1864 Offseason

Young Drachma · 11-26-2012, 08:52 AM

We'll do the draft and sim to the start of FA tonight. More on FA in a bit, too.

Young Drachma · 11-26-2012, 10:11 AM

I need to realign this off-season too. Here's the new setup. Speak now or forever hold your peace (or in a few years)

1864 SLOP REALIGNMENT
-----------
AL
----
Cleveland Laborers
Cleveland Spiders
Rio Grande
Boston
Chicago
Memphis
St. Louis
San Diego
Winnemucca

NL
-----
Brooklyn
Carolina
Columbus
Lake Tahoe
Denver
Gettysburg
Kauai
Washington
Wyoming

scotto313 · 11-26-2012, 03:39 PM

2 Cleveland teams in the same league? Crap that sucks.

Young Drachma · 11-26-2012, 03:42 PM

One of you could move to Akron.

Young Drachma · 11-26-2012, 03:43 PM

Or stake claim to one of the lovely neighborhoods your city has to offer.

Young Drachma · 11-26-2012, 03:55 PM

Actually, we could end up with 20 teams. Rio Grande's owner wrote me last week about a vulture in his own family. (Apparently they want to be the Ken Griffey Sr./Jr. of SLOP) But we'd need a 20th owner to do that.

claphamsa · 11-26-2012, 04:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Young Drachma

One of you could move to Akron.

Cleveland heights tigers!!!!!

CleBrownsfan · 11-26-2012, 05:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Young Drachma

One of you could move to Akron.

Not a chance!!! Lol

I don't mind moving back to the NL if the league "looks" better with a Clevealnd team in either division...

CleBrownsfan · 11-26-2012, 05:35 PM

Has there ever been a RL team named after a county? I could rename our "city/county" to Cuyahoga Spiders....

Young Drachma · 11-26-2012, 05:43 PM

No real life teams named after counties, though I have absolutely no problem with that if you decide it. I have no real problem with two Cleveland teams in the same league, I think the dissonance is that it's Cleveland not New York or LA.

The only real hitch for me is in the game, abbreviating them both. It was easy when it was CLE (A) and CLE (N) but now I'm probably going to just use the team name as the abbreviation (SPI & LAB)

CleBrownsfan · 11-26-2012, 05:57 PM

Well to make the role playing of the league better - I say move me back to the NL or switch to Cuyahoga Spiders. Either is fine by me...

Young Drachma · 11-26-2012, 06:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CleBrownsfan

Well to make the role playing of the league better - I say move me back to the NL or switch to Cuyahoga Spiders. Either is fine by me...

Cuyahoga Spiders it is.

Young Drachma · 11-26-2012, 06:05 PM

FFP market playas, just know that SLOT bonus is now $10 million starting this year.

Gomer · 11-26-2012, 06:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Young Drachma

No real life teams named after counties, though I have absolutely no problem with that if you decide it.)

There are teams named after states and a bay though. County should be fine.

Jax Powers · 11-26-2012, 06:36 PM

spot reserved on accident

claphamsa · 11-26-2012, 08:44 PM

so will the spiders burn??????

CleBrownsfan · 11-27-2012, 05:33 AM

HaHa - funny man you're clap

claphamsa · 11-27-2012, 06:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CleBrownsfan

HaHa - funny man you're clap

go chuck in a flare... bet it still burns

Gomer · 11-27-2012, 06:56 AM

I thought we were getting a new file last night. My game is saying there's no new file. Wassupwitdat?

Young Drachma · 11-27-2012, 08:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gomer

I thought we were getting a new file last night. My game is saying there's no new file. Wassupwitdat?

Sleepy commissioner for the loss.

New file coming now.

Young Drachma · 11-27-2012, 08:57 AM

Draft complete, leagues realigned and Boston and Denver both now have Winter League affiliates and one less Rookie League team (just converted one of your Rookie teams to the Winter League)

Young Drachma · 11-27-2012, 09:06 AM

Uploading the file now.

Here's what we'll do for FA. The holiday has thrown us off, but last year proved we have some flexibility with FA.

So, we'll do FA1 tomorrow night (Wednesday) to give you all a chance to get offers in, check the game and so forth.

Then we'll sim to the start of ST and do FA2 on Thursday. Spring Training on Friday and SLOP's 27th season begins on Monday.

So there's no new file tonight.

Young Drachma · 11-27-2012, 09:07 AM

I'll update the HTML later.

Young Drachma · 11-27-2012, 09:17 AM

File is up

Young Drachma · 11-27-2012, 11:58 AM

I forgot to process trades. I'll do it tonight when I get home.

Young Drachma · 11-28-2012, 12:15 AM

Both trades processed and a new file is up. FA1 is tomorrow night.

Young Drachma · 11-28-2012, 11:33 PM

FA1 is complete. As noted before, the cap for this year is $125 million, but that just means you get to spend up to $100m like normal, the $25m reserve cap is for arbitration or any trades you make that get you over that $100m mark. Easier for accounting purposes and prevents the FA market from being wild and crazy.

Prepping the file to upload.

Young Drachma · 11-28-2012, 11:59 PM

Also with the change in pitcher fatigue from "Average" to "Low" there might be some need to take a look at how you build your rotations. Winter league will be set to "Low" for this year and I've changed the statistical detail down there to very high like the real league, so you can see breakdowns and get a sense of how guys might perform in a full season environment, especially if you're using major leaguers or near major leaguers down there.

Hopefully that helps. We'll sim to the start of spring training tomorrow and do FA2. Then Spring Training is on Friday.

File is up.

Gomer · 11-29-2012, 04:22 PM

So low fatigue really means high fatigue in OOTP?

Jax Powers · 11-29-2012, 06:16 PM

Whats the correct in game date?
I loaded and it crashed while loading and now it says I have the updated file?

Young Drachma · 11-29-2012, 07:09 PM

Game date is November 15th, 1863

Young Drachma · 11-29-2012, 11:27 PM

FA2 running now.

Young Drachma · 11-29-2012, 11:50 PM

Quiet off-season overall. A few signings, but no real huge splashes. Should be interesting to see how realignment affects things, too.

INDalltheway · 11-29-2012, 11:51 PM

shit - just started downloading the file. I am certainly behind.

Young Drachma · 11-30-2012, 12:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by INDalltheway

shit - just started downloading the file. I am certainly behind.

You didn't miss much this off-season. No one in the FFP market to speak of and the "top" free agents for the most part are still out there overpriced as they might be.

Young Drachma · 11-30-2012, 12:02 AM

The new file is up, gang.

Young Drachma · 11-30-2012, 12:02 AM

We'll sim spring training tomorrow and get down to 27th season of SLOP on Monday. I'll do a draft lottery at some point, probably over the weekend, too.

Young Drachma · 11-30-2012, 08:55 AM

HTML is updated, nerds.

So is dev.

11-26-2012, 10:11 AM	#2
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	I need to realign this off-season too. Here's the new setup. Speak now or forever hold your peace (or in a few years) 1864 SLOP REALIGNMENT ----------- AL ---- Cleveland Laborers Cleveland Spiders Rio Grande Boston Chicago Memphis St. Louis San Diego Winnemucca NL ----- Brooklyn Carolina Columbus Lake Tahoe Denver Gettysburg Kauai Washington Wyoming Last edited by Young Drachma : 11-26-2012 at 03:49 PM.

11-26-2012, 03:39 PM	#3
scotto313 n00b Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Avon Lake, OH	2 Cleveland teams in the same league? Crap that sucks. __________________ Cleveland Laborers

11-26-2012, 03:42 PM	#4
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	One of you could move to Akron. __________________ Current Dynasty:The Zenith of Professional Basketball Careers (FBPB/FBCB) FBCB / FPB3 Mods

11-26-2012, 05:35 PM	#9
CleBrownsfan Pro Rookie Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: C-Town	Has there ever been a RL team named after a county? I could rename our "city/county" to Cuyahoga Spiders.... __________________ *XBox Gamertag:* Pronk32 FOOL-X - Cleveland Naps FOOL - Cleveland Cyclones SLOP - Cuyahoga Spiders Last edited by CleBrownsfan : 11-26-2012 at 05:35 PM.

11-26-2012, 05:43 PM	#10
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	No real life teams named after counties, though I have absolutely no problem with that if you decide it. I have no real problem with two Cleveland teams in the same league, I think the dissonance is that it's Cleveland not New York or LA. The only real hitch for me is in the game, abbreviating them both. It was easy when it was CLE (A) and CLE (N) but now I'm probably going to just use the team name as the abbreviation (SPI & LAB) Last edited by Young Drachma : 11-26-2012 at 05:43 PM.

11-26-2012, 03:43 PM	#5
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Or stake claim to one of the lovely neighborhoods your city has to offer.

11-26-2012, 03:55 PM	#6
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Actually, we could end up with 20 teams. Rio Grande's owner wrote me last week about a vulture in his own family. (Apparently they want to be the Ken Griffey Sr./Jr. of SLOP) But we'd need a 20th owner to do that.

11-26-2012, 05:57 PM	#11
CleBrownsfan Pro Rookie Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: C-Town	Well to make the role playing of the league better - I say move me back to the NL or switch to Cuyahoga Spiders. Either is fine by me... __________________ *XBox Gamertag:* Pronk32 FOOL-X - Cleveland Naps FOOL - Cleveland Cyclones SLOP - Cuyahoga Spiders

11-26-2012, 06:05 PM	#13
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	FFP market playas, just know that SLOT bonus is now $10 million starting this year. Last edited by Young Drachma : 11-26-2012 at 06:06 PM.

11-26-2012, 06:36 PM	#15
Jax Powers n00b Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: USA	spot reserved on accident __________________ A murder of Crows Last edited by Jax Powers : 11-26-2012 at 06:37 PM.

11-26-2012, 08:44 PM	#16
claphamsa Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: non white trash MD	so will the spiders burn?????? __________________ Dominating Warewolf for 0 games! GIT R DUN!!!

11-27-2012, 05:33 AM	#17
CleBrownsfan Pro Rookie Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: C-Town	HaHa - funny man you're clap __________________ *XBox Gamertag:* Pronk32 FOOL-X - Cleveland Naps FOOL - Cleveland Cyclones SLOP - Cuyahoga Spiders

11-27-2012, 06:56 AM	#19
Gomer H.S. Freshman Team Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Central PA	I thought we were getting a new file last night. My game is saying there's no new file. Wassupwitdat?

11-27-2012, 08:57 AM	#21
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Draft complete, leagues realigned and Boston and Denver both now have Winter League affiliates and one less Rookie League team (just converted one of your Rookie teams to the Winter League)

11-27-2012, 09:06 AM	#22
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Uploading the file now. Here's what we'll do for FA. The holiday has thrown us off, but last year proved we have some flexibility with FA. So, we'll do FA1 tomorrow night (Wednesday) to give you all a chance to get offers in, check the game and so forth. Then we'll sim to the start of ST and do FA2 on Thursday. Spring Training on Friday and SLOP's 27th season begins on Monday. So there's no new file tonight.

11-27-2012, 09:07 AM	#23
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	I'll update the HTML later.

11-27-2012, 09:17 AM	#24
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	File is up

11-27-2012, 11:58 AM	#25
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	I forgot to process trades. I'll do it tonight when I get home. __________________ Current Dynasty:The Zenith of Professional Basketball Careers (FBPB/FBCB) FBCB / FPB3 Mods

11-28-2012, 12:15 AM	#26
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Both trades processed and a new file is up. FA1 is tomorrow night.

11-28-2012, 11:33 PM	#27
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	FA1 is complete. As noted before, the cap for this year is $125 million, but that just means you get to spend up to $100m like normal, the $25m reserve cap is for arbitration or any trades you make that get you over that $100m mark. Easier for accounting purposes and prevents the FA market from being wild and crazy. Prepping the file to upload.

11-28-2012, 11:59 PM	#28
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Also with the change in pitcher fatigue from "Average" to "Low" there might be some need to take a look at how you build your rotations. Winter league will be set to "Low" for this year and I've changed the statistical detail down there to very high like the real league, so you can see breakdowns and get a sense of how guys might perform in a full season environment, especially if you're using major leaguers or near major leaguers down there. Hopefully that helps. We'll sim to the start of spring training tomorrow and do FA2. Then Spring Training is on Friday. File is up.

11-29-2012, 04:22 PM	#29
Gomer H.S. Freshman Team Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Central PA	So low fatigue really means high fatigue in OOTP?

11-29-2012, 06:16 PM	#30
Jax Powers n00b Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: USA	Whats the correct in game date? I loaded and it crashed while loading and now it says I have the updated file? __________________ A murder of Crows

11-29-2012, 07:09 PM	#31
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Game date is November 15th, 1863 __________________ Current Dynasty:The Zenith of Professional Basketball Careers (FBPB/FBCB) FBCB / FPB3 Mods

11-29-2012, 11:27 PM	#32
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	FA2 running now.

11-29-2012, 11:50 PM	#33
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Quiet off-season overall. A few signings, but no real huge splashes. Should be interesting to see how realignment affects things, too.

11-29-2012, 11:51 PM	#34
INDalltheway College Benchwarmer Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Chicago	shit - just started downloading the file. I am certainly behind.

11-30-2012, 12:02 AM	#36
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	The new file is up, gang.

11-30-2012, 08:55 AM	#38
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	HTML is updated, nerds. So is dev.

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