Arsenal of Doom
Footballguy
Firing this up as the spot for discussion and determining interest in doing an online OOTP League as a substitute or supplement to WIS.
For those unfamiliar with OOTP, it's regarded as the best baseball simulation software on the market. Here is a link to the website for anyone interested in reading up on the current version, which is what we'd be using as the league platform:
OOTP 16 Website
The cost of the software is $39.99, although if a number of people went in together eephus pointed out that there is a 20% discount available. That's roughly the cost of 3 individual seasons of WIS and could be used for as many league simulations as we want and as individual games as your heart desires.
Everyone who wanted to play would need to purchase the software as the game client needs to be installed on everyone's computer. The exchange of league files is handled via FTP, but it all happens within the game client. When you open an online game you log in as the manager of whatever team you control and check to see if there is a new version of the league file. When you get the file you make whatever changes you want for your team for the simulation period and click a button to upload the file back to the league website. This would be scheduled at regular intervals, typically 2-3 times during the week.
The league commissioner imports the team files, run the simulation and uploads the reports and new league file back to the website. Here is a sample of the website generated for the current BTTF simulation we are doing:
WIS BTTF Website
We can use this domain as our league home for future leagues if we decide to do this.
There will be some pros and cons to this compared to WIS. I'll list a few that we can talk about and others can add on in the discussion.
Pros
One time investment, with unlimited play thereafter
Deeper level of team control and manager options
Ability to simulate multiple seasons or decades if we want
Richer league experience, with player profiles, story lines, historical stats, etc.
Cons
Bigger one time expense
No simlive equivalent
We may or may not be able to pick players from specific seasons as we currently do with WIS (other than full seasons at a time)
I'll save the post below for a list of those interested and we'll take it from there.
For those unfamiliar with OOTP, it's regarded as the best baseball simulation software on the market. Here is a link to the website for anyone interested in reading up on the current version, which is what we'd be using as the league platform:
OOTP 16 Website
The cost of the software is $39.99, although if a number of people went in together eephus pointed out that there is a 20% discount available. That's roughly the cost of 3 individual seasons of WIS and could be used for as many league simulations as we want and as individual games as your heart desires.
Everyone who wanted to play would need to purchase the software as the game client needs to be installed on everyone's computer. The exchange of league files is handled via FTP, but it all happens within the game client. When you open an online game you log in as the manager of whatever team you control and check to see if there is a new version of the league file. When you get the file you make whatever changes you want for your team for the simulation period and click a button to upload the file back to the league website. This would be scheduled at regular intervals, typically 2-3 times during the week.
The league commissioner imports the team files, run the simulation and uploads the reports and new league file back to the website. Here is a sample of the website generated for the current BTTF simulation we are doing:
WIS BTTF Website
We can use this domain as our league home for future leagues if we decide to do this.
There will be some pros and cons to this compared to WIS. I'll list a few that we can talk about and others can add on in the discussion.
Pros
One time investment, with unlimited play thereafter
Deeper level of team control and manager options
Ability to simulate multiple seasons or decades if we want
Richer league experience, with player profiles, story lines, historical stats, etc.
Cons
Bigger one time expense
No simlive equivalent
We may or may not be able to pick players from specific seasons as we currently do with WIS (other than full seasons at a time)
I'll save the post below for a list of those interested and we'll take it from there.
