2004 Offseason 1 SIM Complete - Next SIM Mon 11/4

[Matt]

Next SIM:

Mon 11/4 - Noon PCT- Offseason 2 - Pre Arbitration to Rule 5 Draft

HTML up soon.

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- LL has moved to Toronto
- All stadium mods complete (please double check)
- Winning It All bonus money applied
- Awards entered (game picked IL and DL manager)
- Image Pack uploaded

[Jimmy]

Thank You Dewitt Pierce for taking that 10M paycut. You should be paying us to play after your performance last season.

[Lintyfresh85]

Question on the images? It seems everything is working, except the player head shots in their profiles, it still shows them in generic uniforms... is that how it's supposed to be?

[Spear]

Question on the images? It seems everything is working, except the player head shots in their profiles, it still shows them in generic uniforms... is that how it's supposed to be?

Same thing for me.

[Jake]

So, I exported last night and I'm sure I declined Guzman's option but he's still around. Any chance we can fix that? Rule-5-oops style?

[Jake]

Never mind, I could release him.

[funclown]

Got the ones I wanted resigned and arbitration eligible Boyce extended with friendly terms.

Some interesting vet pitchers coming on the market. Wonder if that holds.

[Matt]

Did you unzip to the /html folder and not the html/images folder?

If so it should unzip another folder inside /html called /person_pictures. If you look inside that folder does it have players in their uniforms? Mine does which means in game the head shots in the profiles look correct because it gets them from that folder.

If you did then I'm not sure what to do.

[Lintyfresh85]

Did you unzip to the /html folder and not the html/images folder?

If so it should unzip another folder inside /html called /person_pictures. If you look inside that folder does it have players in their uniforms? Mine does which means in game the head shots in the profiles look correct because it gets them from that folder.

If you did then I'm not sure what to do.

It does. Yet none of the guys are in their uniform in the profiles.

[Dave]

It does. Yet none of the guys are in their uniform in the profiles.

Same here. That person_pictures folder is under images with league_logos, profile_pictures, etc. But I also get default unis.

[Pat]

Avoided arbitration with SP Travis DuFour and OF BJ Jobe. Both of which signed for much less than I expected. That with the release of SS Shawn Nolan, MR Don Bolton, MR Edgar Salazar, the Bats have roughly $6M in budget room to play with in Free-Agency.

This years class looks pretty similar to previous years, but like mentioned, that could change this sim. Derrek Tucker, Curt Warren, Doug Coates, Raulo Gutz, Johnny Cosio, etc, there will definitely be starting pitching available to hungry teams. Also some solid relief options in Oelschlager, Diaz, Gallo, Bayer, Booth, Aaron, etc. The hitters, is pretty standard. A few options outside of the veteran C/1B types. Hector Duarte and Wessin Ramirez will probably be asking for $20M+. This year does appear to have some decent infield options with Shawn Nolan, Kazu Maek, Maximo Taureda, Gus Brown, Masa Matsu, Cris Rivera, Hector Barrera, Hele Jarava, etc. I don't see this as a great class, and a lot can change in this current sim, but there is definitely veteran help at nearly every position. A bit of a surprise with the compensation being removed.

My image pack went through but have the same issues others have with individual images.

[Matt]

Any chance we can fix that? Rule-5-oops style?

No. Rule 5 Oops is presim...just like presim moves. Post sim is final like always.

As for the Images do the players show up in the folder in their uni's? I can always add them to the league file and see if that works tomorrow. It will make it large but should work.

[Andrew]

They look OK in the person_pictures folder but not in profile_pictures which is what people are missing. The profile_pictures folder is empty in the image pack.

[Matt]

My profile_pictures only has players I look at in game. I assumed it generates them from the person_pictures.

[funclown]

Avoided arbitration with SP Travis DuFour and OF BJ Jobe. Both of which signed for much less than I expected. That with the release of SS Shawn Nolan, MR Don Bolton, MR Edgar Salazar, the Bats have roughly $6M in budget room to play with in Free-Agency.

This years class looks pretty similar to previous years, but like mentioned, that could change this sim. Derrek Tucker, Curt Warren, Doug Coates, Raulo Gutz, Johnny Cosio, etc, there will definitely be starting pitching available to hungry teams. Also some solid relief options in Oelschlager, Diaz, Gallo, Bayer, Booth, Aaron, etc. The hitters, is pretty standard. A few options outside of the veteran C/1B types. Hector Duarte and Wessin Ramirez will probably be asking for $20M+. This year does appear to have some decent infield options with Shawn Nolan, Kazu Maek, Maximo Taureda, Gus Brown, Masa Matsu, Cris Rivera, Hector Barrera, Hele Jarava, etc. I don't see this as a great class, and a lot can change in this current sim, but there is definitely veteran help at nearly every position. A bit of a surprise with the compensation being removed.

My image pack went through but have the same issues others have with individual images.

To me from a free agent pt of view, it's average pitching (two above), decent RP which is typical since people hate over paying for them.

Hitters, this I differ from Pat. Some pretty good catchers on this list and 3 game changing outfielders. The Infield has some depth to it and then yes them usual power hitters (add Deleon).

Might change of course, but be fun to watch possible bidding wars come this season.