Archive for May, 2006
« Previous EntriesOOTPB Game Guide
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 at 7:43 pmIn addition to the manual, a 350+ page game guide is available for download at the OOTPB 2006 web site. Those not familiar with the Football Manager series and how the interface uses filters to ease information display will have a hard time getting comfortable with OOTPB 2006. It’s harder to do some […]
Test Sim
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 at 3:06 pmJust ran a year test sim for my imported league. The Jacksonville Sharks hit .254 as a team and that was fifth in the AL. They had a team ERA of 2.99 and that was 4th in the AL. I am a bit concerned…
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Editing Team Logos, Etc.
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 at 1:53 pmThe game creates its own logos and the logos from OOTP 6.5 do not import into the game. If you want to customize team colors and import new logos, take a look at this thread from the OOTP forums.
So far so good. I haven’t started simming games because I fear some fatal flaw […]
More Import Impressions
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 at 1:17 pmHere are some more:
(1) Retired players import fine.
(2) Make sure you go to game options during league import and click display player development - at least if you want it displayed.
(3) One of the crack beta team members pointed out that you have to manually edit the league names to get the correct abreviations.
(4) You […]
Importing OOTP 6.5 Leagues
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 at 12:45 pmHere are some initial impressions for those of you importing OOTP 6.5 leagues:
(1) Import interface is a bit painful to use if you have multiple folders to go through to get to your league file. Not intuitive at all and very slow to find the new folder you click on. You may want […]
OOTP 2006 Installed
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 at 11:21 amI will read through the 68 page manual before I try and start a league. This is something I learned to do with other SI products because things sometimes are not, shall we say, intuitive in their games. The download file is 33+ megabytes.
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Excellent Farewell
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 at 9:39 amFrom the OOTP2006 forums:
“I played my final game of OOTP 6.5 today. On 7/9/2010 my Cardinals won a 4-3, 10 inning game over the Pittsburgh Pirates to improve to 54-36, 1.5 games behind the division leading Milwaukee Brewers. Fictional player Mark Melancon, my 2006 first round selection (29th overall) who is my 25 year old […]
College Football Annual Time
Monday, May 29th, 2006 at 2:50 pmJune 1 is rapidly closing in on us, which can only mean one thing. The yearly onslaught of NCAA football annuals is upon us. Each year I write that I am going to stop the addiction. Stop being wasteful. Stop buying yearly college football annuals.
Another year goes buy, and I find […]
Georgia Named Regional Host
Monday, May 29th, 2006 at 9:27 amGeorgia landed an at-larger bid to host in this year’s build up to the NCAA College World Series. Georgia is currently ranked in the Top 10 by Baseball American (not sure if the rankings have been updated after going down to Vanderbilt last Saturday).
To be honest I am not sure what sort of chance […]
Braves Bullpen Woes Continue
Monday, May 29th, 2006 at 8:00 amThe Braves are managing to put together a nice run, but this has to be some sort of hocus-pocus, black-magic thing, because the Braves cannot be for real with their horrid bullpen problems.
I should be thankful that the Braves are now only 3.5 games back of the Mets, and finally over .500 (27-23), but yesterday […]
Writer Wanted
Sunday, May 28th, 2006 at 9:59 pmI think the site goes smoother (and is more entertaining) with three active writers. Chris and I usually keep a decent flow of content and banter going; usually one of us is posting while the other is doing the real life thing, but sometimes the banter thing works out. Geoff is MIA (hello?), […]
Go Sam! Go!
Sunday, May 28th, 2006 at 6:12 pmCongratulations to Sam Hornish Jr. on his fine Indy 500 victory. Before the start of the race, my oldest son asked who I wanted to win (he was pulling for Hornish - like father like son). I told my boys that I was pulling for Michael Andretti and Sam, so my racing day […]
US Soccer Gains Some Respect
Sunday, May 28th, 2006 at 8:40 amWell, at least in Columbus, GA. I still do not understand why we do not get more major soccer coverage in our local paper. The paper does a decent job of spotlighting local interests - the strong showing from our local high school teams, and our new woman’s soccer team at Columbus State […]
Fighting the Good Fight
Sunday, May 28th, 2006 at 8:24 amThis Memorial Day weekend, please pause a few moments to remember why we are fighting the good fight and say a prayer for the safe return for those good men and women defending our freedom. Regardless of your political affiliations, or your view of Iraqi, good men have died for our Country. I […]
I hate CBS (or how they f’up a perfect race day)
Saturday, May 27th, 2006 at 9:14 pmI hate CBS. Really. They absolutely f’ing suck. I love the Sunday before Memorial Day when the racing gods give us the Monaco GP, followed by the Indy 500, followed by some circle racing at the Coca-Cola 600.
By why enjoy a good thing CBS? Instead of getting racing for breakfast, lunch, […]