Author Topic: Intercontinental League Inaugural Draft (Read 7316 times)

Huckleberry · « **on:** April 16, 2015, 05:17:56 PM »

The WBA will get underway with an inaugural draft for each league. This thread will cover the Intercontinental League inaugural draft.

The draft will be run using the OOTP OU interface available here. The utility will keep track of the draft timer and will then produce an export file that I can import into OOTP. If you have any questions or suggestions (this will be my first OOTP draft...I ran one in StatsLab before) regarding the draft please use this thread.

Please note that we will run 25 rounds of the draft and the rest will be auto-drafted (there are a total of 140 rounds in the draft based on the number of players at each level). Therefore you should set your draft list for as many rounds as you'd like, otherwise the OOTP OU utility will auto-draft the remainder for you.

BaylorHistory · « **Reply #1 on:** April 17, 2015, 06:57:42 PM »

Well I was up and our side was full so I made my selection.

Looks like London is up.

Huckleberry · « **Reply #2 on:** April 17, 2015, 07:13:49 PM »

Sorry, I undid that. The order that was up is not the actual order. Sorry about that. It will be reset when we start officially.

BaylorHistory · « **Reply #3 on:** April 17, 2015, 07:16:00 PM »

Quote from: Huckleberry on April 17, 2015, 07:13:49 PM

Sorry, I undid that. The order that was up is not the actual order. Sorry about that. It will be reset when we start officially.

No problem, I got a little nervous when I saw I was up and didn't want to get skipped.

Huckleberry · « **Reply #4 on:** April 17, 2015, 07:20:40 PM »

I updated the headline to indicate that the draft timers will start at noon on Sunday whether or not we fill the last team. That means everyone has a full day to work on their lists before it starts. The timer will be for one hour and will run continuously (even at night) so the draft will be a maximum of 10 days or so. Please remember that we will draft for 25 rounds manually and then the last 115 rounds that are necessary to fill everyone's minor league organizations will be auto-picked by OOTP OU.

Auto-pick is set to medium quality during the manual phase and will be set to highest quality for the auto-pick phase.

Huckleberry · « **Reply #5 on:** April 17, 2015, 07:42:20 PM »

A hint for viewing all of the players in the draft:

Click on the IBL menu at the top of the screen while in the game.

Player info -> List all IBL Players

From there you can modify the categories shown and what column it is sorted by. When you have a view you like, click on the Report menu just above the players information area. Select "Write report to disk" and the table will be sent to your default browser. From there you can manipulate and format the information however you'd like in Excel or whatever other software you'd like. And be sure to take advantage of the ability to customize the views so you can get back to the one you like more quickly in the future.

APMP · « **Reply #6 on:** April 17, 2015, 08:00:56 PM »

So two basic questions:

How do I switch the draft utility to the IBL?

I don't recall setting my password for the OOTP online utilities...I've tried my forum password and it obviously didn't work, and neither did the default password I used to load the saved game in OOTP 16.

CLK · « **Reply #7 on:** April 17, 2015, 08:35:48 PM »

the initial default password for the utility is "baseball" without the quotes. From inside the utility you can then change your password.

Huckleberry · « **Reply #8 on:** April 18, 2015, 05:38:17 AM »

Yes, it starts as "baseball"

And once you're logged in as an IBL owner everything should then default to IBL pages.

Huckleberry · « **Reply #9 on:** April 18, 2015, 11:29:51 AM »

Draft is now live and underway in the utility. The pick timer will not be enabled until tomorrow at noon central time.

maxprime · « **Reply #10 on:** April 18, 2015, 02:47:43 PM »

could i get my ingame password please

Huckleberry · « **Reply #11 on:** April 18, 2015, 02:53:28 PM »

Quote from: maxprime on April 18, 2015, 02:47:43 PM

could i get my ingame password please

Just sent it. Hit the wrong button in my email and never sent it to you.

APMP · « **Reply #12 on:** April 18, 2015, 07:26:25 PM »

Oh wow, just noticed I'm on the clock. Should have my pick in shortly...

Huckleberry · « **Reply #13 on:** April 18, 2015, 09:24:52 PM »

As pointed out by another owner the player demands are not quite functioning properly (the leagues are imbalanced despite balanced financials). Therefore the draft budget feature is being turned off and the game should decide player salaries after the draft based on each player's talent and the talent in the league overall. It is supposed to take into account the average superstar salary, average player salary, etc. that I put into the financials. On that screen the calculate averages functions says that the average team salary should be $49M and change so we will see after the draft.

APMP · « **Reply #14 on:** April 18, 2015, 09:30:24 PM »

Wait, can I redo my pick then?

APMP · « **Reply #15 on:** April 18, 2015, 09:50:12 PM »

Inaugural IBL pick is in. Good luck to everybody.

Huckleberry · « **Reply #16 on:** April 18, 2015, 09:58:41 PM »

Ugh. I'm learning on this OOTP OU utility stuff. I accidentally reset the draft again because I didn't realize that the utility pages are coded to GET data instead of POST data. Basically when I reloaded the page to see who you picked it reset the draft.

Please make that pick again, APMP.

APMP · « **Reply #17 on:** April 18, 2015, 10:02:43 PM »

No worries man, growing pains.

APMP · « **Reply #18 on:** April 19, 2015, 08:06:30 AM »

Noon on Sunday means noon in which time zone?

Also, can anybody who's used the utility confirm that you can see the timer countdown online somewhere?

Huckleberry · « **Reply #19 on:** April 19, 2015, 08:37:34 AM »

Central time for everything here. I can't be forced to think too much.

Just ran a quick test and this is where to see the time left on the selections page:

If you ARE on the clock the only change is seeing this on the Draft page (but this is already the case if it's your turn):

Huckleberry · « **Reply #20 on:** April 19, 2015, 11:10:15 AM »

Okay, well OOTP OU is coded to run the timer from whenever the last pick was made so I had to enter screwy timer length values for the first picks under the timer. As soon as these picks are made I will have to go back in to change it to 1 hour. So if I'm not around when these picks are made in the next hour or so then the selections screen may show times due that aren't accurate. Don't count on those because I will be changing them when I get to the computer. The following picks will be due one hour after the current pick is made.

Huckleberry · « **Reply #21 on:** April 21, 2015, 06:58:31 AM »

I'm making a new rule that teams that have been auto-picked for five selections in a row with no further communication and have nobody on their draft list will be set to auto-pick by default.

Huckleberry · « **Reply #22 on:** April 22, 2015, 05:36:02 AM »

Draft is complete. Same issue as with the ABL, players in the red box below were released:

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