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Speed Leagues need replacement and expansion owners, teams available for a discount!
We have several Speed League teams that are looking for Replacement and Expansion owners.
For Term League Expansion teams, you will get a $25 discount off of the price of a new team and control the team for about 8 months. You will participate in an Expansion draft that disperses the players to the new teams. For Replacement teams, you get the rest of this 8 month period, plus the next 8 month period for a cost of between $45 to $55. For Subscription replacement teams, you will get 1 month free!
Click here for the current list of teams and signup links.
In addition, if you purchase 2 subscription teams in a given week, we will credit your account with 50% of the initial cost of a subscription team. If you purchase 3 teams, we will credit the full initial cost for one of the subscription teams. Just create a support ticket to request your credit!
Update to Dynasty improvement corrections
As I suppose I should have forseen, undoing the doubled improvements in Dynasty leagues has proven to be very unpopular. I've gotten more emergency tickets about one point adjustments that changed a letter grade than I do when the site is down.
Please note that I am not ignoring those tickets, but I need to look at some other issues first. I am going to try to only undo doubling of declines and let everyone have the Christmas-morning extra improvements. Whatever the end result, the important thing is that all Dynasty teams get treated equally.
Change to Minor League Drag and Drop
On mobile devices, the new mobile Drag and Drop features have been a problem for the minor league page which requires scrolling both horizontally and vertically, however the drag and drop feature would get in the way.
For all devices, only the first part of the row will now be draggable. This area is darker so you can easily identify it.
In other news, the traded draft pick indicators on the Draft Results page are working again.
Dynasty Schedule
The Dynasty schedule has been returned to 3 games per day
Dynasty Offseason Error
The Dynasty offseason ran twice, causing doubled standings, odd draft orders, odd improvements, etc. This was not a side effect of the crash recovery; this was solely my (Chris) error. I apologize for the inconvenience and will straighten it out before the draft.
UPDATE 9:31PMThe standings and draft orders are straightened out (although ties had to be broken with coin flips to avoid making this a weeklong project) and all the doubled pitcher and batter stat lines are fixed up, along wit the doubled players in the rotation and bullpen. I am working on backing out the doubled improvements and declines now, which is a bit of a challenge.
UPDATE 1:44AMDraft order was incorrect still for three leagues, these have been fixed. I have all the corrections to fix improvements in a massive spreadsheet and those changes are uploading now, it will probably take about 2 hours. Everything will be ready for the draft.
Missing Postseason Results Restored
Since the restart, 40 offseasons have been run for 34 leagues that were missing their postseason results in the almanac. These results have been restored.
Dynasty Playoff Schedules
Welcome to the Dynasty League Postseason.
Updated 1:20PM What should be happening in a normal world is 24 team leagues should be starting their Divisional Series while 16 team leagues should be playing their final three games. All teams finished their season a bit early due to the sped up schedule.
16 -team leagues should start their postseason tomorrow. 24 team leagues started late but are now caught up on their League Divisional Series today.
Thank you all again for your patience through these issues.
Drag And Drop Minors
Drag and drop should be working again for System 5 minors.
Forum Passwords
With the rebuild, I have restored a feature that aims to sync your forum password with your game password. When you log in to the game it will send your password, encrypted, to the forum. We had issues before with this slowing down game pages, but with both servers in the same cloud now it should work better. If your password on the forum is different and you want to reset it, just log out of the game and log back in. If your forum password is different and you suddenly can't get in, please try your game password.
Site Recovery
It's been a long few weeks for all of us, but games and scheduled processes should resume this weekend. Tyson is working on the servers and back end platforms while I am going through the site, stomping out bugs and restoring the last few missing images, weird colors, etc. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has been so remarkably patient, everyone helping out with testing and reporting issues big and small, and to Monster and Rockstar for providing fuel to keep me functioning on 2 to 3 hours of sleep every night.
Site Security Update
While I have not yet been able to determine conclusively that a recent site security breach has occurred, I have identified several areas where site security could be improved. Techniques that were "good enough" ten years ago are no longer as secure.I am working now on upgrading the identified areas; when the changes are implemented, you will be required to change your password so it can be re-encoded using the newer methods. Please take a moment to check your Owner Profile and make sure your E-mail address on file is correct; otherwise, you will not be able to reset your password if needed.
Credit Karma is reporting a data breach for simdyansty.com. Note the spelling; that is not our site name. I don't know if this is the beginning of some sort of extortion attempt on us (it wouldn't be the first time), or if it's valid and Credit Karma simply misspelled the site name. We are investigating it now. They appear to at least have some email addresses, but those are easily scraped from the site or forum for anyone who has their email address visible. The supposed password they had for me only showed asterisks and was far too short for any password I have had in the last ten years.
You may recall that ten years ago we did have a genuine site breach; the person behind the breach had brief access to an administrative tool where passwords could be looked up, and was able to scrape the email addresses from the forum. As a result, we replaced the forum software and the site security was upgraded. All passwords now are stored as only a hash in an encrypted form so even Admin can't look them up, only replace them. The forum software similarly encrypts passwords. I suspect someone has a file of E-mail addresses with random asterisks. But it never hurts to change your password and make sure you aren't using the same password on multiple sites.
Refer A Friend Program
If you like Sim Dynasty, be sure to tell your friends about it. You can earn free credits for doing so. Make sure you use the special referral link so you earn credits, you can select the link under Dynasty Dollars or simply click here.
Not receiving Sim Dynasty emails?
If you aren't receiving the verification email, or any other email from us, please see these notes that we put together on how to resolve this with various email services. Email Filters and White Lists