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- Your closer preferences will now work correctly in the case of 4 or 5 run save situations in the 9th inning.
- The OffSeason code will now also permanently save information about All Stars and Awards. This will work for only the New Allstars and awards. You'll notice that you can see these listed on the Player Card with the new Honors link. And you will also see different colored backgrounds for stat years indicating awards or allstar appearances. Again, remember this gets set using the OffSeason code (so it won't show up until your league runs its next OffSeason) AND it only goes for the new allstars and awards.
- We changed how the last mile works for position changes. In order to fully convert to 100%, a player needs to have played more games at that position than at any other position during the current season. Also, they need to have appeared in at least 25 games during the current season at that position. This should eliminate unwanted position changes.
- When a player does convert to a new position, he will retain knowledge of his old primary position at 99% instead of 90%.
- If you have two or more equally rested, or well rested, relief pitchers, and the "Use the most rested Bullpen Pitcher" rule comes into play, Abe will atempt to use your "worst" well rested pitcher. Meaning, he will use the Long guy first, then Middle, then Setup, etc. among all guys that are well rested.
- You can now have pitching staffs between 9 and 12 pitchers, as long as you have 25 total major leaguers.
- We have changed the bullpen roles to have Long Relief A & B, and Middle Relief A & B. You'll see these on all the pages that have bullpen roles.
- If you reclaim a batter from the waiver wire, you'll get a popup warning message that the player will be immediately placed on your major league team. This warning has existed for pitchers for some time, but we didn't have it for batters for some reason.
- When you waive players directly from your minor league page, it will now show you who you are about to waive on the confirm page before you pull the trigger.
- We thought of a way to put Mentor Values on the Waiver Wire page without hopefully causing the site to slow down and die. We haven't created a way to sort by this though - it may not be possible for site performance reasons.
- On the standings page, for past seasons, you can now see who won and appeared in the World Series. The WS winner will have a little trophy next to their name instead of the usual team logo. The Runner up will have a number 2 next to their team name instead of the usual team logo.
- Added a manager pref to put the stop sign up for stealing in a team's last at bat. By choosing "only steal if the runner is the tying run", you will avoid things like a guy trying to steal 2nd when your team is down by 3 runs.
- Added a manager pref for stealing when the pitcher is batting. You can indicate to Never Steal in this situation, never steal with 2 outs, or Do Nothing Different.
- Started tracking Blown Saves. These will show up pretty much any place pitcher stats show up, as well as the Boxscore page. Going forward, the Fireman formula will use Blown Saves.
- Leadership now has an effect on a player's chances of retiring. High leadership players will have a slightly lesser chance of retiring.
- Added manager prefs for pinch hitting for the RP in extra innings. The pref now reads: "Always PH for Relievers in the X inning or later, but in Extra Innings do XYZ". Your choices for XYZ are "Only PH for the RP if I am losing", "Only PH for the RP if I am losing, or it is tied and there is a RISP (runner in scoring position)", or "PH for the RP" - which is basically do nothing differently.
- Fixed logic with tiebreakers for Draft order - it should now use head-to-head record for the current season. If it doesn't work right, the party line is still that its random :)
- Fixed some ERA miscalculations on Dynasty Vision that seemed to come up early in the season.
- Changed the Blowout Pinch Hitters area so you can only use blowout PH in the 7th inning or later.
- We put in a number of back end changes to track which team players actually accumulate which stats. There's nothing for you to see on this yet, but in a few seasons we might be able to add some interesting enhancements on top of these new back end changes.
- Fixed a bug where a pitcher who bunted into a double play was not charged with an at bat.
- Fixed a false save situation. Abe was crediting saves when a RP entered the game midway through the 9th with a 3 run lead and nobody on base.
- Added a new link to the player cards called Past Skills. This will approximate what his skills were in past seasons using the improvement data and current skills. Note that this uses approximate current ratings - Abe will treat an A+ as 96 for example, even if the player is really 100. Its just another way of displaying the same info that's available to you.
- For the player search page, if a guy is on the Waiver Wire it will no longer incorrectly say he is retired.
- Fixed a bug where a player was being tagged to be a defensive replacement for a pinch hitter in the inning and thus wasn't available to PH, but then never came in as the defensive replacement.
- Added some manager prefs around playing the infield or corners in. This is under a new link called Defense. This will prevent things like the winning run scoring in the 11th while the defense goes for a force out at 2nd (provided of course you were playing the infield in). To do this, we had to re-write how grounders are handled in the game code which was not an easy task.
- Added date of birth to the amateur draft preferences page. Also changed how sorting works to be consistant with the rest of the site - namely the sort won't differentiate between guys with the same grade level. We also changed how the draft pref weightings worked slightly so that this (hopefully) can't be used to achieve the same means. Namely, you have to specify numbers for at least 3 skills and can't go over 75 in any one particular skill to use this area.
- In the case where Team A claims a guy, has the worst record, & doesn't designate someone for assignment, and more than one team claims the player (Team B), we fixed the bug where the player would return to his original team. He should now go to Team B. We also added a warning message for teams so that they remember to set their designate prefs when claiming a guy.
- Players undrafted in an Expansion draft, that were previously on one of the outgoing teams, will now go to the waiver wire instead of being free agents.
- Players will no longer meaninglessly advance to third when the game winning run has already scored.
- Added the ability for you to change your password from the Owner menu.
- We added a Hall of Fame. The HOF Chairman for each league can check off who is in the HOF. The HOF Chairman doesn't need to be the league commish, but it can be the same person. There will be a new menu choice under Stats that says Hall Of Fame that lists all the players in the hall of fame. All private leagues, Speed Leagues, and any existing Dynasty leagues that already have a hall of fame can start to use this. If your Dynasty league doesn't already have a hall of fame, you should use the message boards to try to create support for it and find someone to be in charge of it - we will consider letting these leagues use the HOF in October. League commishes - please u2u Admin after September 18th to get the right person setup as the HOF Chairman.
- On the draft prefs page, if you use the draft weightings area to rank your players, you will get a warning message before you can continue.
- Player cards now have Splits listed for a player's career.
- Fixed a bug where pinch hitters suffered an out of position penalty in the mentoring calculation.
- We changed up the scheduling so that we have more varied schedules from season to season. This starts with the 2031 season. The new schedule is almost the same as the old one. The exceptions are that you will play teams in different orders, and the off days are spaced out more evenly. Special thanks to jzirker for creating the new schedules.
- Fixed a bug with 3 way ties for the playoffs and the ensuing draft order.
- Added earned runs to the Stats section of Rotation & Bullpen.
- We have a graphics artist working on a new logo and some other artistic upgrades to the site. Some of these may be ready for next week.
- The news page for Complete trades will show only the last year, unless you click the link for older news. This is similar to how Promote/Demote news works now. This was done to speed up the page.
Do you have clarifying or techincal questions about the changes? They will be answered in this thread:
http://www.simdynasty.com/oldforum-viewthread.jsp?tid=112916
Want to compliment or complain? Do so in this thread:
http://www.simdynasty.com/oldforum-viewthread.jsp?tid=112917
Tyson
[Edited on 9-6-2006 by Admin]
List of Changes for Next Season
September 06, 2006 at 04:33PM View BBCode
Here's a list of all the new changes coming for next season. These changes will be moved into place according to this schedule:http://www.simdynasty.com/oldforum-viewthread.jsp?tid=112789
- Your closer preferences will now work correctly in the case of 4 or 5 run save situations in the 9th inning.
- The OffSeason code will now also permanently save information about All Stars and Awards. This will work for only the New Allstars and awards. You'll notice that you can see these listed on the Player Card with the new Honors link. And you will also see different colored backgrounds for stat years indicating awards or allstar appearances. Again, remember this gets set using the OffSeason code (so it won't show up until your league runs its next OffSeason) AND it only goes for the new allstars and awards.
- We changed how the last mile works for position changes. In order to fully convert to 100%, a player needs to have played more games at that position than at any other position during the current season. Also, they need to have appeared in at least 25 games during the current season at that position. This should eliminate unwanted position changes.
- When a player does convert to a new position, he will retain knowledge of his old primary position at 99% instead of 90%.
- If you have two or more equally rested, or well rested, relief pitchers, and the "Use the most rested Bullpen Pitcher" rule comes into play, Abe will atempt to use your "worst" well rested pitcher. Meaning, he will use the Long guy first, then Middle, then Setup, etc. among all guys that are well rested.
- You can now have pitching staffs between 9 and 12 pitchers, as long as you have 25 total major leaguers.
- We have changed the bullpen roles to have Long Relief A & B, and Middle Relief A & B. You'll see these on all the pages that have bullpen roles.
- If you reclaim a batter from the waiver wire, you'll get a popup warning message that the player will be immediately placed on your major league team. This warning has existed for pitchers for some time, but we didn't have it for batters for some reason.
- When you waive players directly from your minor league page, it will now show you who you are about to waive on the confirm page before you pull the trigger.
- We thought of a way to put Mentor Values on the Waiver Wire page without hopefully causing the site to slow down and die. We haven't created a way to sort by this though - it may not be possible for site performance reasons.
- On the standings page, for past seasons, you can now see who won and appeared in the World Series. The WS winner will have a little trophy next to their name instead of the usual team logo. The Runner up will have a number 2 next to their team name instead of the usual team logo.
- Added a manager pref to put the stop sign up for stealing in a team's last at bat. By choosing "only steal if the runner is the tying run", you will avoid things like a guy trying to steal 2nd when your team is down by 3 runs.
- Added a manager pref for stealing when the pitcher is batting. You can indicate to Never Steal in this situation, never steal with 2 outs, or Do Nothing Different.
- Started tracking Blown Saves. These will show up pretty much any place pitcher stats show up, as well as the Boxscore page. Going forward, the Fireman formula will use Blown Saves.
- Leadership now has an effect on a player's chances of retiring. High leadership players will have a slightly lesser chance of retiring.
- Added manager prefs for pinch hitting for the RP in extra innings. The pref now reads: "Always PH for Relievers in the X inning or later, but in Extra Innings do XYZ". Your choices for XYZ are "Only PH for the RP if I am losing", "Only PH for the RP if I am losing, or it is tied and there is a RISP (runner in scoring position)", or "PH for the RP" - which is basically do nothing differently.
- Fixed logic with tiebreakers for Draft order - it should now use head-to-head record for the current season. If it doesn't work right, the party line is still that its random :)
- Fixed some ERA miscalculations on Dynasty Vision that seemed to come up early in the season.
- Changed the Blowout Pinch Hitters area so you can only use blowout PH in the 7th inning or later.
- We put in a number of back end changes to track which team players actually accumulate which stats. There's nothing for you to see on this yet, but in a few seasons we might be able to add some interesting enhancements on top of these new back end changes.
- Fixed a bug where a pitcher who bunted into a double play was not charged with an at bat.
- Fixed a false save situation. Abe was crediting saves when a RP entered the game midway through the 9th with a 3 run lead and nobody on base.
- Added a new link to the player cards called Past Skills. This will approximate what his skills were in past seasons using the improvement data and current skills. Note that this uses approximate current ratings - Abe will treat an A+ as 96 for example, even if the player is really 100. Its just another way of displaying the same info that's available to you.
- For the player search page, if a guy is on the Waiver Wire it will no longer incorrectly say he is retired.
- Fixed a bug where a player was being tagged to be a defensive replacement for a pinch hitter in the inning and thus wasn't available to PH, but then never came in as the defensive replacement.
- Added some manager prefs around playing the infield or corners in. This is under a new link called Defense. This will prevent things like the winning run scoring in the 11th while the defense goes for a force out at 2nd (provided of course you were playing the infield in). To do this, we had to re-write how grounders are handled in the game code which was not an easy task.
- Added date of birth to the amateur draft preferences page. Also changed how sorting works to be consistant with the rest of the site - namely the sort won't differentiate between guys with the same grade level. We also changed how the draft pref weightings worked slightly so that this (hopefully) can't be used to achieve the same means. Namely, you have to specify numbers for at least 3 skills and can't go over 75 in any one particular skill to use this area.
- In the case where Team A claims a guy, has the worst record, & doesn't designate someone for assignment, and more than one team claims the player (Team B), we fixed the bug where the player would return to his original team. He should now go to Team B. We also added a warning message for teams so that they remember to set their designate prefs when claiming a guy.
- Players undrafted in an Expansion draft, that were previously on one of the outgoing teams, will now go to the waiver wire instead of being free agents.
- Players will no longer meaninglessly advance to third when the game winning run has already scored.
- Added the ability for you to change your password from the Owner menu.
- We added a Hall of Fame. The HOF Chairman for each league can check off who is in the HOF. The HOF Chairman doesn't need to be the league commish, but it can be the same person. There will be a new menu choice under Stats that says Hall Of Fame that lists all the players in the hall of fame. All private leagues, Speed Leagues, and any existing Dynasty leagues that already have a hall of fame can start to use this. If your Dynasty league doesn't already have a hall of fame, you should use the message boards to try to create support for it and find someone to be in charge of it - we will consider letting these leagues use the HOF in October. League commishes - please u2u Admin after September 18th to get the right person setup as the HOF Chairman.
- On the draft prefs page, if you use the draft weightings area to rank your players, you will get a warning message before you can continue.
- Player cards now have Splits listed for a player's career.
- Fixed a bug where pinch hitters suffered an out of position penalty in the mentoring calculation.
- We changed up the scheduling so that we have more varied schedules from season to season. This starts with the 2031 season. The new schedule is almost the same as the old one. The exceptions are that you will play teams in different orders, and the off days are spaced out more evenly. Special thanks to jzirker for creating the new schedules.
- Fixed a bug with 3 way ties for the playoffs and the ensuing draft order.
- Added earned runs to the Stats section of Rotation & Bullpen.
- We have a graphics artist working on a new logo and some other artistic upgrades to the site. Some of these may be ready for next week.
- The news page for Complete trades will show only the last year, unless you click the link for older news. This is similar to how Promote/Demote news works now. This was done to speed up the page.
Do you have clarifying or techincal questions about the changes? They will be answered in this thread:
http://www.simdynasty.com/oldforum-viewthread.jsp?tid=112916
Want to compliment or complain? Do so in this thread:
http://www.simdynasty.com/oldforum-viewthread.jsp?tid=112917
Tyson
[Edited on 9-6-2006 by Admin]
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