I would love this. I've effectively adjusted things to minimize crashes but live in fear of losing important games in the late innings.

Apologies if I missed it, but was this answered?

We've almost always started with standard play in Road to Release for the last few years, and then went to PT. We know the base game is the big thing and needs to be talked about first before anything. But yes, standard play is NOT being ignored, for sure.

Any idea if the distribution of K's for Starting pitchers has been adjusted (or reverted) for 26? Have shelved 25 since it could never get a realistic spread of K's per 9 (primarily could never get a Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson, Pedro type of starter). Hadn't been an issue in prior versions.

https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...d.php?t=358832

Enjoyed the draft walkthrough with Will quite a bit! If I play historical/scouting off, will I still be able to take advantage of the great new draft features or is it only with scouts?

1000x YES. Glaringly missing. Historical What ifs.!!

agree!

Is the game still using .ktx files and if so are they still able to be replaced with .webp and .png files?

I'm in for the 8th straight year!

My wishlist
 

My wish list, to go on the pile:

* Autosave feature for crash scenarios so we don't lose those magical moments
* An API with the executable to automate certain things like saves, merging league games for multiplayer, etc. Honestly, doing multiplayer in this game feels difficult. In a world where you had the funding, there would be a cloud server and we would all login to our leagues and play the games, but we can't. So the next best thing is, make it easy on commissioners to merge people's teams, and I could code around that if there was an API. I could even set up a scheduler so that I would have minimal drudgery work. Please oh please, make it easier on commissioners to run leagues. Multiplayer keeps your fans coming back!
* Fantasy draft leagues that would be affected by real games played (or not, make it optional). I would love to do rotisserie and customizable draft leagues each year. Then we wouldn't need to go on to websites; we could actually use this powerful OOTP simulator. I know we can do perfect team live start, but this is difficult for trying to stimulate the website experiences.
* I am one of those people who use OOTP as a glorified screensaver to watch games up on the TV. The graphics aren't the best, but it's good enough where I can enjoy having a game up there while I'm home doing whatever. Any graphical improvements are appreciated.

Anyway, I love OOTP, and I enjoy your hard work. I don't post a lot but, please don't forget about us people playing OOTP with our family/friends. I could get more people to play if it wasn't as difficult for multiplayer.

with the stadium updates - will this still allow allow the older custom stadiums built. When I said older stadiums I was referring to the historical stadiums

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I'm also wondering about this.

They posted somewhere that the new animated scoreboards could be added to the mod stadiums if the mod-creator wanted to take the time to do them. It sounded like it was a bit of work to do, so it might be a big ask of the mod creators. But it also means the historical stadiums should work in v26.

great news - thank you

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Looking forward to the new changes and graphical improvements, the live scoreboards are a real game changer for 3D stadiums.
Personally, I hope to see the ability to add numbers on different places on the jerseys like on the front left, front right, sleeve, etc. Some jerseys look plain wrong missing their numbers!

How many NeL players were added to the DB?

Good question! At the moment, with the complete scouting system turned off, I believe the combine happens (you can go see which players are drawing the most attention on the league screen), but you don't have a screen to scout the players.
That being said, all the other new draft features will work; new draft pipeline, draft central, new option to display ratings below min (red stars), new rules like the PPI, etc.

Sick! Thanks Will! Can't wait to see Big Mac tear up that combine :)

This might already be in '25 but I'm not sure so figured I'd ask here. I use Excel to look at the draft pool, upcoming FA class, check out my player payroll for as far as that screen allows you to look and some other stuff. Typically I just highlight, cut/paste all that stuff which is a bit cumbersome but the options to export look like they just open up a new browser window where I manually cut and paste the data.

Is there a way to export that stuff to an Excel file already formatted similar to the in game screens at all?

Thanks

March 11 will be beta drop