before you might be able to get in that way?
lol yes. all trades will be processed haha. sorry i don't like to click into that sections until i'm running the sim so i don't forget haha. the unread notifications save me in a hurry 😄.
I was able to get in but did an update the sim before you changed me over unfortunately. Which then froze me out.
About to grab exports then will process any trades and FA claims then import the Ammy Draft and HOF results
Congrats to our 2038 Season Award winners!
Frontier League
Most Valuable Hitter: SS Jimmy Williams (IN)
Most Valuable Pitcher: SP Alex Pacheco (TX)
Reliever Of The Year: CL Florent Tessier (IN)
Rookie Of The Year: LF Jorge Vildesola (IN)
Best Defender Award...
Pitcher: Alfredo Rios (ID)
Catcher: Jose Mer (NM)
First Baseman: Sergio Carrillo (TX)
Second Baseman: Ruben Nunez (CA)
Third Baseman: Dan Strickland (ID)
Shortstop: Carmen Wade (NM)
Left Fielder: Migel Entrevinhas (TX)
Center Fielder: Tony Johnston (TX)
Right Fielder: Daniel Junez (IL)
Platinum Stick Award...
Catcher: Raul Silva (ID)
First Baseman: Ogai Tsuji (IN)
Second Baseman: Nelson Romero (IN)
Third Baseman: Mike Garza (CA)
Shortstop: Jimmy Williams (IN)
Left Fielder: Dwight Nujis (IL)
Center Fielder: Orlando Rosado (CA)
Right Fielder: Tony Macias (KY)
Designated Hitter: Antonio Padilla (CO)
Patriot League
Most Valuable Hitter: 2B Dennis Christopher (VA)
Most Valuable Pitcher: SP Bob Grant (NY)
Reliever Of The Year: CL Joe Berry (MD)
Rookie Of The Year: CA Manny Cantu (GA)
Best Defender Award...
Pitcher: Robby Peterson (PA)
Catcher: Bob Holmes (NJ)
First Baseman: Alain Dubreuil (MD)
Second Baseman: Tom Harris (NJ)
Third Baseman: Antonio Lopez (VA)
Shortstop: Cal Simmons (GA)
Left Fielder: Orlando Martinez (PA)
Center Fielder: Ben Gill (NY)
Right Fielder: Ron Sanders (NJ)
Platinum Stick Award...
Catcher: Garry Taylor (MD)
First Baseman: Jose Garcia (VA)
Second Baseman: Dennis Christopher (VA)
Third Baseman: Eddie Taylor (MD)
Shortstop: Jeff Young (VA)
Left Fielder: Billy Kaufman (MD)
Center Fielder: Teruo Hamada (GA)
Right Fielder: Cedric Boyd (MD)
Designated Hitter: Joe Baraja (ON)
General Manager Of The Year: Stephen Edwards (MD), 103-59, PL South title, PL LCS runner-up
Congrats to: 1B Jake Ladner (unanimous 19/19), CA Gus Chandler, SP Dave Haug, LF Valdemar Legarth, SP Jon Simms, and SP Pete Wilson on being voted into the AFBL HOF!
you could've faked it, add the old unfirom back in when the card is generated, then add the new one back after it has been generated
HTML Reports updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2038 Offseason: Ammy Draft, Team MVP, Postseason MVP | Game Date: Nov 15, 2038
Let's keep the Ammy Draft moving along with getting your Team MVPs named on the Forum and vote for the Postseason MVP on the Forum (I'm working on the poll after this).
Rolling over to 2039 now. I'll get the file uploaded and everything updated tomorrow morning. We'll either have 2039 Spring Training (ST) Sim 1 on Wed or Thurs then the final ST Sim 2 on Friday followed by 2039 Opening Day on Monday 2/19.
File upload started. Game has been advanced to ST 2039. I'll get the 2038 Postseason MVP poll up tomorrow (I promise haha) so I won't upload StatsLab until I do that.
HTML Reports updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
Once I have a moment here, I'll get the Postseason MVP poll up finally then update StatsLab.
Crap never got to email the league about ST starting tomorrow. I'll see how it looks export wise tomorrow morning and we'll go from there. Sorry guys. It's been crazy busy at work and the twins have taken things getting sick this week.
If we do sim today to start ST 2039, it'll be this afternoon. We might just push it back to tomorrow since I haven't been able to get things ready yet.
We'll start ST 2039 tomorrow Friday 2/16 (1st half). I expect you to export at least one of the two ST Sims and Opening Day export is mandatory. Monday will be ST Sim 2 and Wednesday will be Opening Day. Postseason poll will get finished and put up tonight.
💩 hit the fan at work. Should be able to grab exports and start the ST sim by lunch time at the latest.
Grabbing exports. We'll start ST momentarily. Sorry again about the delay guys!
I'm going to run ST sims as a RTS so just a heads up before the Slack notifications come 😄
Missing exports for ST Sim 1: Washington @darktrc, Pennsylvania @qdog915_pa, Ontario @x24rocks, New Mexico (vacant)
If you didn't export today, I need you to export for Monday's sim so I see that you're committed to the league. Wednesday's Opening Day sim is a mandatory sim with the same reasoning.
Before I get back to work, turned up the factor speed to 120 so we can hammer through this.
If you need it, RTS link: http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
StatsLab will be updated once I can finally get the 2038 Postseason MVP poll up 🙂.
set the channel topic: 2039 Spring Training Sim 2: March 15-29 on Monday 2/19/18
set the channel topic: 2039 Regular Season Sim 1: April 4-10 on Wednesday 2/21/18
2038 Postseason MVP poll is finally up. I'll leave it up a week or so. http://www.afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php/topic,2223.0.html
Reminder that we start the 2039 Regular Season tomorrow so please export by morning. I expect to run the sim in the morning sometime before lunch but to be sure export by 530am central time.
Need exports still from: WA @darktrc, OR @yuda, IN @jkguy16-indiana, KY @Zach - KY, TX @mukerka, OR @x24rocks, GA @tjsmith7_georgia, NM (vacant)
Opening Day is about to get underway by RTS http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
actually i think you could sneak in an export if you do it right now @darktrc
I had to demote 1 player for @ohio since there were 26 on your AFBL roster. Your long reliever got sent down.
set the channel topic: 2039 Regular Season Sim 2: April 11-20 on Friday 2/23/18
party_parrot it's been crazy at work recently. They're in the middle of an acquisition so we've been quite busy haha.
HTML Reports updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2039 Regular Season Sim 3: April 21-30 on Monday 2/26/18
set the channel topic: 2039 Regular Season Sim 4: May 1-10 on Wednesday 2/28/18
set the channel topic: 2039 Regular Season Sim 5: May 11-20 on Friday 3/2/18
set the channel topic: 2039 Regular Season Sim 6: May 21-31 on Monday 3/5/18
set the channel topic: 2039 Regular Season Sim 7: June 1-10 on Wednesday 3/7/18
Also last chance to vote in the 2038 Postseason MVP poll. Only 8 votes cast.. it's been up for 2 weeks so I'm going to close voting on Friday. http://www.afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php/topic,2223.0.html
HTML Reports updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2039 Regular Season Sim 8: June 11-20 on Friday 3/9/18
Our 2038 Postseason MVP was Idaho SP Hector Gonzales who went 4-1 W-L, 2.18 ERA, 6 GS, 1 SHO, 41.1 IP, 40 K, 0.87 WHIP, .176 OAVG @lt - Idaho
set the channel topic: 2039 Regular Season Sim 9: June 21-30 on Monday 3/12/18
ASG voting has been enabled in StatsPlus. Due by the ASG game sim which will be either Friday 3/16 or Monday 3/19. https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
Oops I'm still simming today. All thrown off since I took this week off haha. party_parrot
HTML Reports updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2039 Regular Season Sim 10: July 1-10 on Wednesday 3/14/18
We'll sim today just not sure when so no one freak out 😂party_parrot
File will be up in a few minutes. Everything else will be updated later!
Swept West Virginia, got swept by Georgia, swept Maryland... 1 game over .500!
set the channel topic: 2039 Regular Season Sim 11: July 11-17 on Friday 3/16/18 | All-Star Game and Break only
The games on July 10th have been completed but the game hasn't been advanced to the next day to avoid the CPU from selecting the ASG rosters.
Reminder to vote for the All-Star Game starters by Friday's sim!
Man my slack app stopped giving me notifications. I’m so sorry I haven’t been around. I’ll vote first thing in the morning, unless you think you’ll sim first thing.
No problem and yes that will be fine. Shouldn't be right away in the morning since I'm not home or working this week. Honestly we might push the sim until Monday since only half the league has voted depending on how many vote by tomorrow.
Need ASG voting from: TX @mukerka, NY @Kayber76 (if staying), WV @claphamsa, CA @JasonMallards, MD @steve e, WA @darktrc, PA @qdog915pa, ON @x24rocks
So I like to look at the results after I vote to see how I did, and for the PL DH, it says my player, Flores is in the lead, but when I voted for DH he wasn't an option. o_O
Looks like you haven't simmed yet, which is convenient because I decided to be a slacker last night. Exporting shortly.
Weird @qdog915_pa I can look. Awesome @yuda. Still need to see how many votes we're missing.
New York is now vacant. They're also not going to be moving upstate and rebranding which I am not sad about 😏
Awesome! Going to try to get the final 3 or 4 guys to vote this morning
WV, WA, MD all voting now. Emailing TX about his. That's it minus our now 2 vacancies with NY and NM.
That sucks about the no pre-orders on Steam. We won't rush into 19 but yes it will definitely help fill the 2 vacancies.
no pre-orders but it’s discounted the same amount for a few days at release
Thanks! We're visiting my parents in STL so it's been crazy and busy haha. Twins are doing well and nearly 9 months old. We're also about to be able to get out of my in-laws finally (5-6 months is long enough hahaha).
5-6 months is at least 5 months too long to be in somebody else’s house. Even if you like them a lot. Just stresses everybody.
Yes we're all ready haha. We had to wait for a few accounts to close and report that which they finally have.
Forgot about this new reoccurring 10am meeting fml. I'll sim after that.
Damnit I didn't miss being in the office haha. About to get remoted into my OOTP computer to start the sim.
Congrats to our 2039 All-Star Selections!
2039 All-Star Game Selections
Frontier League
Starters
CA: Cal Sykes (IL)
1B: Ogai Tsuji (IN)
2B: Nelson Romero (IN)
3B: Mario Cruz (CO)
SS: Jimmy Williams (IN)
LF: Luis Sepulveda (OR) [injured]
CF: Zoraide Pequeno (KY)
RF: Shawn Munoz (CA)
DH: Robinson Sanchez (ID)
SP: Leonardo Mendoza (OR)
Reserves
CA: Raul Silva (ID)
1B: Damian Lipton (ID)
2B: Dennis Christopher (VA) [commish selection, next highest WAR]
3B: Orlando Hernandez (IN) [commish selection]
SS: Rodney Noseworthy (CO) [commish selection, next highest WAR]
LF: Ron Dixon (KY) [commish selection, next highest WAR]
RF: Tony Macias [injury replacement for Sepulveda, injured, commish selection]
DH: Antonio Padilla (CO) [injury replacement for Macias, commish selection, no other quality OF options]
CF: Devlyn Blais (IN)
RF: Luis Chavez (IN)
SP: Juan Guevara (ID)
SP: Pancho Padilla (OR)
SP: Jose Melendez (CA)
SP: Jon Francis (IL)
SP: Sergio Lugo (NM)
RP: Yu-zeng Sung (KY)
RP: Florent Tessier (IN)
RP: Dan Harris (OR)
RP: Steve McIntyre (TX)
RP: Percy Veenman (TX)
RP: Jose Reyes (NM)
Patriot League
Starters
CA: Bob Holmes (NJ)
1B: Jose Garcia (VA)
2B: Duane Slaughter (GA)
3B: Ahilocana Gopalakrishnan (NC)
SS: Bob Starrett (ON)
LF: Billy Kaufman (MD)
CF: Jayson Preston (PA)
RF: Cedric Boyd (MD)
DH: Mike Haynes (GA)
SP: Bob Grant (NY)
Reserves
CA: Ignacio Jaramillo (WV) [commish selection, next highest WAR]
1B: Pat Hatfield (NJ) [commish selection, next highest WAR]
2B: Pacho De Jesus (NY) [commish selection, next highest WAR, injured]
2B: Jeff Young (VA) [injury replacement for De Jesus, commish selection]
3B: Eddie Taylor (MD) [commish selection, next highest WAR]
SS: Joel Davis (WV)
LF: Jim O'Brien (NC)
CF: Ben Gill (NY)
RF: Steve James (GA)
SP: Norm Brown (ON)
SP: Tony Rios (GA)
SP: Dani Romero (OH) [injured]
SP: Norman Cornell (NC)
SP: Antonio Goudino (WV)
SP: Eddie Morgan (NJ) [injury replacement for Romero, commish selection]
RP: Loeck Langelaan (WV)
RP: Sandy Lee (OH)
RP: Juan Morales (MD)
RP: Joe Iddiols (GA)
RP: Jesus Hernandez (NY)
RP: Raul Davila (GA)
Ugh that OOTP ASG crash bug is still happening. Just have to let the CPU decide the starting lineups from our manual selections. 😡
set the channel topic: 2039 Regular Season Sim 11: July 18-24 on Wednesday 3/21/18
oops helps to upload the newest data for StatsLab. Actually getting updated now haha.
HTML Reports updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2039 Regular Season Sim 13: July 25-31 on Friday 3/23/18
🚨 grabbing exports (but might have to stop suddenly before finishing 😂)🚨
HTML Reports updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2039 Regular Season Sim 14: August 1-10 on Monday 3/26/18
Probably can't sim until lunch or later today. Will sim asap though!
I don’t think you’re waiting for me @mstreeter06 but just in case export is in and instructions posted
Oops I'll get Reports/StatsPlus/StatsLab updated from yesterday's sim now 😄
set the channel topic: 2039 Regular Season Sim 15: August 11-20 on Wednesday 3/28/18
you've got an hour and 48 minutes to make a pick over in the npbl draft. 😉
Ugh another crazy day. I'll sneak in the sim after I get back to the office. Also sorry about missing my picks @chappy
set the channel topic: 2039 Regular Season Sim 16: August 21-31 on Friday 3/30/18
I'll be able to run the sim after lunch so it'll be around 1-2pm central
Ya sorry another cluster of a day. We will sim probably tonight around 8 or 9 at this point.
HTML Reports updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2039 Regular Season Sim 17: September 1-10 on Monday 4/2/18
Sim won't happen until at least mid morning or so.
Also, we're in the process of moving to StatsPlus hosting for the league from our current host. This will certainly make things easier and add more features to StatsPlus. Stay tuned!
Sim 17 completed. File upload started. I didn't deal with injuries this sim FYI.
HTML Reports updated http://www.afblbaseball.com/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2039 Regular Season Sim 18: September 11-20 on Wednesday 4/4/18
@AFBL Commish uploaded a file: image.png and commented: We are now on StatsPlus hosting as we transition from our current host. It'll take several days to get completely moved over. Nothing to worry about for you guys though 🙂.
Export tracker is now active for us on StatsPlus. Found in the Current dropdown menu toward the bottom or directly here: https://statsplus.net/afbl/exports.
There is a great feature that you can enable in your Prefs menu in StatsPlus to have Slackbot message you after you export with a success or fail DM.
@mstreeter06 - you need to send us the new accounts file, or we're uploading our exports to the old server
I just exported and it does not show as valid on statsplus, but does on statslab...
as above @lt - Idaho - matt hasn't provided has the new settings file we need so we're still uplaoding to the old server
^ Here is the new accounts data file that needs to go into your \AFBL.lg\settings\ directory
adjusted the online ftp settings in the game to StatPlus from our former host and then uploaded the current file and reports to StatsPlus
@AFBL Commish uploaded a file: image.png and commented: Dave rolled out a new feature in StatsPlus last night
i grabbed exports before i made the change so if you exported between the new file being uploaded around 4pm and 9pm central last night
Thanks, forgot to update my league file last night. Won't affect my team's performance anyway
@mstreeter06 uploaded a file: image.png and commented: Testing out the SimplePortal add-on for the Home section of the AFBL homepage. Forum will take you to the traditional forum layout.
Remember that you need to download and copy that accounts data file I sent here and in an email to your system to reflect the new location for the game file download
New URL for HTML Reports: https://statsplus.net/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2039 Regular Season Sim 19: September 21-30 on Friday 4/6/18
We'll have to sim tonight probably. I'll try to do it before I leave work though.
set the channel topic: 2039 Regular Season Sim 20: October 1-5 on Monday 4/9/18
@mstreeter06 uploaded a file: image.png and commented: Dave has enabled the Development Tracker in StatsPlus for us!
The domain transfer for afblbaseball.com to AFBL's StatsPlus domain is expected to happen tomorrow. I'll keep you guys updated with any news or changes. I'm still deciding on whether to keep afblbaseball.com going to the Forum or have it go the main page of StatsPlus. Any thoughts?
Also I'll double check for any posts since last night on the forum in the old location (afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php) and make sure they get accounted for in the new forum location for tomorrow's sim.
send it to statsplus, then provide a link to the forum in the LINKS statsplus menu...
Yeah that's what I'm thinking. I just don't want things to get buried or missed but people should see that stuff in Slack too.
HTML Reports updated https://statsplus.net/afbl/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
I will say the S+ hosting is so much faster than Dreamhost hosting. Reports and Forum are very snappy now.
Don't forget the forum is currently located at https://statsplus.net/afbl/forum/index.php
It still exists at the old location until the transfer happens at some point today. After that happens, we'll get back to our afblbaseball.com domain. I'll let you know if URLs change 1 more time.
set the channel topic: 2039 Regular Season Game 163 Sim: whenever Idaho and Oregon are ready
Sorry, internet went down last night and I couldn’t do it before I went to work today. I won’t be able to get to it before I get the kids to bed tonight (around 8:30 EDT) so I don’t mind if you go ahead and sim @AFBL Commish
I’ll take a look at who’s going to be starting as pitcher. I don’t have to get down to 25 for the 163rd game, right?
have Pancho Padilla start the game as SP and otherwise I’ll take my chances with what the AI chooses to do
RTS link for Game 163 which is about to start! Good luck to Oregon and Idaho. @lt - Idaho @yuda
https://statsplus.net/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
Still waiting for the afblbaseball.com domain to transfer. Hopefully that completes today.
What a way to end the regular season. Game 163 Sim completed. File upload started.
set the channel topic: 2039 Playoffs Sim 1: Wildcard Series Games 1-3 whenever all are ready
I'll get the Ammy Draft ready later today/tonight. Washington @darktrc will have the 1st overall pick followed by Texas and New York.
As you have time catch up on your Team MVP in the Forum as well (I'm guilty of falling behind myself).
Virginia has exported for the initial games. After the attempted sell-off and unexpected division crown, we expect our exit from the playoffs to be swift and without silver lining
Domain transfer will happen tonight.
afblbaseball.com will soon to go the main StatsPlus page and the Forum will be in the Links dropdown.
DNS changes are about to be made so you might see afblbaseball.com go down briefly
StatsLab is now moved over to it's new location on my personal domain since we're hosting afblbaseball.com to StatsPlus.
New StatsLab URL: http://www.matthewrstreeter.com/ootp/afbl/statslab/
Forum has it's new permanent URL now: https://afblbaseball.com/forum/. You'll need to log back in.
HTML Reports have their new permanent URL now: https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
afblbaseball.com transfer now completed. That URL now goes to statsplus.net/afbl
Season Awards voting enabled in StatsPlus https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
Grabbing exports for Playoff Sim 1 (Wildcard Series Games 1-3). We'll run the playoff sims as RTS.
set the channel topic: 2039 Playoffs Sim 2: Wildcard Series Games 4-6 whenever all are ready
We can sim once I get an export or the go ahead from PA and VA. @qdog915_pa @jeheinz72
Did I have any injuries? I’m in all day workshop and can’t tell. If not, I’m good.
I wasn't ready! Wait, I'm not in the playoffs partyparrot partyparrot party_parrot
Crap thought I had it set to keep going. I'll be back in a minute or two.
set the channel topic: 2039 Playoffs Sim 3: League Champsionship Series Games 1-3 whenever all are ready
Good job @lt - Idaho ! Disappointing first round exit for the lions but hopefully it will be to the champs! Good luck! 🦁
disappointing in Oregon to go out by losing 6 or our last 7 games (including the 162nd game and the 163rd) but so it goes, and we had some september injuries that really hurt us
HOF Voting is now enabled in StatsLab after getting StatsLab moved over to it's new location. http://www.matthewrstreeter.com/ootp/afbl/statslab/hall_of_fame_vote.php
not sure.. I would've thoguht there would be at least one pitcher that got a coupe votes last year and stayed on the ballot
ya it is strange. i can do some looking. i suppose it is possible this is how it shook out this year.
Looks like we're all in for the LCS so I'll get that going in the morning
We'll continue with Sim 4 (LCS G4-6) tonight assuming WV is ready @claphamsa
RTS is underway https://statsplus.net/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
set the channel topic: 2039 Playoffs Sim 5: League Championship Series Game 7 whenever all are ready
Sorry guys didn't see this. I'll run PL Game 7 whenever I get home tonight.
Game 7 RTS is about to start https://statsplus.net/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
Cool. I'll check with @claphamsa in Google Hangouts who can't remember his Slack info 😂.
Federation Cup Series is underway https://statsplus.net/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
I'll go ahead and stop the Reports/StatsPlus/StatsLab update then so we can continue this FCS.
Federation Cup Series Game 5 is underway https://statsplus.net/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
Reminder to vote for Season Awards in StatsPlus https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
Sorry guys still haven't had time to investigate the HOF ballot issue with no pitchers.
Still get your Season Awards voting and Team MVPs done. I need to get the Postseason MVP poll up as well.
I'll process the 2 trades on the next file (after the Awards voting is done) but I will move the traded picks by GA to WV. The already made picks for GA in the 2nd and 3rd rounds will become WV picks.
WV's 2nd (already made), 3rd, and 4th round picks this year moved to GA @claphamsa @tjsmith7_georgia
Need Season Awards voting from: TX @mukerka, WV @claphamsa, CA @JasonMallards, MD @steve e, IN @jkguy16-indiana, KY @Zach - KY, WA @darktrc, PA @qdog915pa, ON @x24rocks
I figured out the no pitchers in the HOF ballot issue so I have cleared any already submitted ballots. Please re-vote if you have already. Sorry about the delay! https://www.matthewrstreeter.com/ootp/afbl/statslab/hall_of_fame_vote.php
set the channel topic: 2039 Offseason: Ammy Draft, Season Awards, HOF Voting, Team MVP, Postseason MVP
@AFBL Commish @mstreeter06 can you send me the fix for the no pitcher issue.. think I'm seeing HoF issues in another league where statslab isn't updated as frequetly due to using statsplus
I wish I had more of a fix than just regenerating the ballot. I'm guessing whatever was wrong before got fixed after I ran StatsLab the sim after we moved to our new host?
Need Season Awards voting from: CA @JasonMallards, MD @steve e, IN @jkguy16-indiana, KY @Zach - KY, PA @qdog915pa, ON @x24rocks
Missing GM vote from: WV @claphamsa, NC @chappy
Season Award voting here: https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
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Need HOF voting from: TX @mukerka, NC @chappy, WV @claphamsa, CA @JasonMallards, MD @steve e, VA @jeheinz72, IN @jkguy16-indiana, KY @Zach - KY, IL @cmyru82, WA @darktrc, PA @qdog915pa, ON @x24rocks, OR @yuda
HOF voting here: https://www.matthewrstreeter.com/ootp/afbl/statslab/hall_of_fame_vote.php
Ya sorry had to reset the ballots but now we have pitchers on the ballot 😉
I'll have a chance to get the Season Awards and Draft results entered with a new file this morning
Alrighty grabbing exports before I get Awards and Draft results gathered
Congrats to our 2039 Season Awards winners...
Frontier League
Most Valuable Hitter: SS Jimmy Williams (IN)
Most Valuable Pitcher: SP Leonardo Mendoza (OR)
Reliever Of The Year: CL Florent Tessier (IN)
Rookie Of The Year: LF Ron Dixon (KY)
Best Defender Award...
Pitcher: Nate Simpson (OR)
Catcher: Cal Sykes (IL)
First Baseman: Jesus Camacho (CO)
Second Baseman: Arturo Rodriguez (TX)
Third Baseman: Raul Hernandez (CA)
Shortstop: Joe Woods (TX)
Left Fielder: Jorge De Los Santos (NM)
Center Fielder: Tony Johnston (TX)
Right Fielder: Daniel Junez (IL)
Platinum Stick Award...
Catcher: Cal Sykes (IL)
First Baseman: Ogai Tsuji (IN)
Second Baseman: Roger Peck (KY)
Third Baseman: Mario Cruz (CO)
Shortstop: Jimmy Williams (IN)
Left Fielder: Ron Dixon (KY)
Center Fielder: Zoraide Pequeno (KY)
Right Fielder: Shawn Munoz (CA)
Designated Hitter: Robinson Sanchez (ID)
Patriot League
Most Valuable Hitter: 1B Jose Garcia (VA)
Most Valuable Pitcher: SP Bob Grant (NY)
Reliever Of The Year: RP Joe Iddiols (GA)
Rookie Of The Year: 2B Duane Slaughter (GA)
Best Defender Award...
Pitcher: Tim Duncan (ON)
Catcher: Curt Ward (OH)
First Baseman: Ruben Gonzalez (NY)
Second Baseman: Ron Kincade (WV)
Third Baseman: Ahilocana Gopalakrishnan (NC)
Shortstop: Joel Davis (WV)
Left Fielder: Billy Kaufman (MD)
Center Fielder: Ben Gill (NY)
Right Fielder: Franck Hopstaken (NY)
Platinum Stick Award...
Catcher: Bob Holmes (NJ)
First Baseman: Jose Garcia (VA)
Second Baseman: Jeff Young (VA)
Third Baseman: Eddie Taylor )
Shortstop: Bob Starrett (ON)
Left Fielder: Billy Kaufman (MD)
Center Fielder: Ben Gill (NY)
Right Fielder: Cedric Boyd (MD)
Designated Hitter: Diederick Kooijman (MD)
General Manager Of The Year: Jason Knuth (IN), 103-59, FL East title
For HOF Voting, just need: TX @mukerka, WA @darktrc, OR @yuda https://www.matthewrstreeter.com/ootp/afbl/statslab/hall_of_fame_vote.php
Season Awards and Ammy Draft results imported. File upload started.
New file is up. I'll get Reports, StatsPlus, and StatsLab updated in a bit.
set the channel topic: 2039 Offseason: HOF Voting, Team MVP, Postseason MVP | Game Date: Dec 4 2039
We need to get HOF finished then we can get rolled over to 2040.
I'm targeting Spring Training 2040 sims as Wed 5/2 and Fri 5/4 then Opening Day 2040 on Mon 5/7.
Jesus Rosales is on the ballot, not really Sure HOF career but he gets my vote for being on my team lol
We have everyone voted for the HOF so I will get that inputted and rollover to 2040 to get us to Spring Training with a new file later today.
Yes sorry guys! Busy weekend but should be able to get that out this afternoon.
Well yesterday didn't work but will get started on the rollover here in a moment
Grabbing exports. I'll keep you all posted about the upcoming schedule. We won't have a sim tomorrow since I haven't been able to get the new file up the past few days
Sorry guys today was a long one. We will have our two ST sims TOMORROW (Thursday) and Friday. Opening Day 2040 sim will be on Monday 5/7
I'm going to make it official and move our export due time from 530am to 800pm on sim days as I just can't reliably make mornings work with the twins and work so plan accordingly. So exports will be due at 8pm with sims happening sometime between 8-11pm on sim days.
Also curious what everyone's thought on the sim schedule in terms of days we sim. I'm totally fine sticking with our traditional Mon-Wed-Fri sims but I was wondering if a Mon-Tues-Wed-Thurs sim schedule would work?
If we did want to move to the M-Tu-W-Th sim schedule, we could move to 7 day sims instead of our normal 10-11 day sims. This would allow GMs to actually use 7-day lineups and also end up being about the same number of days/games per real-life calendar week (30-31 days in 3 sims on Mon-Wed-Fri compared to 28 days in 4 sims on M-Tu-W-Th).
I'd really like to know your opinions on this since I want to make sure our league continues to be a great one to be a part of.
pretty easy, but the 7 day sims should also mean that GMs deal with injuries and not have the commish ahve to make injury changhes for us 🙂
Sounds fine. More to keep up with, but less impaact missing an export. If the commish misses a Sim, I presume we just push back one day rather than skip.
honestly I think my main question with 4x7 is whether M-T-W-R is the right schedule. I can go along with whatever, but if I were commish I'd think I'd want at least one night off in there somewhere. I might do Su-T-W-F or something. But if four in a row works for you @AFBL Commish then go for it ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I’m ok with the seven day, and also agree that Commish can let us deal with injuries with a 7 day sim.
I'm honestly online every night at that time now so it would actually work out perfectly for consistency
I wanted to avoid a Fri and Sat night sim since those are usually busy nights for people. Mon-Thurs works great. I'm online Sun nights but that's a good tv night haha.
I haven't gotten any push back to moving to a Mon-Thurs night sim schedule and moving to 7-day sims so that would be my preference for the coming season.
We'd still sim tonight and tomorrow so we can get the season going on Monday.
Any objections?
RF Robinson Sanchez was named the 2039 Postseason MVP by @lt - Idaho since I forgot to get that poll up before rolling over to 2040 (oops haha)
1 more sim a night won't burn me out 😄 but if we need to miss a night then we'd just push the sim to the next night in the Mon-Thurs window.
I think getting to 7-day sims will be beneficial for everyone. GMs get more control compared to the 10-11 day sims with lineups/charts.
I'm planning doing Sunday-Saturday in-game for the 7 days simmed with the new schedule. I'm updating the Sim Schedule spreadsheet currently.
Can we change DL length to 7 days so that if we put a guy on the DL for a sim we can activate him the next sim, if he's healthy?
Tentative 2040 sim schedule is updated https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BkzsNnbkLuwVL8TGN6bAbU4P7SBb3T9krUH4AvpTI1Y/edit#gid=1076549726
no objections here. I wouldn’t want to go crazy fast (like Clap’s 5x30 suggestion) but 4x7 seems good.
Yeah just a tad. We were 3x10 (sometimes 11 for months with 31 days).
Looks like we get an additional 8 regular season sims with some Sun-Sat stretches broken up for the ASG, Trade Deadline, Roster expansion, etc.
We have been usually 19-20 sims in a Regular Season and looks to be 28 currently for the upcoming season with the new sim schedule but in about the same total time.
Yes I think we will move to OOTP19 for the 2041 season so next season
I don't want to rush into it for this season just to be on the safe side
I understand. This is my only league so I just want to use OOTP19. Though I think it will be hard to fill the two open teams until we are there.
Yes totally agree with you there. I'm fine dealing with it until July at this point 😄
@qdog915_pa - if you want an ootp 19 league, SBC/VBL is moving there in a couple weeks.. plug plug 😄
Missed ST Sim 1 export: GA @tjsmith7georgia, IN @jkguy16-indiana, MD @steve e, ON @x24rocks, PA @qdog915pa, TX @mukerka, WA @darktrc. Please try to export for tomorrow night's sim.
set the channel topic: 2040 Spring Training Sim 1: February 27 - March 12 on 5/3/18
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2040 Spring Training Sim 2: March 13 - March 27 on 5/4/18
Sorry I forgot last night and I am not going to be home again before 8 pm tonight. I will export for Opening Day. Very sorry.
Thanks for the heads up and all good. If you want to post instructions, you are welcome to do so and I can adjust your roster for you.
I’ll try to get one in tonight but it’s 50/50 at best (getting it in by 8 depends on the kids getting to bed on time. On a Friday.)
Forgot we have a wedding tonight 🍻 partyparrot awwyeah . I'll still sim when we get back assuming it's not too late. Worst case, I'll sim in the morning.
Ha well usually Saturdays are my morning to sleep in but switched it to tomorrow since I have baseball games on Sunday to be nice to the boss lady 😄
Missed both ST exports: GA @tjsmith7georgia, MD @steve e, ON @x24rocks, PA @qdog915pa, TX @mukerka, WA @darktrc
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 1: April 2 - April 7 on 5/7/18
We'll start the 2040 Regular Season on Monday with Sim 1 which will be April 2-7 (Monday-Saturday, normally we'll be simming Sun-Sat but I advance 1 extra day on accident haha).
Reminder to export for tomorrow (Monday) night's Opening Day sim. Still need exports from: KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e, NC @chappy, ON @x24rocks, VA @jeheinz72, WA @darktrc. Exports due by 8pm central with the sim happening sometime between 8-10pm.
Sorry we went to look at a house before accepting the sellers counter. Hopefully it's a done deal tomorrow so we can get out of my in-laws haha.
Omw back so sim should be in 30 or so minutes.
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 2: April 8 - April 14 on 5/8/18
Missed exports: GA @tjsmith7georgia, MD @steve e (2), ON @x24rocks, PA @qdog915pa, WA @darktrc (2), WV @claphamsa
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 3: April 15 - April 21 on 5/9/18
Sim 3 missed exports: KY @Zach - KY, ON @x24rocks (2), OR @yuda, WA @darktrc (3), WV @claphamsa (2)
Oops sorry guys.. thought I started StatsPlus before the sim but guess not. Only was up for the last day of the sim 😬
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 4: April 22 - April 28 on 5/10/18
Sim 4 missed exports: GA @tjsmith7georgia, IL @cmyru82, KY @Zach - KY (2), ON @x24rocks (3), PA @qdog915pa, TX @mukerka, WA @darktrc (3), WV @claphamsa (3)
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 5: April 29 - May 5 on 5/14/18
We have a new owner for the New Mexico Danger (finally!). Thank you to @Zach - KY for directing Jeff Hoffman to us. I'm working on getting him setup with all of our stuff now.
Missed Sim 5 exports: OH @ohio, ON @x24rocks (4), PA @qdog915_pa (2)
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 6: May 6 - May 12 on 5/15/18
Missing Sim 6 exports: KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e, OH @ohio (2), ON @x24rocks (5), PA @qdog915_pa (3), WA @darktrc
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim7: May 13- May 19 on 5/16/18
Missing Sim 7 exports: KY @Zach - KY (2), MD @steve e (2), WA @darktrc (2)
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 8: May 20 - May 26 on 5/17/18
Finally creating @jeffnewmexico in the game as the NM owner. Sorry about that Jeff! Doing it before the sim so I don't forget / go to bed after the sim 😄.
Missed Sim 8 exports: IN @jkguy16-indiana, KY @Zach - KY (3), ON @x24rocks, TX @mukerka, WA @darktrc (3), WV @claphamsa
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 9: May 27 - June 2 on 5/21/18
Missed Sim 9 exports: ON @x24rocks (2), PA @qdog915_pa, TX @mukerka (2)
Vacant team(s): NY
Forgot to start StatsPlus on day 1 of the sim. Sorry guys. Day 2 about to start.
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 10: June 3 - June 9 on 5/22/18
Should be able to sim soon. Damn pitbull caught a groundhog (we think) tonight so had to deal with that lol.
Missed Sim 10 exports: IN @jkguy16-indiana, KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e, ON @x24rocks (3), OR @yuda, PA @qdog915_pa (2), WA @darktrc
Vacant team(s): NY
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 11: June 10 - June 16 on 5/23/18
ASG Voting has been enabled in StatsPlus but not due until before the ASG sim https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
Added Sim Schedule to the Links dropdown in StatsPlus (afblbaseball.com & statsplus.net/afbl)
Missed Sim 11 exports: KY @Zach - KY (2), MD @steve e (2), OH @ohio, PA @qdog915_pa (3), TX @mukerka, WA @darktrc (2), WV @claphamsa
Vacant Team(s): NY
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 12: June 17 - June 23 on 5/24/18
Missed Sim 12 exports: KY @Zach - KY (3), MD @steve e (3), PA @qdog915_pa (4), TX @mukerka (2), WA @darktrc (3)
Vacant Team(s): NY
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 12: June 24 - June 30 on 5/28/18
We're getting closer to the ASG so just a reminder to vote before the ASG sim in StatsPlus. Have a great long holiday weekend for those in the USA. We will sim Monday night still.
Missed Sim 13 exports: MD @steve e (4), ON @x24rocks, OR @yuda, WA @darktrc (4)
Vacant Team(s): NY
Grabbing exports for Sim 14 (July 1-8). This is a day longer than normal sim. Sun-Sun to get us to the All-Star Game break.
Missed Sim 14 exports: GA @tjsmith7_georgia, IN @jkguy16-indiana, KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e (5), ON @x24rocks, OR @yuda, VA @jeheinz72 (out til 6/3), WA @darktrc (5), WV @claphamsa
Vacant Team(s): NY
Hmm don't see one 😞. Have time to quickly re-export? https://statsplus.net/afbl/exports
@AFBL Commish shared a file: image.png and commented: There's a nice feature in StatsPlus that you can enable that lets you know if your export is valid or incorrect with a response from Slackbot. You'll turn it on in your Prefs of StatsPlus.
I’ll have to check that out. I didn’t make any major moves, so it’s OK.
July 8th games have been played but the game hasn't been advanced so we avoid the CPU from selecting our ASG rosters. Reminder that you need to get your ASG voting in StatsPlus done by tomorrow night! https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
lol yup looks like a checkbox got accidentally clicked. Reuploading for the league file 😄
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 15: July 9 - July 14 on 5/30/18 | All-Star Game and Break (no Regular Season games)
Still need ASG voting from: TX @mukerka, WV @claphamsa, MD @steve e, KY @Zach - KY, WA @darktrc, GA @tjsmith7georgia, NJ @mikenew_jersey, ON @x24rocks, OH @ohio. Due by tonight's sim in about 7-8 hours. https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
I'm going to push back tonight's sim until tomorrow night so you have more more day to get your ASG ballots in. @mukerka @claphamsa @darktrc @ohio
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 15: July 9 - July 14 on 5/31/18 | All-Star Game and Break (no Regular Season games)
I was gonna apologize for missing the last couple of exports (we closed on our house yesterday) but I see that I went like 12-1 so maybe I should keep not exporting.
I'm just going to postpone the ASG sim until Monday. Sorry guys. Thought I'd be able to squeeze it in yesterday or today before the moving 😎
can send Cervantes on his rehab assignment and not have to do anything else
Oops fell asleep on the couch with the laptop haha. I'll sim today 😂😎
Alrighty time to finally get this ASG sim going. Grabbing exports for Sim 15.
Missed Sim 15 exports: ON @x24rocks (2), TX @mukerka
Vacant Team(s): NY
2040 All-Star Game Selections
Frontier League
Starters
CA: Raúl Silva (ID)
1B: Jon Simpson (OR)
2B: Nelson Romero (IN)
3B: Dan Strickland (ID)
SS: Joe Woods (TX)
LF: Ron Dixon (KY)
CF: Zoraide Pequeno (KY) [unanimous 17 votes]
RF: Greg Moore (ID)
DH: Robinson Sánchez (ID)
SP: Álex Pacheco (TX)
Reserves
CA: Jorge Ortega (WA) [commish selection]
1B: Kevin Davis (IN) [commish selection]
2B: Dennis Christopher (OR)
3B: José Rodríguez (KY)
SS: Rodney Noseworthy (CO) [commish selection]
LF: Bryan Soliben (CO) [commish selection]
CF: Orlando Rosado (CA) [commish selection]
RF: Ken Mann (OR) [commish selection]
SP: Leonardo Mendoza (OR)
SP: Juan Guevara (ID)
SP: Jorge Ramírez (CO)
SP: Nate Simpson (OR)
SP: Sergio Lugo (NM)
RP: Dan Harris (OR)
RP: Florent Tessier (IN)
RP: Ánibal González (ID)
RP: Percy Veenman (TX)
RP: Mario Cardenas (TX)
RP: Leo Rodriguez (CO) [commish selection]
Patriot League
Starters
CA: Curt Ward (OH)
1B: José García (VA)
2B: Mike Haynes (GA)
3B: Ty Hinkle (ON)
SS: Bob Starrett (ON)
LF: Billy Kaufman (MD)
CF: Jayson Preston (PA)
RF: David Ruíz (NC)
DH: José Aguirre (WV)
SP: Norman Cornell (NC)
Reserves
CA: Garry Taylor (MD) [commish selection]
1B: Pat Hatfield (NJ) [commish selection]
2B: Jeff Young (VA)
3B: Bubba Pelan (PA)
SS: Ánibal Rodríguez (VA)
LF: Mason Hayter (VA)
CF: Jim Murdock (NJ)
RF: Cedric Boyd (MD)
SP: Bob Grant (NY)
SP: Dani Romero (OH)
SP: António Goudino (WV)
SP: Jorge Márquez (VA)
SP: Jesus Cruz (VA) [commish selection]
RP: Lou Moore (NC)
RP: Chris Gamble (PA)
RP: Juan Morales (MD)
RP: Lonnie Williams (ON)
RP: Edwin Mercer (ON)
RP: Joe Berry (MD)
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
Oops forgot to process FA claims. Sorry guys. I'll get those for tomorrow's sim.
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 16: July 15 - July 21 on 6/6/18
They should have cut out green’s legs on that dunk - maybe he would have suffered a career ending injury
Missed Sim 16 exports: GA @tjsmith7georgia, MD @steve e, ON @x24rocks (3), PA @qdog915pa, WA @darktrc, WV @claphamsa
Vacant Team(s): NY
NY players are rumoured to be looking over the fence at NJ and wanting to play there.. hands off 😄
Sim 16 is completed. File upload started. FYI, I didn't handle any injuries this sim.
Missed Sim 17 exports: IL @cmyru82 (instructions sent), MD @steve e (2), NJ @mikenewjersey, OH @ohio, ON @x24rocks (4), PA @qdog915_pa (2), TX @mukerka, WA @darktrc (2)
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 18: July 29 - July 31 on 6/11/18
Reminder that the Trade Deadline is by tomorrow's sim which will be around 830-9pm central
Last night's sim didn't happen so we'll push things back a day. Simming up to Trade Deadline tonight and trades are due by Wednesday's sim
Missed Sim 18 exports: IL @cmyru82 (away), ON @x24rocks (5), PA @qdog915_pa (3), TX @mukerka (2), WA @darktrc (3)
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 19: August 1-14 on 6/13/18 | Trade Deadline is by Wed 6/13 sim
Sorry guys been dealing with some family stuff. No sim tonight. I'll try to sim tomorrow morning but if not, we'll break until Monday night.
maybe then some of my trade messages will be answered... @AFBL Commish @mstreeter06 - I suggest we make the trade posts official in one location, forums and slack seems that some look at slack only, and some are more forum based, any chance we can simplify things to one communication platform for the same item?
I'd love to move everything to Slack but the issue there is that we only keep our last 10000 messages (I think) so I don't want to lose any history and plus you are correct as some aren't very/at all active on Slack (totally fine but love to see everyone active 😁).
could we just make one place for posting trade blocks though? I know I forget to check the forums as I think slack is the place, then miss out on the odd block now and then
forums for history are good, but slack for day to day stuff (e.g. trade blocks would be rgeat) 🙂
We'll get back started simming again on Monday night. Sorry guys. It was quite the week. I'll send out an email update for the league as well for those that don't check Slack often.
Trade Deadline is by Monday night's sim!
Missed Sim 19 exports: MD @steve e, ON @x24rocks (6), OR @yuda, VA @jeheinz72 (vacation til 6/25)
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 19: August 1-4 on 6/18/18 | Trade Deadline is by Mon 6/18 sim
We'll be back to our Sun-Sat sims starting with tomorrow's sim until we get to Sept 1
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
get a haircut and get a real job mate 🙂 - one that allows ootp sims 😄
Missed Sim 20 exports: MD @steve e (2), ON @x24rocks (7), OR @yuda (2), PA @qdog915_pa, TX @mukerka, VA @jeheinz72 (vacation til 6/25), WA @darktrc
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 21: August 12-18 on 6/21/18
Missed Sim 21 exports: IN @jkguy16-indiana, KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e (3), OR @yuda (3), PA @qdog915_pa (2), TX @mukerka (2), VA @jeheinz72 (vacation til 6/25), WA @darktrc (2), WV @claphamsa
Sim 21 is completed. Rough sim for injuries 😞. File upload started.
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 22: August 19-25 on 6/25/18
@yuda Amen brother. what a cluster we have dealt with moving to Texas
I can’t imagine moving across state lines at this point. I moved 5 miles and it’s a lot.
although tbh I guess the distance doesn’t much matter once all your stuff is in cardboard
ugh ya we did that 700 mile move twice in like 18 months. not fun haha.
Dave (StatsPlus creator) rolled out "Similarity Scores" on S+. It's a step towards HoF voting. For each player, it shows on the "History" tab on the Player page. It's only available for major league stats. There's a link to the formula from Baseball Reference below the main table.
Missed Sim 22 exports: GA @tjsmith7georgia, MD @steve e (4), ON @x24rocks, OR @yuda (4), PA @qdog915pa (3), TX @mukerka (3), WA @darktrc (3), WV @claphamsa (2)
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 23: August 26-31 on 6/26/18
Missed Sim 23 exports: NC @chappy, ON @x24rocks (2), PA @qdog915_pa (4), TX @mukerka (4), WA @darktrc (4)
@AFBL Commish uploaded a file: image.png and commented: Sneak peak at the 2040 Draft Pool including the just announced IAFAs
New file is up. HTML Reports will be updated soon. StatsPlus and StatsLab might be tomorrow morning 💤 😄
@AFBL Commish - if we're moving to ootp 19 after this season that draft pool will look quite different after the conversion...
also, did we stop 1 day early? thoguht we simmed 7 days, sunday to sunday now? we're currently on saturday 🙂
yes we stopped for the 40 man roster expansion and we draft at the end of the season before we will convert to 19 😄
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 24: September 1-8 on 6/27/18 | AFBL rosters expanded to 40
AFBL rosters expand to 40 for tonight's sim. Also note that tonight's sim is Saturday 9/1 to Saturday 9/8 so 1 extra day.
Missed Sim 24 exports: IN @jkguy16-indiana, MD @steve e, ON @x24rocks (3), TX @mukerka (5), WA @darktrc (5), WV @claphamsa
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 24: September 9-15 on 6/28/18 | AFBL rosters expanded to 40
Missed Sim 25 exports: KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e (2), NC @chappy, ON @x24rocks (4), OR @yuda, PA @qdog915_pa, WA @darktrc (6)
Missed Sim 26 exports: IN @jkguy16-indiana, MD @steve e (3), ON @x24rocks (5), PA @qdog915_pa (2), TX @mukerka, WV @claphamsa
Sim 26 is completed. File upload started. We have some good races for the final few games coming up!
We will take a break on Wednesday night for July 4th then will wrap up the 2040 Regular Season with the final few games on Thursday July 5th evening. Good luck for the final 1.5 sims!
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 27: September 23-29 on 7/3/18 | AFBL rosters expanded to 40
I've enabled Season Awards in StatsPlus for anyone that wants to vote before the season concludes. This will be due by the end of the playoffs. https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
lol oops never simmed on Tuesday. I'll sim today (likely before noon central) then will sim the final few Regular Season games on Friday (tomorrow) morning before noon central).
Should be starting the sim in the next 15-30 minutes.
Another reminder that OOTP19 is 50% for another hour or so if you still need to purchase it! https://store.steampowered.com/app/619290/Out_of_the_Park_Baseball_19/
Missed Sim 27 exports: GA @tjsmith7_georgia, MD @steve e (4), ON @x24rocks (6), OR @yuda, WA @darktrc, WV @claphamsa (2)
Vacant Team(s): NY
Sim 27 is completed. File upload started. FYI I didn't deal with any injuries.
Both WC2 races will come down to the final few games tomorrow. Should be fun!
HTML Reports are updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
StatsPlus updated (oops sorry forgot to start it up before the sim for today's RTS results)
set the channel topic: 2040 Regular Season Sim 28: September 30 - October 3 on 7/6/18 ~9am CT | AFBL rosters expanded to 40
We'll conclude the 2040 Regular Season tomorrow July 6 at around 9am central or so. Good luck!
4 in each league so 8 total. The division winners and then 2 wildcards based on win%.
Missed Sim 28 exports: CA @JasonMallards, KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e (5), ON @x24rocks (7), PA @qdog915pa, TX @mukerka, WA @darktrc (2)
Vacant Team(s): NY
Sim 28 and the 2040 Regular Season are completed. File upload started.
set the channel topic: 2040 Playoffs Sim 1: Wildcard Series Games 1-3, October 4-8 whenever all are ready or Mon 7/9 night
Reminder to vote for Season Awards in StatsPlus asap, due by the end of the playoffs! https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
Ammy Draft will be setup in StatsPlus sometime soon.
HOF Voting will be setup in StatsLab later.
Team MVPs and Team of the Decade Voting (forgot about this 😁) for the 2020s and 2030s will be up in the Forum soon as well.
set the channel topic: 2040 Playoffs Sim 2: Wildcard Series Games 4-6, October 9-13 whenever all are ready or Mon 7/9 night
Working on getting the Ammy Draft setup in S+ now. Don't forget to vote for Season Awards in S+, name your Team MVP on the Forum, and (when I get it up) HOF Voting in StatsLab and Team of the Decade Voting on the Forum.
I have the go-ahead or a new export from everyone in the playoffs. I'll sim tonight, likely soon.
G4s starting now. If it pauses or anything, I'll be checking in and out over the next hour or so for the RTS. Good luck!
Ha I hadn’t previously realized that it has the games start staggered for time zones.
Dropping game 4 in 14 hurt but we took game 5.... backs against the wall.
Meanwhile just as I’m thinking “we need this to be a big inning”... Juan Lopes hits a grand slam
Looks like game 7 coming. I am not home so street let me know if i have injuries
Matt if you want to run game 7 can i ask that you
Make sure Guevara starts? Let the rest ride
Ok. I will be home in like 20-25 mins so if he wants to upload a file that is cool too. Just didn’t want to be the bottleneck
Bath/Bed time but should be ready to continue in like 30-45. I'm about to upload a new file.
But if you’re all ready could you start Curt Peterson on the mound and Jesus Bruno at 2B if it says Peck is injured.
Awesome! First round sweep. Can we please set sepulveda #3 Curran #4 and start whoever is #1. Thanks. Out of town.
I'll ping Texas to see if he needs to make any changes before we run Sim 3 (Wildcard Series Game 7)
Actually Texas is ready to go so we can continue whenever Kentucky is ready! No rush @Zach - KY just let me know whenever you are. Good luck everyone!
It says I can't DL Joel Reese during the series-is that right? He's out 6-7 months 😞
I thought about going with just one catcher, but I won’t do that now that I know
Game 7 coming up. RTS link: https://statsplus.net/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
Gonna need some
Late inning magic or the 2 time defending champs go home
Peterson is gassed, maybe a game 3 start, veteran Ben Dale is on the bump for game one. Someone will have to step up to fill in for Joel Reese.
Such a bummer to lose him. Hopefully the offense can overcome your rotation advantage.
Crazy how close we have been this year. So close in runs, 1 win away from each other
set the channel topic: 2040 Playoffs Sim 4: League Championship Series Games 1-3, October 17-20 whenever all are ready or Tues 7/10 night
whoa: just realized this season was Oregon's first division championship since 2015.
looks like we've twice finished 1 game back, and 1.5 back in 2028 (not sure what the 163rd game situation was there, though we made the playoffs)
The Patriot league Most Valuable Hitter is blank for me, was able to finish all of the other ballots
@ohio weird but I think it's a bug. Try refreshing your tab, closing browser, different browser? If not, try again later and if still no luck, let me know and I'll let Dave know.
I’ve had a couple of injuries, probably going to have to do an export when I get home
set the channel topic: 2040 Playoffs Sim 5: League Championship Series Games 4-6, October 21-25 whenever all are ready or Wed 7/11 night
Awesome think that's everyone so I can sim probably around 7 or so (whenever the fools go to bed haha)
Pennsylvania is up 2 games to 1 against Georgia with Game 4 in PA.
Oregon is up 2 games to 1 against Kentucky with Game 4 in OR.
Good luck.. here we go!
Congrats! Disappointed that we didn't make it all the way to the championship. But the Core is still young!
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
Alrighty. Time to get the draft adjusted as much as I can now that the fools are napping 😉.
Also looks like we can start the FCS between Pennsylvania and Oregon
Grabbing exports for Playoff Sim 6 (Federation Cup Series Games 1-3)
set the channel topic: 2040 Playoffs Sim 6: Federation Cup Series Games 1-3, October 27-30 whenever all are ready
starting pitcher is clearly gassed in the 8th inning, but let’s just leave him in for a 4-run rally despite a rested bullpen
the only reason it wasn’t worse is an outfielder threw somebody out at home
Wow G3 was a classic as well. Sim 6 is completed. File upload started.
StatsPlus updated. StatsLab will be updated later tonight or tomorrow.
set the channel topic: 2040 Playoffs Sim 7: Federation Cup Series Games 4-6, Oct 31 - Nov 3 whenever all are ready
Federation Cup Series Game 4 is underway. Good luck @yuda and @qdog915_pa
Great series so far. When watching RTS I’m only seeing updates every half inning or so. Is that just the way it is or is there a way to speed up refresh on my end? (Watching on iPhone). Even if I hit reload it doesn’t progress any faster.
Ya that's how the RTS runs. It's a static webpage that is catching OOTP updates every 10 or so seconds.
Awesome sounds good. I'm sure I'll be able to squeeze in the final sim once PA is ready. Good luck on the final 3 games!
Ah okay. Ended up reading the log as it progressed so as not to miss anything. 😀
Awesome! I'm close-ish to landing so I'll run Sim 8 (FCS G7-9) when I can so we can figure out who will claim the 2040 Federation Cup. Good luck to you both!
Actually forgot we have a stop before we arrive so I'll be able to run the sim tonight @yuda @qdog915_pa
Well didn't have wifi on our second flight last night. I'll try to run the final sim later today.
Lol we drank too much yesterday but I'm about to grab exports for our final sim of the 2040 Playoffs. Good luck @yuda and @qdog915_pa!
set the channel topic: 2040 Offseason: Ammy Draft, Season Awards, HOF Voting, Team MVPs, Playoff MVP, 2030s Team of the Decade Voting
Reminder to get your offseason tasks done (ones that I have up and ready currently 😁). I'll get the others up and ready hopefully by tomorrow.
Need Season Awards voting from: TX @mukerka, WV @claphamsa, CA @JasonMallards, MD @steve e, IN @jkguy16-indiana, WA @darktrc, NJ @mikenew_jersey, ON @x24rocks
@AFBL Commish uploaded a file: image.png and commented: 2040 HOF Voting has been setup in StatsLab https://www.matthewrstreeter.com/ootp/afbl/statslab/hall_of_fame_vote.php
I'll work on getting the 2040 Postseason MVP poll and the 2030s Team of the Decade voting up in the Forum asap. Likely will be tomorrow or Wednesday.
Reminder that will be moving to OOTP19 after this offseason. I'll grab exports 1 or 2 more times before the switch if you want to export again but you aren't required to do so.
I'll work on our offseason timeline tonight/tomorrow and let everyone know what I'd like to see for our time table for the next week or so to allow everyone to plan.
Also please get any offseason tasks completed that you haven't already asap.
Looks like I can't make any roster moves, it says I'm still in the middle of the playoff series.
Advanced a day to get us to the Offseason officially in the game. File upload started.
Need Season Awards voting from: TX @mukerka, WV @claphamsa (vacation), CA @Jason_Mallards, IN @jkguy16-indiana, WA @darktrc, ON @x24rocks
URL: https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
New HOF Voting from: TX @mukerka, WV @claphamsa (vacation), CA @JasonMallards, NM @jeffnew_mexico, IN @jkguy16-indiana, IL @cmyru82, WA @darktrc, ON @x24rocks, OR @yuda
URL: http://www.matthewrstreeter.com/ootp/afbl/statslab/hall_of_fame_vote.php
^ updated Season Awards and HOF Voting roll-call. Please get this done if you haven't already
Need Season Awards voting from: TX @mukerka, WV @claphamsa (vacation), CA @Jason_Mallards, IN @jkguy16-indiana, WA @darktrc, ON @x24rocks
URL: https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
New HOF Voting from: TX @mukerka, WV @claphamsa (vacation), CA @JasonMallards, NM @jeffnew_mexico, IN @jkguy16-indiana, IL @cmyru82, WA @darktrc, ON @x24rocks
URL: http://www.matthewrstreeter.com/ootp/afbl/statslab/hall_of_fame_vote.php
Doesn't seem to be fully submitted. Can you check to see if you need to hit submit still? Pretty easy to do in StatsLab voting. StatsPlus HOF Voting can't get here soon enough 😄
Sorry guys. Yes I'll send out my plan for the next week or so for us to finish up this offseason and then the move to OOTP19. Stay tuned!
I'll get the upcoming timeline and other items including a new file with the draft picks this morning. Passed out early last night 😄
This morning has turned into right now 😎. Sorry guys stupid busy at work.
Grabbing exports before I import draft results. Still need to see how we're doing with Season Awards and HOF Voting. I also need to put up the Postseason MVP poll and the 2030s Team of the Decade voting up on the Forum. I'll release a new file tonight which will likely be the final OOTP17 file.
Season Awards are done (minus WV @claphamsa) so that'll be closed tonight.
HOF Voting are just waiting on ON @x24rocks and CA @Jason_Mallards (plus WV @claphamsa who is traveling still I believe). We can wait for this but will need to be done soon so we can roll to 2041 then move to OOTP19.
Looks like only half my ballot registered correctly initially. Fixed now tho.
Ammy Draft imported. Game simmed to 9 Dec 2040. File upload started.
Since we're waiting on 1-2 more voters for the HOF, we'll get 1 more file after tonight in OOTP17 once we get that wrapped up.
Whenever HOF Voting is completed (latest I'll let it go is Thurs 7/26 or Fri 7/27), I'll roll the game over to 2041 then begin the transition to OOTP19. I'm thinking I'll give everyone a week or so to get all situated in OOTP19 before we start the 2041 season.
set the channel topic: 2040 Offseason: HOF Voting, Team MVPs, Playoff MVP, 2030s Team of the Decade Voting | Game Date: December 9, 2040
I'm going to give WV the rest of the day before I just close voting so we can get things rolling with the OOTP19 move. I'll keep you all posted!
If you want to get a FA claim in today before we start the transition, you are free to do so. Remember 1 claim per real-life calendar day made in the Forum.
I have some time set aside today to get the 2040 Postseason MVP poll up at the minimum and also try to get the 2030s Team of the Decade poll/voting up as well but that'll likely be tomorrow or worst case by the end of the weekend. Also remember to name your Team MVPs on the the Forum.
Ya I know but going to close the voting today and start the roll to 2041 then begin the move to ootp19. Ready to get things moving 😄.
I'm about to grab the final OOTP17 exports before I induct our 2040 HOF class followed by rolling into 2041. Plan for after that is to then start the process of moving AFBL from OOTP17 to OOTP18 then to OOTP19. This will take some time so stay tuned 🙂.
Tomorrow and into the weekend will be continuing to babysit the transition along with finally getting the 2040 Postseason MVP poll and 2030s TotD poll up on the Forum.
Congrats to our 2040 HOF Class: 1B Rob Shirey and 3B Jake White. Vote results are out of 18 GMs (WV no vote, NY vacant).
FA claims processed. Free agency is now closed until we get settled into OOTP19.
AFBL is now in OOTP19 on my end. Working on getting things wrapped up and will start uploading the new files for download.
I'm nearly there with OOTP19 but have instructions on how to get setup on your end tonight.
HTML Reports are updated if you can't wait 😄
Alrighty.. StatsPlus is now updated after some strangeness on my end.
Working on getting the OOTP19 full file (plus a seaprate starter file without images and an images pack) now.
I have the new OOTP19 full league file with images uploaded. You can get setup by doing:
1.) Download this file: https://afblbaseball.com/files/downloads/AFBL.lg-FULL.zip
2.) Extract into your ..\OOTP19\savedgames\AFBL.lg.. folder (make sure you don't end up with 2 AFBL.lg folders when extracting like: \savedgames\AFBL.lg\AFBL.lg(-FULL) )
3.) Launch OOTP19 then open AFBL saved game
4.) Show that you are ready in OOTP19 by submitting an export
If anyone wants any recent AFBL yearly almanacs, I have the last 4 years uploaded to their new location. I'll continue to get the rest uploaded in the future. http://www.matthewrstreeter.com/ootp/afbl/downloads/almanacs/
set the channel topic: 2041 Preseason: Export showing OOTP19 setup success, 2040 Team MVPs, 2040 Playoff MVP, 2030s Team of the Decade Voting | Game Date: January 26, 2041
2040 Postseason MVP poll posted finally https://afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php?topic=2366.0
@AFBL Commish I am getting “Could not upload file. Error 201 - Connect error.” when I try to export. Anyone else having problems?
Ugh didn't check to see if the ftp league settings copied over and of course they didn't. Pretty sure this is the reason. Might need to reupload files.
I think you can send out account data file. There is a way to import that in new game
Something about a secret key too. Not sure about that — there is one entered in my screen.
Ya you're probably right about just needing that new dat file. Working on recreating online league FTP settings.
I think you can download then I'll be able to release a new accounts dat file later tonight.
I think I have the settings adjusted and will be sending out a new accountsdata_gms.dat file later this morning/today to fix the export issues.
Actually here's the newest file if you want to export now but it doesn't have the new S+ email options so there's a chance you'll need a new one once I get that info (not sure if that gets passed along with the next file).
Download and overwrite the same file in \OOTP19 directory\saved_games\AFBL.lg\settings.
Actually if you can hold off for an hour or so, I'll release a final version of the above file.
Hey , I'm uploading a new accountsdata_gms.dat file with the Online League FTP Settings info added. Please download and overwrite on your system if you have already downloaded the new AFBL OOTP19 league file.
I'll be updating the starter files today if you haven't downloaded the full file yet.
Does it just go in the general AFBL.lg folder? Or in a specific folder?
Unfortunately Terence has to step down as the Washington GM so we have openings with them and New York.
Just posted on the OOTP boards about our 2 openings with the hopes we can get both vacancies filled before we start 2041.
I can confirm in a moment but I think it's...
AFBL: none
AAA: none
AA: 30
A: 28
RL: 26
Still need OOTP19 export from: GA @tjsmith7_georgia, IL @cmyru82, ON @x24rocks, TX @mukerka
Vacant Teams: NY, WA
Roster age limits from league rules page (is this still correct?)
On StatsPlus roster check page what are the red numbers after the hyphen? For example, for NM A it says 34-7 with 7 in red. What does the 7 refer to? Probably something obvious but I can’t figure it out.
Yeah, I think that's it... because I have a -1 for R and that's mike barker, who was born before 4/4/17.
You're going to have to vacate that 1st place finish for the Flagstaff Alpines last year. 😛
I am somewhat skeptical that I have 41 players over the age limit in rookie league
That’s what I thought at first but as far as I can tell I don’t have anyone over the limit.
(I won’t get around to releasing guys to make room for draft picks until we get into ST or even opening day export)
Elroy Dempsey and Ted Stone are 28, my guess is you've got 5 of the 27 year olds with their birthdays before 4/4
So, I think there's probably an error in Statsplus here... because it says for A ball "Age limit = 27, born before 2014-04-04"
But New Mexico's Jesus Corona was born Nov 26, 2013, so he counts as a violator
Even though he won't turn 28 until November 26, well after the season ends
Yeah the red number is the number of violations. Double checking the roster ages now since I didn't confirm last night and can't remember how outdated the Rules page is 😄
Yep that looks right. I had released Stone before my last upload and missed Dempsey. And some of the 27 year olds turn 28 before season starts.
He will not turn 28 until November.... I think the 'born before' date in statsplus is off by one year
I try to have a lower personal limit (18 in int’l complex, for example) just because I want the younger guys playing at the lower levels if possible
it’s also noteworthy that the game doesn’t release guys until the end of the year
so it will prevent you from demoting somebody mid-season, but if somebody has a birthday during the season they can stay on the team (and it will then release them at the end of that team’s season)
Sometimes all put an older scrub with good leadership down in R or A to captain
Almost have the 2030s Team of the Decade voting ready to go on the Forum. Voting is done by email once I have it ready.
I have the 2030s Team of the Decade (TotD) voting all set now. There is a thread on the Forum about the criteria used for each type of player. Please look through the lists for each position then follow the instructions in the thread to email your vote. Thanks!
https://afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php?topic=2388.0
Also a reminder for vote for the 2040 Postseason MVP https://afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php?topic=2366.0
Looking over my roster issues. In the full player list (players-minor leagues) I can now see several players I thought were released. They do not show up on a roster, but still I'm org. I think these are the minus players on the list. Cisco Cruz was one I just released, 34 and assigned in AA. Maybe the age filter hid them somehow?
yeah we've found in another league if you don't promote players once they reach the age limit or beyond, once int he off-season they can go 'missing' from the roster pages, but are still in your organisation if you search by name or overall player lists...
Thought I did a pretty good job of keeping rosters clean. But I'm also deep, so some could fall through. Also explains why I occasionally have 30 something retirees who never left rookie ball
Grabbing OOTP19 exports, will process any FA claims and trades, then will advance us to the start of ST (Spring Training)
Final chance to vote for the 2040 Postseason MVP. We currently have a tie with 10 total votes. https://afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php?topic=2366.0
set the channel topic: 2041 Spring Training Sim 1: February 25 - March 11 on Thurs 8/9
We are at the start of Spring Training (Feb 25 2041 in game).
Upcoming sim schedule...
Wed 8/8 - no sim
Thurs 8/9 - ST Sim 1
Fri 8/10 - no sim
Mon 8/13 - ST Sim 2
Tues 8/14 - no sim, break to get Opening Day exports in
Wed 8/15 - 2041 Regular Season Sim 1 (April 1-6, shorter than normal sim)
Thurs 8/16 - Sim 2 (Apr 7-13, back to normal M-Tu-W-Th night sims of Sun-Sat in game)
Mon 8/20 - Sim 3 (Apr 14-20)
I'll get the Sim Schedule spreadsheet updated tomorrow.
^
Still need 2030s TotD voting emailed to me by: GA @tjsmith7georgia, IL @cmyru82, MD @steve e, ON @x24rocks, PA @qdog915pa, TX @mukerka, WV @claphamsa
Forum link: https://afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php?topic=2388.0
We have 5 unanimous voted positions through 11 ballots so far (6 if you count an admitted homer vote 😁)
Reminder that we start Spring Training tonight in about an hour. Export if you haven't
Sorry not sure I can make it another 2 hours haha. Grabbing exports for ST Sim 1.
Missed ST Sim 1 export: NJ @mikenewjersey (instructions sent), ON @x24rocks, OR @yuda, PA @qdog915_pa, TX @mukerka, WV @claphamsa
Vacant Teams: NY, WA (I'll run CPU on each org while vacant each sim)
Congrats to Oregon LF Juan Lopes on being voted the 2040 Postseason MVP who went .425/.391/.631, 29/84, 6 2B, 6 HR, 19 RBI, 19 R. @yuda
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2041 Spring Training Sim 2: March 11-28 on Monday 8/13
No sim tomorrow (Friday). We'll finish up ST on Monday. Please export for ST Sim 2 especially if you missed tonight's sim.
Reminder that tonight (~8pm central) we finish up Spring Training with ST Sim 2. Please export especially if you missed Thursday night's ST Sim 1.
Still need 2030s TotD voting emailed to me by: IL @cmyru82, MD @steve e, ON @x24rocks, PA @qdog915_pa, TX @mukerka, WV @claphamsa
Forum link: https://afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php?topic=2388.0
Argh. What a long and terrible week last week for my OOTP habit. I'll try and get an export in, I will get my list emailed you tonight before I head to bed. I'm sorry about that.
I have to admit I don’t dig the team of the decade things as much as you’d expect
I think it has something to do with the arbitrary endpoints instead of comparing apples-to-apples seasons or relatively apples-to-apples careers
Ya totally understand that. I'm totally up to suggestions. I stole the idea from Mike T's SBC league. It is fun to see how the past (almost) 3 decades have gone and who has been the most consistent in those 10 year increments.
Missed ST Sim 2 export: MD @steve e (wrong date - 2/25/2041), ON @x24rocks
Vacant Teams: NY, WA
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 1: April 1-6 on Wednesday 8/15 | No sim on Tuesday 8/14
We break tomorrow so everyone can get an export in for Wednesday (8/15) night's Opening Day 2041 sim. Please export for the next sim!
There is a new OOTP19 update. Please downlaod the latest sim results from last night's ST Sim 2, then make sure your next export is from the latest OOTP19 version.
http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/showthread.php?t=291876
I'm going to grab any exports in right now then update my OOTP19 to the new patch. I'll take exports again tomorrow night officially for the sim. cc @jeheinz72
Still need 2030s TotD voting emailed to me by: MD @steve e, ON @x24rocks, TX @mukerka,
Forum link: https://afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php?topic=2388.0
With 3 ballots still needed (plus our 2 vacant teams), here is how the 2030 Team of the Decade is setting up. Below are clinched spots...
@AFBL Commish what time are you thinking for the sim? (Just trying to figure out if I’m exporting tonight or in the morning)
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 2: April 7-13 on Thursday 8/16
Missed Sim 2 export: GA @tjsmith7georgia, IN @jkguy16-indiana, KY @Zach - KY, NJ @mikenewjersey, ON @x24rocks, PA @qdog915pa, TX @mukerka (2), WV @claphamsa
Vacant Teams: NY, WA
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 3: April 14-20 on Monday 8/20
There’s a note in that thread that the hotfix introduced a new issue so they pulled it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Yes indeed. Please avoid 19.8.69 and install 19.8.70. http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/showthread.php?t=291972
Missed export for Sim 3: ON @x24rocks (2), PA @qdog915_pa (2), TX @mukerka (3)
Vacant Teams: NY, WA
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 4: April 21-27 on Tuesday 8/21
Missed Sim 4 export: GA @tjsmith7georgia, MD @steve e, NJ @mikenewjersey, ON @x24rocks (3), PA @qdog915pa (3), TX @mukerka (4), WV @claphamsa
Vacant Teams: NY, WA
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 5: April 28 - May 4 on Wednesday 8/22
Missed Sim 5 export: CA @JasonMallards, IN @jkguy16-indiana, ON @x24rocks (4), PA @qdog915pa (4), TX @mukerka (5, emailed me.. been busy but will update tonight/soon)
Vacant Teams: NY, WA
Thanks! I see the trade and the FA claim(s). Just about to process!
Sim 5 is completed. File upload started. Fairly rough sim for injuries 😞.
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 6: May 5-11 on Thursday 8/23
Still need Team of the Decade ballots from: MD @steve e and TX @mukerka
Missed Sim 6 export: CA @JasonMallards (2), GA @tjsmith7georgia, KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e, NJ @mikenewjersey, OH @ohio, TX @mukerka (6), WV @claphamsa
Vacant Teams: NY, WA
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 7: May 12-18 on Monday 8/27
Missed Sim 7 export: MD @steve e (2), ON @x24rocks, TX @mukerka (7)
Vacant Teams: NY, WA
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 8: May 19-25 on Tuesday 8/28
Grabbing exports for Sim 8. Sorry about the missed sim and non-communication last night guys.
We have finally filled the vacancy for the New York Twin Towers franchise. Kevin Norris joins us. I just accepted his forum registration and will get him added to the game and our Slack tonight.
Missed Sim 8 export: MD @steve e (3), ON @x24rocks (2), TX @mukerka (8), WV @claphamsa
Vacant Team(s): WA
KY instructions followed on Mon, May 20 for 3B Roger Peck to be deactivated from DL for a rehab assignment. AAA rosters for both lineups/charts auto'd.
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 9: May 26 - June 1 on Thursday 8/30
HTML Reports updated to show Kevin as the New York GM 🙂 https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
Haha oops I simmed 1 less day than I should have. I'll add it to tomorrow's sim so we'll go from Sat May 25 to Sat Jun 1 instead of our normal Sun to Sat sim schedule 🙂.
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 9: (Sat) May 25 - (Sat) June 1 on Thursday 8/30
I believe I found a GM for the Washington Resonance franchise! Patrick McGuffin is from Dave's StatsPlus Slack. I'll be working to get him added so he can start for tonight's sim. Kevin is working on getting setup with New York. Exciting times!
Missed Sim 9 export: GA @tjsmith7georgia, IN @jkguy16-indiana, KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e (4), NJ @mikenewjersey, NY @Kevin40, OR @yuda, PA @qdog915pa, TX @mukerka (9), WA @Washington_GM (just joined, still needs starter file from Commish 😎)
Auto'd NY and WA 1 more time so any moves from last night's sim are handled.
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 10: June 2-8 on Monday 9/3
hmm doesn't look like it. I will fix after I finish creating a new starter file for Patrick.
Ya that was my fault. Redoing that upload now. Should be up in 10-15 min.
Now HTML Reports are updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
I'll still sim on Monday night (Labor Day in the USA). Have a great Friday and weekend guys.
Missed Sim 10 export: GA @tjsmith7_georgia (2), ON @x24rocks, TX @mukerka (10 - might need to be replaced 😢)
Vacant Teams: none
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 11: June 9-15 on Tuesday 9/4
Patrick messaged me saying he overextended himself and needs to step away from the league. WA is back open but I think I have a replacement lined up.
Missed Sim 11 export: NY @Kevin40, ON @x24rocks (2), PA @qdog915_pa, TX @mukerka (11 - CPU'd org)
Vacant Teams: WA
Everyone welcome back Mike Jewell @Mike_WA (he'll need to change his Slack username :D) as he takes over the Washington Resonance franchise!
Missed Sim 12 export: GA @tjsmith7georgia, IN @jkguy16-indiana, KY @Zach - KY, ON @x24rocks (3), PA @qdog915pa (2), TX (12, auto CPU'd - has til end of week before booted), WV @claphamsa
Vacant Teams: WA - just filled
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 13: June 23-29 on Thursday 9/6
All-Star Game voting enabled in StatsPlus https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
Missed Sim 13 export: GA @tjsmith7georgia (2), MD @steve e, ON @x24rocks (4), TX @mukerka (13, will email tonight :/), WA @MikeWA (still getting setup)
Not sure if this is just on my end or if everybody sees it, but the win probability charts on the box score pages appear to be 2 years out of date.
Yeah I think it’s like the game from 2 seasons prior. Wonder if a setting is messed up
The fact that I didn’t notice until June says something about how closely I look at them too ;)
😄 yes same here and probably correct with a setting slightly off. I'll investigate after the sim.
Actually slightly different play design but still. Foles just picked up a first down as a receiver.
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 14: June 30 - July 7 (8 days, Sun-Sun) on Monday 9/10 | Final sim of 1st half
Missed Sim 14 export: IN @jkguy16-indiana, KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e (2), ON @x24rocks (5), PA @qdog915_pa, TX (14, instructions sent)
Today was the final sim of the 1st half so get your ASG ballots submitted in StatsPlus by tomorrow (Tues 9/11) night's sim https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 15: July 8-14 (only ASG and break) on Tuesday 9/11
Sorry guys, no sim tonight. I'm going to delay tonight's sim so we can get more GMs to vote for the ASG.
Missing ASG ballots from: TX @mukerka, WV @claphamsa, MD @steve e, WA @MikeWA, IN @jkguy16-indiana, KY @Zach - KY, NY @Kevin40, GA @tjsmith7georgia, ON @x24rocks
If you need it: https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
Reminder to get your ASG ballots in by tonight's sim!
Missing ASG ballots from: TX @mukerka, WV @claphamsa, WA @MikeWA, IN @jkguy16-indiana, NY @Kevin40, GA @tjsmith7georgia, ON @x24rocks
Alrighty about to close ASG voting and grab exports for Sim 15. This is just the ASG and break with no Regular Season games played.
No ASG voting from: NY @Kevin40, GA @tjsmith7_georgia, ON @x24rocks
Missed Sim 15 export: GA @tjsmith7georgia (traveling), KY @Zach - KY (2), NC @chappy, ON @x24rocks (6), PA @qdog915pa (2), TX @mukerka (15, instructions sent)
I wasn't able to select a non-AFBL stadium to host the ASG (must be a new OOTP19 feature) so I choose the defending FCS champ, Pennsylvania Railroaders, to host the 2041 ASG. @qdog915_pa
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 16: July 15-20 on Thursday 9/13
Missed Sim 16 export: GA @tjsmith7georgia (2 - traveling), IN @jkguy16-indiana, KY @Zach - KY (3), MD @steve e, ON @x24rocks (7), OR @yuda, PA @qdog915pa (3), TX @mukerka (16), WA @Mike_WA
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 17: July 21-27 on Monday 9/17
Sim 17 missed export: IN @jkguy16-indiana (2), NY @Kevin40, ON @x24rocks (8), TX @mukerka (17), WV @claphamsa
We scored 17 runs in the first game? This will do wonders for our pythag record
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 18: July 28-31 on Tuesday 9/18 | Trade Deadline is by Wed 9/19 sim!
Missed Sim 18 export: GA @tjsmith7georgia, IN @jkguy16-indiana (3), KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e, PA @qdog915pa, TX @mukerka (18 - CPU org each sim now), WA @Mike_WA
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 19: August 1-10 (few extra days) on Wednesday 9/19 | Trade Deadline is by TOMORROW sim!
Trade Deadline is by tomorrow's sim. We'll go a few extra days tomorrow as well so we don't need to do only a 3 day sim tomorrow. We'll go from Thurs Aug 1 to Sat Aug 10.
Just a suggestion for future seasons... you could manually move the trade deadline to the first Sunday in August and avoid partial sims
I'm about to grab exports. Last few minutes before the Trade Deadline closes.
Missed Sim 19 export: IN @jkguy16-indiana (4), NY @Kevin40, ON @x24rocks, OR @yuda, PA @qdog915pa (2), TX @mukerka (19 - CPU'd org), WA @MikeWA (2)
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 20: August 11-17 on Thursday 9/20
Missed Sim 20 export: IN @jkguy16-indiana (5), NY @Kevin40 (2), PA @qdog915pa (3), TX @mukerka (20 - CPU'd org), WA @MikeWA (3), WV @claphamsa
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 21: August 18-24 on Monday 9/24
Missed Sim 21 export: NY @Kevin40 (3), ON @x24rocks (3, TX @mukerka (21 - CPU'd org)
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 22: August 25-31 on Tuesday 9/25
Missed Sim 22 export: IL @cmyru82 (traveling), KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e, NY @Kevin40 (4), ON @x24rocks (4), PA @qdog915pa, TX @mukerka (22 - CPU org), WA @MikeWA
Grabbing exports for Sim 23. Also just noticed I never updated StatsPlus and StatsLab last night. Oops haha.
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 23: September 1-7 on Wednesday 9/26 | AFBL rosters expanded to 40, Ammy Draft Pool revealed
Missed Sim 23 export: GA @tjsmith7georgia, IL @cmyru82 (2, traveling), IN @jkguy16-indiana, KY @Zach - KY (2), NY @Kevin40 (5), ON @x24rocks (5), PA @qdog915pa (2), TX @mukerka (23 - CPU org), WA @Mike_WA (2), WV @claphamsa
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 24: September 8-14 on Thursday 9/27 | AFBL rosters expanded to 40, Ammy Draft Pool revealed
Missed Sim 24 export: IL @cmyru82 (3, traveling), NY @Kevin40 (6), ON @x24rocks (6), PA @qdog915pa (3), TX @mukerka (24 - commish control), WA @MikeWA (3), WV @claphamsa
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 25: September 15-21 on Monday 10/1 | AFBL rosters expanded to 40, Ammy Draft Pool revealed
let’s move the sim up a few hours. I’ve been waiting for this all weekend. 😜
Missed Sim 25 export: MD @steve e, NY @Kevin40 (7), ON @x24rocks (7), TX @mukerka (25 - commish control), WA @Mike_WA (4)
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
well crap.. guess I didn't start StatsPlus before the sim. Sorry guys 😞
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 26: September 22-28 on Tuesday 10/2 | AFBL rosters expanded to 40, Ammy Draft Pool revealed
Missed Sim 26 export: IN @jkguy16-indiana, KY @Zach - KY, NM @jeffnewmexico, NY @Kevin40 (8), ON @x24rocks (8), PA @qdog915pa, TX @mukerka (26 - commish control), WA @MikeWA (5)
also idk what happened but the win probability charts are finally for this season
sort of. if someone asks about any openings, i'll gladly swap him out. been willing to work with him to get setup in 19.
... ok, I spoke too soon. it was right for the box score on the 21st (which was from last sim but statsplus saw it) but back to the out of date win probability graphs. makes me think it's a statsplus bug
I think I found the issue (new OOTP19 setting). I manually uploaded the WPA charts and hopefully the change fixes it from here on out.
🙂 me too. Hopefully WA can play spoilers and ID can help me out haha.
set the channel topic: 2041 Regular Season Sim 27: September 29 - October 2 on Wednesday 10/3 | FINAL SIM OF REGULAR SEASON!
Season Awards voting has been enabled in StatsPlus https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
Missed Sim 27 export: GA @tjsmith7georgia, IL @cmyru82, MD @steve e, NY @Kevin40 (9), OH @ohio, ON @x24rocks (9), WA @MikeWA (6), WV @claphamsa
Vacant Team(s): TX (missed every 2041 export)
The final Regular Season sim (Sim 27) has been completed. File upload started.
set the channel topic: 2041 Playoffs Sim 1: Wildcard Series Games 1-3 when all ready | Offseason Tasks need to get done!
Season Awards are open and due by the end of the playoffs. Please get this done. It's quick and easy to do especially now with StatsPlus. https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
KY sent instructions. Grabbing exports for 2041 Playoffs Sim 1 (Wildcard G1-3).
Game 1 RTS about to start! https://statsplus.net/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
set the channel topic: 2041 Playoffs Sim 2: Wildcard Series Games 4-6 when all ready | Offseason Tasks need to get done!
Wildcard Series Game 4 about to start https://statsplus.net/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
Games 4 and 5 are completed. There was a no-hitter in one of the G5s. Game 6s coming up now!
Playoff Sim 2 (Wildcard Series Games 4-6) is completed. File upload started.
File should be up in 5-10 minutes. I'll have the rest updated in a bit.
set the channel topic: 2041 Playoffs Sim 3: Wildcard Series Game 7 when all ready | Offseason Tasks need to get done!
I'm ready whenever @Zach - KY is. Naturally we've each won 3 in a row.
I'm ready to go. Will you start Peterson and check the "Allow SP in relief option"
RTS starting nowhttps://statsplus.net/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
set the channel topic: 2041 Playoffs Sim 5: League Championship Series Games 4-6 when all ready | Offseason Tasks need to get done!
Looks like we're all ready to continue. I'll sim this morning (within next hour or so).
it'll have to be able this meeting now. cmon people.. i got more important things to do 😎
@chappy @lt - Idaho @mikenewjersey fyi in case you want to follow along tonight
set the channel topic: 2041 Playoffs Sim 6: Federation Cup Series Games 1-3 when all ready | Offseason Tasks need to get done!
FCS is a best-of-9 series, 2-2-2-2-1 format, sim schedule of 3-3-3 but flexible if necessary
Need Season Award Voting from: CA @JasonMallards, MD @steve e, WA @MikeWA, IN @jkguy16-indiana, KY @Zach - KY, NY @Kevin40, ON @x24rocks, OH @ohio
https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
NJ has exported... ideally sim while both @lt - Idaho and I are online... possible?
works for me. likely out of time tonight but definitely if both are ready, i can sim in the morning.
I will be at work by 7 central but with football and baseball in the evening i don’t know how much i can be around
Just ping me here or by DM when you are ready @lt - Idaho and we can plan accordingly to try to sim when you both are around 😄
ugh my mouse lagged and I accidentally ran it normally instead of RTS for Game 1 😞
Idaho is ready for games 4-6. Minor tweak to the lineup, not convinced it will help, but let's see.
set the channel topic: 2041 Playoffs Sim 7: Federation Cup Series Games 4-6 when all ready | Offseason Tasks need to get done!
everytime I get ready to get the draft adjusted, sometime comes up. done with this week already haha.
ya I can start Game 4 in a moment before I sneak out of work early 😉
well if you can get this sim done by 415 i will be able to export (should I get one more win). else I am off to watch my kid sit out football
plus now I'm the only one in IT in my office (used to be 3 before the acquisition). always busy now sigh.
We gots ourselves a series! Sim 7 is completed. File upload started.
File should be up in 5-10 minutes. I'll get the rest updated when I get home. We can wrap up the FCS whenever both are ready. What a series so far and good luck in the final 3 games!
I am going to be offline until 9 central so barring injury i am ok to carry this out
I'm ok to go 8 games.. but if we go 9 I wuld like to tweak my starting pitcher I think
Ok. So if it goes to
A game 9 we will wait until i can make whatever changes are needed after 9 central?
how long until next sim? I've got a busy day but can be flexible with some things
Sim 8 about to start with Games 7 and 8. RTS link: https://statsplus.net/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
Game 7 is done and it was another great match in the series. Game 8 is about to start.
I am updating another league - let me see if i won it. Then i will get this one exported
set the channel topic: 2041 Playoffs Sim 9: Federation Cup Series Game 9 when all ready | Offseason Tasks need to get done!
Let's see who will win the 2041 Federation Cup! Grabbing exports @lt - Idaho @mikenewjersey
Game 9 about to start! RTS https://statsplus.net/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
set the channel topic: 2041 Offseason: Season Awards, Amateur Draft, HOF Voting, Postseason MVP, and Team MVPs ongoing/due
Need Season Award Voting from: CA @JasonMallards, WA @MikeWA, KY @Zach - KY, NY @Kevin40, ON @x24rocks, OH @ohio
https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
It was a busy weekend so checking where things are out now. Need to get HOF Voting and Playoff MVP up still!
Need Season Awards voting from: CA @JasonMallards, WA @MikeWA, KY @Zach - KY, NY @Kevin40, ON @x24rocks
Well passed out on the couch so definitely a new file today then I'll regroup so we can get the plan to get to 2042 going. Sorry guys!
Okay finally have a chance to import the draft results. Grabbing exports.
Closing 2041 Season Awards voting. No ballots from: WA @Mike_WA, NY @Kevin40, TX (vacant)
Frontier League
Most Valuable Hitter: CA Raul Silva (ID)
Most Valuable Pitcher: SP Leonardo Mendoza (OR)
Reliever Of The Year: CL Dan Harris (OR)
Rookie Of The Year: SP Cris Colon (KY)
Best Defender Award...
Pitcher: Kyoichi Kichikawa (KY)
Catcher: Jose Mer (NM)
First Baseman: Dominic Bennett (NM)
Second Baseman: Anibal Beltran (CO)
Third Baseman: Frank Baker (OR)
Shortstop: Joe Woods (TX)
Left Fielder: Migel Entrevinhas (TX)
Center Fielder: Juan Cardenas (CO)
Right Fielder: Raul Diaz (IN)
Platinum Stick Award...
Catcher: Raul Silva (ID)
First Baseman: Mario Cruz (CO)
Second Baseman: Anibal Beltran (CO)
Third Baseman: Frank Baker (OR)
Shortstop: Jimmy Williams (IN)
Left Fielder: Tony Macias (KY)
Center Fielder: Zoraide Pequeno (KY)
Right Fielder: Ron Dixon (KY)
Designated Hitter: Ogai Tsuji (IN)
Patriot League
Most Valuable Hitter: 1B Pat Hatfield (NJ)
Most Valuable Pitcher: SP Bob Grant (NY)
Reliever Of The Year: CL Raul Davila (GA)
Rookie Of The Year: RF Wang-gi Yi (WV)
Best Defender Award...
Pitcher: Trey Drackley (NC)
Catcher: Curt Ward (OH)
First Baseman: Bernie Armstrong (MD)
Second Baseman: Seung Ha (PA)
Third Baseman: Ian Woods (NY)
Shortstop: Anibal Rodriguez (VA/ID)
Left Fielder: Alan Graves (WV)
Center Fielder: Ben Gill (NY)
Right Fielder: Luis Gonzalez (PA)
Platinum Stick Award...
Catcher: Bob Holmes (NJ)
First Baseman: Pat Hatfield (NJ)
Second Baseman: Mike Haynes (GA)
Third Baseman: Ty Hinkle (ON)
Shortstop: Bob Starrett (ON)
Left Fielder: Billy Kaufman (MD/CO)
Center Fielder: Doug Thornton (WV)
Right Fielder: Juan Cabral (OH)
Designated Hitter: Jesus Flores (PA)
General Manager Of The Year: Zach Larson (KY), 100-62 record, FL East title
File should be available in the next few minutes. I'll get everything else updated tonight hopefully.
We'll need to get HOF Voting done this week so we can get going with 2042. I'll have this ready soon.
Sorry about the delay guys. It has been a crazy busy week or so for me!
Okay going to grab any new exports from last night until now then will actually process the NC-VA followed by releasing a new Dec 1 2041 file
but this time you forgot to process WV sending all their good players to Oregon for free
hrm, maybe I'm crazy but I'm seeing the prospects I dealt for still with NC and then also the P I traded away, with NC.
I know with my deals this season it may SEEM like I'm running a charity, but I swear I'm not 🙂
in the file or the HTML reports? It wouldn’t surprise me if the HTML reports are wonky because the date didn’t change
What's really odd is Kubo's and Bautista's player history says that they were traded to Virginia...
Yeah, in the file, and yeah it says they were traded but didn't go anywhere lol
what needs to be finished before the flip? just want to make sure I don’t hold us up
I need to get HOF Voting done. I just need to block off like an hour for a "work meeting" later day 😏
oh I just selfishly want the flip so I can see how my new draft picks rank in the meaningless prospect rankings. 😜
I'm going to grab exports, advance a few days, fix the NC-VA trade, then upload a new file. I'll also get HOF Voting enabled in Statslab so we can knock that out this week to let us get going with 2042 (thinking Tues 10/30 for ST Sim 1 and Thurs 11/1 for ST Sim1 then Mon 11/5 for Opening Day).
Not sure what happened with the NC-VA trade but I have the 3 players on the correct teams now. Marquez was on NC but Kubo and Bautista were both still in the NC minors but they are now in the VA minors in the same level. @chappy @jeheinz72
So there was a glitchy trade in the npbl once where at the end of each sim a player kept going back to his old team. Hopefully this is not the same glitch.
set the channel topic: 2041 Offseason: HOF Voting, Postseason MVP, and Team MVPs ongoing/due
HOF Voting is now enabled. This year's ballot is below. Voting link: https://www.matthewrstreeter.com/ootp/afbl/statslab/hall_of_fame_vote.php
Need HOF Voting from: WV @claphamsa, CA @JasonMallards, WA @MikeWA, KY @Zach - KY, NY @Kevin40, ON @x24rocks, OR @yuda
https://www.matthewrstreeter.com/ootp/afbl/statslab/hall_of_fame_vote.php
come on guys, Bob Jones is so super close to getting in... @AFBL Commish with only 19 GMs now will it be 14 votes (i.e. 74% to get in) or still 15 votes (79%) ??
yes, doing all I can for Jones to get in 100 wins and 692 saves and his low ERA should be a given
Still need HOF Voting from: WV @claphamsa, WA @Mike_WA, KY @Zach - KY, NY @Kevin40, ON @x24rocks
I too want to get started with 2042 so let's get this done by Friday that way we can start next week.
Are those votes what we are waiting for? Kinda sucks tbh that the more active owners are held up forever by those that can’t be bothered. I mean I’m all for meaningful vote sizes, but they’ve been tagged like 10 times for it
Still bummed Willie Watson didn't make the HOF when HE was the all-time Saves leader well before Jones took over. No reason Jones should miss, too.
Totally agreed @jeheinz72. I'll close things up for HOF Voting tomorrow (and put up the Postseason MVP poll @lt - Idaho :D). Sorry guys what a crazy week or two.
I plan to do Spring Training Tues and Thurs next week. I'll post info here, on the Forum, and email tomorrow.
Cool deal, and if we were waiting bc you had busy life stuff then that’s totally different and no problemo
This morning I'll be grabbing exports, finalizing the HOF Vote, finally putting up the Postseason MVP, then rolling over to 2042. We'll push back my original ST plan a day and go Wednesday and Friday for the 2 Spring Training sims. Sorry again about the delays guys!
Every day is a new clusterf**ck lol. Starting the above items to get us going again.
No HOF Voting from: WV @claphamsa, NY @Kevin40, WA @Mike_WA, TX (vacant)
Congrats to our 2041 HOF class: Tony Hernandez, Chris MacIntosh, and Bob Jones!
Starting the game rollover to 2042 now which will take a bit. I'll get the Postseason MVP poll up tonight. I'll let everyone know more details here and via email tonight as well.
I had started this morning and several times throughout the day 🙄. Will actually get it wrapped up and the new file up tonight.
Okay got the file to ST 2042. Updating my OOTP19 to the newest patch (if you haven't already, you have to update) then I'll upload the new file.
set the channel topic: 2042 Spring Training: Spring Training Sim 1 (first 14 games) on THURSDAY 11/8 at ~8pm CT
We will do the 1st Half of Spring Training on THURSDAY 11/8 at around 8pm CT.
For the 2nd Half of Spring Training, we can either do the following day on FRIDAY 11/9 or on MONDAY 11/12. I'm fine with either but I know it's been a longer than normal offseason and I'm eager to get going myself as I know all of you are too.
2041 Postseason MVP Poll is up finally https://afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php?topic=2462.0
as someone who’ll be out of town from thursday morning until monday sometime... actually i don’t care about spring training. just so long as the regular season doesn’t start before i’m back
Missed ST Sim 1 export: KY @Zach - KY (OOTP issues), MD @steve e, NY @Kevin40, PA @qdog915pa, WA @MikeWA
Vacant Team(s): TX
We'll skip tomorrow/Friday and finish up Spring Training 2042 with ST Sim 2 on MONDAY 11/12 at around 8pm CT.
Opening Day will be WEDNESDAY 11/14 so everyone can be sure to get an export in for that.
Upcoming sim schedule breakdown (all sims will start at around 8pm Central Time):
THURS 11/8 - 2042 Spring Training Sim 1
FRI 11/9 - no sim
MON 11/12 - 2042 Spring Training Sim 2
TUES 11/13 - no sim
WED 11/14 - 2042 Regular Season Sim 1
THURS 11/15 - 2042 Regular Season Sim 2
which gets us back to our Mon, Tues, Wed, & Thurs night at ~8pm CT sim schedule.
Good luck this year and sorry again about the longer than normal offseason!
Oops sorry forgot to deal with FA claims. I'll handle those for the next sim.
set the channel topic: 2042 Spring Training: Spring Training Sim 2 (final 14 games) on MONDAY 11/12 at ~8pm CT
Well pasted out on the couch lol. I'll run the sim in the morning guys.
Missed ST Sim 2 export: GA @tjsmith7georgia, OH @ohio, OR @yuda, WA @MikeWA (need to hear back for 2042)
Vacant Team(s): TX
ST Sim 2 is completed. File upload started. Should be ready in 10 min or so.
set the channel topic: 2042 Regular Season Sim 1: April 7-12 on THURSDAY 11/15 at ~8pm CT
We'll push back 2042 Opening Day to THURSDAY 11/15 to give everyone a chance to export in time.
I don't think Dave has opened it up yet but he has mentioned he probably would at some point to get some help
finishing up my export now. not sure when you plan to start but hopefully I can get this done first
Missed Sim 1 export: MD @steve e, ON @x24rocks, WA @Mike_WA
Vacant Team(s): TX
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2042 Regular Season Sim 2: April 13-19 on Monday 11/19 at ~8pm CT
I know we pick up again tonight - what’s the schedule for the rest of the week?
Missed Sim 2 export: KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e (2), ON @x24rocks (2), PA @qdog915_pa
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
Sim 2 is completed. File upload started. I'll update Reports, StatsPlus, and StatsLab in the morning.
Passed out on the couch haha. I'll run a sim this morning and we'll be off the rest of the week
from alcohol or kids running wild I hope? please tell me it's not work related
I need box scores to look at while standing in these 150 minute Disney lines.
Missed Sim 3 export: KY @Zach - KY (2), NC @chappy (traveling), ON @x24rocks (3)
Vacant Teams(s): TX, WA
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2042 Regular Season Sim 4: April 27 - May 3 on Monday 11/26 at ~8pm CT
We will be off until Monday 11/26 evening. Have a great holiday/long weekend guys! 🦃 🏈 🍻
Missed Sim 4 export: GA @tjsmith7_georgia, MD @steve e, ON @x24rocks (4)
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
Our 2041 Postseason MVP was named Idaho RF Greg Moore who went: .377/.380/.623, 26/69, 5 2B, 4 HR, 12 RBI, 13 R this past playoffs. Congrats!
set the channel topic: 2042 Regular Season Sim 5: May 4-10 on Tuesday 11/27 at ~8pm CT
Missed Sim 5 export: KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e (2), NY @Kevin40, ON @x24rocks (5), PA @qdog915_pa (2)
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
is this the sim where the Explorers prove that 2041 was the anomaly (and not 2040)?
Colorado OF Bryan Soliben and Indiana OF Devlyn Blais both got their 2000th career hits this sim
set the channel topic: 2042 Regular Season Sim 6: May 11-17 on Wednesday 11/28 at ~8pm CT
Missed Sim 6 export: IN @jkguy16-indiana, KY @Zach - KY (2), NJ @mikenewjersey, ON @x24rocks (6), OR @yuda, PA @qdog915_pa (3), WV @claphamsa
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2042 Regular Season Sim 7: May 18-24 on Thursday 11/29 at ~8pm CT
Sorry guys. I'll run last night's sim this morning once I get settled in.
Missed Sim 7 export: IN @jkguy16-indiana (2), KY @Zach - KY (3), NY @Kevin40, OR @yuda
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
set the channel topic: 2042 Regular Season Sim 8: May 25-31 on Monday 12/3 at ~8pm CT
I appear to be getting old game logs (from 2040). Is that a caching issue on my end or is somebody else seeing it?
correction - I get the correct game log if I go straight from the scores page. Get the out of date game log if I try to click to it from the box score
Missed Sim 8 export: KY @Zach - KY (4), ON @x24rocks, OR @yuda (2)
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
HTML Reports updated last night. I'll have StatsPlus and StatsLab updated in the next 30 minutes or so.
set the channel topic: 2042 Regular Season Sim 9: June 1-7 on Tuesday 12/4 at ~8pm CT
Missed Sim 9 export: NY @Kevin40, NC @chappy, ON @x24rocks (2), OR @yuda (3), PA @qdog915_pa
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
Missed Sim 10 export: IN @jkguy16-indiana, KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e, NJ @mikenewjersey, ON @x24rocks (3), OR @yuda (4), PA @qdog915_pa (2)
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
New file is up. I'll have the rest of the stuff updated in the morning.
Oops didn't update StatsPlus and StatsLab from last night but will be running the sim soon
Missed Sim 11 export: IN @jkguy16-indiana (2), NY @Kevin40, ON @x24rocks (4), OR @yuda (5), PA @qdog915_pa (3), WV @claphamsa
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
set the channel topic: 2042 Regular Season Sim 12: June 22-28 on Monday 12/10 at ~8pm CT
I have just enabled ASG Voting in StatsPlus https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
Missed Sim 12 export: MD @steve e, NY @Kevin40 (2), ON @x24rocks (5), PA @qdog915_pa (4)
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
set the channel topic: 2042 Regular Season Sim 13: June 29 - July 5 on Tuesday 12/11 at ~8pm CT
Reminder to get your ASG Voting in StatsPlus completed by the ASG sim on THURSDAY 12/13 https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
Missed Sim 13 export: IN @jkguy16-indiana, KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e (2), NY @Kevin40 (3), ON @x24rocks (6), PA @qdog915_pa (5), WV @claphamsa
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
set the channel topic: 2042 Regular Season Sim 14: July 6-13 on Wednesday 12/12 at ~8pm CT
Missed Sim 14 export: GA @tjsmith7_georgia, IN @jkguy16-indiana (2), KY @Zach - KY (2), MD @steve e (3), ON @x24rocks (7), OR @yuda
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
Games on July 13th have been played but the game started been advanced to avoid the CPU from selecting the ASG rosters.
set the channel topic: 2042 Regular Season Sim 15: July 14-20 on Thursday 12/13 at ~8pm CT | All-Star Game and Break only
All-Star Game voting is due by tomorrow's sim! https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
Still need ASG voting from: WV @claphamsa, MD @steve e, IN @jkguy16-indiana, NY @Kevin40, GA @tjsmith7_georgia, ON @x24rocks
speaking of football, wtf is going on in Philly? Medical staff missing a back fracture? This is nuts.
Missed Sim 15 export: MD @steve e (4), NY @Kevin40, ON @x24rocks (8), PA @qdog915_pa
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
Missed ASG Voting: WV @claphamsa, NY @Kevin40, GA @tjsmith7_georgia, ON @x24rocks
2042 All-Star Game Selections
Frontier League
Starters
CA: Tony Bonilla (CA)
1B: Mario Cruz (CO)
2B: Nelson Romero (IN)
3B: Roger Peck (KY)
SS: Jimmy Williams (IN)
LF: Dylan O'Day (CA)
CF: Cristobal Cruz (WA)
RF: Greg Moore (ID)
DH: Dan Jackson (OR) [unanimous 13/13]
SP: Leonardo Mendoza (OR)
Reserves
CA: Raul Silva (ID)
1B: Dave Humby (CA) [commish selection, injured]
1B: Kevin Davis (IN) [commish selection, injury replacement for Humby]
2B: Anibal Beltran (CO)
3B: Diederick Kooijman (CO) [commish selection]
SS: Rodney Noseworthy (CO) [commish selection]
LF: Ken McCarthy (ID)
CF: Billy Kaufman (CO)
RF: Shawn Munoz (CA)
SP: Nate Simpson (OR)
SP: Alex Pacheco (TX)
SP: Jon Francis (IL)
SP: Jorge Ramirez (CO)
SP: Alfredo Cabrera (OR)
RP: Konosuke Kodo (ID)
RP: Chris Tremblett (TX)
RP: Florent Tessier (IN)
RP: Jude O'Neill (TX)
RP: Miguel Angel Nunez (OR)
RP: Jesus Garbizo (IL)
Patriot League
Starters
CA: Antonio Diaz (ON)
1B: Ruben Gonzalez (NY)
2B: Mike Haynes (GA)
3B: Eddie Taylor (MD)
SS: Bob Starrett (ON)
LF: Mike Carlton (VA/NM) [will be added to the FL roster]
CF: Doug Thornton (WV)
RF: Cedric Boyd (MD) [unanimous 13/13]
DH: Jesus Flores (PA) [unanimous 13/13]
SP: Bob Grant (NY)
Reserves
CA: Flash Rodriguez (NC) [commish selection]
1B: Pat Hatfield (NJ)
2B: Devin Fletcher (NJ) [commish selection]
3B: Jorge Beltre (WV)
SS: Jose Vazquez (WV) [commish selection]
LF: Kieran Jones (GA)
CF: Jim Murdock (NJ)
OF: Jim Hargrove (MD) [commish selection]
DH: Joe Cooper (MD) [commish selection, extra pick to make up for Carlton]
SP: Dani Romero (OH)
SP: Jesus Cruz (NJ)
SP: Jesus Ortega (NC)
SP: Jose Esquivel (ON)
SP: Tynan Adams (NJ)
RP: Edwin Mercer (ON)
RP: Chi-ming Liu (WV)
RP: Kawanari Suzuki (NY)
RP: Jose Salazar (PA)
RP: Octavio Marin (ON)
RP: Lou Moore (NC)
Going to let the All-Star Game run as a RTS. https://statsplus.net/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
Oregon pitchers charged with 10 runs in this one (Mendoza got out unscathed, and 2 of those 10 were allowed to Florent Tessier after inheriting them on first and second with 2 outs, but still)
1 perfect inning for Moore and a 2-for-2 day at the plate for Flash... the only two All-Stars from NC to appear in the game (Ortega DNP)
The PL batting average (not for the ASG, but for the season) is as low as it's ever been... It's currently .253 for the season, which would tie 2018 and 2022 for worst ever.
I mean, I don't know if that means anything to anyone, I just found it interesting
It weird. I swear in all of my online leagues, offense is trending downward
Missed Sim 16 export: IN @jkguy16-indiana, KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e (5), NY @Kevin40 (2), ON @x24rocks (9), OR @yuda
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
set the channel topic: 2042 Regular Season Sim 17: July 27-31 on Tuesday 12/18 at ~8pm CT | Trade Deadline is by Wednesday 12/19 sim
Missed Sim 17 export: GA @tjsmith7georgia, IN @jkguy16-indiana (2), KY @Zach - KY (2), MD @steve e (6), OH @ohio, ON @x24rocks (10), PA @qdog915pa, WV @claphamsa
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
I'll need to hold off on processing the VA-NY trade until @Kevin40 confirms. Please get it done by tomorrow's sim! @jeheinz72
set the channel topic: 2042 Regular Season Sim 18: August 1-9 on Thursday 12/20 at ~8pm CT | Trade Deadline is by next sim!
Trade Deadline is by tomorrow's sim which will be a late night sim or might spill to Friday morning. I'll keep everyone posted about the exact time but definitely get your trades in and confirmed by the normal 8pm central time just in case.
After tomorrow's sim, we'll break for the weekend plus the Christmas holiday then we'll resume on Wednesday 12/26.
Upcoming sim schedule for the holidays...
Thurs 12/20 late PM (or Fri 12/21 early AM:) Sim 18, Aug 1-9 Trade Deadline
Mon 12/24: NO SIM
Tues 12/25: NO SIM
Wed 12/26: Sim 19, Aug 10-16
Thurs 12/27: Sim 20, Aug 17-23
Mon 12/31: NO SIM
Tues 1/1: Sim 21, Aug 24-30
back to normal Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs at 8pm CT sim schedule
@Kevin40 sent me a PM that he accepts the posted VA-NY trade but is having internet problems. I'll process that shortly.
Missed Sim 18 export: GA @tjsmith7_georgia (2), KY @Zach - KY (3), MD @steve e (7), NY @Kevin40
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
set the channel topic: 2042 Regular Season Sim 19: August 10-16 on Wednesday 12/26 at ~8pm CT
Reminder we are off until Wed 12/26. Have a great weekend and holiday guys!
Missed Sim 19 export: CA @JasonMallards, GA @tjsmith7georgia (3), IN @jkguy16-indiana, NY @Kevin40 (2), ON @x24rocks, OR @yuda
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2042 Regular Season Sim 20: August 17-23 on Thursday 12/27 at ~8pm CT
Missed Sim 20 export: CA @Jason_Mallards (2), IN @jkguy16-indiana (2), KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e, ON @x24rocks (2), OR @yuda (2), WV @claphamsa
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
set the channel topic: 2042 Regular Season Sim 21: August 24-30 on Tuesday 1/1 at ~8pm CT | No sim on Monday 12/31
Have a great Friday and long holiday weekend as you bring in the new year guys! No sim on Monday.
Have a fun and safe NYE tonight guys. A reminder that we won't sim tonight and we'll resume with a sim tomorrow on New Years day 1/1 around 8-9pm central time.
Missed Sim 21 export: GA @tjsmith7georgia, IL @cmyru82, MD @steve e (2), NM @jeffnewmexico, NY @Kevin40, ON @x24rocks (3), OR @yuda (3), PA @qdog915pa
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
HTML Reports are up. Working on StatsPlus and StatsLab now from last night.
set the channel topic: 2042 Regular Season Sim 22: September 1-6 on Wednesday 1/2 at ~8pm CT | AFBL rosters expanded to 40
StatsPlus is updating now from last night. Grabbing exports for tonight's sim.
Missed Sim 22 export: GA @tjsmith7_georgia (2), IN @jkguy16-indiana, ON @x24rocks (4), OR @yuda (4), WV @claphamsa
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
set the channel topic: 2042 Regular Season Sim 23: September 7-13 on Thursday 1/3 at ~8pm CT | AFBL rosters expanded to 40
We will sim soon. Unfortunately we now have a vacancy with Indiana as Jason needs to step away. Might have a new GM for Trxas lined up though.
Missed Sim 23 export: IL @cmyru82, KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e, NY @Kevin40, ON @x24rocks (5), PA @qdog915_pa, WV @claphamsa (2)
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA, IN
Sim 23 completed. New Texas GM added in the game. File upload started.
Welcome to @TX_GM (Mark) to the league taking over the Texas Isotopes.
set the channel topic: 2042 Regular Season Sim 24: September 14-20 on Monday 1/7 at ~8pm CT | AFBL rosters expanded to 40
Missed Sim 24 export: NY @Kevin40 (2), ON @x24rocks (6), TX @TX_GM (Mark) (Commish fault 😬)
Vacant Team(s): WA, IN
Only 3 sims (2 full weeks then the final 3-4 games in the final sim) left on the 2042 season
The 4 playoff teams as of now in the FL all have better records than the PL teams
set the channel topic: 2042 Regular Season Sim 25: September 21-27 on Tuesday 1/8 at ~8pm CT | AFBL rosters expanded to 40
Missed Sim 25 export: IL @cmyru82, MD @steve e, NY @Kevin40 (3), ON @x24rocks (7), OR @yuda, PA @qdog915pa, TX @TXGM (Mark) (still working with me to get setup in game)
Vacant Team(s): WA, IN
‘Course, it’s September, so not a huge deal to not get my guy on the DL yet
@yuda pinged you. Need me to make a move for you? Only on Tuesday Sept 23
Missed Sim 26 export: GA @tjsmith7georgia, KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e (2), NY @Kevin40 (4), ON @x24rocks (8), TX @TXGM (Mark) (still working with me to get setup in game)
Vacant Team(s): WA, IN
set the channel topic: 2042 Regular Season Sim 27: October 5-8 on Thursday 1/10 at ~8pm CT | FINAL SIM!
Missed Sim 27 export: MD @steve e (3), NJ @mikenewjersey, NM @jeffnewmexico, NY @Kevin40 (5), ON @x24rocks (8), OR @yuda, PA @qdog915pa, TX @TXGM (Mark) (still working with me to get setup in game)
Vacant Team(s): WA, IN
I think the game has the PL seeding correct. I'll check on it later.
HTML Reports will be updated shortly. StatsPlus and StatsLab will be updated in the morning. Congrats to our playoff field!
We can start whenever everyone is ready today or this weekend. Worst case on Monday.
monday would be best for me, although might get an export in on saturday, assuming NJ made it 😄
I'm good with waiting. I'll get an export in sometime today but then with kids and guests this weekend the odds of me being able to pay attention again before Monday is slim
I'm fine with Monday myself but if we get everyone in before then, I'll run Playoff Sim 1. I'll be occupied tomorrow with the Chiefs 😎🍻
I'm getting StatsPlus and StatsLab updated now. Then will start prepping the Ammy Draft.
set the channel topic: 2042 Playoffs Sim 1: Wildcard Series Games 1-3 whenever all are ready
NY roster adjusted. 2B Pacho De Jesus placed on DL, SP Loenardo Caraballo activated from DL, SP Octavio Ocasio to AAA.
Okay here we go. Game 1s coming up. Good luck! RTS: https://statsplus.net/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
left the game 1 starter in to blow a 3-1 lead allowing a 6-run rally in the 7th.
Roger Peck with a big 3R go-ahead dinger in the btm 8th. First game back from an injury.
HTML Reports updated last night. I'll get StatsPlus and StatsLab updated this morning. And hopefully the Ammy Draft ready.
StatsPlus is updated from Playoffs Sim 1. StatsLab will be updated in a moment.
Game 4s about to start. RTS: https://statsplus.net/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
just about there for NJ.... we lost 3 straight to NY to end the regular season... but playoff s have see us through
have bob grant go 0-2 was crucial... ramos really did the business in opposition on the mound in both games
Norman Cornell was one out away from a CG shutout, but instead gives up 3 ER in 8.2 innings. Still alive!
WV has exported and NC sent me instructions. Game 7 coming up! @claphamsa @chappy
NC-WV Game 7 just started. https://statsplus.net/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
Playoff Sim 3 (Wildcard Series Game 7) completed. File upload started.
Looks like we're ready to start the LCS. I'll get that ran this morning.
Also will enable Season Award voting (oops lol) and get the Ammy Draft ready.
Season Award Voting enabled in StatsPlus https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
Also exciting news... we'll be able to do voting for HOF in StatsPlus this year. That will be enabled soon.
About to grab exports to start the LCS. Good luck @chappy @mikenewjersey @lt - Idaho
LCS Game 1s starting now. RTS: https://statsplus.net/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
You never know chappy - i was down 3-0 a couple years ago and somehow came back
how soon do you anticipate simming? I was going to do some housecleaning but don't want to go through the effort if it's going to be soon and I might miss it (and also don't want to hold up the playoffs)
Depends on @mikenewjersey and then how much later in the day it is for me 🙂. My guess it'll end up being in the later PM normal sim time central
oh, I can take care of it now then. I'm talking like 15 minutes of moving guys around, not a ton
Sweet I'll export after we get the kids to bed. Hopefully in about an hour or so 🤣
Grabbing exports for Sim 5 (LCS Games 4-6) @chappy @mikenewjersey @lt - Idaho
Congrats mike! Tried to make it interesting in the bottom of the 9th but ran out of gas. This team made it further than I thought after the Ortega injury so I'm pleased.
Skipping StatsPlus and StatsLab for Sim 5. Grabbing exports for Sim 6 (Federation Cup Series Games 1-3).
FCS Game 1 coming up. Good luck to Idaho and New Jersey! RTS https://statsplus.net/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
Grabbing exports for Sim 7 (FCS 4-6). Reminder that the FCS is a best-of-9.
Game 4 about to start https://statsplus.net/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/index.html
set the channel topic: 2042 Offseason: Season Awards, Ammy Draft, HOF Voting, Team MVP, Postseason MVP
HOF Voting is now live in StatsPlus. You can find it in Current > Award Voting > Ballot List.
Here is a HOF Voting Walkthrough done by the S+ developer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGUwCDNd-hQ
We've all (for the most part) have fallen behind with our Team MVPs on the Forum. If you have a chance, let's try to get caught up with those. I hope to get my Colorado ones done by this weekend.
I'll work on Postseason MVP poll on the Forum today as well.
I forgot to add the 15 year cutoff of 2027 to our 1st S+ ballot. Added that about 10 minutes ago so if you're one of the 2 that already voted and need me to refresh your ballot, let me know!
Already pinged @lt - Idaho but just a heads up @Jason_Mallards (not sure when you submitted your ballot this morning).
Probably started working on it before then so I will double check
Looks like my vote is locked, but only had 1 player not on ballot any longer. I’m OK with what I have unless Emery misses by a vote. He was my replacement.
Been a long week for me so haven't been able to keep tabs as often as I wanted to.
Please get your Season Awards and HOF voting done in StatsPlus, stay on top of the draft if you're not on auto, and name your Team MVPs on the forum.
I hope to get the Postseason MVP poll up today or tomorrow.
We still have some vacancies so if you have anyone that'd be interested, me send them my way!
I plan to decide some time today to AFBL so we can get things rolling toward 2043
Should be slow enough at work today with it being -5 currently and schools are closed. Sorry guys party_parrot
Okay time to see where we're all at and get things moving again finally. Sorry guys.
FYI, the new Texas GM flaked out after saying he'd join so we have openings with Texas, Washington, and Indiana. I'll try to be active in filling these anywhere I can post about it.
I'm going to close Season Award voting on Friday 2/1 morning (~9am central).
Still need votes from: WV @claphamsa, MD @steve e, NY @Kevin40, PA @qdog915pa, NJ @mikenew_jersey, ON @x24rocks
https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotcurrent
I'm going to close HOF voting on Monday evening at our normal sim time (~8pm central). Only have 6 ballots cast.
Still need votes from: WV @claphamsa, MD @steve e, VA @jeheinz72, KY @Zach - KY, NY @Kevin40, PA @qdog915pa, GA @tjsmith7georgia, NJ @mikenewjersey, ON @x24rocks, OH @ohio
https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotcurrent
Working on importing Ammy Draft results from StatsPlus into the game now
Sorry. Tried to vote on my phone and it wasn’t working well, then i forgot lol. I’ll try on my cpu in the mornin
Oops didn't realize it involved a 2042 pick 😬. I can either assign PA's 4th round auto pick or you can make it a 2043 pick. @Zach - KY @qdog915_pa
Cool. I'll go ahead with that for now. If that changes, just let me know.
Both FA claims were for players that opted to go back to school after going undrafted. Sorry NJ and NM.
Making the adjustments as posted for North Carolina's stadium improvements https://afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php?topic=2546.0 @chappy
Working on Kentucky's organizational logo refresh https://afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php?topic=2551.0 @Zach - KY
File upload started. FYI, I have the Ammy Draft moved up to Nov 15 from Nov 20 so I could import the results tonight before the Season Awards conclude. I'll move it back after we finish Season Awards.
HTML Reports will be updated in a few minutes. StatsPlus and StatsLab will be updated either late tonight or in the morning.
set the channel topic: 2042 Offseason: Season Awards, HOF Voting, Team MVP, Postseason MVP
Just so it doesn't get buried. Sim schedule and upcoming deadlines...
Thurs 1/31 - no sim
Fri 2/1 - Season Awards voting closes at ~9am CST, results entered, new file
Mon 2/4 - HOF voting closes at ~8pm CST, results entered, game rolled over to 2043 up to Spring Training
Tues 2/5 - no sim, export for Spring Training
Wed 2/6 - 2043 Spring Training Sim 1 at ~8pm CST
Thurs 2/7 - 2043 Spring Training Sim 2 at ~8pm CST
Fri 2/8 - no sim
Mon 2/11 - Opening Day 2043, back to Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs at ~8pm CST sim schedule
any chance we can combine the season awards and HOF deadlines for sometime this season to roll over to 2043 with a little weekend time to get ready?
I haven't had a chance to look at Season Awards status for today so if you haven't voted yet, do it soon!
If needed we can have both Season Awards and HOF Voting conclude on Monday night but I'd like to get us into 2043 by next week
Need Season Awards voting from: WV @claphamsa, NY @Kevin40, PA @qdog915_pa (with 3 vacant teams)
Need HOF voting from: WV @claphamsa, KY @Zach - KY, NY @Kevin40, PA @qdog915_pa, ON @x24rocks, OH @ohio (with 3 vacant teams)
@mstreeter06 I can't read the names in the HOF page. It's all black text on black fill.
I got it, it doesn't work on light background. Might want to tell the owner of StatsPlus that
I'll be getting started with closing Season Awards and HOF voting then the rollover to 2043 in 15-20 minutes
Congrats to our 2042 Season Award winners:
Frontier League
Most Valuable Hitter: 2B Dennis Christopher (OR)
Most Valuable Pitcher: SP Leonardo Mendoza (OR)
Reliever Of The Year: RP Jesus Garbizo (IL)
Rookie Of The Year: 3B Ken Lahoda (ID)
Best Defender Award...
Pitcher: Mario Cardenas (TX)
Catcher: Sander Mertens (OR)
First Baseman: Rijk Eland (NM)
Second Baseman: Anibal Beltran (CO)
Third Baseman: Eric Alexander (IL)
Shortstop: Anibal Rodriguez (ID)
Left Fielder: Migel Entrevinhas (TX)
Center Fielder: Tony Johnston (TX)
Right Fielder: Dan Ross (TX)
Platinum Stick Award...
Catcher: Tony Bonilla (CA)
First Baseman: Mario Cruz (CO)
Second Baseman: Dennis Christopher (OR)
Third Baseman: Frank Baker (OR)
Shortstop: Jimmy Williams (IN)
Left Fielder: Dylan O'Day (CA)
Center Fielder: Billy Kaufman (CO)
Right Fielder: Shawn Munoz (CA)
Designated Hitter: Raul Silva (ID)
Patriot League
Most Valuable Hitter: RF Cedric Boyd (MD)
Most Valuable Pitcher: SP Jesus Cruz (NJ)
Reliever Of The Year: CL Chi-ming Liu (WV)
Rookie Of The Year: CA Antonio Diaz (ON)
Best Defender Award...
Pitcher: Cereneo Agdeppa (VA)
Catcher: Flash Rodriguez (NC)
First Baseman: Ruben Gonzalez (NY)
Second Baseman: Seung Ha (PA)
Third Baseman: Eddie Taylor (MD)
Shortstop: Jose Vazquez (WV)
Left Fielder: Ben Gill (NY)
Center Fielder: Jan Gogler (MD)
Right Fielder: Kai Metson (NJ)
Platinum Stick Award...
Catcher: Bob Holmes (NJ)
First Baseman: Pat Hatfield (NJ)
Second Baseman: Mike Haynes (GA)
Third Baseman: Eddie Taylor (MD)
Shortstop: Bob Starrett (ON)
Left Fielder: Kieran Jones (GA)
Center Fielder: Doug Thornton (WV)
Right Fielder: Cedric Boyd (MD)
Designated Hitter: Takanibu Ishibashi (NJ)
General Manager Of The Year: Lawrence Tabachnick (ID), 108-54, FL West title, FCS runner-up
About to start the rollover to 2043. If it finishes up before I head to bed, I'll get the new file up tonight. Worst case, it'll be in the morning.
My OOTP was back at Dec 29 so I'm running the rollover again. Sorry guys.
Rollover completed. We are at the start of 2043 Spring Training. File upload started.
I'll update StatsLab whenever I finally get the 2042 Postseason MVP poll up.
Also I completely missed the FA claims and NM's AA team updates. I'll get these done before the next sim.
set the channel topic: 2043 Spring Training Sim 1: March 2-16 on Thursday 2/7/19 @ ~8pm CT
We'll have Spring Training Sim 1 on Thursday 2/7 evening and then Spring Training Sim 2 on the next day on Friday 2/8 evening.
Upcoming sim schedule...
Wed 2/6 - no sim, prepare for Spring Training sims
Thurs 2/7 - 2043 ST Sim 1 (first 14 games)
Fri 2/8 - 2043 ST Sim 2 (last 14 games)
Mon 2/11 - 2043 Regular Season Sim 1
**back to our normal Mon-Tues-Wed-Thurs at ~8pm CT sim schedule
I've said this before, and I'll say it again now. I don't know how you have the energy to do anything with young twins at home @mstreeter06
Yeah that’s why I bailed on Commish duties back in the day. I had twins + another 13 months older. 🤣😬😓😢
My wife and I would read Best of Craigslist to one another during overnight feedings and just laugh hysterically to the point of crying from lack of sleep. Good times lol
I only sleep about five hours a night from doing full-time school and full-time night job
It is hell but kids are a totally different story because they are fully dependent on you
until they're old enough to work int he salt mines... about 5 is the right age to mvoe them there 😄
Yeah my 2 yr old wakes at about 5 so I get about five or six hours as well.
Oh I know, I have a 14 yr old step daughter. She's her own set of problems!
Missed ST Sim 1 export: MD @steve e, NY @Kevin40, ON @x24rocks, OR @yuda
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA, IN
i had afbl open and not sure if I made any changes or not... eek
New Mexico's AA affiliate, Reserve Bandits, have relocated to Albuquerque and rebranded as the Scorpion Kings @jeffnewmexico
New file is up. Reports will updated in 10-15 minutes. StatsPlus will be updated in the morning.
We'll finish Spring Training either later tonight or on Saturday AM.
looking over my trade options, I really need to teach some CFs to play the corner!
Missed ST Sim 2 export: GA @tjsmith7georgia. IL @cmyru82, KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e (2), NJ @mikenewjersey, NY @Kevin40 (2), ON @x24rocks (2), OR @yuda (2), PA @qdog915pa
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA, IN
StatsPlus will be updated in 15-30 minutes. I still need to get the 2042 Postseason MVP poll up then I'll updated StatsLab
set the channel topic: 2043 Regular Season Sim 1: April 6-11 on Monday 2/11/19 @ ~8pm CT
@mstreeter06 I've got an export in for the major league roster, but the minors are a jumbled mess (including over roster limits). Might get to that this afternoon, but might not. That ok?
ya i don't really start enforcing the minor league roster limits until it's been several sims honestly
it's easy to overlook. i know i'm guilty of going over by a player or two from time to time briefly.
yuda should have to forfeit any wins against NC if his minor league teams are too large.
I don’t understand what happened (maybe I promoted a bunch of guys on Sept. 1 last year?) but I have like 60 players in AAA
i.e. sunday morning to sunday morning and play games sunday through saturday?
set the channel topic: 2043 Regular Season Sim 2: April 12-18 on Tuesday 2/12/19 @ ~8pm CT
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2043 Regular Season Sim 3: April 19-25 on Wednesday 2/13/19 @ ~8pm CT
Missed Sim 3 export: KY @Zach - KY, NJ @mikenewjersey, NY @Kevin40, OR @yuda
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA, IN
lol.... of course client of mine had just called.. might be 5 minutes 😄
set the channel topic: 2043 Regular Season Sim 4: April 26 - May 2 on Thursday 2/14/19 @ ~8pm CT
I had completely forgotten I was waiting for 1 more team to vote for the 2030s Team of the Decade. I'm going to try to get that team's ballot so I can finalize that. https://afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php?topic=2388.0
gonna be out of town until sometime sunday (although it occurs to me that won't affect any additional sims after tonight)
Sweet sounds good! If you need to send me instructions if you can't export, feel free to.
Missed Sim 4 export: MD @steve e, NY @Kevin40 (2), PA @qdog915_pa, WV @claphamsa
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA, IN
set the channel topic: 2043 Regular Season Sim : May 3-9 on Monday 2/18/19 @ ~8pm CT
Have a great Friday and long weekend for those that get Monday off in the USA 🙂
Missed Sim 5 export: GA @tjsmith7_georgia, MD @steve e (2), ON @x24rocks, OR @yuda
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA, IN
set the channel topic: 2043 Regular Season Sim 6: May 10-16 on Tuesday 2/19/19 @ ~8pm CT
Missed Sim 6 export: KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e (3), NY @Kevin40, ON @x24rocks (2), PA @qdog915_pa
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA, IN
set the channel topic: 2043 Regular Season Sim 7: May 17-23 on Wednesday 2/20/19 @ ~8pm CT
Missed Sim 7 export: GA @tjsmith7_georgia, KY @Zach - KY (2), MD @steve e (4), NY @Kevin40 (2), ON @x24rocks (3), OR @yuda
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA, IN
set the channel topic: 2043 Regular Season Sim 8: May 24-30 on Thursday 2/21/19 @ ~8pm CT
Missed Sim 8 export: KY @Zach - KY (3), MD @steve e (5), NY @Kevin40 (3), OH @ohio, ON @x24rocks (4)
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA, IN
set the channel topic: 2043 Regular Season Sim 9: May 31 - June 6 on Monday 2/25/19 @ ~8pm CT
Missed Sim 9 export: NJ @mikenewjersey, NY @Kevin40 (4), ON @x24rocks (5), PA @qdog915_pa
Vacant Teams: TX, WA, IN
HTML Reports will be updated in 5-10 minutes. StatsPlus and StatsLab will be either late tonight or in the morning.
HTML Reports updated. Running SQL dump now for StatsPlus and StatsLab.
set the channel topic: 2043 Regular Season Sim 10: June 7-13 on Tuesday 2/26/19 @ ~8pm CT
Missed Sim 10 export: KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e, NY @Kevin40 (5), PA @qdog915_pa (2)
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA, IN
New file is up. HTML Reports will be up in 10-15 minutes. I'll likely not have StatsPlus and StatsLab updated until tomorrow morning.
Well never got StatsPlus and StatsLab updated from last night. Grabbing exports for Sim 11.
Sure thing no problem. Just let me know when you export and I'll go back and grab it.
Missed Sim 11 export: MD @steve e (2), NY @Kevin40 (6), WV @claphamsa
Vacant Team(s): TX, WV, IN
set the channel topic: 2043 Regular Season Sim 12: June 21-27 on Thursday 2/28/19 @ ~8pm CT
I'll be enabling All-Star Game voting in StatsPlus momentarily. Ballots are due before the ASG sim on Wed 3/6.
Missed Sim 12 export: MD @steve e (3), NJ @mikenewjersey, NY @Kevin40 (7), OR @yuda, PA @qdog915_pa
Vacant Teams: TX, WA, IN
HTML Reports will be updated in 10-15 minutes. StatsPlus and StatsLab will be updated in the morning.
set the channel topic: 2043 Regular Season Sim 13: June 28 - July 4 on Monday 3/4/19 @ ~8pm CT
I'll be able to start the sim within the hour. Also I'm working on getting a new GM for Indiana.
Welcome to @EddieIndiana who will join us to take over the Indiana Vipers. He comes over from WBL (his league) and SBC (@mikenew_jersey's league). Glad to have you!
Missed Sim 13 export: MD @steve e (4), NY @Kevin40 (8)
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA, IN (just filled.. yay @Eddie_Indiana)
Sim 13 is completed. Eddie added in the game as the Indiana GM. File upload started.
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2043 Regular Season Sim 14: July 5-12 (8 days) on Tuesday 3/5/19 @ ~8pm CT
Tuesday/tomorrow's sim will be an extra day to bring us to the end of the 1st half of the 2043 Regular Season. Remember to please vote for the All-Star Game by Wednesday's sim!
Missed Sim 14 export: IN @EddieIndiana (my fault sorry), MD @steve e (5), NY @Kevin40 (9), NC @chappy, ON @x24rocks, OR @yuda, PA @qdog915pa
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
Sim 14 is completed. File upload started. Games on July 12th have been played but the game hasn't been advanced to avoid CPU picking ASG rosters.
set the channel topic: 2043 Regular Season Sim 15: July 13-19 on Wednesday 3/6/19 @ ~8pm CT | All-Star Game and Break only
Reminder to vote for the All-Star Game ballots by tomorrow's sim in StatsPlus https://statsplus.net/afbl/awards?league=100#ballotlist
Sorry yes. I'm about to grab exports and check on how it looks ASG voting wise.
Missing ASG voting from: WV @claphamsa, CA @JasonMallards, MD @steve e, IN @EddieIndiana (if you wanted but not expected), NY @Kevin40, GA @tjsmith7_georgia, ON @x24rocks
Missed Sim 15 export: MD @steve e (6), NY @Kevin40 (10), OR @yuda (2), WV @claphamsa
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
No regular season games this sim. Just the ASG and break.
2043 All-Star Game Selections
Frontier League
Starters
CA: Tony Bonilla (CA)
1B: Mario Cruz (CO) 11/11 votes
2B: Antonio Morales (ID)
3B: Diederick Kooijman (CO)
SS: Florencio Xarito (WA)
LF: Dylan O'Day (CA)
CF: Tony Johnston (TX)
RF: Bryan Soliben (CO)
DH: Tony Macias (KY) [injured]
SP: Jorge Ramirez (CO)
Reserves
CA: Raul Silva (ID)
1B: Rijk Eland (NM) [commish selection]
2B: Ryad Chapuis (TX)
3B: Frank Baker (OR [commish selection]
SS: Rodney Noseworthy (CO)
LF: Ron Dixon (KY) [commish selection]
CF: Dominic Bennett (NM) [commish selection]
RF: Zoraide Pequeno (KY)
DH: Angelo Mejia (CO) [injury replacement for Tony Macias]
SP: Leonardo Mendoza (OR)
SP: Jorge Reyes (ID)
SP: Jon Francis (IL)
SP: Curt Peterson (KY)
SP: Alex Pacheco (TX)
RP: Jonas Pelikaan (CA)
RP: Leo Rodriguez (CO)
RP: Jude O'Neill (TX)
RP: Ed Raines (CO)
RP: Florent Tessier (IN)
RP: Pancho Padilla (OR) [injured]
RP: Stephen Eayrs (TX) [injury replacement for Pancho Padilla, commish selection]
Patriot League
Starters
CA: Flash Rodriguez (NC)
1B: Mei-shan Lo (NC)
2B: Mike Haynes (GA/PA)
3B: Jorge Beltre (WV)
SS: Cal Simmons (GA) 11/11 votes
LF: Choppy Orozco (NC) 11/11 votes
CF: Turd Newton (NC)
RF: Octavio Benitez (WV)
DH: Orlando Lopez (OH)
SP: Norman Cornell (NC)
Reserves
CA: Reginald Thompson (WV)
1B: Clint Dowling (OH)
2B: Duane Slaughter (WV) [commish selection]
3B: Eddie Taylor (MD)
SS: Bob Starrett (ON) [commish selection]
LF: Lupe Aguirre (ON) [commish selection]
CF: Doug Thornton (WV)
RF: David Ruiz (NC) [commish selection]
SP: Jesus Cruz (NJ)
SP: Tsuruki Sanu (PA)
SP: Jesus Ortega (NC)
SP: Feitze Ottens (NJ)
SP: Dani Romero (OH) [injured]
SP: Hector Gonzales (WV) [injury replacement for Dani Romero, commish selection]
RP: Joe Berry (NJ)
RP: Raul Davila (GA)
RP: Dave Harrison (NY)
RP: Kawanari Suzuki (NY)
RP: Antonio Garza (MD)
RP: Sandy Lee (OH) [commish selection]
HTML Reports updated https://afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/leagues/league_100_home.html
set the channel topic: 2043 Regular Season Sim 16: July 20-25 on Thursday 3/7/19 @ ~8pm CT | Trade Deadline is by Tues 3/12 sim
Missed Sim 16 export: IL @cmyru82, MD @steve e (7), NY @Kevin40 (11), ON @x24rocks, OR @yuda (3), PA @qdog915_pa, WV @claphamsa (2)
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
ugh I hate going long stretches not being able to export when we're actually good
set the channel topic: 2043 Regular Season Sim 17: July 26-31 on Monday 3/11/19 @ ~8pm CT | Trade Deadline is by Tues 3/12 sim
Missed Sim 17 export: GA @tjsmith7georgia (traveling), MD @steve e (8), NM @jeffnew_mexico, NY @Kevin40 (12), ON @x24rocks (2)
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
I hate when that happens. I do that with my other leagues sometimes lol. If you or anyone wasn't aware, there is an Export Tracker here: https://statsplus.net/afbl/exports and/or you can have a Slack post sent to you about the success/failure of your export here:
set the channel topic: 2043 Regular Season Sim 18: August 1-8 (1 extra day) on Tuesday 3/12/19 @ ~8pm CT | Trade Deadline is by TOMORROW Tues 3/12 sim
Remember that the 2043 Trade Deadline is by tomorrow night's sim. Both team need to confirm the deal in a Forum post.
FYI, I'm traveling tomorrow night so the sim will be later than normal. I'd guess 1030-11pm CST. I'll let you all know if it'll be postponed a day but I don't anticipate that.
Missed Sim 18 export: GA @tjsmith7georgia (2, traveling), KY @Zach - KY, MD @steve e (9), NY @Kevin40 (13), ON @x24rocks (3), OR @yuda, PA @qdog915pa
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
StatsPlus updated from last night. I'm about to grab exports for tonight's sim.
Missed Sim 19 export: too many to list 😂... only 7 exports in plus my CO
set the channel topic: 2043 Regular Season Sim 20: August 16-22 on Monday 3/18/19 @ ~8pm CT
New StatsPlus feature...
New feature - view of a team's ballpark - http://i.imgur.com/uwEmmiP.png
This only shows based on current dimensions, not the park factors. I'm working on something to generate dimensions from factors, but it's not a trivial math problem.
The park view may look familiar, the code is from the OOTP Park Generator, the author of that site gave permission for it to be re-used in S+.
Agreed. We have some fun ballparks in the league after going through everyone in StatsPlus 😃.
I'll be able to sim in 30-45 minutes.
Missed Sim 20 export: MD @steve e (11), NY @Kevin40 (12), ON @x24rocks (5), @yuda (3), WV @claphamsa (traveling)
Vacant Team(s): TX, WA
taking longer for ootp to 'close and reload the new league file than it did to download... lol
set the channel topic: 2043 Regular Season Sim 21: August 23-29 on Tuesday 3/19/19 @ ~8pm CT
Heads up.. I'm restricting this channel to just AFBL announcements from the Commish to avoid important updates from getting lost from banter.
Also a reminder that if I ever don't respond quickly from this account, ping me on the @mstreeter06 account since that's what I have signed in at work and on my cell.
set the channel topic: General AFBL related talk | afblbaseball.com
/poll "How should we handle upcoming sims in regards to Sept 1 roster callups?" "Leave as is. Tues: Aug 23-29, Wed: Aug 30-31, Thurs: Sept 1-5. Don't move callup date temporarily" "Leave as is. Tues: Aug 23-29, Wed: Aug 30-31, Thurs: Sept 1-5. Temp move up callup date to after tonight's sim" "Break up week into 2 sims. Tues: Aug 23-26, Wed: Aug 27-31, Thurs: Sept 1-5"
For option 2, if you move up the call up date, you don't have to have a 2-day sim Wednesday, right?
That’s how i votes and then i read what Matt posted - ready fire aim!
Then yes option 2 would be... Tues: Aug 23-29, Wed: Aug 30 - Sept 5, Thurs: Sept 6-12 and back on normal sim schedule. Good catch Chappy.
Although I'm up to an 11.5 game lead on WV, they've really closed the gap in Run Differential. They're +122 vs my +133.
My backup catcher - Ed Woods - has 9 errors in limited playing time... Flash has 4 in 101 starts, Woods 9 in 28 starts. His .582 efficiency rating is epic.
Well, we lost our 5th starter for the season and postseason and a good chunk of next season. Trey Drackley is 35, so it may wind up being a career-ender, or at least the end of his big league career. Ron Carmichael (6-3, 3.55) has pitched well whenever he's been needed this year, so he'll slide into the #5 spot. Been pretty healthy this year, but September always seems to take out a couple of my players.
StatsPlus new feature:
Added league level to the Team Ratings view: http://i.imgur.com/oSum1CR.png
It was quickly pointed out that filtering didn't work as expected on this new feature, so I've fixed that up, and added support for "exact match" filters on any of the boxes, so now you could limit a search to catchers with "C" in the Position filter. Example of filtering for AAA or AA players:
http://i.imgur.com/4S2ZDnJ.png
Our streak of playoff appearances is likely over. 6 straight years for Idaho. My late season gamble didn’t work...
We didn't help at the end of the sim heh. Still have a a series and 1 or so to make up?
The schedule might help you a little bit lt, unless Matt is resting his starters.
North Carolina will look like the Raleigh Explorers for the final four games.
Your best shot is to sweep, but if you go 2-1 and California goes 0-4 you get a shot in a 163rd game....
Mallards will be giving Ramirez his first loss so we won’t be going 0-4. 😂
Heck, Texas is mathematically alive... they have to sweep and have California lose out and then still have to win a 163rd game... What if all 3 of you finish tied?
Well i messed with my lineup cause i have 4 guys slumping. Team went into the tank and i don’t deserve to make it
me neither. I want to check AFBL history to see if this has happened before.
I checked earlier and he is only one with perfect winning percentage
Wow we had a 40+HR/65+SB, 30+HR/50+SB, and two 20+HR/40+SB campaigns in the FL
WV has the top 3 bWAR in the PL with NC having the 4th and 5th bWAR. PL MVH is a tough choice.
The start of the postseason has an affect on the AAA championship series, as both Colorado Springs and Raleigh will pick up reinforcements as Colorado and North Carolina trim down their rosters. I know it returns for starters to the Raleigh lineup who had been called up, as well as 2/5 of the starting rotation.
Yeah I forgot that our AAA squads were playing and I didn't demote the extra guys until this past sim
NJ export is in... I know we've swept NC the past two seasons in the playoffs.... something tells me it won't happen this season
although we are throwing a little curve ball into our roster, hopefully it works
NC has exported for games 1 & 2. Team is playing the worst it's played all year, dropping 2 to Virginia! But we were using all backups, so it's not the best indicator of things.
oh dear.. tough lose in game one, 2-0 up then give up 3 in an inning including walkign one in and hitting the batter with a pitch to knock another one in 😞
NC getting their own back on us after the past few sweeps... eeek
NJ looking on the ropes, defending the cup will be super tough from here
yeah games have gone with home field advantage, but still, you can't always win at home
game 3 goes to extras and we mnage a walk off 2 run shot to pinch hitter daly after we went 5-4 down in the 10th.... maybe luck is turning
Tough decisions... Cornell only threw 98 pitches in his first start, so I'll run him out there on short rest.
Jose Rodriguez, with 25 career HRs in 12 years with a big go ahead HR late
I try to keep the Playoffs thread in the Forum updated https://afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php?topic=2623.msg15899#new
but no there isn't a playoff module yet for StatsPlus similar to StatsLab
which actually needs to be updated but does have a nice playoff tree https://www.matthewrstreeter.com/ootp/afbl/statslab/playoffs.php
nicely done @chappy - 0-2 for cruz in the series says it all really... he was my guy and he fell over 😞 good luck next series!!
In 3 postseason starts, NC ace Norman Cornell is 1-2 with a 7.02 ERA... Hopefully he can turn it around.
Indeed. Also congrats to @Zach - KY for winning the Frontier League!
No problem I'm out and about for a few hours myself. Good luck later guys.
They become part of the Ammy Draft. They're available to draft and any undrafted leftovers that don't go back to school become FAs
Sorry about being MIA Matt. Had a sick house, wife went to hospital for dehydration on Thursday. It’s been a last 7 days. Hopefully we are back on the up and up!
Woo! Finally got it done!! Glad our pitching didn’t collapse this year!
HOF Voting is now live. Here are the 1st year players on the ballot
I want to revisit this poll again to see where everyone is at with OOTP20. If we have everyone or most of everyone, I might consider upgrading to help us get these vacancies filled.
/poll "Have you or will you purchase OOTP20?" "Yes" "Not yet but I plan to or will if needed for league upgrade" "No plans to / Didn't plan to"
Awesome thanks. Just need KY and OR ballots and we'll have all 17 human GMs.
Reminder for @yuda and @Zach - KY to submit your HOF today or tomorrow at the latest
@AFBL Commish - missing some messages in the uplaod file.. no nvoemeber, december or january messages included, can you reuplaod the file?
oh crap I forgot to add the extra messages. yes I can reupload a new file since i forgot to include the history too.
win 5, lose 4, win 4.... streaky, but wouldn't be bad if the regular season went like that 😄
NC all ready to go. Goppy did not make the 25-man roster out of Spring Training and will captain the AAA Raleigh Explorers. Sometimes I wonder why guys don't retire when their skills plummet.
because we don't let them go and become free agents, we hoard them in afbl 😉
I have finally started releasing those guys. i prefer they retire with my team but if they won't I do what needs done. lol
Well we still aren’t any good but we have phased out most of the vets and at least have dudes with upside playing most spots
Jorge Ramirez loses his 1st 2044 start after finishing 2043 22-0. Baseball.
All good and ya almost done simming. So maybe 10-15 minutes until the new file!
oh shit you're right. my game is at 4/10 too. i guess my ootp19 crashed?
I guess we'll just have to redo last night's Sim 2 (April 10-16) tonight. Not sure wtf happened. Sorry guys!
has anyone else had players stuck on DL? I have Weston, Vera, and Geenen all on DL, with no injury time or DL time left. Strange. @AFBL Commish can you fix?
Put them in a rehab assignment first, then you should be able to activate them right away. I had it happen with Mulder
Hmm. It does say that when I try to activate, but I don’t see a rehab option under Transactions like it says I should. Ugh
Shoot didn't remember last night but will look tonight @Jason_Mallards
Finally put the 2043 Postseason stats in the Postseason MVP thread. I'd pick SP Curt Peterson (KY) over CA Curt Ward (OH) if it was up to me. Since we're into May 2044 already, I'm going to say Peterson is the 2043 Postseason MVP unless there's any objections 🙂. https://afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php?topic=2639.msg15943#new
New StatsPlus feature
"Today" was added to the date picker on the Standings page - http://i.imgur.com/SIKJiCy.png
NC heating up. I wasn't sure how this year's team would be with captain Goppy down in AAA, but they seem to be getting along just fine.
4 of the 6 best OPS in the league are Aviators (Flash, Choppy, Turd, and Steve Larson (who needs a better name, lol))
Haha, I was mainly talking about the first name... nothing ‘wrong’ with Steve, just kinda plain compared to the others.
I wish that the team results channel showed the overall sim record. I can count, but that's hard
Also, while I'm at it, I wish the "What's New" link at the bottom showed what's new 🙂
I do try to cross post new features with StatsPlus here but I agree 😎
Ya I think it's mostly commishes of leagues that use it but not for sure.
That's my thinking if it's continues to be difficult like it's been. We'll see.
That would actually suck because you’d have to take up probably for teams to make an even schedule that means one current owner would have to get kicked
i’m considering dropping given work schedule and other priorities. hoping to make it work right now but if contraction is on the table I’d volunteer
purely for self serving reasons no doubt 😉 if you're not up to the challenge... 😄
I need to just keep posting about it everywhere I can. I know @chappy is having the same trouble with openings and we're very similar in league setups.
blame PT... it's going to be a smaller pool of online GMs for a while I think
I’m flat out not gonna have time to vote. Sorry. New floors going in the house and work/life stuff
Crap didn't get StatsPlus/StatsLab updated from this morning. I'll do so now.
Also.. ASG Voting is actually due Tuesday and not Monday like I posted initially
Well, the CPU had me 44-37 in the first half. Let's see if the Explorers can improve on that.
Man, David Ruiz is on a see-saw. He was very successful early on for a 3rd round pick, with .260, .310, .297, and .268 averages his first four years. Dropped to .222 in 2042 but rebounded to hit .304 last year. Now he's only batting .211.
I forgot yesterday was Monday lol cause It was day off here lol. I have voted will export tonight hopefully
StatsPlus enhancements released today:
1. http://i.imgur.com/IKHMHDD.png - Changed the Rookie checkbox to drop-down with Rookies, Retired, Active options)
2. http://i.imgur.com/ce49G1a.png - If a player entered league via draft, then the Entry part of the player page header links directly to that year's draft results. Also, the year-by-year draft results page was re-implemented and is several times faster now
3. On awards page, Vote Detail view is sortable to sort by who voted and didn't
4. On team page rating view, ML players on the DL were incorrectly being shown in INT complex for OOTP18 leagues
This year's Aviators squad is different from my usual teams. Instead of being in the top 2 in all the pitching categories and top 5 or 6 in all the hitting categories, we are 1st or 2nd in all the hitting and 6th or 7th in all the pitching. With basically the same roster I've had the past few seasons too.
I'll be out of town this coming week. No exports, no worries, we are probably not getting into the playoffs.
Thursday, August 18th, 2044 - Idaho Steelheads: LF Ken McCarthy was injured when he did one too many BMX bike tricks. The Diagnosis: Bruised cheekbone. This is a day-to-day injury expected to last 3 days.
@mstreeter06 Hey Aug 18 is my birthday. Maybe we got drunk and he got on the BMX,,
Trying to decide to do a new file tonight and make 40-man roster expansions for Aug 28 (tomorrow's sim), just have everyone wait for Sept 4, or break up tomorrow's sim into 2 sims. Any thoughts?
That's the way I'm leaning. I'll go ahead and reupload a file with the 40-man expansion adjusted to line up with Aug 28.
Under events I’m seeing roster expansion listed for 28th but my ml limit is still 25
Might just have to break it up into 2 sims or just have everyone wait for Sept 4
I'm fine with waiting but can I appeal Choppy's suspension until then? haha
StatsPlus new addition:
Added a drop-down on the Dev Report page to allow selecting different date ranges. http://i.imgur.com/z8zOHJ0.png
Another StatPlus addition: Added three more chart options to player dev charts - http://i.imgur.com/aFMK7uk.png
7 of the 8 playoff teams have been decided. The PL teams are all set and just fighting for seeding. There are 3 teams in the FL fighting for WC2. 3-4 games left on the season for Monday's sim.
hey guys...I have an owner who has to take a leave of absence for a few months due to personal reasons. He's a great guy but going through some major life shit right now. I'd love if one of you would look over a team of his in one or two of my leagues for a few months. They are fictional leagues but consider this more of a humanitarian effort than a choice of a league.
@Eddie_Indiana if you still need someone I’d be happy to jump in! 19 or 20?
Thanks. I believe I have someone for both spots but I'll keep you posted...it's in 20
we were supposed to jump every 2nd version (i.e. odd numbered) so not sure what happens with ootp 20 given there was chatter about moving to 20
Currently plan on waiting for 21 to keep with the every other version but if we want to move to 20, that's fine with me.
StatsPlus new feature: First phase of a "Sim Preview" page rolled out. Screenshot of where it is on the menu below, feedback welcome as always.
AFBL is also volunteered to be a beta tester for a new Login With StatsPlus option instead of linking your Facebook, Google, or Slack accounts. Of course this is optional but wanted to let you know about it.
More info from Dave's StatsPlus wiki: https://wiki.statsplus.net/web-tools/login-with-statsplus
PL playoff teams are all bunched together all within 4 wins of each other (93-97). A bit larger of a gap in the FL with KY at 102 wins and NY with 85.
I believe once you setup with the new StatsPlus login, I just need to associate it with you from the admin portal then you can use that method to signin.
Awesome sounds good. We'll sim whenever you get yours in @Zach - KY. Good luck tonight guys.
I'll work on getting the Ammy Draft setup now.
We have 0 traded picks in this 2044 Draft. That has to be the 1st time that's happened in our history.
I don’t think I have the pitching to make it far into the playoffs but we shall see if I can get lucky and get a couple of arms hot.
Not sure if I ever posted it here but StatsPlus now lists available Free Agents
Gil Smith, my catcher, is on an unbelievable run at the dish. 5 dingers so far in the series.
Congrats NJ..... I was expecting to lose a bunch of high-scoring games, but instead my pitching did okay and 5 starters failed to bat over .200 and just two hit over .238.
some very tight games... I've been watching from afar - i.e. on phone while working my tits off 😄
Congratulations @Zach - KY. Hopefully NM will be back in playoffs next year and provide more of a challenge.
Hey everyone, just wanted to drop in and say hello! Looking forward to building a dynasty with Washington!
Welcome! I had to work late last night so I'll run Patriot League Wildcard Series Game 7 today. @ohio @claphamsa
StatsPlus updates:
Second phase of sim preview now available, with highlighted matchups or all scheduled playoff matchups with some head-to-head record info.
Default is looking 7 days ahead, commissioners can adjust the default sim length, used only for this preview, on the Admin menu, General Settings:
Here's the AFBL Sim Preview (we started using StatsPlus in 2034) https://statsplus.net/afbl/preview
I got you associated with Washington now in StatsPlus @Trevor_Washington. I'll send you instructions to get setup in the game itself asap.
Sim Preview of the upcoming LCS matchups. https://statsplus.net/afbl/preview
NJ takes game 1 in a tight contest, a Bob Holmes sac fly the difference... KY rolls CO to atek a 1-0 lead
WV out of the blocks super fast in G2.. might've put this to bed after 2 innings... lol
indeed...KY steals one from the depths there for a 2-0 elad.. NJ and WV tied 1-1
Veteran reliever Joel Reece with a few scoreless innings to keep it within reach
our top 4 are hitting OK... but Nan, Pike, Harris, Rivera and Roux - the best is hitting .217 in the playoffs...
Cool WV is ready to go too. So I should be able to sim here shortly.
I believe we found another new member to take over Texas or New York! Just need 1 more to get back to 100% for the league.
If you need to make changes, let me know. Otherwise we can let it ride for Game 7. @Zach - KY
We can get it done tonight if you’re ready @claphamsa and @mstreeter06 if you have time
I’m going out to dinner but unless there are any injuries I’m sticking with what I’ve got
Wow didn't think it'd been that long. First title for West Virginia since 2027. Fourth overall (2014, 2019).
Everyone please welcome @Danny as the new Texas Isotopes GM. Happy to have you! I'll get an updated Full League download file for you and @Trevor_Washington (WA) later tonight or by tomorrow morning.
If you (or anyone else) needs their team logo for Slack.. https://www.matthewrstreeter.com/ootp/afbl/graphics/teamlogos/
How much consideration for GM of the year do you give a guy like Heinz, who won only 56 games but was 12 games over expected....... 🙂
North Carolina captain and fan-favorite Ahilocana Gopalakrishnan, affectionately called 'Goppy', has retired after failing to log a big-league at bat in 2044. He was in AAA most of the year, where he hit .345 in 35 games, but he was deep enough on the NC bench when he was up that he never appeared in a game for the Aviators this year. He's 6th all-time in AFBL hits with 3,290, well ahead of the next active player on the list, Chris Curry with 2,689 hits.
2044 Postseason MVP poll is up in the Forum now https://afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php?topic=2666.0
Right now the plan is to stay with 19 for the upcoming season. I am open to moving to 20 if the league wants. We normally wait for every other version so current plan is upgrading to 21.
Don’t have 20 yet, but I am willing to buy 20 with the current sale if everyone wants to upgrade.
my laptop is crunched for space and 19 is taking up quite abit of room
just delete your other 19 save games @Eddie_Indiana - they're what takes up all the sapce, ootp 19 (or any ootp version) is quite small in comparison
and when youa re crunched for space even the little amount of mb takes space
so it's hidden under the folder claled 'Important Stuff' right 😄
I play this game on my OOTP desktop. TreeSize is my lifesaver in finding stuff taking up space.
If we have a majority of the league, ready or willing to purchase 20 now (it's currently on sale), I'm totally cool with upgrading.
I'd hate to lose a member for either staying on an older version or upgrading to a newer version.
i may just have to move OOTP stuff to my desktop but that's a lot of fucking work with logos and such for my leagues
Haha yes I keep telling myself to upgrade my SSD to a bigger one or move to my laptop for my OOTP stuff but I'm lazy and tired whenever I'd have time 😄
I'll try to confirm with the others that haven't posted to see if they have or can get 20. It appears that we'd be alright to move to 20. Stay tuned.
I have every version so I am cool but would be fine if we fully move to 20
OK grabbed ’20 today, since I will be out of town for over a week starting Weds
Awesome let me check my league list to see who I still need an answer on if they have or can get 20 if we upgrade.
We'll take it easy with this short holiday weekend while we get the Ammy Draft done and make sure we get the rest of the offseason tasks.
Here's what I have for OOTP20. Let me know if there's a blank or no so we can plan accordingly. FYI.. OOTP20 is only $20 (50% off) for their summer ASG sale https://www.ootpdevelopments.com/newsletters/nl0253/
NC - not yet but read to buy if needed
WV - yes
CA - yes
MD - yes
VA - yes
NM - yes
IN - yes
WA - yes
KY - yes (soon)
IL - not yet but read to buy if needed
PA - yes? open for whatever
GA - not yet.. let him know
ID - yes
NJ - yes
ON - yes
OH - yes
OR -
TX - yes (soon)
Another reminder if you want to share with another leaguemate, you can install 2 times per 1 license
It was in our original plans to stay at 19. Just seeing where we're at. It does seem like most of the guys already had or just got 20. If its a money thing, I'm happy to help. Like I said like week, I don't want to lose any GMs for upgrading early but also staying on an old version.
LT gave me his extra license a couple of seasons ago when I was in a bad way. If anyone would like my extra license please DM
I always have extra license and Very much understand people who don’t buy every version. Definitely willing to share mine as well
So... has everyone who is going to retire already declared or will there me more between now and spring training? I can't remember
I think everyone who is retiring has been announced? I don't think there's more throughout the offseason/preseason?
I think we can plan on upgrading to v20. I want to chat with @yuda to see if he's still in if we go to v20 and make sure anyone that hasn't gotten it yet can/will buy it or split with another GM.
for this season or next? sounds like there were more bugs in most recent patch
Have the bugs been impacting SBC or WBL much? @mikenewjersey @Eddie_Indiana
I was curious myself since I don't recall us having any issues in either league minus needing to wait an extra day for a patch for a patch recently?
I just saw something on the statsplus slack about it creating 10,000+ extra players in certain siutations...
Oh ya I need to check into that since we do have ghost players on in the minors
Looks like we're finished with the Ammy Draft, Season Awards, and HOF Voting. I'll have a chance later today to get those entered and a plan in place for going forward.
StatsPlus addition... added "Decision" column to pitcher game log page, like: http://i.imgur.com/pZTx4vb.png
We still have ghost players on oh my god why are my minor-league team so full 🤮🤮
Plenty of free agents for teams to fill their minor league rosters 😁
It's still eSellerate for the estore and can confirm sharing a single license works for 2 installs.
Jorge Ramírez and Jesús Cruz won Most Valuable Pitcher for the 2nd straight season.
Ohio had the Rookie of the Year for the 2nd straight season.
Don't forget to vote for 2044 Postseason MVP https://afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php?topic=2666.0
We might be hosed with StatsLab going forward. The PHP version on the domain where StatsLab lives go upgraded to v7.x from v5.6 and StatsLab doesn't support the newer version. 😡
You were right @x24rocks. OOTP did upgrade their webshop last week
If you bought prior to June 20, you most likely bought in the eSellerate store, after that date in the FastSpring store!
Probably not necessarily for us specifically but it does help fill any vacancies staying current, this version has seemed like a solid upgrade, and most/all of the guys already had or were planning on getting it.
it does allow trades in game for online leagues, although I'm yet to see one league I'm in adopt that yet
anyone else having trouble with PT in 20? When it gets to “loading team graphics” it keeps crashing for me
NM exported. My free agent claim (Chris Ward) is still listed as free agent.
Hmmm well in my ootp he is still listed on free agent list and not in flagstaff but in statsplus it is correct. Never mind. Helps to actually download new file. NM exported again.
I’ll be updating everything today. Doing the drive to pick up my son I love route 95 😉
do we have an approximate schedule? I’ll be out of town Thursday evening through the following Friday; trying to figure out which machine to take with me (personal vs work)
Just take the machine with the porn on it (hopefully that’s the personal one and not the work one)
I'd like to do ST sims this week (Thurs and Fri?) but just depends on how quickly we all get ready.
Yes go ahead an export as you would for Spring Training Sim 1. Reminder to our new members, Spring Training gets splits into 2 sims.
Hey all, I've created a channel for me to post random facts about the Aviators. If you're interested in seeing them hit the + beside channels and add the aviators_musings channel.
Here's where we're at with GMs ready with OOTP20 and successful export
@AFBL Commish @mstreeter06 Can you give me a link to the filealong with the dat files
@Eddie_Indiana just uploaded a new OOTP20 starter league file for AFBL https://afblbaseball.com/files/downloads/AFBL.lg-ESSENTIALS.zip
I might get a chance to export sometime today but it will more likely be this evening. Sorry if I’m holding us up.
I’ll be home on Saturday. But you can go ahead and sim without me. I’ll catch up.
Noted and I'm going to try to get in touch with MD and ON to see if we can get the 1st ST sim in this week.
So sorry for the obvious question, but I’m still getting used to this and haven’t played a ton of OOTP. Are you guys doing much fiddling between streams?
what time is this evening's sim? Do you still do it after the kids go to bed in KC? @mstreeter06
We'll be actually earlier than usual today since we have a 10pm flight. I think around 4-6pm CST timeframe. I'll keep everyone posted.
ok, major league roster is set up and exported. I'll try to get the minor leagues straightened out too (I'm over some roster limits there) but that may not be done in time for the next sim given this conference
Just checked results from last night, apparently my home opener against Oregon went a cool a 21 innings 😳
he’s only even had 14 two-strike counts. and 3 balls only 4 times (never 3-0)
The light at the end of the tunnel is getting closer on the VDC rebuild. Currently out of last and got some young pieces contributing. Also an onslaught of young talent (13 of the top 100 prospects) moving along the system.
Oh my God I just noticed that 2026 first overall pick is second in homeruns this season with 10 so far
He had 10 home runs all of last season, And a couple seasons ago in 300+ PA only had three
yeah nobody’s hurt so I’m not sure I want to touch anything for fear of messing this up.
3 division leaders are at or above 20 wins out of 30 games so far. 4th division leader is at .500 (PL North).
Yo if the injury bug could just chill for like a week that'd be great... 2 starting outfielders and my 4th all out for multiple weeks
I'm pretty sure our HR record is 58 or something from way back at our beginning 2010s
He's at an advantage in our ballpark which is friendly to lefthanded batters, but he's actually hitting homers at a higher rate on the road than at home.
Ron Carmichael has been terribly unlucky... 0.98 WHIP but a 4.81 ERA. You don't see that very often.
NM was 11-2 with RD of +49 the last two sims. Nice to see after a horrible start.
Potentially found a new member to take over New York from the OOTP boards 🤞
Did another trade review of a blockbuster from 2020 between West Virginia and New Mexico! https://afblbaseball.com/forum/index.php?topic=1096.0
I'm putting Nakashima on the DL er, I mean IL even though he's DtD because I'm already down 4 players and don't want to risk a major injury.
I normally use the 7-day IL if the player has a moderate DtD that's more than like 3-4 days for the same reason.
Part of my reasoning is the backup 1B and the AAA 1Bs are solid so there won't be that much fall-off anyway. Might as well let him get all the way healthy while the other 1Bs are all healthy.
Norman Cornell is 10-1 and leads the PL in WHIP and I'm the only person to vote for him as an All-Star so far!
Ron Carmichael is 8-2 and 2nd in the PL in WHIP and I'm the only person to vote for him as an All-Star so far! 😉
Definitely enjoy seeing Carmichael doing well still. Not a great trade for me but has been a good one for you 🙂.
He has a history of being shafted for the ASG. 2036-38 he was one of the best pitchers in the league but never made the All-Star team. I think 2033 was is last ASG appearance.
@mstreeter06 @AFBL Commish do you expect to go around normal time tonight? I need to get a sim in but I’m not quite at my computer yet
Yeah it'd be great if you could all step off the gas for a month or so and let me run away with it🤐
20430903 [I]Injured (Partially torn UCL), out for 9-10 months.
20440101 [S]OSA scouting updated ratings (potential): Stuff: 6 (6); Movement: 5 (5); Control: 8 (8).
20440811 [I]Injured (Torn rotator cuff), out for 13 months.
20450101 [S]OSA scouting updated ratings (potential): Stuff: 5 (6); Movement: 5 (5); Control: 8 (8).
20450626 [I]Injured (Ruptured ulnar collateral ligament), out for 12-13 months.
he was probably compensating for the UCL and hurt his shoulder, and then compensating for the shoulder tore the UCL the rest of the way
that was probably random but it actually makes sense as an injury progression
I certainly do not miss those days. Now I have the opposite, I have to wake mine so they get where they need to be...
Matthew do you know if Dave is working on any last sim type recap like OOTPOU has? Only thing it seems to be missing.
Can we lobby for all-start votes? If so, vote for Alex Murdock! Dude's tied for the league lead in triples with 11 at 21 years old even though he missed 3 weeks of game time (and he's 4th in batting)!
Always! He's definitely turning into one of the young stars of the league.
I always vote using this metric:
1. My guys (if on ballot)
2. Top WAR at position (except RP, which is top WPA)
I’d totally turn it on to just compile my votes at the last minute if possible
Interesting idea and I use similar methods in deciding ASG voting myself
(and yes, I vote for my own players even if they’re having a brutal season. I figure it simulates the home team stuffing ballot boxes, which happens all the time anyway)
end-of-year awards I use a similar methodology but it’s not quite so by the numbers
@mstreeter06 this is from another league. I get my results and there is also a stats page for just the sim
We don't have that in statslab right? No last sim? We kind of do I guess here on Slack
Yeah StatsLab is now gone for us. Not able to update it since my hosting updates the PHP version it was living on 😞.
You said you still update it, according to your sim announcements anyway
It was a sad discovery by myself during our offseason. Moved StatsLab to my personal domain when we moved over to StatsPlus hosting and I didn't know we had to keep the old v5.6 PHP on the hosting. Very frustrating.
Oh I had hoped to but the StatsLab documentation all says it doesn't support v7 or whatever the newest one is
Ok, so that's what I mean for last sim was in StatsPlus. Sorry. Maybe Dave's answer to that is the slack channels we all have
Totally got you. I did post this feature request in the StatsPlus Slack today. Dave said its something he'd like to add eventually but needs to have the time to write it.
Ok cool. I was hoping when he did next sim, that it was a precursor to last sim 🙂
Lol Antonio Brown https://twitter.com/MikeSilver/status/1159911464355762176
Twitter
Motherfucker is bat shit crazy. Too bad he didn’t pull this shit when he was with the Steelers
you think he’s crazy because his helmet wasn’t safe 😂😂 so he not all there
I was out of town til yesterday and catching up on work. Unlikely I’ll get a chance to vote for asg
Get yer ASG votes in b/c between no sim last night here and no sim until tomorrow in NPBL I don’t know how to spend my occasional 15 minutes of downtime between calls at work
Wow beat down by the Patriot League this year in the ASG https://statsplus.net/afbl/reports/news/html/rt_sim/game_box_9228.html
My guy Kichi giving up 7 runs without recording an out... better in the ASG than any other!
I was going to complain “the team needed more Explorers” but if Mendoza gave up 3 runs in 2/3 of an inning, we didn’t represent all that well to begin with.
Yeah it wasn't a good showing for most of the FL All-Stars that played
Kk I got an export in last night. Heading to Pittsburgh today and back on Thursday with internet but no game. So if something major happens to the team I’ll be DMing instructions to Matt. ;)
Combined so far. Dakota Hudson went 6.2 with 111 pitches. 4 outs away.
Friday, August 4th, 2045 - New York Twin Towers: C Rob West was injured while throwing a glass at the wall after an argument with his wife. The Diagnosis: Wrist soreness. This injury keeps him out of action for 2 weeks.
FL West is getting very interesting. 4 teams within 5 games of each other and now a tie for 1st!
I am surprised I am in it. My team is solid but not spectacular. Would not shock me if I fell back in the next 2-3 weeks.
My team is in a weird spot - not really old and still competitive but probably not good enough to win in the playoffs.
I feel like I've got everything to win except for 2 additional good starting pitchers... I have 2, but one's out for the year and you really need 3 to win the title.
Even with the best run differential and record in the PL, I can't see winning in the postseason with a bunch of pitchers with 4+ ERAs
Roster expansion time is one of my favorite times of year, and I've got some solid AAA guys I want to try out, but none of them are SPs.
whereas I’m pretty confident in my pitchers, but we struggle to score enough runs
I'm heading out to the boundary waters early tomorrow morning. I won't have internet access from sometime Monday afternoon/evening until sometime Saturday afternoon/evening
Yeah that was bad. At least we won the other two games in the series.
Ya pesky as I needed those wins to try to catch Washington and the others 😎
StatsPlus Feature Addtion! Dave's post below...
Been a little while, here's a new feature on S+ for all leagues - Playoff Odds Charts
Get to it from the Current -> Standings menu - http://i.imgur.com/cSlhQpX.png
Hover over a line to get the date and odds for a team on that date - http://i.imgur.com/PLNJssC.png
Click on the team name in the legend to hide or show a team - http://i.imgur.com/ntz8IHy.png
The odds are for each team to qualify for the playoffs - winning the division or a wild card. In the future, I plan to add some other odds types, like winning division or league.
and then the tl;dr...
The drop-down is set up to let you see one division or league at a time, depending on league config. S+ has been storing playoff odds each time it gets updated during the season, so leagues that update S+ more frequently will have better charts. I've been storing this data as long as your league has been on S+, and now you can go back and look at the history.
Note that I tried using team colors for the lines, and, frankly, it doesn't work. Too many teams have the same colors or the colors don't show up well on charts, so I've given it my best effort on choosing a set of colors for the lines that looks pretty good, where the colors are perceptually different, and color-blind safe.
New S+ feature, AFBL Playoff Odds Chart URL: https://statsplus.net/afbl/oddschart
Man, an injury to SP Jesus Ortega means Bertil Aarden joins the rotation after spending the whole year in AAA. He was once a solid pitcher, but those days are over. We are rolling into the playoffs with a rotation held together by big league chew and scotch tape. Doesn't help that the guy who should be by 2nd best reliever has struggled all year and has a 6.00 ERA, and failed to get anyone out in his last two relief appearances. Thankfully we've got a mammoth offense.
StatsPlus feature update from Dave...
For leagues that show ratings, I re-built the player development charts to match the style of the Playoff Odds charts:
old: http://i.imgur.com/YheDtcN.png
new: http://i.imgur.com/cfWjlG3.png
I won’t be back until after the sim tonight. Hope we didn’t fall apart down the stretch.
I totally get that. Was home Friday with the kids so I'm really thrown off lol.
Actually at this point we’re delayed enough that I just booked a hotel near the airport at BWI (still an hour plus drive from home). It’ll be Monday in the end anyway 😜🤪
StatsPlus feature update...
This morning the menus on the website are re-arranged slightly. Instead of Current, there is now a League menu and a Stats menu. Also, there's a new feature showing the best pitching and hitting performances of the current season:
Why is he hiking at the end of the season during the final month lol?
An 8-2 finish (unlikely) would have us match the NC franchise record for wins (102)
If the season ended today, Choppy Orozco (1.020) and Kaz Nakashima (1.010) would set francise records for OPS. Current NC record is .983 by Jesus Gutierrez in 2019.
I have no real clue how Idaho is in the thick of the final ten days. Raul Silva has had good numbers, but unlike previous seasons he has been wildly inconsistent. 1B Dan Willis has had a breakout season, but most of the other guys have been average on offense.
As for pitching, Guevara has had a simply awful season. 10-10, 0.4 WAR. I know we are up 4 games with 10 to go for the wildcard, but I think we will blow it
Its been a nice run for Idaho. No seasons under 75 wins since 2025. all 8 of our postseason appearances and 3 titles in that span. 2045 marks the 9th straight 83+ win sason
I only have 1 SP with 3 stars... all the rest are 2.5, lol. Probably won't make it deep in the playoffs because of that.
me too. Reyes is 3.5 the rest ore 2.5 or less. my bullpen is strong but I don't have a horse that can get a CG if we are tired....
we have a total of 4 CG in the last 4 seasons. (not 4 each season, total)
Oh wow, WV lost their ace.... Antonio Goudino (2.49 ERA - 1.06 WHIP) out 10-11 months. That helps my cause.
I think the stars are super non-meaningful for pitchers in this league right now
Cabrera and Mendoza from my team are in the “top players” list for pitchers, and they’re like 3.5 and 2.5 stars respectively
3.5 and 3 rather. Still. They’re both 4-star guys by performance if not better.
I find them marginally useful for sorting the free agents list but that’s about it
Ya agreed. I catch myself sometimes using stars more than I should. Sorting for Draft and FAs is about all their value like John said.
Yeah my best SP prospect is like 3 star and the ones I have rated higher aren’t nearly as good
Your CG thing made me curious. I’ve had 4 this year, which seems like a down year.
Not sure if it was the same season (and I suspect it was in 19), but Leonardo Mendoza and Nate Simpson each have an 8-CG year
(Speaking of, I find it odd that statsplus doesn’t include complete games or shutouts in single season or career leaderboards)
This probably says something about how I manage the team as much as anything
Juan Salas is probably done. He was in the minors all year and then when an injury that might have given him a chance happened, he was also injured.
But with tommy john surgery at 37, I doubt I’ll have to make the decision, even
Parker’s ratings have all fallen to a level he can’t be used. Spent most of this season accumulating a near 9 era in AAA
Speaking of released Idaho pitchers, Steve Hamilton is going to get a shot to make my playoff roster.
Wow - if New Mexico takes one from me all 5 teams in our division end above .500
Rooting for that. I wonder if that's happened before at least for us.
Gonna be all backups for me tomorrow night. Still gonna be a solid lineup though.
Final four game starters for NC: 1) Tomas Cruz, 27 years old, big league debut... 2) Ernesto Flores, 29 years old, 4th career big league start... 3) Jorge Guerra, 24 years old, big league debut (only one that's actually a prospect)... 4) Jermaine Scott, 28 years old, big league debut... I decided against letting my organization's top prospect, SP Alfredo Martinez, get a big league start because I want him to get one more point in control first.
I only have 3 games. Christiaan van Meel and Rodrigo Gomez are starting two of them as they compete for the third starter role for the playoffs. The last one will be started by our 5th starter, who might not even make the playoff roster. (He only became 5th starter after some injuries.)
This guy (Kevin Brooks): https://www.afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/players/player_3306.html
Starting lineup for final four games: 1) CF Nick Orchard, 6/3/5 Con/Pow/Eye, 10 defense... 2) LF Steve Campbell, 5/5/4, 8... 3) DH Steve Larsen, 7/7/5, 1... 4) C Jose Fuentes, 5/8/3, 4... 5) 1B Shane Schute, 5/5/8, 2... 6) 3B Don Sanford, 5/4/3, 7... 7) SS Jose Martinez, 5/5/7, 7... 8 RF Edmund Collins, 5/6/5, 6... 9) 2B Juan Baez, 5/4/5, 7... I started a few teams worse than this in the 20's, haha.
Funny how some guys with the same ratings as Kevin Brooks above can actually put up decent numbers. I guess that's what keeps the game interesting
I haven't quite figured out the low movement thing. Lots of players in this league have good stuff and control but low movement. Some are good, some are bad. Just have to throw them out there.
I'm a little surprised nobody picked up Mei-shan Lo, but perhaps everyone has plenty of 1B.
I kinda regret cutting Slappy Orozco back in the day but I'm glad he was able to catch on with you at the end. The player I cut him to make room for (Eddie Wheeler) never really developed into what I thought he would.
I’m already trying one scrap-heap retread at 1B in Steve Horn (he has not impressed).
It doesn’t help me that Dennis Christopher is more 1B/PH than 2B at this stage. I’d like to have him in the lineup more but he can’t do more than emergency innings at 2B
I gave him every opportunity to secure the 1B job, but hitting .266 with minimal power just isn’t going to get that done.
Stupid AI using my all-stars as pinch hitters instead of the players I have listed as pinch hitters. I guess I should have used the bench player for x days instead.
Looks like Colorado needs to win Game 162 and Washington needs to lose to force a 163
His leadership may keep him on the playoff roster. But he better not throw any meaningful innings
At least nobody got hurt except someone who wasn’t making the postseason roster anyhow
Jermaine Scott makes 197 minor league starts before finally making his big league debut at age 28 and then he tears his shoulder up and will spend the offseason rehabbing for six months
What’s the plan for the play-in game and the playoffs? Aka do I have a full day (or longer) to get an export in?
Yeah I'll run the sim whenever @Trevor_Washington is ready then we'll start the playoffs the day after or whenever all involved are ready
silly me.. thought we only had 3 games left, so my #1 played the last game of the regular season... oops
I know there's another game first, but NC is good for first playoff games
Looks like I get to play Maryland fresh off getting swept by them in our final three games.
I have an interim export in (I've made some of my cuts to get back to 25, but not all) just in case the sim happens. But I'll still need an additional export before we get moving.
It seems weird to me since I'm usually in the postseason, but I have 4 pitchers on my playoff roster that have never pitched in the postseason. Three of my pitchers have 26 or more postseason starts.
Rookie Kaz Nakashima is the only batter making his postseason debut for me. Shane Schute (98 games) as the most postseason experience
I find myself torn between an extra bat vs. an extra arm. Expand the playoff roster to 26!
I don’t think you need to worry much this round. Not sure Idaho going to be much of a stress test.
I don't really think we're all that much better than you (or anybody in the field for that matter)
we were super streaky this year, and I feel like we could just as easily rattle off 12 straight wins to take the title or flame out in the first round
my pitching isn't good. i suppose my bats could get hot, but I have little faith in the starters.
my bullpen is strong. the starters? Reyes is solid, but not spectcular. the rest are JAGs
it amuses me that both of us are more confident in the other's team than our own
i am on a 5 game win streak and you are on a 4 game losing streak, whatever that means...
the last 3 of those 4 don't bother me so much because I played mostly backups against Matt
(I do feel a little bad about that getting Colorado into the 163rd game but I'd rather have done that than had one of my key but injury-prone guys get hurt)
since its been tracked Oregon 110 Idaho 107, 9-9 this year, 7-6 Idaho in postseason... Failry evenly matched
Not sure we've had a tie for the worst record before haha. 1st tiebreaker is H2H.
wow VA v GA series is tied 108-108 all-time too haha https://statsplus.net/afbl/head2head?team1=93&team2=94
I need to define a 2nd tiebreaker for draft spots. I've used PyRec and a coin flip in the past. What about run differential?
yeah, looking now at GA's RD and yeah, they should pick ahead of me lol
NC re-exported. Decided to place prospect Steve Larsen on the roster instead of veteran Shane Schute.
StatsPlus updates...
Couple more small changes today:
1. The age limits on the roster check page was re-implemented to work like OOTP, so it will warn if a player is over the age limit for the affiliate level.
2. Option added to Admin->General Settings to show DL as IL if preferred - http://i.imgur.com/8mUJghK.png (h/t @anthony_ooobl)
3. Improved the display of the Draft Player confirm dialog on small screens, so the Confirm button is easier to find (h/t @AFBL Commish)
4. Fixed a tiny bug on sim preview page for all-time record that sometimes showed incorrect h2h totals (h/t @Gary Altman)
5. Fixed issue on draft page where the page would not load if the Slack connection test failed. Was relatively rare, and only affected admins (h/t @neurotic-dugout-fcbl)
I wish the RTS stuff didn’t feel the need to simulate west-coast-game start times
It’s hard to complain about a 2-1 series lead but I hate wasting a good start in game one (lost 2-0)
:face_palm: set my 7 day lineups, but didn't change it to use them... doh
I've got a nice new crop that should be ready in a season or two coming through the system
I knew it wasn’t going to be my day when we scored just 1 run on 6 hits in the first three innings
game 5, always the most important game in a series and we're getting smashed
Baca with the go ahead HR in Game 5 filling in for the injured in Sim 1 Soliben
Let me know if you're ready before tonight @steve e. Good luck guys!
Sorry crazy busy week at work guys. Our entire school district got hacked. We can’t even turn our computers on!
I’ll try to export at lunch time!
Way more nefarious. It's huge, FBI is in town. We are a school district of 27,000 kids.
Game 7 of MD-NC is not the best pitching matchup, so watch it end up a 1-0 game
Good series Steve, I would have preferred you let me sweep and rest my pitchers, but hey!
Wasn't aware. I'll see if there's anything that can be done. Thanks for the heads up!
(although the bullpen gakked up a bunch of runs in the top of the 9th anyway)
eh, I operate with a strategy of letting the fast/good baserunners be aggressive on the bases. make the defense make the play.
my runners do the same but were getting mowed down by maryland last round
lined up poorly for me with mendoza (extreme flyball pitcher) going in colorado
if he'd been on his game, he'd have missed more bats. but less room for error in a HR park
anyone else's ootp shut down when they download the file twice without closing the program in between?
it might also be a coincidence that the first version to behave that way for me was the first time I used steam
correction: I switched to steam for v 15 (that library feature comes in handy, eh?
Marquez has been underwhelming ever since I traded for him but he’s 3-0 this postseason.
Need to start fast when my guy on the mound is only in the rotation due to injuries
I can sim again tonight if you're both ready after the new file or just roll with it and I'll cancel the upload
Oh @yuda said after he exports. New file should be up in a few minutes.
I thought I matched up well vs Maryland but I thought West Virginia’s top-ranked rotation would knock me out
like I called guys up to play because I didn't want to expose backups in that series.
Colorado had a wild season - at one point you guys were like 6% shot a playoffs I think
I’ve built this team almost entirely internally but I’m going to have to acquire some rotation help next year
Idaho had one year where we finished like 90-40 after an abysmal start
Thought NM ended any chance when they won the first 2 of the series
Failing in September after starting strong. Maybe not choking that late in the year but same idea
This season in npbl we were in the mix 9/1 but missed by a ton. Has a bad September
I need to dig it up but one season we were way out front and missed the playoffs entirely...
Could be. Florida also had a run when Ray Stewart and another top outfielder would get hurt every August sending the team into a complete tailspin
the Jim Simpson / Jon Simpson thing keeps mixing me up watching the game logs
@AFBL Commish I don’t need to export despite the wheeler injury. Scared to touch anything
gotta love the AI manager leaving a reliever with 2 endurance in for not just a third inning, but to come out for a fourth
Players who were on both our championship teams (2037 and 2045) - SP Norman Cornell - SP Ron Carmichael - SP Jesus Ortega - RP Lou Moore - 2B Eddie Wheeler - SS Jose Martinez...
That's it. A couple of guys from the 2037 team are in AAA right now for us too like Aarden and Schute.
So, just looking at next year, Steve Larsen should be one of the favorites for rookie of the year. 0 HR in 16 regular season games, 4 in 19 playoff games.
Few small StatsPlus improvements today:
1. Team abbreviations now show for players on Awards results page http://i.imgur.com/0a6jeJP.png (h/t @miketsbcpbf)
2. Added a note indicating ** is an extra inning game on the Full Schedule page http://i.imgur.com/HyAkE7d.png (h/t @AFBL Commish)
3. Fixed issue where S+ Hall of Fame page was not showing all inducted players, it often missed pitchers that had no batting stats. (h/t @Christian DeMarco SIMBL for letting me know the page in his league was missing players)
4. And a few other small fixes for rare page crashes
@mstreeter06 just realized this morning i traded my 2nd round pick to georgia. i think you’re going to have to roll back a couple spots.
bah you're right. I didn't note that in the Traded Picks thread. I'll get this fixed.
Any talk of StatsPlus adding a rule 5 eligible page, like the FA page, for leagues that have that?
I'm sure its been suggested and its in future plans. Not sure however!
I’ll be out of pocket from tomorrow mid-afternoon until late Sunday (though I may not check in until Monday morning)
There’s a chance we’ll get to my next pick before I leave, so not going on auto yet. I’ll tell you when we get to that.
Sorry works been killer. We're almost done with the draft it appears. Expect an expanded active roster size (26) and possibly reduced September roster size (33-35) for the upcoming 2046 season. We still have 3 openings too so any help filling those out be appreciated.
I have some write ups coming but 24-year old SP Jeff Locke, a 6th round pick and 118th overall, is #1 rated AFBL prospect and will anchor the rotation this coming season
I did, responded, then he decided he didn't have the time to commit and backed out 🙄
(Also it’s a good thing we’re not simming tonight b/c I didn’t get a chance to check in over the weekend and just saw now ;) )
Jae-Shin Hong (10-9, 4.46) took a hit to his stamina rating and will be moved to the bullpen this season. 😞 My starting pitching was not particularly good to begin with, so this might hurt. Gonna try moving closer Lou Moore into the rotation. He's got 5 endurance and 3 good pitches so he should be decent. He was actually AA pitcher of the year once with a 20-3 record and a 2.08 ERA for Greensboro back in 2035.
Nah, I have certain criteria I use when I select starters/relievers and I’m unreasonably picky about it. 😂
I’m working the gate at the volleyball game tonight at school, so my export will probably be around 915-930 if you can hang on. Otherwise that’s ok I’ll get the second ST sim
Crap haha. I'll get those processed for Monday's sim 😄.
Also sounds like we've found a New York GM.
So what rookies do you have making your teams? NC has 26-year-old RP Antonio Sosa, who allowed 4 ER in 8 innings last September, 1B/DH Steve Larsen, 21, who hit .258-0-2 in 32 AB last September, and OF Nick Orchard, 24, who hit .241-2-8 in 54 AB last September. Larsen should be in the ROY race, as he'll be starting at DH and could potentially hit 30+ HR.
Surprisingly few for us, given we're coming out of the rebuild. A lot of guys have learned in the bigs for us. SP prospect Alfredo Carillo is going to start off in the pen for us, and LH RP prospect Ferry Van Campen will join him there. SP Martinez, once we get him from NC will likely see ML action this year.
We do have 18 guys who are 26 or younger though, and 5 of the remaining 8 who aren't, are relievers. 2 of the other 3 are catchers (the starter being 27). The last is 27 year old SP Steve Hill, our 5th man and most likely to get replaced by Carillo or Martinez
Idaho will have 2042 first round pick Jorge Degollado starting in LF. A tremendous leader, Degollado should be a contributor with eventual 20-20 potential.
It’s possible I won’t add any rookies, although Inoue and O’Slattery are both in serious contention to make the cut (I haven’t finalized yet)
They both saw a little action last year but not much. Not sure if they still count as rookies.
CF Jose Rodriguez will be starting for NM, taking the place of Dominic Bennett who moves to first. LF Mike Hill makes the team as 5th outfielder (for now). Cisco Martinez, the future starter at SS, will start in AAA but may get promoted mid season if no one else produces at SS. Probably should be more patient with him. RP Robbie LaPlante (right at 75 days of ML service) makes the team. RP Dwayne Pocklington (my first draft pick as NM GM way back in 2040) and SP Juan Rosales will start in AAA but have an outside shot at being called up. Looking forward to 2047, though 2046 should be interesting.
24-year old Jeff Locke (who played for the team in the playoffs last fall) will definitely be in the starting rotation and is the only one I know for sure. Definitely bringing up a rookie reliever as well, probably 24-year old lefty Steve Andrews who spent most of last year in A ball
.Jon Dixon, a 24 year old speedster had a 14 game trial last season at 2b is likely the first call up when an injury occurs.
The oldest player in my starting lineup is the reigning PL Rookie of the Year, 27 year old Kaz Nakashima. 🙂
I have a weird team in Idaho. I typically stay young but my pitching staff has only 3 guys under 27. Offensively we run between 24-33, but only 2 are 30+
NJ will put rookie C Jed McNeil on the roster.. 26y/o to back up bob holmes
Chad Black is the big mover in the organisation, from a 13-4 season in A ball straight up to AAA
the former 3rd round pick looks like he'll be AFBL ready after one more season in the minors
Mallards will give rookie 1b Jake Whitney a chance to start in the bigs after dominating the minors. We will also have rookie SP Jimmy Sheehan fill in for Dave Cross due to injury.
25y/o rookie lefty RP Mike Roberts who was playing in A ball last season is pushing hard to make the NJ roster too
Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs nights sometime between 8-11p CST. If you want to get an export in, I can wait a few minutes. @Slacko - NY
You'll want to go to https://statsplus.net/afbl/ and log in with one of the choices so I can assoicate you with New York in StatsPlus when you have a chance. This will allow you to get updates in Slack during sims and for our draft and league votes. @Slacko - NY
I’m torn between whether I should shift away from my current strategy (which served me well in the playoffs last year) or if I just need to ride out some slumps.
Historically, my teams have always been in the top 3 in defensive efficiency. This year, we're really bad, despite only having 8 errors and most of our players being 7 or better at their positions.
I bring this up because our pitching stats are way worse than ratings should indicate. Although we pitched pretty poorly last year and still won it all in the end.
Railroader great Chris Roberson is quickly moving to retirement, I hope. 9+ ERA this season. Ouch. https://statsplus.net/afbl/player/7207?page=pitch
Las Vegas CF Juan Alicia has a hitting streak of 41 games going, which appears to be an Explorer League record. ….And the streak ends at 44.
Did you know: Maryland leads all-time head-to-head series against: Washington, Pennsylvania, Texas, Ontario, New York, Oregon & Ohio and are 61-61 against NJ all-time
One of the AFBL's best ever pure hitters Cedric Boyd is 89 hits away from 3,000
Strange year so far for the Aviators. 4th most wins in the league, -2 run differential.
I have no idea what to think of my team. Over 2 sims we went 0-12. The other 4 sims we're 19-12.
holy cow, a 17-strikeout game for Mendoza, a no-hitter for van Meel, and 8.1 innings of shutout ball for Padilla (and a team shutout overall)
at NJ it's all about the team, but crikey Jesus Cruz is having a cracking start to the season on the mound
StatsPlus feature addition:
Finally rolled out a feature on I've been working on for quite a few weeks, it's the ability to add players to shortlists, and then easily see their recent stats and development.
The "My Shortlist" page is where you see the guys you've added:
http://i.imgur.com/15OcwBI.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/15OcwBI.png
You can edit the names and colors of the stars for your shorlists on preferences:
http://i.imgur.com/GHxoONg.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/GHxoONg.png
http://i.imgur.com/BSEUU3u.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/BSEUU3u.png
And to add a player to the list, there is only one place to do it right now, it's on a player page:
http://i.imgur.com/8tvjzqU.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/8tvjzqU.png
Stars will show next to players on your shortlist on various pages, like team rosters and the Player Leaderboard page.
Oh, and there's one more part of this feature - if you are in more than one league on StatsPlus and you are logged in to a team that is tied to a StatsPlus login, your preferences will now be shared across leagues, including theme, time zone, and short list names/colors.
And Jeff Geddes has 6 HR already in June, which is good for him since I was considering demoting him a couple of sims ago.
StatsPlus feature update:
http://i.imgur.com/PYx6Zbl.png
Should show A or L next to team names for upcoming picks on the Draft Summary page
Another StatsPlus feature update from my request:
Added an All Hitters option to the HOF Metrics drop-down http://i.imgur.com/ihJq3Yr.png
I will jinx my own guy but Florida’s Gordon Cunningham has had a ridiculous career so far
Wow yeah I guess over in the GEL I never quite noticed how fucking good Dwyer was. Was never my problem lol
StatsPlus feature update:
Added a direct web API that returns the current draft results in CSV format. You can use this in a spreadsheet to automatically mark off players in your own draft sheets.
AFBL S+ Draft API: https://statsplus.net/afbl/api/draft
Man, serious championship hangover for the Aviators. Most players are hitting/pitching way off their career numbers.
Only 3 PL teams have positive RD's - one of which is us, and we're 3 back of the Wild Card
In StatsPlus, is there a way to save filter criteria as a set (esp on free agents screen) so I don’t have to reenter them in a new session? If not, this would be a nice addition.
I know this can be done in ootp but as far as I can tell you can’t filter personality ratings in ootp like you can in StatsPlus.
Happy with a 5-2 sim, but had a slew of disruptive, minor injuries and a suspension.
My Bears are really banged up and shuffled defensively as well. Should be a good race in the FL West.
I’m really not sure what to do in Oregon. We’re 6 games back in the wildcard race (with multiple teams ahead of us), but we’re way underperforming our pythagorean. And the bullpen has been unsustainably awful compared to ratings
but on the other hand, it seems like there’s a viable fix (plus regression to the mean to come)
Idaho should rebuild, but I am probably going to hold off one more year...
I keep telling myself I'm going to sell and rebuild but haven't yet either haha
that’s the other argument against selling, is almost none of the core contributors are older than 30
so even if this year winds up with us on the outside looking in, seems reasonable that enough guys will bounce back next year
Which I guess is using a lot of words to say I’m probably just going to try to shake up/band-aid the bullpen and hope to get hot and if not focus on next year.
Count me as teams that don't know what to do. By run diff, we're a legit playoff team. By record - not quite. We have holes we could fill via trade, or just wait for my onslaught of prospects to arrive (even though OOTP has killed off 2 of my #1 overalls, and the guy I just picked 3rd overall)
Just noticed differences between injuries listed in slack and those listed on StatsPlus. Haven’t had a chance to check ootp yet but I think they match slack. D. Bennett has calf soreness in slack and kidney stones in StatsPlus.
S. Garnett has elbow strain in one and bruised hand in other and J. Rodriguez has knee contusion in one and foot soreness in the other.
Tony Ortiz had sore back in slack and a torn thumb ligament in StatsPlus.
The statsplus ones are wrong (I haven’t mentioned that b/c I assume it’s a known bug but maybe not?)
What a fucking awful call. These umps should all be fired immediately.
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I can’t believe Martinez held it together until the break. I’d have tossed every bat, glove, water bottle onto the field and then I’d have ripped the bags out the ground and refused to leave
Haha ya. First MLB manager ejected in the World Series since Bobby Cox in 1996.
Sunday, July 8th, 2046 - Oregon Explorers: RP José Manuel was injured . The Diagnosis: Cold. This is a day-to-day injury expected to last 2 days.
You trying to infect the clubhous, @lt - Idaho? 😉
Oregon has been 1 game below .500 10 times this season now: 0-1 (4/2), 2-3 (4/7), 26-27 (5/30), 29-30 (6/5), 31-32 (6/9), 35-36 (6/19), 36-37 (6/21), 39-40 (6/27), 43-44 (7/6), 44-45 (7/8). We have not been .500 yet. Maybe we can get over the hump after the break.
Awesome thanks! Probably about 30-45 minutes or so from sim time for anyone else that hasn't voted for ASG.
Bubba couldn't find his way there? https://www.afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/players/player_3203.html
Here's what Dave said when he released it @qdog915_pa...
I've added a direct web API that returns the current draft results in CSV format. For me, I use this in a spreadsheet to automatically mark off players in my own draft sheet.
If your league only has one draft, then the API is simple, it's like: https://statsplus.net/usba/api/draft
If your league is a "multi-draft" league, like an association where each league has their own draft pool, it would be https://statsplus.net/ueba/api/draft?lid=100 (you need to request a proper league ID)
In the near future I will update the S+ wiki with a page (or pages) explaining the APIs that are available now, and I'm open to suggestions for more.
If this doesn't mean anything to you, just ignore it. But you might want to pass it along to GMs in your league that do draft spreadsheets, a few in my league find this info and the way to get it very useful.
New feature updates to StatsPlus over the weekend:
1.) New on S+ today (Sat 11/2) is a "What's New" icon at the bottom of each page 🙂 Any user can click the little red number and get a brief summary of recent changes on S+.
Also, as you can read on that, I've rolled out some changes to player dev tracking. Short version is: Player rating changes that are tracked by S+ will start showing 6-month summaries for game dates more than 3 years old, rather than every update in between those 6 month intervals. Needed to do this because the size of the tracked data was getting really large.
As a bonus, while I worked on that, I did some major improvements to the actual dev tracking updates, and those will be happening roughly 10x faster than they were before.
2.) Added Sun 11/3, Now showing historical franchise name on player awards tab, instead of current franchise name. (Hopefully that shows up in the What's New button, too.)
holy cow. Victor Martinez has again gotten injured while on a rehab assignment. Second time this season.
Good thing they went for two on that last touchdown to really drive the message home.
They were winning 20-13 in the middle of the 8th and hung 9 more in their last at bat.
Wow, 4 game lead for the 2nd wildcard. Funny this team has gone from coming out of the rebuild too slow (last season) to suddenly arriving. I don't think we'd make much playoff noise but it'd be nice to be "back"
After posting a dismal 0-3 record with a 8.13 ERA in 7 starts with Maryland (on the positive side he struck out 30 in 31IP), the 25-year old top prospect SP had salvaged his season in AAA with Annapolis, going 5-2 in 12 starts with 91 strikeouts in 74IP.
man, still "struggling" in NC... and I'm down another SP. Going to shuffle things up a tiny bit to try to improve my defense.
Hector Roldan leads the FL in walks with 91. The second most by any player is 61 (Tony Bonilla).
I didn’t think it could last all season but a i am Gonzalez finally gave up a run. 45 innings pitched, 20 hits, 1 run
I was excited that my starting 1B was finally coming back today, but when I moved him onto the roster I noticed he's taken major talent hits. I'm going to run him out there for a couple weeks to see if they are real or not but I'm scared he might be done at 28... won the ROY last year and finished 2nd in MVP with a .325-32-100 line and was hitting .310 when he got hurt. 😞
my 1B/DH guy took a talent hit when injured as well (although it was just 1 point off of contact, he's still 7 there)
it seems strainge to me that a relatively mild knee injury would do that but I guess hitting really drives through the legs
I had a couple of 17 year old players from the international complex automatically promoted to rookie league last sim. Isn’t the auto promote age supposed to be 20?
actually maybe not, because I don't see the box to edit that I thought was there
Not sure what happened but they were in some weird limbo and needed to be placed on a roster. Couldn't place them in IC (I believe).
I figure at that age they should be about on par with the high school draftees in rookie league
I did release a couple of ic guys recently. I don’t remember their names but they could be the same two. Just didn’t want to leave I guess. Strange. Well they got released again. 😁
Maybe there is a problem releasing from IC. I’ll try promote and release next time.
Figured this 5 games would tell Idaho a lot - it did. We can’t compete with the best teams.
I can’t decide if underachieving to start the season makes me fell better (we’re a better team post-April) or worse (could get cold again)
Yes hopefully soon but might not be til this afternoon. Have a little boy that's dealing with an ear infection. Plus at my parents in St Louis wheee lol
Traveling to Alton just across the river from St. Louis today (from Rockford up near Chicago)!
So you’re saying you’re up for entertaining Matt’s parents so he can get the sim in? ;)
Late with this, but have we talked about you being in IL? I'm in Hudson, assuming you came down 39 to 55, you went right past me. And I was also in Alton last Saturday for a funeral as my wifes family is from there. Small world.
I don’t remember mentioning it before. Yes we went right by Hudson. We stopped at the Cracker Barrel at Bloomington on our way back Sunday. My wife’s sister lives in Alton. Crazy that three of us ended up in the area last weekend.
Thanks just a slight fever and a likely ear infection but also super attached to dad 🤣
So somehow we've managed to catch West Virginia despite playing very average baseball. Going to be an interesting finish, I get one of my SPs back this week and then Lou Moore, my #2 starter, should be back for the first or second round of the playoffs.
Yuck. 2-5, but still 1 1/2 games up for the last wildcard spot with 3 to play (4 for the teams chasing)
3 teams in the FL WC2 race (OR up 1.5 over ID and 2.5 over IN). 2 teams in the PL WC2 race (VA up 3 over ON).
when I looked at the or-results channel and saw 5 losses, I figured we were sunk
interestingly, my last series is at New Mexico, and if we make the playoffs, it will be... at New Mexico.
My base running is atrocious - i wonder how many games i may have cost myself bumpy having guys steal all the time. Lol
Idaho had 1 good month - July we were 14-8. The rest was all around .500
which is the season I came back at the end of the year. I don't know what the previous owner was doing but I made some changes to the lineups etc and won 94 the next year
Anibal Gonzalez having a ridiculous season. 58 games., 7-1 0.55 era. 65IP 33 hits allowed. 18 walks and 79k
First division title for the Danger since I joined up. No really bad sims all season. Hopefully we’ll stay competitive for a while. Haven’t won a playoff series yet.
I guess we are peaking at the right time, as long as we continue to win in October
‘41 was a good draft class for NM. All nine players (had an extra pick) at AAA or better. Three currently starting for NM and several others have been called up for a bit and contributed this year. Probably three long term starters and the rest solid backups.
The eighth-rounder, Eric Battle, is doing a nice job at SS while I try to be patient with the development of the future starter Cisco Martinez.
NC has matched it's longest postseason streak with 7 seasons. We only missed the playoffs once in between the two 7-season streaks. So, that will be 14 out of 15 seasons we've made the postseason.
The 2039 Aviators were a huge disappointment at 76-86. Still don't know how that happened, lol.
2039 was an odd year in general in the PL... we finished 4th with a talented roster despite playing in a division with only 1 team over .500. WV snuck into the playoffs at 81-81 and then managed to go all the way to the FCS before falling to Idaho.
Somehow we matched last season’s record despite my feeling like we were never as good as last years team... mainly because we gave up a lot more runs.
In Chris Curry‘s last game of his entire career he got an RBI single, 20th in hits, 15th in RBI 42nd in HR tho my park is not good for Lefty’s HR totals
Game has Idaho as the home team for Game 163 https://statsplus.net/afbl/preview
4th pitcher going and we're weak at catcher in a league where everybody is strong b/c of injury
so we gonna do the you are going to beat me dance again this year? lol
this blown lead is the one we had to win: https://www.afblbaseball.com/reports/news/html/box_scores/game_box_7202.html
I had a starter like that a long time ago. Dude had all the attributes and couldn’t get his shot together
I thought we were reasonably well set up for the playoffs (3 very good starting pitchers, I like my lineup, a couple of guys performing well enough in the bullpen)... but our last 9 games were against the other three playoff teams and we went 2-7
But based on ratings he should have been a dominant starter for 10-12 years
Looks like both OR and ID are ready so I'll run the Game 163 sim momentarily
am i reading this correctly that i got swept by a team 20 games under 500 in the playoffs?
For some reason fl MVP not loading in stats lab? Every other ballot is there though
Happened to me last night too. I just had to keep trying and reloading.
@lt - Idaho NM did have a great season, 105 wins is a record for the Danger, but that’s history and we were only 10-8 against Idaho. So I have high hopes but no expectations 🤞. Good luck!
any ideas how a player can have 100% success rate stealing bases but have a negative wSB?
@jeffnewmexico i don’t see how we can win this series. I have 1 very good starting pitcher and he is not eligible until game 3. One solid starter but he pitched in game 163. So unless i get some real surprising starts from my 3-4 guys i expect this to be quick. Good luck!
Probably not, but ya never know when OOTP decides to take a shine to a random team that's just happy to make the postseason
Is the plan to set the draft up to run concurrent to the playoffs or to wait this year?
Although I think it would be a good thing to get the draft moved to the spring so we can draft concurrently and not have our longer offseasons
I kinda like getting those guys for a full season but I guess if it’s early enough in the spring it won’t hold us up (or at least not much)?
Ironically, isn’t MLB planning to push their draft to be late in the year now?
I think they are just moving it back past the end of the College World Series
Well the draft is usually right before the Super Regionals I believe.... I feel like they are saying who all got drafted by whom during those broadcasts
The later it goes, the more it can mess with the incoming college freshmen
If we ever move it from the end of the season in mid November, I'd like to see it during Spring Training or so. This way we can get the next season moving 5-10 days faster than our usual speed
Yeah I guess the loss of momentum is a bummer too. During spring training or even mid-April makes sense, can still get more or less a full year out of rookie league that way
Have you considered doing winter ball (via the “tournaments” feature)? Too much trouble? It would at least give us something to watch during the draft if you don’t shift it to spring.
I also still have it on my mind to sometime get an Independent League for the universe
If I understand the way they work we’d all send players (maybe one team per org, or maybe shared between multiple orgs and let the CPU manage them so there’s not arguments about playing time)
Is playing time directly tied to development in OOTP yet? Or would they just be risking injury?
That would be really cool but do not schedule a free agent draft it screws up where the player was drafted in the league history
Ya it's all something I need to play around with in a test AFBL environment
One of my leagues (and @chappy too) does Winter ball. It's kinda cool, and I don't know if it's concrete but it seems to help dev
I think we can move the draft to spring training without any disruption. That would shorten the offseason to the playoffs and a sim or two
top pen in the league, blows games 1 and 2. Ah how I miss the playoff nonsense in OOTP
Oops forgot to click over to the Injury Log for StatsPlus to catch the injuries and post. I can look after the upload finishes.
I am somehow up 2-1 so let it ride. I won’t be in game until later - say 9 central so don’t wait on my account
NM exported. Can’t figure out how good old Hector started game three.
Just a quick apologies to everyone for my lack of presence this season.
Had a lot of my plate (nothing horrible) and it really ruined my routine, on the bubble of having free afternoons again!
Bested by Colorado once again. Good luck the rest of the way @mstreeter06
Well we got one game at least. We will be back tho. Good luck @chappy !
really pleased to get past @claphamsa - we've failed a few times against WV in the past
We'll start the LCS when @chappy and @jeffnewmexico are ready. Good luck guys!
And Jose Rodriguez, who was not on ballot, had a pretty good rookie year in NM (2.82 WAR and Rookie of the Month in August).
I'll start Sim 3 when I can get remoted into my OOTP computer. Should be soonish.
Ditto on the ROY stuff- I had one guy who would've gotten 1st on my ballot (Josh Garren 3.8 WAR) and another who might've placed, OF Dong-Woo Park (1.8 WAR)
My opening guess is that it doesn't count any player who had any ML service time the year prior, even if it's below the cutoff
Dong-woo might not have had enough PA this year to qualify. He put up that 1.8 WAR in just 106 AB (.416 BABIP sure helps lol)
That’s what I was thinking too. Rodriguez won Rookie of the Month in August ’46 but did play some games in ’45. Be nice if the ballots in StatsPlus and ootp criteria matched up.
Yeah, Lou O’Slattery also missed the ballot after a smidgen of playing time last year too
I don’t know what the largest postseason margin of victory ever is, but this has to be close to it
Yeah I'd have to agree on the largest margin.
Congrats on the start of the series @jeffnewmexico
I knew I needed to save some runs, plus I’ve never seen a pitcher as fragile as Kiristopa
so thought Rowe could come in and be that #3 starter. Perez has done well for me. Sadly the 2B I gave up developed quickly
No changes for NC per Chappy DM. So we can continue whenever NJ is ready. @mikenewjersey
Yeah that 2B Garcia was nice, but he didn't quite field well enough for me to hang onto him. Somehow in the rebuild I got like a billion middle infielders
one of the reasons I was willing to move him was defense... but looks like a keeper at bat
Garcia has fit in nicely in NC. His defense is not great but he is passable since the rest of my IF is excellent.
When my starting 1B went down we struggled with Larsen at 1B and Garcia at 2B. Moving Turd to 1B has fixed that glaring defensive hole.
Turd has gone from a no rating to a 4 at 1B in just a few weeks. Great glove and range so it should keep going up.
When i dealt Garcia it was between him and a young player Lopez - also a 2b. Since the deal
Lopez looks like he will be a 1b after some lack of defensive development at 2b and of...
I had my good Defensive Catcher playing 2nd last 2 years (only way to get bat into lineup) might move him to first if I trade my other 1b to shore up that D -65 zone last 2 years 👀😬
I realized this season that my entire starting rotation are flyball pitchers. So I’ve mostly been trotting out a bat-first infield and making heavy use of defensive subs later in games when the bullpen is in
I believe we have found a new Texas owner from Chappy's NPBL party_parrot
NJ export is in.. fingers crossed we can take this a bit further
I'll run the sim in the morning guys. I'll be adding Matt Yordy as the Texas GM as well coming to us from NPBL.
Looks like my pitchers are giving away lots of free runs for Black Friday
Thanks 😃. Relieved not to have you chasing me anymore this season!
NJ has exported... I wish all the luck in the world to the athletics and NONE whatsoever to NC... hahaha - that has bucked the stream of politically correct lies teams making it to a game 7 always spew out 😄
NM hoping to win its first Federation Cup. They’ve been to the Series and lost three times, ‘25, ‘26 (lost to NJ), and ‘27.
I'll be out and about for a few hours but we can start the FCS when NJ is ready tonight or whenever
cracking come back by NJ, and nice to see switching up my game 7 pitcher worked a treat... hard luck @chappy, but a well fought and tight series (apart from that 16-0 smashing you gave us)
NJ has exported, let's get this thing happening... and again, best of luck to NJ, may NM shudder at the very thoguht of playing our boys and wilt on both fields 😄
They’re actually quite terrified at the thought of your boys, but NM seems to play at its best when frightened so I egg them on about how fearsome you all are.
It'll be a few hours at least before I can sim. I'd guess around our normal sim time around 8pm CST. I'll give everyone a heads up.
just checking how to kickstart these guys, but seems a 1-2 sim in each series is our poison right now
not good when jesus cruz, who has been a god all season, is throwing marshmallows in the post season
ok @AFBL Commish - export is in... let's see fi my little tweak pays off
one problem with real time sims... slack udpates before the RTS page, so you already know when something good/bad has happened, but you can't follow the 2 on 0 outs with any suspense as slack posts if runs are scored ebfore you see it on the rts
don't think so.. it's not just afbl, happens in most/all leagues
seeing as my tweak was for game 6, it's not quite going to plan... lol
so in game 5, NJ takes the lead for what, the 4th game of the series.. what do we have to show for it.. 1 win so far... lol
if we can sneak this one, maybe my game 6 curve ball could get us back in this thing
4Hrs for only 6 runs this game... not quite maximising our power
ok, 5 dingers this game... if we drop this one I will literally cry
thoguht I'd bring in a lefty starter to try and see what he could so
Sorry guys was wiped out last night and game six seemed to be delayed for some reason. I gave up and went to sleep. Nice to see Cordero and Howell make a difference. They were big producers at 3 and 4 all regular season but have been relatively quiet in the playoffs.
Awesome. I'll wait a few hours so @mikenewjersey would be awake to watch. Good luck guys!
Sounds good. I can start it now or can definitely wait for you to be in a spot to follow along.
Does the next sim include all three remaining games or is it broken up into more than one sim?
I changed my mind. If it goes to game seven I would like a chance to make changes before the game.
Lol ya understood. I'll be sure to pause after each game for this final group of 3 games.
@lt - Idaho Thanks I’m glad you were right! Those 105 wins weren’t wasted.
sorry I missed it all, well done @jeffnewmexico - NJ needs another title, we've hit the playoffs like a gazillion times and only have 2 or 3 to show for our efforts.. next season I guess... lol
Thanks! Sorry you missed it too. Was exciting. NJ had the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth with the tying run at the plate with one out and Vazquez struck out two to end it.
Figured we would have to get game eight if we were going to win the series.
hmm.. so we had a chance huh.. a slim one, but stilla chance... and with bobby young on the mound for game 9 too...
game 1 was the killer for me, up 5-0 on the road and then getting done...
He was playing in the playoffs because normal starter Tony Ortiz sprained his ankle late in the regular season.
It seems like we’re putting in less than one player per decade at most positions
I think we just have shorter careers overall so people aren’t as likely to hit milestones
Ya I feel like I'm more liberal about it too. I always need to check the career leaderboards to compare and get baselines for our automatic HOF qualifiers and such.
Maybe when we hit 40 or 50 years in we can dig back and do some kind of veterans’ committee thing
Should have a better handle on what defines, say, an all-time great second baseman at that point
But then it’s also what stats do people look at, Like I know there are a bunch of guys with a lot of hits but they weren’t good OBP guys, Also there are a few guys who have HR for days but weak other numbers. They aren’t getting my vote but Objectively they should be Hall of Famer’s in our league
Omg Jonathan Broadberry who won Rookie of month for October isn’t Eligible to win the rookie of the year?!?
I saw some talk of this a few weeks back but that’s weird
Dobson just missed my cutoff this year, but I could be convinced going forward.
I forced him to play SS cause I had a 2B. He lost out on an MVP season because of it
totally bad managing to be honest. his 22-30 seasons can go up against anyone (well most anyone)
and he was super clutch even though he had declined at the end - he hit the HR that put the team into the playoffs in 2039 and hit the series winning HR in the first round that year.
but being 100% honest he probably needed another 170 hits to get to 2500. He stalled at 479 steals and 421 HR and 1445 RBI.
Its funny - had Idaho been a little worse I would have had him play to get those stats, but we were in the midst of the 3 titles in 4 years and 4 finals appearances in 5 years.
See I’m less looking at that than the lower JAWS/WAR score (which was almost certainly hurt by playing out of position) and the lackluster stats, especially OBP, in the second half of his career
It might even be realistic, but I feel like people just fall off a cliff at 32 or 33 all the time
his ZR at SS was hgorrendous but at 2B was very good. Total bad managing
well 2 very good defensive years and several ok years at 2B but disgraceful at SS
Feature request for statsplus (idk a better way to get those in that to drop them here and hope Matt passes them on): future-year HOF ballot projections
This one is probably not a statsplus issue, but is it possible to force a face gen pic of players in the uniform they went into the hall with for that screen?
Yes that is on my list to fix. I just need to upload the correct picture I believe.
Bryan Soliben is retiring and the Bears will be retiring his #54 jersey
I always forget about it. I also haven’t really bothered to retire jerseys, which I should get around to as well.
Oh yeah the game will definitely do that for you, It’s been around since 16/17 OOTP I just remember in my long running Solo league having so many Retired numbers on my Chicago white cubs
The Chicago Cubs ceased to be a team at one point Until they came back The White Sox Became the White Cubs
Do I need to get my roster down to 25 for the flip or is it fine leaving it at 33? Don’t remember.
2046 Season Award Winners:
Frontier League
Most Valuable Hitter: 2B Ánibal Beltrán (CO)
Most Valuable Pitcher: SP Orlando Árias (CA)
Reliever Of The Year: CL Ánibal González (ID)
Rookie Of The Year: 2B Danny George (IL)
Best Defender Award...
Pitcher: Daryl McCoy (IL)
Catcher: Gil Smith (KY)
First Baseman: Mario Cruz (CO)
Second Baseman: Anibal Beltran (CO)
Third Baseman: Frank Baker (OR)
Shortstop: Jesus Perez (CA)
Left Fielder: Tony Ortiz (NM)
Center Fielder: Juan Cardenas (CO)
Right Fielder: Ismael Garza (WA)
Platinum Stick Award...
Catcher: Tony Bonilla (CA)
First Baseman: Dan Willis (ID)
Second Baseman: Anibal Beltran (CO)
Third Baseman: Roger Peck (KY)
Shortstop: Jimmy Williams (KY)
Left Fielder: Billy Kaufman (CO)
Center Fielder: Tony Johnston (TX)
Right Fielder: Jared Howell (NM)
Designated Hitter: Raul Silva (ID)
Patriot League
Most Valuable Hitter: 2B Jorge Martínez (WV)
Most Valuable Pitcher: SP Jesús Cruz (NJ)
Reliever Of The Year: CL Edwin Mercer (ON)
Rookie Of The Year: SP Alan Carpenter (GA)
Best Defender Award...
Pitcher: Chet Ward (ON)
Catcher: Bob Holmes (NJ)
First Baseman: Orlando Lopez (OH)
Second Baseman: Jorge Martinez (WV)
Third Baseman: Jose Vasquez (NY)
Shortstop: Eric Park (OH)
Left Fielder: Bob Dunham (MD)
Center Fielder: Nick Orchard (NC)
Right Fielder: Octavio Benitez (WV)
Platinum Stick Award...
Catcher: Flash Rodriguez (NC)
First Baseman: Jerry Sutton (WV)
Second Baseman: Jorge Martinez (WV)
Third Baseman: Jorge Beltre (WV)
Shortstop: Raul Hernandez (GA)
Left Fielder: Choppy Orozco (NC)
Center Fielder: Doug Thornton (WV)
Right Fielder: Jose Pena (GA)
Designated Hitter: Jesus Flores (PA)
General Manager Of The Year: Jeff Hoffman (NM), 105-57, FL West title, FCS champs
Might be the 1st year for us with no one elected. I'd have to go and check to be sure.
…and of course I decided to take my chances and claim a guy after the draft last night and he appears to have gone back to school.
I only submitted 8 HOF votes this ballot. You can read about why I'm an elitest douche behind a paywall in the latest Bridegrooms Tribune
(I had initially submitted 4, but then I was looking at the Hall and decided that I’m being a little too strict so I had Matt reset my ballot so I could expand it.)
Anyone notice that sometimes star ratings change even though you’re looking at the same file and nothing has happened in the game. I’ve had a couple of players in this download that had three star potential but when I look again later are down to two and a half. And all I have done is switch between views.
They are useful to me in that they give a quick general idea of where a player ranks compared to other players. Helps me quite a bit in sorting through draft pools and free agent pools.
I use them to scan the minor leagues and look for guys to be replaced via free-agent churn
if you’re a half star (or even one star) potential, I’d better have a good reason to keep you
Yes I use them for that too. Been gradually weeding out minors so that eventually I’ll have a two star potential minimum (other than special cases like you said).
If players in IC have decent potential I usually promote them at 18 or 19. Others stay until 20 and if they aren’t showing anything by then they get released.
I am very strict if you have no talent you delete it right away, If I’m paying attention to my team 1718 is when I looked up promote you if you’re like super high talented if you just average the same thing as Jeff But I also look at what the positional make up of my minor-league team is Because sometimes I just need to promote somebody to fill a gap
I have promoted at 16 before and it tends to be a mistake in my experience
Yeah I'm always cautious of being over aggressive with promotions for that reason.
If they have any potential I wait as long as I can. If they don’t they get the call at 19 and 75 or more days old at start of season
What about promoting from AAA to ML? What level of development do you need to see (50%, 75%, 100% or whatever)? Injuries and lack of talent at a position can speed things up, but assuming you don’t have that pressure when are you comfortable promoting a player?
Or do you go by minimum ratings or performance or something else?
I don’t have clear rules for this myself. I usually look at all of the above let it simmer for a while and go with my gut.
I go by AAA performance combined with good enough or close to it ratings
I actually just moved most of my guys with some talent from the IC to R, regardless of age.
In part because I noticed Leonardo Mendoza was in R at 16, and he did fine. I figure, it's an experiment.
(typically I move them at 18, maybe 17 if their ratings look like they can hang)
for AAA, it mostly depends on how good my team is. I'll rarely call somebody up to ride the bench, unless it's September
I like to use the prospects who i think will make next years team up in September and give them some playing time.
I think I saw this at one point, but can't find it now. Is 8PM CST the normal deadline for exports on a day when a sim is being run?
Correct. Exports due by 8pm CST then I'll conduct the sim sometime between 8-11pm depending on family, work, etc. Usually sims happen closer to 9pm.
If you ever need a few minutes around sim time, you can always ping me and I can hold off a few. I'll usually give a grabbing exports in x amount of time Slack warning too.
Lou O'Slattery and Pancho Padilla both out (Padilla for most of the season).
Monday, February 11th, 2047 - New Mexico Danger: 3B José Rocha was injured while getting in a fight with his son's Little League coach. The Diagnosis: Broken hand. This injury keeps him out of action for 3 months.
well the MOST likely explanation is that it didn't occur to Markus to check the player's age.
As a ump for kids baseball it was auto pitch using a machine, but if the machine would throw bad ball I could say redo but if kid swung the bat it’s a strike I would alway say redo no matter if kid swung because it’s little kids and I had parents mad at me for that
Scouting might be a bit off on Rocha. Normal intelligence. He has a cool, slow, methodical approach. Or maybe his wife is the coach’s ex or something. The two dads fighting about the mom. Awkward.
Sounds good. Probably another 30 minutes or so anyway for me for tonight's sim.
Interesting to note many of the 17yo FA C are in the 6'7"-6'9" range. Just thought that was too odd to not mention.
Yeah that doesn’t seem sustainable, I’m 6’4 and I have trouble crouching behind the plate
would be interesting to follow one or more of them and see if it would lead to an increase in injuries
Poor SP Christian Mercier got the Maryland curse. He’s been in the system since 2036 as a 3rd round pick and finally got to AFBL last season after slowly improving. Was always a decent strikeout guy but seemed to turn the corner starting 2045. Gone 14 more months torn labrum
Few small StatsPlus feature updates today:
League Injury Summary - https://statsplus.net/screenshots/injury_summary.png
Hall of Fame Metrics filter additions - https://statsplus.net/screenshots/hof_metrics_filters.png
Some stats for Drafted Pitcher Details - https://statsplus.net/screenshots/drafted_pitcher_details.png
welp, ML roster is correct. We'll see if I manage to get the minor league clubs in order before tomorrow
Turd Newton has adapted to his move to 1B nicely, up to an 8 position rating after starting as a 1 late last season.
1 Turd Newton 1B - .288-26-81
2 Orlando Garcia 2B - .313-23-83
3 Flash Rodriguez CA - .323-28-103
4 Choppy Orozco LF - .318-40-108
5 Steve Larsen DH - .274-20-64
6 Jim Simpson 3B - .272-22-75
7 Luis Martinez SS - .277-12-64
8 Steve Larson RF - .275-17-68
9 Nick Orchard CF - .293-9-58
P Norman Cornell - 15-7, 3.18
(Stats are career 162-game averages)
1 Turd Newton 1B - 2nd Round, 40th overall
2 Orlando Garcia 2B - Trade w/Virginia
3 Flash Rodriguez CA - Scouting Discovery
4 Choppy Orozco LF - Scouting Discovery
5 Steve Larsen DH - 1st round, 18th overall
6 Jim Simpson 3B - 1st round, 19th overall
7 Luis Martinez - 2nd round, 39th overall
8 Steve Larson - 3rd round, 60th overall
9 Nick Orchard - undrafted FA
P Norman Cornell - Scouting Discovery
Newton & Larson both came from the 2037 draft, Simpson & Martinez both came from the 2038 draft, as did reserve OF Rob Hanes, who I believe is the first (and so far only) 8th round pick I've had make the big leagues. Those two drafts were very good for us, but the following years were disastrous. Nobody from 2039 or 2040 has or will make any real impact, and our 1st round picks from those years are still in AA and will be lucky to see AAA before they hang up their cleats.
I will play this game: 1. Ken Lahoda 3B - .316-8-68
2. Antonio Morales 2B - .286-16-68
3. Soetsu Akiyama C - .257-14-63
4. Raul Silva DH - .285-36-102
5. Jim Field RF - .246-19-55
6. Dan Willis 1B - .286-22-87
7. Gianni Girard CF - .268-15-65
8. Anibal Rodriguez SS - .279-13-63
9. Jorge Delgollado LF - .273-10-56
P Jorge Reyes - 15-5, 3.07
- Ken Lahoda 3B - 1st round, 13th overall
2. Antonio Morales 2B - 1st round, 7th overall
3. Soetsu Akiyama C - Scouting discovery
4. Raul Silva DH - Trade w/Colorado
5. Jim Field RF - 3rd round, 60th overall
6. Dan Willis 1B - 1st round, 6th overall
7. Gianni Girard CF - Trade w/West Virigina
8. Anibal Rodriguez - Trade w/Virginia
9. Jorge Delgollado - 1st round, 19th overall
P Jorge Reyes 2nd round, 27th overall
I’ll join in later too, but trapped in meetings for the foreseeable future unfortunately.
Opening Day lineup:
- Hector Roldan - SS - 247/372/348 - scouting discovery 2037
- Dennis Christopher - 2B - 317/365/422 - trade with VA 2039
- Dan Jackson - 1B - 283/352/496 - 1st round, 3rd overall 2035
- Frank Baker - 3B - 270/329/459 - 1st round, 4th overall 2034
- Sander Mertens - C - 271/318/525 - scouting discovery 2036
- Ken McCarthy - DH - 281/325/443 - trade with ID 2045
- Carl Neil - RF - 284/316/452 - trade with GA 2045
- Alex Luna - LF - 261/322/430 - 1st round, 13th overall 2036
- Conner Mendelson - CF - 315/343/420 - 2nd round, 32nd overall 2041
P Alfredo Cabrera - 3.32 ERA - scouting discovery 2034
He sure does. He runs well, too, and he won a couple gold gloves at 2B. Quite valuable despite being limited when he actually, you know, swings the bat.
Colorado 2047 Roster:
Main Lineup...
- R Billy Kaufman LF - .329-14-74 - Trade w/ MD 2041
- R Rodney Noseworthy SS - .316-12-72 - 1st round 4th overall 2029
- L Diederick Kooijman 3B - .267-38-111 - Trade w/ MD 2041
- R Anibal Beltran 2B - .303-21-94 - Scouting Discovery 2034
- L Mario Cruz 1B - .287-37-104 - Scouting Discovery 2033
- R Angelo Mejia CA - .284-37-97 - 1st round 16th overall 2034
- L Jose Garcia DH - .280-36-112 - Trade w/ VA 2041 (starting season on IL, 1-2 weeks)
- R Jorge Baca RF - .260-21-76 - FA signing 2045
- L Juan Cardenas CF - .256-5-40 - 4th round 80th overall 2033
Bench...
- CA/1B Emanuel de Waal - Scouting Discovery 2034
- 1B/DH Don Woods - 5th round 96th overall 2037
- 2B/3B/SS Jeff Young - Trade w/ VA 2041
- 3B/DH Tony Blanchard - FA signing 2036
- SS/2B/3B Yoichibei Sasaki - Scouting Discovery 2034
- OF Gaston Aglietti - Scouting Discovery 2040 - Rookie
- OF Steve Brown - 6th round 119th overall 2036
Rotation...
- R Jorge Ramirez - 2nd round 32nd overall 2032
- R Steve Gamble - 2nd round 40th overall 2033
- R Takenao Samurakami - Scouting Discovery 2039
- R Jose Silva - 2nd round 40th overall 2026
- R Raul Reyes - Scouting Discovery 2039 - Rookie
Bullpen...
- L Leo Rodriguez - 3rd round 60th overall 2031
- R Ed Raines - 2nd round 36th overall 2034
- L Ira Ramey - 2nd round 35th overall 2037
- L Victor Garcia - Trade w/ GA 2026
- R Jesus Hernandez - Scouting Discovery 2033
- R Antonio Castro - FA signing 2031
I said this last year and was wrong, but this year I think I'm right... this is going to be the best offense I've ever had.
Now the pitching.... 2 injuries and I'm going to be needing to score 7 runs a game.
it's only 12 games in and regression is guaranteed, but my team has never hit this well. 1st in every major category in the FL, except home runs (tied for 2nd) and walks (4th). oh and base running where we are 10th. Pitching is also performing at an unrealistic level. top 3 in every category in FL except walks (4th), Ks (7th).
@lt - Idaho Next sim would be a good time for that slump to begin since we play you three times 😃. NM just had its worst sim since ‘45. Season started out well at 5-0 but then we could only score one run four out of seven games last sim.
Hehe- we aren’t going to score 6.5 runs per game so i expect that number to start coming down soon.
So @AFBL Commish you took your attention away from temptation island?
First major injury of consequence for the Aviators as Steve Larsen goes down for 4 months.
Thanks. Don't have file yet. Probably tonight. first time in a "no finances" league.
Hey now you can see your max stadium capacity and % sold capacity sold on the finances tab.
Screenshot of this new feature update for StatsPlus https://statsplus.net/screenshots/stadium_capacity.png
Thank you all for another great year. Especially Streeter and all of the long-timers for being such good guys. 🙏 and welcome welcome to the new folks. 👍
Happy holidays to all. Lets bring Idaho a championship in the new year.
Had RP turn himself into a SP last sim by adding a fastball to his repertoire. First time I’ve noticed such a thing right away.
Wish it would happen to a guy with better control and movement though! 🤞
Do messages expire (and disappear) after a certain amount of time? I’m not seeing anything in some of the team channels and I know there was something there.
Yes unfortunately we only keep the last 10,000 messages here on Slack in the free tier
Which is why we've kept the Forum going to preserve history and such
if we ever decide to subscribe to slack (or if they ever change their policies), all the old messages are actually preserved. We just can't see them while we're freeloading
The base paid tier is $8/month/user so yes I'd prefer to keep the free tier too. Our hosting/StatsPlus costs is roughly $120/year.
There's got to be a way to scrape the Slack message data and store it somewhere somehow but don't have time for that haha. I like having the Forum for historical data and such.
The team channels are interesting for whatever current messages are there. But even more interesting to me would be to see GM’s view of what was important to them over time. Too bad stuff gets hidden. The forum is great but slack is so much easier on a phone.
are you able to install web software on the hosting? there’s an open source alternative to slack called let’s chat. self-hosted and free. but that brings work with it no doubt
Rocket.chat looks like another option if we ever want to pursue down the line
Actually testing out Rocket.chat now. Trying to import our Slack as a test. The unlimited message history is huge.
Would anyone care to test out Rocket.chat with me over the next week or so? Exported the AFBL slack data over (public channels only but the entire message history!).
Rocket.chat has a mobile app in addition to the web app and desktop apps. They all function similarly to Slack.
If so, let me know and I'll add your info to this sandbox chat environment so you can sign in and test things out.
This could potentially be a replacement for Slack and maybe the Forum.
I still need to chat with Dave about if StatsPlus would work but it should since Rocket.chat can do webhooks. Also if it would work, if we could install on the AFBL hosting which shouldn't be an issue.
Just added your email and forced a random password to be generated. I think you'll get an email from Rocket.chat (used the one you use for Slack). @yuda
Messing around with dark mode/theme options while using Rocket.chat in your browser or with the desktop app (their mobile apps seem to follow the device's system preferences for dark/light mode).
Chatting with Dave (StatsPlus) finally. He'll look into it but sounds like it's more complicated than I anticipated. I'll keep on this since I really think this could be a great solution to keep "Slack" and merge our Forum stuff into it while keeping our message history.
We'll keep going as is in the mean time and I'll keep everyone posted. I have 10 or so days left with RC's cloud hosted trial if anyone wants to check out and help continue test it out. Thanks all!
Anyone have any experience using Discord? Similar to Slack from what I've seen.
Slacks' advantage is its widespread OOTP use. People have gotten used to it.
Just wish we could keep all messages. Otherwise this test with RC and others wouldn't need to be a thing 😄.
I used discord for a little bit when I got into Pokemon Go. Didn’t much care for it but idk why.
Anyone heard or use Zulip? That's another potential solution besides Rocket.Chat?
Don't really like Discord, Riot, or Mattermost in my research.
Several threads in Reddit talked about Zulip along with RC. Spinning up a Zulip install now to try that out too (avoiding working after being back from time off for 2 weeks lol).
Forgot to post - out of town this week, won't be exporting. Back Wednesday.
- does statsplus post score updates to it as it does to slack? i.e. statsplus slack integration?
Yes on a mobile app. Not sure yet but I would think so for S+ since those are just webhooks I believe. Waiting for Dave's response.
Updated desktop app screenshot after creating channels from topics in our Forum. Remember this is just a test/sandbox to see if it'd work to replace Slack and Forum. Very early on in testing and if you do have some time to help test, let me know!
Awesome yes the more the merrier and better for testing things out. I'll get that setup shortly.
Email added with a force password reset. You should receive an email to verify and then login. Thanks!
My biggest concern with Rocket Chat (assuming we can work out how to integrate statsplus with it) is will it always be free? or are they going to change pricing model at some point?
Yeah not sure on that. I would hope their free tier would keep the unlimited message history which is the biggest plus for me at this point to allow us to merge Slack with our Forum stuff still living there.
PL North division leader is currently 3 games below .500 party_parrot
StatsPlus servers might be having some issues. Keeping an eye on updates in that Slack workspace.
SP Jeff Locke finally got his first major league win. Feel-good story for the time being, 6th round pick made good.
Working on a connector app to post things from Slack to RC (no pic this time)
We're getting some good division/playoff races starting to develop as we're into June now
To the few that were helping test Rocket.chat. I'm moving that test to a different instance since our trial with their cloud hosting is nearly up. So there won't be any mirror posts over there tonight. I'll post about the new RC url during my tests tomorrow likely.
Wow impressive on that first day. Sorry about going slow with the sim. Doing more testing/tweaking with RC 😎.
I am old and getting tired - run the sum and roll the dice with the new RC
Sweet. This was posted in RC. Bridge working both directions including team results channels. Only thing that wouldn't work at the moment would be the /player command in RC but Slack can't go away completely so GMs could do that there 😄.
I'll re-add the few that have been help me test out RC to the new instance tonight or tomorrow. For now the URL will be chat.afblbaseball.com (still a work in progress and you'll need a login to enter).
Think I got the channel renaming Slack-RC bridge figured out. Sorry about all the messages this morning 😉.
I'll need to archive this channel and add everyone to the new afbl_general / general channel