Schedule: allow setting significant dates

WBHCommish · 10-24-2015, 08:06 PM

In our online league, we run several Major Leagues. Because the sim has to advance all at once for everyone, it means our league schedules need to be in sync.

The problem: OOTP currently switches to the next season's financials the day after the end of the playoffs, which means some teams have flipped over to the next season financials while other teams are still playing that year's playoffs. It means there is no feasible way to allow GMs to release players on the current year's financials at the very end of the season (day after playoffs, for eample).

The other problem: if there is a rainout or single game playoff needed, one of the leagues will have their playoff series start later than the others which messes up simming.

The solution: It would be very helpful if we could set the major dates that trigger financial implications and so forth manually. Here are the dates I can think of:

Pre-Season
Spring Training start
Regular Season start
Championships start
Season end

This way, we could always leave a 2-3 day buffer between regular season and playoffs, for example, to account for extra games that need to be played. Also, if we could set the season end date to be a fixed date in the calendar (in our league, October 1 would be our choice, but this is arbitrary), then that is the date financials could roll over to the next season, so we could sim up to the day before and allow people to make final roster changes and so on.

I am thinking it can be an additional league setting, similar to how we can choose the Draft Date now.

10-24-2015, 08:06 PM	#1
WBHCommish Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 37	Schedule: allow setting significant dates In our online league, we run several Major Leagues. Because the sim has to advance all at once for everyone, it means our league schedules need to be in sync. The problem: OOTP currently switches to the next season's financials the day after the end of the playoffs, which means some teams have flipped over to the next season financials while other teams are still playing that year's playoffs. It means there is no feasible way to allow GMs to release players on the current year's financials at the very end of the season (day after playoffs, for eample). The other problem: if there is a rainout or single game playoff needed, one of the leagues will have their playoff series start later than the others which messes up simming. The solution: It would be very helpful if we could set the major dates that trigger financial implications and so forth manually. Here are the dates I can think of: Pre-Season Spring Training start Regular Season start Championships start Season end This way, we could always leave a 2-3 day buffer between regular season and playoffs, for example, to account for extra games that need to be played. Also, if we could set the season end date to be a fixed date in the calendar (in our league, October 1 would be our choice, but this is arbitrary), then that is the date financials could roll over to the next season, so we could sim up to the day before and allow people to make final roster changes and so on. I am thinking it can be an additional league setting, similar to how we can choose the Draft Date now. Last edited by WBHCommish; 10-24-2015 at 08:07 PM.