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If you have questions or complaints about these changes, please post in this thread:
http://www.simdynasty.com/oldforum-viewthread.jsp?tid=136752
If any of these changes sparks a suggestion, or you can think of an idea to make them better, please post that in Suggest Enhancements so the idea doesn't get buried in the other thread.
- After the initial draft, you will now be able to see your preferences after the fact. Just like you can for Amateur Drafts.
- We've added some lifetime statistics to the Hall of Fame page.
- Changed up the Results page so that there is suspense for the playoffs. If the series is over, there will still be a link to view the game results, but it will take you to a page that says "Series Over". This is so you don't know who won the series by counting the number of games played on the Results page.
- Added a link on the player card so you can view a Pitcher's hitting stats.
- Started tracking Defensive stats for the Regular season. You will see these in many places, including Individual Stats, Team Stats, Player Cards, and the boxscore.
- Setup an email notification system around Waiver Wire transactions. You can receive emails, if you elect to on Edit Profile, for when a guy you claimed is placed on your team, when one of your guys clears option waivers and is now on your minor league team, or if someone claims your player on option waivers.
- Improved the Dynasty Vision text for Tag Ups, so all tag ups are suspenseful. Before it would say, "Joe Jack tags up from third, runner thrown out at the plate" all on one line, but show "Joe Jack tags up from third, " .... "Joe Jack Scores" on 2 lines. All of these will now be shown on 2 lines.
- Changed the retirement logic for Waiver Wire players, so that useless players retire to make the waiver wire page faster to load. Players 30 or older, who spent the entire season as a free agent, and have an F mentoring score, will automatically retire.
- At retirement, a player's position will now revert to whatever position he played the most games in during his career.
- We've given the site an overhaul in the graphics department, thanks to a friend of mine that is an artist. We've also tried to improve some of the spacing issues when viewing at 800x600 screen resolution. In general, the site should look better across all screen resolutions. Among the changes, you'll notice that you can now choose between 3 different background colors/images for the site from Edit Profile.
- Added a new feature for private leagues that want to use it. You can now have a league where the numbers are displayed for skill ratings instead of letters. We have plans to start a new league with this feature turned on in the next couple months, so stay tuned if that interests you. This is considered a major change for private leagues, so you'll need a unanimous vote to have it turned on for existing leagues.
- There is a link on the player card so that you can see a guy's stats from each of his last 10 regular season games. In some cases, these will only be available for the current season.
- Fixed a bug where auto promotes were failing at times.
- Fixed manager preference bug around yanking closers after they have given up a run, but not yet blown the save. This should work according to your preferences now.
- Fixed a bug in the Dynasty Vision text for playoffs. It was showing the wrong team names for games 3-5.
- Players on the waiver wire, who received exactly 0 Improvement Chances during the previous season, will randomly be given between 5 and 10 ICs when the OffSeason runs. This is part of an effort to create a few more role players / mentors.
- We added a page which we are calling Coach Abe. Abe will take a look at 5 mistakes newbies often make with their teams and explain how to remedy the situation. For example, having more than 15 minor leaguers will trigger an explanation. We hope to add more tests to this page over time.
- Created a new page so you can view an entire team's playoff stats for the series. It is under Stats.
- Finally, we have added a new component to make defense a bit more important which we are calling the Plus/Minus system. Basically, bad fielders can now turn some balls that used to be outs into hits and good fielders will turn balls that used to be hits into outs. For all the gory details on that one, see this discussion: http://www.simdynasty.com/oldforum-viewthread.jsp?tid=135008
I might have a few more minor things as well, but these are all the biggies that I can think of.
Tyson
[Edited on 4-30-2007 by Admin]
List of changes for next season
April 30, 2007 at 03:45PM View BBCode
These changes will be moved into place on May 14th around 10AM and go into effect immediately.If you have questions or complaints about these changes, please post in this thread:
http://www.simdynasty.com/oldforum-viewthread.jsp?tid=136752
If any of these changes sparks a suggestion, or you can think of an idea to make them better, please post that in Suggest Enhancements so the idea doesn't get buried in the other thread.
- After the initial draft, you will now be able to see your preferences after the fact. Just like you can for Amateur Drafts.
- We've added some lifetime statistics to the Hall of Fame page.
- Changed up the Results page so that there is suspense for the playoffs. If the series is over, there will still be a link to view the game results, but it will take you to a page that says "Series Over". This is so you don't know who won the series by counting the number of games played on the Results page.
- Added a link on the player card so you can view a Pitcher's hitting stats.
- Started tracking Defensive stats for the Regular season. You will see these in many places, including Individual Stats, Team Stats, Player Cards, and the boxscore.
- Setup an email notification system around Waiver Wire transactions. You can receive emails, if you elect to on Edit Profile, for when a guy you claimed is placed on your team, when one of your guys clears option waivers and is now on your minor league team, or if someone claims your player on option waivers.
- Improved the Dynasty Vision text for Tag Ups, so all tag ups are suspenseful. Before it would say, "Joe Jack tags up from third, runner thrown out at the plate" all on one line, but show "Joe Jack tags up from third, " .... "Joe Jack Scores" on 2 lines. All of these will now be shown on 2 lines.
- Changed the retirement logic for Waiver Wire players, so that useless players retire to make the waiver wire page faster to load. Players 30 or older, who spent the entire season as a free agent, and have an F mentoring score, will automatically retire.
- At retirement, a player's position will now revert to whatever position he played the most games in during his career.
- We've given the site an overhaul in the graphics department, thanks to a friend of mine that is an artist. We've also tried to improve some of the spacing issues when viewing at 800x600 screen resolution. In general, the site should look better across all screen resolutions. Among the changes, you'll notice that you can now choose between 3 different background colors/images for the site from Edit Profile.
- Added a new feature for private leagues that want to use it. You can now have a league where the numbers are displayed for skill ratings instead of letters. We have plans to start a new league with this feature turned on in the next couple months, so stay tuned if that interests you. This is considered a major change for private leagues, so you'll need a unanimous vote to have it turned on for existing leagues.
- There is a link on the player card so that you can see a guy's stats from each of his last 10 regular season games. In some cases, these will only be available for the current season.
- Fixed a bug where auto promotes were failing at times.
- Fixed manager preference bug around yanking closers after they have given up a run, but not yet blown the save. This should work according to your preferences now.
- Fixed a bug in the Dynasty Vision text for playoffs. It was showing the wrong team names for games 3-5.
- Players on the waiver wire, who received exactly 0 Improvement Chances during the previous season, will randomly be given between 5 and 10 ICs when the OffSeason runs. This is part of an effort to create a few more role players / mentors.
- We added a page which we are calling Coach Abe. Abe will take a look at 5 mistakes newbies often make with their teams and explain how to remedy the situation. For example, having more than 15 minor leaguers will trigger an explanation. We hope to add more tests to this page over time.
- Created a new page so you can view an entire team's playoff stats for the series. It is under Stats.
- Finally, we have added a new component to make defense a bit more important which we are calling the Plus/Minus system. Basically, bad fielders can now turn some balls that used to be outs into hits and good fielders will turn balls that used to be hits into outs. For all the gory details on that one, see this discussion: http://www.simdynasty.com/oldforum-viewthread.jsp?tid=135008
I might have a few more minor things as well, but these are all the biggies that I can think of.
Tyson
[Edited on 4-30-2007 by Admin]
Admin
- For retirement purposes, Pitchers will now be judged by how they are used verses their RP/SP designation. So if you have a SP who is used out of the pen, Abe will use RP logic to determine if he retires. A guy who starts 25% or more of his games will be considered a SP.
Tyson
April 30, 2007 at 04:10PM View BBCode
Thought of another one that I believe is new...- For retirement purposes, Pitchers will now be judged by how they are used verses their RP/SP designation. So if you have a SP who is used out of the pen, Abe will use RP logic to determine if he retires. A guy who starts 25% or more of his games will be considered a SP.
Tyson
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