Release Candidate 3

[CrashDavis]

RJ,
After checking and verifying, the WP stat does get reset at seasons end in the Players table. So, either
a) the career total WP stat is being inadvertantly copied over to the Players table sometime after the season begins (which would hold the current season stats) or
b) the source being viewed is not coming from the Players table.

To help track this down can you clarify for me, when you say you are

Looking through the history of the association

, from where are you looking at the stat? Almanac? Statistics Page? Both? Neither of those but from somewhere else?

[rjolley]

I went to Statistics & Reports, switched to All Past Seasons, selected Wild Pitches, and the numbers there are off.

On a whim, I clicked on Career Totals. Earl Caldwell has 67 wild pitches for his career, but according to the All Past Seasons page, he had 67 in 3 different seasons. If I select a season in which he supposedly had 67 wild pitches, he's listed as having 67.

[Wrathchild]

My Wild Pitch leader had 14 Wild Pitches in 1904, 1905 and 1906. He is listed with 14 in each season, but it seems a little odd to me that he would have 14 3 seasons in a row. Is that anything to be concerned about? And if you look at all past seasons the year is prefaced with a single quote, as if it was going to leave off the century. That looks a bit odd.

[HotCornerDave]

What happened to the tie break feature??? [:(] Real player 1998, Anaheim and Texas tied for the lead in the AL West, but Texas automatically got the playoff bid. I can only assume the game used the old calculation of Runs Scored to determine the division winner, because Anaheim won the head-to-head season series 7-5, and Anaheim was 1 game better in division play.

[HotCornerDave]

Also, I'm still having the same playoff issue as documented in this thread: tm.asp?m=2228334, item #2. For what it's worth, I rebuilt my PC over the weekend, so I have a fresh install of PureSim loaded, beginning with RC3. So, there shouldn't be anything from past builds doing screwy things to my associations. Maybe I should give up on 1998 and try a different season.

Edit: I will continue to work this with Steve in the other thread. I just came upon some new information. So, just consider this an fyi.

[SFMac]

Shaun;
What I meant was that your initial post above states to download RC3 and then download a fix to RC3. Will you place a copy of RC3 that contains the corrected file on site? I'm just trying to avoid downloading too many files if I can. Basically lazy. [:D]
Mac

[dneely]

Shaun:

I tried to DL the updated "Hot Fix" for the release candidate 3 today but got an error message of "Run Time error 53 - File not found: randomad.dll". Does this mean the file is no longer available?? The release candidate installed without any issues.

Thanks

[HotCornerDave]

ORIGINAL: HotCornerDave

What happened to the tie break feature??? [:(] Real player 1998, Anaheim and Texas tied for the lead in the AL West, but Texas automatically got the playoff bid. I can only assume the game used the old calculation of Runs Scored to determine the division winner, because Anaheim won the head-to-head season series 7-5, and Anaheim was 1 game better in division play.

I simmed a 1977 season, and the tie breaker worked. Baltimore and Boston tied for the AL East and played a 1 game tie breaker. So, I have no idea what is going on...

[Nukester]

We noticed the issue with the WP's in the XIBL awhile back. Below is what I observed and posted in their forum

After looking at the leaders in WP for past seasons, it appears to me that its just some kind of display issue. Looking at Ronald Packard, we have:

- 26 in the first two weeks of this season
- 27 in 2018 (97.2 IP)
- 22 in 2017 (213.2 IP)
- 16 in 2016 (163.1 IP)
- 12 in 2015 (237 IP)
- 7 in 2014 (98 IP)
- 3 in 2013 (142 IP)

Now, if you look at career totals from the dropdown list, it shows Packard with 26 career WP's. Thats less than it said he had in just the 2018 season alone.

What it looks like to me is that the game is displaying the career totals (or something very close) for the player, after the first game of the season, then adding the few he might actually have for the current season as the games progress.

I bet for Packard, he had 3 in 2013, then in 2014 the game displayed him as having 3 after the first game but he really had 4 for the season (totaling 7 for career), then in 2015 it showed 7 after the first game, he really had 5 more for the season (totaling 12 for career), etc......

Keep an eye on Packard, but I bet at the end of this season it will show him with 30-31 WP (the 26 it gave him after the first game + the 4 or 5 he is actually going to throw this season)

[Wrathchild]

Regarding the new stats browser, are the hyperlinks to player names supposed to be active? Mine aren't.

I also can't get to the American League portion of the report. The only thing I can do is scroll up and down on the National League page.

[buchanan_jm]

I have the same problem with the new stats browser--only lets me see one league.  The tabs at the top to switch leagues don't appear to be working.  Also, the top salaries sections lists salaries from only one team.

[jtfesta]

Same problem here. Only lets me see one league (American) and the hyperlinks to players aren't active.

[Bustoff]

I just went through the post-season with one of my associations, and I think something is amiss. The budget for each team in the association (35-player teams) is $10,927,270. After the new season started, I looked at the lists of position players and pitchers. To my horror, I noticed that fully 50% of the position players will be looking for contracts in excess of $1.5 million/year next time they renew. And 25% of them will want $3.8 million to $23 million/year. Similar numbers exist for pitchers, although it's not quite as extreme. It wasn't like this--at least, I don't think it was--before going through the post-season with the new RC. Right now there are only 6 players in the association being paid over $1 million, the highest being ~$1.9 million. It doesn't take a genius to see that something is out of whack here. How can any team afford a $23 million player with a budget less than half that? [&:] Does this seem wrong to anyone else, or is it just me?

[HotCornerDave]

Shaun,

I got an error when advancing to the next season, after the "Update HTML Almanac" question:

Error 3078
Description: The Microsoft Jet database engine cannot find the input table or query 'MLBNameChanges.' Make sure it exists and that its name is spelled correctly.

I have submitted the debug report to you.

[CrashDavis]

Dave,are you using the tables.dat file from the RC3 release?

That table was recently added.

[HotCornerDave]

ORIGINAL: CrashDavis

Dave,are you using the tables.dat file from the RC3 release?

That table was recently added.

I think so. I did a clean install with RC3 after I rebuilt my PC. Let me try again.

[HotCornerDave]

ORIGINAL: HotCornerDave

ORIGINAL: CrashDavis

Dave,are you using the tables.dat file from the RC3 release?

That table was recently added.

I think so. I did a clean install with RC3 after I rebuilt my PC. Let me try again.

Well...

It's fixed now. But, now I'm a bit stumped. I thought I had installed RC3 clean after I rebuilt my PC. Maybe I installed Beta2 or RC2 first. Anyway, for some reason, when I installed RC3, the new tables.dat did not overwrite the currently installed copy. My old copy, whichever release it is tied to, was 18.4mb. The new copy is 20.6mb. I had to rename tables.dat to tables.old, then reinstall RC3 to get the new file. I'm not sure why the RC3 install wasn't just overwriting the old file. Sometimes PC's are just screwy, I guess.

Thanks for the help, Steve.

[CrashDavis]

Well...

It's fixed now. But, now I'm a bit stumped. I thought I had installed RC3 clean after I rebuilt my PC. Maybe I installed Beta2 or RC2 first. Anyway, for some reason, when I installed RC3, the new tables.dat did not overwrite the currently installed copy. My old copy, whichever release it is tied to, was 18.4mb. The new copy is 20.6mb. I had to rename tables.dat to tables.old, then reinstall RC3 to get the new file. I'm not sure why the RC3 install wasn't just overwriting the old file. Sometimes PC's are just screwy, I guess.

Thanks for the help, Steve.

I will ask Shaun if he has his installer set to automatically overwrite the tables.dat file. It really needs to be done automatically especially in light of recent and soon to be additions coming in the tables.dat file (like um, autoExpansion tables, etc).

[CrashDavis]

Another thing I just noticed.

Looking through the stats, 51 pitchers have 10+ wild pitches. 23 have 20+. This is through the first month of the season. The Association is using real players from 1946 and started in 1901.

Looking through the history of the association, a pitcher in '35 had 64 in 3 innings of work.

I wonder if the wild pitches stat isn't getting reset correctly after the season in later releases. Looking at other pitchers, the total is larger each year. For the pitcher I mentioned, these are his wild pitch totals:

Earl Caldwell
1932 52
1933 62
1934 64
1935 64
1936 67
1939 67
1941 67

The years that he wasn't listed? He wasn't in the majors.

The WP bug has been found and fixed for seasons going forward. Revision submitted to Shaun for next release.
Note: I know someone will ask this: No, can't do anything about past seasons already completed. My humblest apologies.

[rjolley]

Good to know it's fixed going forward.