Sorry as I have missed some sim's. Going through some strong radiation treatment's at Univ. of Wisconsin clinic. Results have been very positive other than the strange "glowing" ! 🤔
Not to worry Fred, your team is still a postseason beast as usual. Stay strong!
I did pick up the OOTP BB 20 while on sale. Could not pass on that $10 sale price. Anyone playing the newest version of hockey? Thinking about buying it. (Medical bills first the wife say's! 🙄)
Have to go to the forums and see if the OOTP Football game is ever going be ready for release this decade!
I have 2 openings in my league, AFBL, which is based mostly off of NBPL. We're just starting the 2046 Playoffs and Offseason. This is a super simple league and doesn't require a ton of time commitment.
OOTP20, Fictional, No Finances, 20 teams, two conferences with two divisions of 5 teams, favors division play slightly (18 games per division team), interleague play (at least 4 games with everyone), 4 levels of minors, DH enabled
This past season (2046), we moved to a 26-man active roster and a 33-man expanded roster for the final month of the season. It was interesting this past year with the roster size change.
Sims are Mon-Tues-Wed-Thurs evenings (between 8-11pm CST) and are Sunday through Saturday in-game (normally)
- Texas Isotopes (7th overall pick in Ammy Draft) https://statsplus.net/afbl/team/73
- Washington Resonance (8th overall pick in Ammy Draft) https://statsplus.net/afbl/team/91
Both teams have good systems and some core players in the majors. Let me know if you're interested.
Oh yes fantastic! I'll message you later this afternoon. Can you DM me your email so I can get you setup tonight? We just started the draft (we do this post season)
We have a decent crossover already but if anyone here would like to join my league, AFBL, which is based on NPBL, I have two openings now. West Virginia and Indiana.
West Virginia will be relocating in 2050 to Virginia (most likely) unless the new owner wants to relocate them to another approved home state.
Indiana would be available with the same potential relocation option if that's any interest.
If anyone would like to join AFBL, we have an opening with the Arizona Vipers franchise. They have just moved to Arizona from Indiana this past offseason and their owner needed to step away unfortunately. OOTP20, Fictional, No Finances, 1-10 ratings, 20 total franchises, DH universe-wide, Mon-Tues-Wed-Thurs sim schedule. https://afblbaseball.com/?page_id=8 (AFBL About page)
well now you've given me something to look forward to tomorrow...was planning on watching his outing in the morning on mlb.tv. 😄
surprised how effective his offspeed stuff was. You know he has the gas, and you'd figure being his first outing he'd rely on his FB a ton. he was not afraid to throw the curve or slider up and down the count. impressive poise.
Oh yeah he was jittery actually more in Boston for his final tuneup start, But he didn’t even throw a curveball or change until the 3rd it was An impressive debut he was going pitch for pitch with Max Scherzer. The last blue jay pitcher who seemed I could compare to Nate Pearson was Brandon Morrow but With way more self-confidence.
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ohhhhhh now I understand about the “other opportunities” that caused them to cut bait on the football game
OK this is a n00b question, but I've downloaded ballcaps, jerseys, and NPBLimages zip files, uncompressed them to the npbl.lg directory...but yet the players jerseys and caps in game do not match what's posted online (online is correct btw). what am I missing?
oh. you know what. nevermind. be nice if I read the date/time stamp of those zips. LOL derp.
Yeah I think @NPBL Commish was planning on having updated files available by opening day of regular season.
Yes I was waiting to make sure I had everything updated then will upload new ones!
If anyone not yet already in AFBL as well would like to join, I have two openings now.
- Washington Resonance - FL West division champs, great core
- Alabama Yellowhammers - middle of a rebuild but has some nice pieces
statsplus.net/afbl (afblbaseball.com as well but I need to get that updated haha). Based on NPBL but with DH enabled being biggest difference.
Hello all, another league I'm in, https://statsplus.net/sbc/
has 3 openings
- North Melbourne - Good young core, ready for a push
- Essendon - Quality team, was just in the past seasons playoffs
- Cronulla - they need a lot of love
We are currently in the off-season, its a great league with lots of Competition, our commissioner is in that league. The commissioner of the ABL, doesnt play in the league, but is a founder and still plays in the AFBL. Ping me if you have any interest and I can get you to the right people
This card looks weird it looks like it was low on ink
I have so many baseball cards this is the first one I seen so faded
Yea I compare the two with a different 1991 donruss and it really strange
Out of all the cards I have two Michael Jordan baseball cards
Man, I remember as a kid, I collected the whole 87 Topps set
baseball cards were fun. I remember distinctly the smell of the gum that came with the cards. This was back in 71 or so. I loved those 71 cards.
AFBL has an opening with Alabama if anyone here would like to join over there too. AFBL is based off of NPBL but has the DH and only 20 teams. statsplus.net/afbl
I'm here too. Definitely recommend but only after someone joins AFBL lol jk 🤣
lolol, I think the Holidays have made it harder to find people
Ontario is going back on lockdown tomorrow so I might be back off work again
AFBL does have an opening with the California Bulldogs for anyone interested in a league setup just like this. I created AFBL based on NPBL.
https://twitter.com/mets/status/1362200928259092482?s=21
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He might try another sport or stop doing sports as a whole
https://twitter.com/dennistlin/status/1362214083508936704?s=21 holy cow
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I'm starting a fantasy baseball league on FleaFlicker. Head to head points, with an extra matchup each week vs the league median. Looking at a $40 entry, with some of that going to the ad-free + Edge upgrades for the league. If I can fill all 12 teams, payouts looking to be around $210/$110/$65. If you have any questions let me know.
And here's the invite link if interested!
https://www.fleaflicker.com/mlb/leagues/24636/invited?eh=e7083e2d
Last night I got the chance to meet Eric Byrnes and Will Clark
If you guys are wondering how I did it I had done it through no filter
If anyone is interested in a show I have it a two week recap of mlb and in order to get a ticket you need to make account https://nofilter.net/event/6yqNUeHGmB6CNo2ZGMT1/2-weeks-of-mlb-recap
Any of you have any experience with Sandbox Simulations football. It looks interesting, but who knows...
Looks interesting but you only go through one season every real-time year? I think I’d get frustrated with the slow pace if that’s the case.
https://sandboxsimulations.com/details/
Yeah, it’s one season every real time year, but that’s okay with me... I’m so deeply into baseball swimming that I wouldn’t be able to handle another major time commitment.
Two OOTP and two Diamond Mind, which don’t require a lot of attention...
I'd have dug one of those real time leagues 20 years ago... but now I'm 53. Not sure I could stomach racing to win a championship before I die :P
https://nofilter.net/event/yDxlEXcqgIO3gwf3EgxR hey if you guys are intrested this Thrusday afternoon at 12pm pst I will be opening a Pharmacy box of baseball cards and I will be sharing to people what I can find
Is anyone want to join a league that ootp21 and wants to run the twins please message me on here
Oh I found a few new cards and a lot of older cards. I found two 2020 cards
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/31346012/hr-derby-replace-extras-pioneer-league
Don’t like that idea at all. Not all good teams are built with power.
not a fan of them trying to test and tweak the extra innings including the silly runner on 2nd rule. and then the 7-inning double headers..
I’m for exploring new ideas but I’m also for quickly discarding all the gimcrackery they’re putting out lately.
Next we have 200 gm seaons and whomever has the best record in spring training gets 3 1st rounders..lol
There’s adjusting the rules which one thing and flat out silliness..
I think they should just start all at bats with full counts in extras, lol
and with the 7 inning double headers, we’ll start having these unofficial no-hitters and such
Speaking of softball I found this old newspaper article that I was in high school
if i’m madbum, i’m sad i dont get to go for a true no-hitter in my example
It the second picture I’m in third last in the first row
I don’t mind the 7-inning double header games but everything else needs to go
I can tolerate the 7-inning dh games too if the other stuff vanishes. That's a fair compromise haha.
if they must do the runner on 2nd thing, make it later than the 10th. Like the 12th or something.
baseball is the rare sport that can do overtime without having to change the rules
I’d guess a double-header is pretty grueling, especially of one of the games goes to extras
i'd be more for giving teams more extra players for a double header rather than shortening games. just seems like tweaking things just for the sake of tweaking things to me.
hi all, I'm in another league that is on OOTP21 currently, called the Australian Baseball League, in fact, our commissioner is in that league. The commissioner of that league is in the APBL. https://statsplus.net/sbc/
We need a GM for the North Melbourne Kangaroos. They are pretty stocked and with no gm last year, made the 2nd seed in the playoffs. Let me know if you have any interest
yes, also yesterday I think we had 9 trades or something ridiculous, haha, in fact I traded most of my team to @mstreeter06
I find it’s really hard to manage a financials team when you can’t be regularly exporting, so perhaps next time there’s an opening (I anticipate my own participation in the leagues I’m arleady in to be sporadic until roughly July)
sounds good and I get it, honestly, its why i traded my team, because im so busy in life right. The financials arent as bad as you think. We only have 2 minors and an INT complex
the scouting is what is ridiculous and will always make you wonder what you are doing haha
Ya I can definitely only manage 1 financial league in addition to commishing and managing in AFBL and NPBL lol
Can I get the link to like the main site where
You see top
Players and systems and such?
but FYI, we have do have scouts and scouting, its not just OSA there
here, we only have OSA, in the ABL, every team has to hire a scout and there is also OSA
whats hard, is getting frustrated with the different scouts and different values even though scouting overall is set high, lol
Its just a different type of league, like there is no draft pick trading
https://twitter.com/coachlisle/status/1396953758987276292?s=21 this is a crazy way to get one
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Quick read on increased spin rates:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.si.com/.amp/mlb/2021/06/04/sticky-stuff-is-the-new-steroids-daily-cover
I gusss I’m one of the rare baseball obsessed people who prefer three true outcome baseball
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https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/lab-tests-no-tuna-subway-sandwiches
Something fishy about this story. Will be interesting to see if time denatures it.
https://atl-02.statsplus.net/tcl/team/22?page=roster if anyone is interested to fill Phillies this is a historic type league and there bets and stuff and sims are daily and it 2 weeks of games
2 openings in a random debut league I’m in
Phillies: 23 year old Derek Jeter and 22 year old Kent Hrbek among others.
Braves: 25 year old Charles Bender and 23 year old Ryan Klesko among others.
This is a bit of a different league as we have daily bets in the Pete Rose Room. The commissioner give you $50 "DK Bucks" to start the year and then list a daily series that you can bet on. He keep track of your winnings and at the end of the year you get "powerups".
Sim Monday - Saturday 2 weeks at a time... We try to do just about most everything different, so if you're looking for something new, this is for you! We are in our 5th season and only have 3 or 4 new GM's. The people seem to enjoy the league. DM me if interested or with any questions.
Planning to start up a historical league with players from 1871-today right now. I am going to start it at the year 2021 and first year player draft is 300 rounds and you will be able to pick 20 of them and 21-300 will automatically with your list. There will be no 40 man roster and the minors will have no limits and there will be some interesting challenges. This league is going to use the 2021 mlb teams. The first expansion teams will be announced after we see how the first few seasons go. I am in the process of working on it right now I’m planning to see who will be interested first so let me know. Also this first draft you won’t trade picks but the next year you can. Also remember the draft will also not have every player sign I’m thinking about 300 players but you dont have to offer all them you can pick the players you feel you will need to sign because I want try and let the players that get unassigned go to college and get some college time and grow more. This league is just in the works I still need to make it a rule book and figure out get it set up I’m planning to talk with the comic book person to help me cover the statsplus
😡 my hosting provider, Dreamhost, considered the storage of our yearly almanacs as a TOS violation and removed everything without warning which is super nice of them.. This was really just for StatsLab so I'll have to reupload the contents for that when I have a chance today so just a FYI in case anyone visits and notices. If anyone ever needs a yearly almanac zip, let me know and I have them stored on my NAS on my home network.
The folder name of "Backups" didn't help I'm sure either 😄. Whatevs.
this was the most general trailer ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzLcO6kNmEA
anyone know what the "waypoints" system is for online leagues in OOTP?
From the StatsPlus Slack someone posted this
from steam:
● New tools for Online Leagues! A new "waypoints' system allows online league Commissioners to mark customized simulation dates, and a new "limited power" Commissioner option expands the ability for multiple people to help run online leagues.
I've wanted to run a pretty specific league for a while and even went as far as to build everything on Stats Plus at one point ready to start advertising. I decided not to due to my work schedule because I thought the month a year I had limited playing time would be a diservice to the league. If they add a setup that allows sims to be run, trades processed, etc, without having to give up your commish powers... well that would open up some doors. Bet a whole lot of commissioners will welcome help if it means not having to give someone edit ability of the file. Can't wait to see.
My guess would be the "limited power" is around award voting, HoF, account cleanup, that sort of thing
Hello everyone, so the other league im in has an opening. https://statsplus.net/sbc/ , its for the South Melbourne Swans, They need some love but at one point were a top team in the league. It's a financials league and is a lot of fun. We are in the middle of the draft and the season just kicked off as we had opening day run this morning. It's every day sim league and several folks from this league are in it, to include our commish. I think the commish of the ABL is in the AFBL if you play in there. Its a great league that I've been apart of for like 6 years or so off and on.
If you have time, ABL is a great league. This is my only other league I play in after NPBL and AFBL.
We still have an opening in AFBL with the Illinois Warhawks franchise. AFBL is modeled after NPBL so pretty much the same setup minus the DH and 20 teams instead of 24 teams. https://statsplus.net/afbl/team/74
Need a GM for a random debut league Diamond Kings Baseball
Open team is the Los Angeles Dodgers
The Dodgers went 89-72 this year and are lead by an 80/80 31 year old Mike Schmidt and a 24 year old Eddie Joost 65/69.
They have the 7th best farm system in baseball
DM if interested please. https://atl-02.statsplus.net/tcl/team/19?page=roster
We use ootp23
Diamond Kings Baseball
Hey there do you ever wonder to yourself what would it be like if Mike Trout faced off against Ted Williams and see who is the best. Or do you want to see Justin Verlander Challenge Randy Big Unit Johnson. Well now you can. We have a league for you called Diamond Kings Baseball where you as a player can take over a team and build it the way like we are in 2001 and we have been having a change in commissioner and we are excited to get back into play. We have a room where you can bet on games with in game currency. That is given in slack. We use slack to communicate and we do two week sims. Monday through Friday at 7pm PST and there are no sims on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday is only if 70% of the exports are made. And if that is made the sim time will be 2:30pm PST. As a GM of this league you will be responsible to export your team, check injuries, manage your team coaching staff and sign any open positions to your team. When you get the team you want please login into statsplus so you can be linked to the team and be able to draft your team. If you miss a sim please communicate with the commissioner about any instructions for your team. When we do spring training and when you have your roster full at opening day any player with the ** is players on your 40 man roster and if you have any players that don’t have this you need to either place them on your 40 man and active roster or send them down to the minors of your choice. Another thing is when spring training goes on there are no injuries so we decided not to put any of the great players to get hurt.
This is the whole load down of what is diamond kings baseball now let get to the open teams that you can pick from.
Baltimore Orioles (5-8)
Their team is led by 19 year old 80 overall and 80 potential Jose Ferenandez The former Marlins pitcher that was a ace for them in 2013-2016 he entered the DKB world in the year 2000 and was the first overall pick. Some of the key hitters are Cody Bellinger, John Kruk, Bill Sweeney and Pete Browning. Some of their top prospects are Harry Lumley, Larry Gilbert, Bill Melton and Skyrocket Smith. Now you look at this team you're like what place in the draft they have well the answer is first round 20th pick but in other rounds 19th pick. If you like to look over the team this is the link https://atl-02.statsplus.net/tcl/team/1?page=roster
Houston Rockets (8-5)
Former Alabama Rockets team was bought out by fifteen year old Yao Ming the star of the NBA Houston Rockets for 1.2 million dollars the team was relocated at 11:59:59 to Houston and Alabama fans got so mad at it. But enough about the story of the relocation they have two interesting pitchers of Carlos Zambrano the former cubs pitcher in real life who had a short temper. The other pitcher who is leading the club and league right is Schoolboy Rowe. Rowe is a 3-0 pitcher with an ERA of 0.79. Some of the key hitters for The Rockets are Pete Rose who is 73 overall and 80 potential. Another good hitter is Cliff Heathcote who is 80 overall and potential. The three interesting prospects that they have are Duff Cooley, Andy Sheets, and Wily Mo Pena. They have an international player named Shoitsu Nakao. The Rockets have the
16th pick overall in the draft. If you like to look over the team this is the link
https://atl-02.statsplus.net/tcl/team/125?page=roster
Seattle Mariners (6-7)
The Seattle Mariners built to succeed year out have a great core with players such as Charlie Keller, Custom made player Benny the Jet Rodriguez from Sandlot good movie by the way, Giancarlo Stanton and their pitching has Tom Earley as closer a two player Guy Hecker and their greatest pitcher Van Mungo. They have two top prospects on their system that stand out are Todd Helton and Geronimo Pena. So this team has some great prospects and the roster has some good players and a great farm system. The Mariners have the 13th overall in the draft. If you like to look over the team this is the link https://atl-02.statsplus.net/tcl/team/12?page=roster
Texas Rangers (4-9)
The Texas Rangers have some good pieces on their active roster and are built as a challenger to anyone. The team has Walter Johnson, a pitcher who is 80 overall and 80 potential some key hitters they have are Jim Edmonds a 72 overall & Potential is 72 they also have Walt Wilmot, Julio Franco, John Mayberry, and David Justice. They have three good top prospects in their system such as Don Demeter, Ad Gumbert and Jack Fisher. The Rangers have the 9th overall pick in the draft. If you like to look over the team this is the link https://atl-02.statsplus.net/tcl/team/13?page=roster
Toronto Blue Jays (3-10)
The Major leagues Second Canada team playing big brother to the Expos they are led by pitcher Jason Schmit who is a 61 overall and potential. Some key hitters they have are Herman Long, Custom made Vlad Guerrero III, Custom made Brad Doss, Mark Big Mac McGwire. The team has a really great hitter team and the pitching will need some work. The Blue Jays have four interesting top prospects in as of Roy Evans Pitcher, Chick Hafey LF, Bob Knepper Pitcher and Bill Swift Pitcher. The blue jays First round pick is 21st but the other rounds after the 3rd round is the 18th pick. If you like to look over the team this is the link https://atl-02.statsplus.net/tcl/team/14?page=roster
Dm if interested
Omg this CrowdStrike caused global tech outage is wild. 🔪 my night/day so far and beyond.
This is how I instructed my team to address any issues my customers report today...
So wait...you're telling me EA Sports releasing a new College Football game for the first time in 14 years has NOTHING to do with Crowdstrike taking down half the world? Someone in Austin TX wanted to start a new University of Texas Dynasty! t
From Dave with StatsPlus:
While working on my own league, I found there wasn't a real easy place to see league stats across the years a league has been running, so I added a couple pages for league batting and pitching stats for each league in a game, including minors and international leagues.
One use of this might be for commissioners looking at league level modifiers, who may want to make adjustments. I purposely didn't add totals, since leagues can expand and contract, and it could look like something odd is happening with counting stats. Also, the pages mostly show data from the league_history table, which includes all stats, even from players who may no longer exist.
Feel free to DM if there are additional stats you think would be useful.
https://statsplus.net/screenshots/historical_league_stats.png
Another update from Dave with StatsPlus:
On a roll this week...
To go with the League Stat History added earlier, I've also added Team Batting and Pitching Stat History pages for each team. Tables include highlighting of the highest and lowest in each column to make it easier to see where seasons stack up, and all the columns are sortable, too.
https://statsplus.net/screenshots/team_stat_history.png
Another new beta feature I'm helping test now shows player injury history and injury proneness rating.
Vinnie Doig as the example https://statsplus.net/npbl/player/13732?page=profile
My new friend Mason is trying to get his league started. If you have the bandwidth to add another league to your stable, I recommend checking his out...
Ever wanted to play in a fictional league with a modern MLB structure AND with some history built in by the AI? Welcome to the North American Baseball League (NABL)!
The NABL is a brand new OOTP online league starting with online enabled after the first week of Spring Training in the 1998 season. I had the AI simulate the 10 years before this and now it is ready!
StatsPlus web: https://statsplus.net/northamericanbl
We use Slack to communicate
Owner goals are on
We sim 7 in game days every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday at 9:00pm EST
Financial systems are automatically adjusted every year
Rating are on a 20-80 scale with potential ratings able to go above 80
This league’s goal is to be competitive and fun. The constitution is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e22gN693egB8vwXTAMFaMUumC_0F4honNz3HZw7ICfc/edit?usp=sharing
If you are interested you can reach Mason at : Blastoisegamingtv@gmail.com
If you do contact him make sure to tell him that Larry sent you haha. He's looking to start the league very soon. Don't miss out if you're interested.
Both of the leagues I commish have openings....
HBK - currently in the 1976 offseason (which just started) with an expansion draft coming in a week for TOR and SEA. Both of those teams have been spoken for, however the league has the following teams open :
- San Francisco Giants - The team needs some work however there are some upcoming pieces in the minors and aging stars at the MLB level. Team is the #1 ranked Farm System.
- San Diego Padres - Team made the playoffs in 1974 & 1975 however they lost a couple of guys and are a team that could jump back in with a couple of savvy moves or be primed for a rebuild.
- New York Mets - Team that surprised everyone by making the playoffs in 1975 while they were in a rebuild. They have some young talent almost ready to go. Team is the #3 ranked Farm System.
HBK sims daily a week at a time. Come make history with us as real players are in the draft pools and available a couple of years before they made their MLB debut in real life.
Stats plus web : https://statsplus.net/hbk/
REB - currently in Spring Training of the 1982 season.
The following teams are open :
- Texas Rangers - Even though the minor league system for these guys is a little bare, this team has finished over .500 both seasons including a playoff appearance in the 1980 season which was the first season of the league. A new GM could step in, make a move or two, and be in serious contention.
- San Francisco Giants - Both seasons thus far they have been hovering around .500 finishing with 80 wins in 1980 and 79 wins in 1981. They also sport the 8th ranked minor league system with 4 pitchers ranked in the top 100 prospects.
REB also sims daily a week at a time and 1982 is the 3rd season for REB. We also use real players in draft pools available a couple of years prior to making their debuts.
Stats plus web : https://atl-02.statsplus.net/reb/
Both leagues use Slack for communication.
If any questions or if you're interested in either league (or both) please send me a DM.
Would love it if Dave from Statsplus could add Batting Runs and Def Efficiency to all award voting!
dave [8:35 PM]
Batting Runs as in Runs scored, for offensive awards?
And defensive efficiency for Gold Glove?
Batting runs the stat, and I’d like defensive efficiency for All-Star, rookie of the year, gold glove, MVP
dave [8:49 PM]
All noted. I see Batting Runs is not Runs Scored. I guess I’m not sure how much that differs from wOBA or wRC+. Guess it’s a counting stat and not a rate. Don’t think OOTP dumps it out, and I’m not showing Batting Runs anywhere on S+ right now.
I like to use batting runs because it is like WRC+ times at bats. Like an offense only WAR. Out of the park does generate it, but it’s OK if it won’t automatically pull.