Re: Fictional Rosters
I wanted to weigh in on the topic of "status update" questions. It sounds like BoSoxPujols has encountered enough of these kinds of questions on other threads and it has exhausted his patience.
I, for one, am fairly new to the forums, and don't mind status updates. In fact, it helps me to believe that this long term effort isn't in vain just to know that there is some interest for these rosters outside of our group of editors.
First, it might not be possible to respond to each question individually, but if you continue to check back I hope that I can shed some light on status from time to time. This might include color-coding the teams on the first post of this thread in order to indicate level of progress. This particular task is sort of low on the priority list, however, so don't hold your breath.
Second, I believe we are making steady progress. I finished (or believe that I finished) the edits for the pitcher's spreadsheet. I sent it to TripleThreat for feedback. If he disagrees with my edits (this is entirely possible!) then we'll need a couple more days to hammer out the details. If not, then I'll post the spreadsheet as soon as possible.
As a general statement as to when these will be available, I get the sense that others are as busy as I am. In fact, in the next week or so I may be taking care of my first newborn child. In that case, I might have to finish what I can and pass on some of my responsibilities to whoever will accept them. This is all up in the air and I might be able to continue picking away at this task for the foreseeable future. The ETA on this also depends on how the other editors are coming along as well as whether or not we get any other volunteers.
The more I work on this, the more I see things that will require some attention at some point. Once the editors have finished their edits for a single team and send them to me (or to whoever takes over for me), it takes about 30 minutes (I estimate) to import those players into the master roster. For 30 teams, that amounts to 15 hours of work. There will also be some additional polishing that will come to another 10-15 hours I suppose (this is difficult to predict). And all of this is after we edit all of the players, which I find comes to over ten hours per team. This depends on the depth of editing to appearances.
This last issue deserves its own paragraph. Since my own time is limited, I'm going to limit the editing of appearances to ten minutes or so for most players and hopefully even less time for less talented players. The appearances of the players I edit, for instance, may more or less resemble the randomly generated SCEA players. This all depends on how much time I have. As far as this goes, the first team I edited (White Sox) might have the best appearances since I didn't yet know how long the process took.\
So, this has been a rambling update on my end of the project. I hope no one is putting more time than they have on the appearances. While the appearance edits are the delicious frosting on the cake, we'll still have a workable roster without them. If people are dissatisfied with this, they can always initiate a project of their own to improve the appearances.
And that's all I have to say about that. Back to editing...
I wanted to weigh in on the topic of "status update" questions. It sounds like BoSoxPujols has encountered enough of these kinds of questions on other threads and it has exhausted his patience.
I, for one, am fairly new to the forums, and don't mind status updates. In fact, it helps me to believe that this long term effort isn't in vain just to know that there is some interest for these rosters outside of our group of editors.
First, it might not be possible to respond to each question individually, but if you continue to check back I hope that I can shed some light on status from time to time. This might include color-coding the teams on the first post of this thread in order to indicate level of progress. This particular task is sort of low on the priority list, however, so don't hold your breath.
Second, I believe we are making steady progress. I finished (or believe that I finished) the edits for the pitcher's spreadsheet. I sent it to TripleThreat for feedback. If he disagrees with my edits (this is entirely possible!) then we'll need a couple more days to hammer out the details. If not, then I'll post the spreadsheet as soon as possible.
As a general statement as to when these will be available, I get the sense that others are as busy as I am. In fact, in the next week or so I may be taking care of my first newborn child. In that case, I might have to finish what I can and pass on some of my responsibilities to whoever will accept them. This is all up in the air and I might be able to continue picking away at this task for the foreseeable future. The ETA on this also depends on how the other editors are coming along as well as whether or not we get any other volunteers.
The more I work on this, the more I see things that will require some attention at some point. Once the editors have finished their edits for a single team and send them to me (or to whoever takes over for me), it takes about 30 minutes (I estimate) to import those players into the master roster. For 30 teams, that amounts to 15 hours of work. There will also be some additional polishing that will come to another 10-15 hours I suppose (this is difficult to predict). And all of this is after we edit all of the players, which I find comes to over ten hours per team. This depends on the depth of editing to appearances.
This last issue deserves its own paragraph. Since my own time is limited, I'm going to limit the editing of appearances to ten minutes or so for most players and hopefully even less time for less talented players. The appearances of the players I edit, for instance, may more or less resemble the randomly generated SCEA players. This all depends on how much time I have. As far as this goes, the first team I edited (White Sox) might have the best appearances since I didn't yet know how long the process took.\
So, this has been a rambling update on my end of the project. I hope no one is putting more time than they have on the appearances. While the appearance edits are the delicious frosting on the cake, we'll still have a workable roster without them. If people are dissatisfied with this, they can always initiate a project of their own to improve the appearances.
And that's all I have to say about that. Back to editing...
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