Thursday, March 27, 2014

#PackADailyCircus - Gearing up for season breaks! #ootp

Hey everyone!
  I am getting things in order for the first draft of the 2014 season. Everyone who signed up was notified about the draft by email. Please note that most communication will be done by email since there is a weird delay between the time I post something here and the time some of you get notified that a new post was added.

Be sure to check your email if you don't think you have received anything from me and you are signed up.

We have 44 managers participating this season! That is awesome!!  Thanks so much!

Now, before I roll out the draft this weekend, I want to share a couple of game-related items with you and the folks who are watching this crazy thing unfold!

First up, I created teams for each participant. Look over the list, and you should be able to figure out who you are and where you are within the league. I think I can still change team names if you don't like yours. Drop me a line and I will see what I can do. Otherwise, that will be something I fix next season:



The divisions get their names from places associated with Piccadilly Square, since that is the play-on-words title of this year's giveaway. The teams were assign to their divisions based on the order in which they were received during sign-up. We have two (2) SubLeagues (Think, American/National but without actual names). Because we have 44 teams, some divisions have 5 teams and some have 6 teams. Which have which was randomly determined.

For those interested in the OOTP rules chosen for this game:


To be perfectly frank, I don't have a clue what some of these rules do. I am NOT doing anything with financials this season. I hope that allows for any manager to own any player they wish. I won't know that until I start rolling things out. If I hit any snags, we'll monitor and adjust. As you can see, we will have a 25-man roster to start things off and then that will be expanded to a 40-man. This has NOTHING to do with cards you get during pack breaks. I will hold drafts or trades or something during the season so you can, if you want, expand your picks for the cards you get.

The draft order will be a serpentine format (what I called "snaking" last year), and OOTP has set the order. Since the database is outdated, I will create fictional players to fill in (ex: Yasiel Puig). There is probably a better way to handle that, but I want to get things rolling and don't want to take the time to learn. Haha! Here is the draft order:


I plan to simulate games each weekend for the previous week.
Packs will be opened each day.
Unclaimed players will be put into a pool for selection via draft.

I will be out of town until Sunday night, so I will run the draft then and should be able to kick out everyone's rosters.  OOTP lets me export things to HTML files, so hopefully I can post ongoing information and provide links to it. If not, I will figure out how to get things posted here and we will see how it goes!



5 comments:

  1. This is going to be even more crazy than last year!

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  2. I sort of feel like the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in that my team name is WAY too long. Could you please shorten it to the Kentucky Quarrys with a KQ shortened form? I know I am nitpicky, but I gotta be me.

    BTW, this looks like it will be extremely fun and a whole lot of work for you. Thanks in advance for doing this.

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  3. This looks great and a lot of fun.
    Thanks for all your hard work. I'm looking forward to a great season (here and on the diamonds)

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  4. Haha, I am pretty sure this will be a lot of work, but I think the fun will be worth the work. Guess we'll find out, eh! haha!

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