1999 B.C.L. Offseason : Spring Training is complete

[Ganuke2kx]

There is a new full BCL file available for anyone who wants / needs it now available for the taking from the SCleagues main site page. If / when you need to make use of it be sure to first delete the existing BCL folder within the saved games folder of OOTP, download the new full BCL file, unzip / extract it to your OOTP saved games folder, start up OOTP, select the Clinton League, sign into your team....... and lastly be sure to do an in-game update to get all the needed files for the league that are not included in the full BCL file.

Once you get to the point of signing into your team ..... the league date showing should be 12-30-98. After doing an in-game update the current league date should change to where we currently are in the season ......

Ganuke

[Ganuke2kx]

Days 15-21 of the FA Period are now complete. So a fresh new in-game file update is available in-game..... and the BCL site pages have been updated with all the latest. Both BCL file and site pages are at the current league date of January 6th, 1999. We are now in the year 1999 ...... WOOT !!

Alright...... So now be sure to have your FA Period ( Days 22-29 [ 8 Day simmage now ] ) exports out ( or FA Period offer requests ) pm'd to me by no later than 10 pm Eastern Time on Tuesday..... October 28, 2008.


Ganuke

[Buane]

Bern baby Bern

[Ganuke2kx]

Sorry for the delay on this guys. Last night I spent the better part of 2 + hours trying to get the in-game file update to upshoot to the SCleagues server. I got to around 65 percent uploaded and the thing just stalled there. So I closed things out and called it a night already frustrated at how long it took to get to even that point.

But I gave it another go this afternoon and it seems to have uploaded now. With that said.....

Days 22-29 of the FA Period are now complete. So a fresh new in-game file update is available in-game..... and the BCL site pages have been updated with all the latest. Both BCL file and site pages are at the current league date of January 14th, 1999.

So now be sure to have your FA Period ( Days 30-37 ) exports out ( or FA Period offer requests ) pm'd to me by no later than 10 pm Eastern Time on Thursday..... October 30, 2008.

That's right..... no FA simmage tonight..... so that everyone knows the last in-game file update is now available and can have time to grab it, make changes wanted, and export with any FA offers. Doing the next simmage tonight may not provide enough time for everyone to do that and I don't want anyone to miss out on the key FA they need to get to put them over the top this season....... when they could end up going to another team in this next FA simmage.

As for the reports / site pages ..... I will try to get those updated tonight. For now though...... here was the result in signings from this last FA simmage

Monday, January 11th, 1999

Texas Rangers: Signed free agent MR J. Corsi to a 3-year contract worth a total of $13,500,000.

Texas Rangers: Signed free agent LF B. Williams to a 5-year contract worth a total of $91,350,000.

Boston Red Sox: Signed free agent SP J. Nieves to a 2-year contract worth a total of $12,388,888.

Saturday, January 9th, 1999

Boston Red Sox: Signed free agent 1B J. Browne to a 2-year contract worth a total of $1,555,555.

Cleveland Indians: Signed free agent C J. Girardi to a 1-year contract worth a total of $790,000.

Friday, January 8th, 1999

St. Louis Cardinals: Signed free agent SP R. Myers to a 1-year contract worth a total of $400,000.

Thursday, January 7th, 1999

St. Louis Cardinals: Signed free agent SP D. Cone to a 1-year contract worth a total of $400,000.

Ganuke

[Tavarin]

Andy, the file might have had a problem being updated since it's close to 49 MB. Looks to me like it's transferring all old box scores, which isn't really necessary.

The Cards have exported

[knucklehead7]

The reports have been updated.

[Ganuke2kx]

Andy, the file might have had a problem being updated since it's close to 49 MB. Looks to me like it's transferring all old box scores, which isn't really necessary.

The Cards have exported

Yep..... I think that might be at least part of the extreme length of time it is taking me to get the files uploaded recently. In fact..... it may have been with my latest install of OOTP. When that first last patch came out it didn't work for me.... so I completely unlicensed / uninstalled the game and waited for the update to the last patch..... grabbing the full version and installed that. That may have reset the league file and reports settings I originally had. Mike sent me a pm with a similar suggestion. I will have to double check that before hitting the next FA simmage Thursday night. Hopefully that is it and it won't take hours to get things up...... ahem.....

The reports have been updated.

Thanks a ton Mike !


Ok...... so that means both the latest league file update and BCL site pages are at the current League date of January 14th 1999.

Remmeber the next FA simmage ( hopefully ) will be Thursday night. So be sure to have your FA Period ( Days 30-37 ) exports out ( or FA Period offer requests ) pm'd to me by no later than 10 pm Eastern Time on Thursday..... October 30, 2008.


Ganuke

[Ganuke2kx]

Days 30-37 of the FA Period are now complete. So a fresh new in-game file update is available in-game..... and the BCL site pages have been updated with all the latest. Both BCL file and site pages are at the current league date of January 22nd, 1999.

So now be sure to have your FA Period ( Days 38-45 ) exports out ( or FA Period offer requests ) pm'd to me by no later than 10 pm Eastern Time on Friday..... October 31, 2008.


Ganuke

[Ganuke2kx]

Days 38-45 of the FA Period are now complete. So a fresh new in-game file update is available in-game..... and the BCL site pages have been updated with all the latest. Both BCL file and site pages are at the current league date of January 30th, 1999.

So now be sure to have your FA Period ( Days 46-53 ) exports out ( or FA Period offer requests ) pm'd to me by no later than 10 pm Eastern Time on Saturday..... November 1, 2008.


Ganuke

[Ganuke2kx]

Days 46-53 of the FA Period are now complete. So a fresh new in-game file update is available in-game..... and the BCL site pages have been updated with all the latest. Both BCL file and site pages are at the current league date of February 7th, 1999.

So now be sure to have your FA Period ( Days 54-61 ) exports out ( or FA Period offer requests ) pm'd to me by no later than 10 pm Eastern Time on Sunday..... November 2, 2008.


If my calculations are correct...... including this next simmage on Sunday night.....there should be 3 more FA Period simmages left. The next 2 FA Period simmages will be as the recent ones have been...... 8 total league days. The 3rd and last one will finish off the FA Period and Draft..... and I thinkkkkkkkkkk..... will be a 7 league days simmage.

So we are definitely down the stretch of the FA Period ...... with more players now inking new contracts with teams. Start offering wisely......and think about throwing the players the best offers you are willing to give them.

Ganuke

[Toona the Cat]

Um...I seemed to have signed a reserve outfielder for $8,000,000 instead of $800,000.

Can you fix this, or release him?

[Tavarin]

It sure is great to see the players I signed two weeks ago already losing ratings.

[Ganuke2kx]

Um...I seemed to have signed a reserve outfielder for $8,000,000 instead of $800,000.

Can you fix this, or release him?

Got a little jumpy with the ' 0 ' button ?

Alright...... he will be released back into the FA pool with the next FA Period simmage...... since likely the only reason he did sign now was due to getting the whopping $ 8 million. It isn't certain he would have signed in the last FA Period simmage for what was your intended offer of $ 800,000.


Ganuke

[Toona the Cat]

Got a little jumpy with the ' 0 ' button ?

Alright...... he will be released back into the FA pool with the next FA Period simmage...... since likely the only reason he did sign now was due to getting the whopping $ 8 million. It isn't certain he would have signed in the last FA Period simmage for what was your intended offer of $ 800,000.


Ganuke

Thanks, Andy.

[Ganuke2kx]

Days 54-61 of the FA Period are now complete. So a fresh new in-game file update is available in-game..... and the BCL site pages have been updated with all the latest. Both BCL file and site pages are at the current league date of February 15th, 1999.

So now be sure to have your FA Period ( Days 62-69 ) exports out ( or FA Period offer requests ) pm'd to me by no later than 10 pm Eastern Time on Monday..... November 3, 2008.


Ganuke

[Ganuke2kx]

Days 62-69 of the FA Period are now complete. So a fresh new in-game file update is available in-game..... and the BCL site pages have been updated with all the latest. Both BCL file and site pages are at the current league date of February 23rd, 1999.

So now be sure to have your FINAL FA Period exports out ( or FA Period offer requests ) pm'd to me by no later than 10 pm Eastern Time on Tuesday..... November 4, 2008.

Yep..... the next FA Period simmage will be the last one for 1999.....and will also include the completion of the draft. So make these your bestest offers yet to remaining free agents you are trying to acquire...... and also..... be sure to get any draft lists pm'd to me by the time I stated above to have exports out by if you are interested in remaining draftees to get into your BCL Organization.....


Ganuke

[Ganuke2kx]

The 1999 BCL Free Agency Period is now complete. All results of both the completed Free Agency Period and Draft can be seen in the fresh new in-game file update and / or the site pages. I hope everyone had a productive offseason ! Both the BCL file and site pages are at the current league date of March 6, 1999.

So that leads us to BCL Spring Training 1999 ..... WOOT ! Below is a list of each team ordered alphabetically. Please post next to your team name if you are exporting for Spring Training. And I kindly ask that even if you don't plan to export for Spring Training..... that all owners post some acknowledgement of being here so that the list can also be used for roll call purposes ...... just to see who all is here and with us now. So if you don't post next to your team name of exporting..... just simply post next to your team name something like ' Here ', ' Present ', ' Yo ', Etc.

And be sure to have your 1999 Spring Training Exports out ( or requests pm'd to me ) by no later than 10 pm Eastern Time on Thursday....... 11-6-08. Sometime later the Spring Training simmage will take place and a new in-game file update will be made available ready for Opening Day 1999..... YAY !

If all goes according to plan.... BCL Opening Day 1999 will then be on Sunday night. So all BCL Opening Day 1999 exports will need to be out ( or changes wanted requests pm'd to me ) by no later than 10 pm Eastern Time on Sunday..... 11-9-08.


Ganuke

[Ganuke2kx]

* 1999 BCL Spring Training *

Angels -

Astros -

Athletics –

Blue Jays –

Braves -

Brewers -

Cardinals -

Cubs -

Dodgers -

Expos -

Giants –

Indians –

Mariners -

Mets -

Orioles -

Padres -

Phillies -

Pirates –

Rangers -

Reds -

Red Sox -

Royals -

Tigers -

Twins -

White Sox -

Yankees -

[Tavarin]

The Cardinals have exported with 29/40 on their major league roster.

[knucklehead7]

Thanks for spending your election night working on the draft and the final free agent sim Andy.

[Jontler]

27/40 exported.

[Buane]

Texas exported with a boring 25/40.

[thebishop]

* 1999 BCL Spring Training *

Angels -

Astros -

Athletics –

Blue Jays –

Braves -

Brewers -

Cardinals -The Cardinals have exported with 29/40 on their major league roster.

Cubs - 27/40 exported.

Dodgers -

Expos -

Giants –

Indians –

Mariners -

Mets -

Orioles -

Padres -

Phillies -

Pirates –

Rangers -Texas exported with a boring 25/40.

Reds -

Red Sox -

Royals -

Tigers -

Twins -

White Sox -

Yankees - exported

[Ganuke2kx]

* 1999 BCL Spring Training *

Angels - Bot waves at everyone

Astros -

Athletics –

Blue Jays –

Braves -

Brewers -

Cardinals -The Cardinals have exported with 29/40 on their major league roster.

Cubs - 27/40 exported.

Dodgers -

Expos -

Giants – Bot says Howdy

Indians –

Mariners -

Mets -

Orioles -

Padres - Bot says Yo

Phillies -

Pirates –

Rangers - Texas exported with a boring 25/40.

Reds -

Red Sox -

Royals - Bot says Hey

Tigers - Bot says Heeellllooooooo

Twins - Bot moons everybody

White Sox -

Yankees - exported

[Ganuke2kx]

Oh yep..... the BCL Training that comes in the season of Spring is now complete for the year 1999. So a new in-game file is now available for the grabbing..... and the BCL site pages are updated with any and all of the latest. Both BCL file and site pages are at the current league date of April 5th, 1999.

That concludes our BCL offseason activites for 1999. I hope everyone made the moves, adjustments, signings, tweaks, etc. that were needed to have a successful 1999 regular season..... and maybe even a playoff run.

So now keep track of all the going-ons of what will be our 1999 Bill Clinton League season in the 1999 BCL season thread.


Ganuke