Metro Football League - Season 5

[Tullius]

Brandenburg should fire the GM and not the coach. Brandenburg has since two seasons a punter which achieved a net average of 25 and 27 yards/ game.

[DreamTeams]

Four teams just hired new head coaches. Who will lead these teams into the future?

[DreamTeams]

As usual, I'll be taking a break the next couple months or less and will return for season six after that. Meanwhile, I'll be tweaking graphics, toying with the constants, and holding the draft. I'll post the draft results when completed.

[DreamTeams]

Added brief team notes to each team page.

Nothing big, lists brief team post season accomplishmets (if any) and arch rival.

[DreamTeams]

Here are a few graphic updates...

- The Rangers have been switched to the Double D Stadium (garysorrel) model stadium.

- The Invaders have been switched to the Rhino Bowl (garysorrel) stadium model.

- If you hadn't noticed already, the Monarchs were switched to the Urban Dome (garysorrel) stadium model at mid-season. Although, the Convention Ctr model was a great fit for them the game play was too choppy. Tried to get the poly count down, but with no success.

- The Colonials have been switched to the Municipal Stadium (garysorrel) model.

- The Bulldogs have been switched to the Bedrock Stadium (local8h) model. Was finally able to get the poly count down for smoother play.

- The Kodiaks have been switched to the Don Stadia (local8h) model.

Here are a couple uniform tweaks...

- The Colonials have discarded their colonial red jerseys and will play in patriarch blue jerseys next season. They'll play in patriarch blue pants on the road. Their reds will serve as alternates from time to time.

- The Jaxton Jackets have retired their yellow pants all together. They will play in white pants at home and on the road next season. They do plan to wear their yellow pants as alternates every so often.

All updates can be seen on the site at the 'team locker room' page.

[garysorrell]

Hey DT....did you try making the bmp files in Convention Center 256 color?

As zipped and uploaded to my site, they were 16million color, which means they are big suckers. 3 of them total about 6 megs.

decreased to 256 color bitmaps, the biggest is about 700k, instead of 2meg.

If you havent tried it, it may help the framerate....maybe.

[DreamTeams]

Hey, that worked pretty good. Thanks Gary.

The Metropolis Monarchs have been switched back to the Convention Center.

[garysorrell]

Glad to hear that. I should post a warning on the stadium pages of my site. David said big images could cause slowdowns. But I try and use JPGs which are usually compressed small anyway, and BMPs can be lowered as well. I would imagine they are the main culprit. If you edit them as 16million color images, then decrease them to 256, they should usually look fine. And the pink seems to decrease properly as well and the transparency isnt hosed.

I left them big so people could edit them, then compress.....probably shoulda mentioned that

[DreamTeams]

Just having a little fun. Here are few visuals of the uni tweaks for next season (mentioned earlier in this thread)...

Left to right: Tritons will strut their powder blues on the road; Colonials do a total switch from colonial red to patriarch blue; Jackets trade in their yellow pants for whites at home and on the road.

[garysorrell]

Looks good......Hope Cape City is ready for the draft

[DreamTeams]

Thanks, Gary. The good news is that I'll be using Tullius' draft utility for the MFL draft this offseason. It's quite a utility and does an amazing job at anlyzing individual team rosters, looking for retirement holes and drafting according to team needs, as well as accounting for stars in the draft. It does a far superior job than MaxF which leaves holes due to the wacky way it uses profiles to draft rookies.

Anyway, hope to hold the draft sometime this week.

[DreamTeams]

The MFL draft is complete.

Ran the draft using Tullius excellent draft utility.

Site has been updated with complete 10 round draft results.

Enjoy.

[garysorrell]

Aint that the truth. What a wonderful utility. Love how all the info you need is right there, a click away.

Very nice job for CC. Got a couple young skill guys on offense and loaded up heavy on defense.
Look forward to seeing their post camp ratings.

Interesting all the WRs that went in the first round.

[Tullius]

Nice that now a draft went through.

I do not like the white background color in the first row. It happens when you select all rows. My original intention was that the csv file is used for html pages but i have already seen the tendence to use the Draft result screen (which is only for information).

The design of these tables was a little adventure because i have no clue about the colors so i made several experiments and asa result we have different looks. Graphics is still a weak point.

[garysorrell]

My leagues are usually no more than 10 teams, so it's just easier to take a shot of the results screen. After season 1, I usually only have 5 round drafts anyway.

[DreamTeams]

ORIGINAL: garysorrell

Interesting all the WRs that went in the first round.

Yep. Used the suggested position factors found in the utility manual.

Most of those WRs taken where created players I dropped in the draft pool to become potential stars. Was pleased that the utility recognized their star potential and some teams drafted for talent while others focused on desperate needs. I also dropped in 5 RBs, 4 LBs, 4 DBs, 3 QBs and 2 TEs. Quite a few of these were taken in the first round. Overall, most teams got what they needed. Normally I don't create that many players, but for some reason felt inspired to do so this time.

[DreamTeams]

ORIGINAL: Tullius

Nice that now a draft went through.

I do not like the white background color in the first row. It happens when you select all rows. My original intention was that the csv file is used for html pages but i have already seen the tendence to use the Draft result screen (which is only for information).

The design of these tables was a little adventure because i have no clue about the colors so i made several experiments and asa result we have different looks. Graphics is still a weak point.

It worked great, Tullius. I thought about using the csv-to-web page but the results screen is quite nice and is easier on the eye.

Great job.

[DreamTeams]

Another graphic update...

- The Spartans have been switched to the R.N.M Stadium (Mykal) model.

[DreamTeams]

Still gearing up for season 6 so here's what I've been up to...

- Next season's schedule has been posted to the site.

- Updated team rosters are posted.

- Starting with season 6 I'll be going back to posting the stats page generated by MaxF after each sim week. I know it's not the best approach to posting stats but it currently saves time on updating. I will also continue to list injury updates on a separate page. However, I will be posting the Garysorrel/Tullius approach to the season stat page after sim-week 5 and at the end of the season.

Here are a few more thoughts and changes for next season...

- Again thought about expanding the playoff structure and adding two more teams to the mix (8 teams total), but just could not pull the trigger on it. The conference title and seeding would have still worked the same, but the bye would have been eliminated. It's a no go. I'll most likely consider this again after next season.

- Tweaked the constants file again. Also tweaked the quick sim constant. I'll post these later as I'm still testing.

- Tweaked injuries in the maindata dbase. There should be far less injuries next season thus making it a bit less likely the ai will need to adjust rosters due to frequent injuries.
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Also added a few more injuries...

Knee
Foot
Arm
Serious Arm
Serious Leg
Collar Bone
Hip Pointer
Quad Contusion
Serious Concussion
Wrist

- Edited the SkillAttribute_Ranges for speed (R1) of WRs and DBs. This will make most game generated receivers faster than D-backs. Should keep the passing game open. Here are my speed ranges for both...

WR 80/90
DB 75/80

I will still be dropping a few lock down D-backs (90+ speed) into the rookie draft. This will keep things interesting.

- Completed a few more uniform tweaks last night. Most teams will be dropping the old-school sock stripes and adopting the bold yet simplified pro-style stripe seen on the updated Jaxton Jackets uniform.

Hope to kick-off season 6 within the next few weeks.

Stay tuned.

[Reaser]

Best solo league by far, love the updates, like the new uni's also, Frank Wine is obvious pre-season choice for ROTY...

Not that I have any control over what you do with your league, but I prefer the 6 team playoffs if you were looking for opinions on that [:)], 8 seems like it'd be too much and take away the bye from winning your conference...

I like that we are opening our season (as defending champions!!) against Cape City, which is our week 1 oppononent every year, traditional, also the last two Metro Bowl champions facing off to open the season, nice touch.  Its the game I look forward to most each season, even though Gotham got listed as our arch rival I consider Cape City to be our rivals, as thats the best competition in our conference, its who we open the season against each season and they have 2 titles to our one.  Plus it has the two best coaches in the league, imo, lifetime contracted coaches Stanley and Cooper going head to head, obviously with Stanley being the best coach in league history.  [:)]

Feel confident in our team repeating for season 6, Metro Bowl MVP Garwood Greaney still at QB, 4 legit RB's not counting our first round pick, all have got the job done when they've been in the lineup even though we're a passing team, two awesome corners in future MFL HOFer Dee Sugden and superstar D. Naylor.

We do have two players on the roster with #0??

and

EMERGENCY!!!!! (READ)

I didn't see his name listed on retirements, and for some reason I'm not seeing him listed on our roster, its just after New Year's so could easily be out of it and not seeing it but where is the greatest WR in league history, HAGIN...He's not listed on the league records page though I'm sure he would be in the top 3-5 in each catagory, had over 2,000 yards receiving in season 5 as well as 18 receiving TD's.  Missing from the roster and record books and not seeing that he retired.

Can us Makos fans get an update or did we dominate the league so bad that players are getting stolen from us...[:D]  (jk)...