DylanBradbury

I don't know if you watch Mantracker, but here is the premise of the show from Wikipedia:

The show's premise involves an expert tracker, known as "Mantracker," who pursues two individuals in the remote Canadian wilderness. The pursued must elude capture while attempting to reach a finish line within 36 hours. Mantracker never meets the team prior to the chase, nor does he know their destination. Travelling on horseback and aided by a local guide, Mantracker mostly relies on his well-honed tracking skills to trail them, although some equipment (such as regular and infrared binoculars) is also used. As stated by Grant in the show's introductory tagline, "Know your land. Know your prey."

The pair are two cousins from Nova Scotia, Rob and Michelle. This is the end to their particular episode. For some reason, Michelle it seems thinks that if she gets caught by Mantracker, she's going to be executed. I have never laughed so hard, Michelle's end-game face is priceless: Enjoy.

If you are seeing those crashes when you are trying to start a game, it sounds like a cyberface issue, namely that your roster reference a cyberface that is not in your models.big file.

That's just what I was going to say! You beat me to it, Jim.

Hey Andy, I don't know if you've seen it, but I updated my Defensive Rating Calculator to include an import/export feature. It might be of some use to you. As well, I plan on incorporating the feature into my other calculators as well.

Good luck with school!

KHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(or in your case, PATSEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

I really don't know how to help you with the schedules man. All I can say is that it worked for me.

Haahah! Kind of like my avatar!

(Joe didn't notice until the sixth inning.)

Hey Andy!

I'm currently updating my split calculator to give much more accurate results. I don't know if you'd like to wait for that.

What ratings did Mike Lansing have?!?!?

From my experience, CPU sliders affect simming games. as does level (MVP, All-Star, Pro, etc.). That may have had an affect.

As for the scheduling, when I simmed through it, I got through the playoffs and managed to start the '99 season.

Yeah the only problem is that the game has been locking up when doing that as it asks for a non-existent team to optimize and doesn't allow it to happen.

Hmmm. I think your only other option is to fill each lineup in MVPEdit, making sure there are no empty spots.

Good luck Andy.

Hey Andy,

Yah, unfortunately for the schedule to work, each lineup has to be filled, including the minor leagues.

Just allow the game to "CPU Optimize Rosters," and then start your dynasty.

Hey Andy!

No problem!

I simmed it throught the season, and it worked fine for me. Make sure that all the rosters are filled, or it will crash.

Hey Andy, I don't know if you have already completed the schedule file. But I had a little free time on my hands, so here it is:

1998schedule.rar

The time of games might not be exactly correct, they're based on the Retrosheet.org schedule data.

It includes the '99 and 2000 seasons in it as well.

Also, I have yet to test it, so you may want to do so before releasing it the masses.

thanks for your advice DylanBradbury.

One other thing, if I wanted to create a uniform with numbers on the front of the jersey can I do that,

because there are empty slots for each team with no uniforms, correct?

Best bet, PM a Uniform Modder like RoyalBlues.

I've been using Kumala's Final datafile for a while now, but am having some trouble finding a good balance for pitching. I like to give up unintentional walks, but I don't want every CPU hit to be a homerun.

What sliders are you using for:

Pitch Meter Difficulty

and

User Pitch Control?

Thanks a lot in advance folks.

Does anybody know how to edit a datafile??

Try this thread.

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Unfortunately, you'll need a third-party Macro Recorder. The recorder in OpenOffice, and the one in Excel will not record things that are done outside the OpenOffice/Excel, which you'll need in this case to get the stats to my rating calculators.

No problem man! Good luck finding a good macro recorder.

i don't even know what a macro is

but i've thought about something like that. i would prefer a method that allows me to copy lines from baseball-reference.com into a spreadsheet and generate ratings that way. it's the least amount of steps i could think of. i have to take into consideration that i am doing this for 3250 different guys, so anything that can save me even a microsecond adds up quickly. plus it would be one way to make it consistent. the only issue i've come across (besides not know what a macro is) is that i was hoping to generate attributes from the two best seasons each guy has had. the issue is that i don't have splits for anyone before 1954.

i tried copy and paste from that site the other day, but the stats get all entered into one box. i know it can be done, but i just haven't had the time to figure out how to make it work yet.

Hey homer,

A macro is a set of instructions for a computer. A macro recorder is a piece of software that "records" user actions for "playback at a later time". More information can be found here.

So my idea would be to paste your stats in excel, record a macro that would copy them to my calculator, and paste them into a new spreadsheet.

Hopefully that makes sense. I PMed tebjr with details. Most Macro Recorders are either crappy, a virus, or expensive and good. The most popular is JitBit, but it's $40.

(To paste baseball reference data into excel: Right click on a cell > Paste Special... > Text > Click OK.)

Edit: I'm working on improving my split estimator. It might be a while, but it's looking good so far...

Sent you one back man.

Hey dudes,

Homer, you asked a while ago if it would possible to convert my rating calculators into a spreadsheet form, and an idea hit me:

Why don't you record a macro, copying stats from excel into my calculators, generating the ratings, and then pasting the results into another spreadsheet. I don't know how familiar you are with macros, but it's worth a look.

If not, I may be able to create a macro that accomplishes this. No promises.

If anyone knows what values change the frequency of balls thrown, thanks! :)

I was researching on plate patience stats, and these are the raw numbers I collected in the 2008 season, from B-R splits and FanGraphs:

- There were 714,136 pitches last year. 267,457 were called balls, and 446,679 strikes.

- According to FanGraphs data, 364,574 of them were in the strike zone. That's 51.1% of pitches are thrown in the strike zone (doesn't mean they were aimed there,) meaning 349,562 were out of zone.

- Of the 364,574 pitches were in the strike zone, hitters swung at 238,575 of them. That's 65.4%, so 34.6% of pitches in the strike zone were taken.

- The pitches that were out of the strike zone... 349,562... Batters swung at them 88,940 of them, or 25.4%. That's how often they chase.

- With pitches in the strike zone, they made contact 209,595 times, or 87.9% of the time.

- With pitches outside the strike zone, they made contact 54,885 times, or 61.7%.

- There were 131,854 PA where the ball went in play (3,697 of them foul), and 4867 HR (which aren't considered in play. IHR are counted in the balls in play.) This means 133,027 of the balls hit were fair and in play.

- Because contact was made 264,480 times, that means 131,453 of all ball in which contact are made are foul, or 49.7%.

If someone wants to make use of this info, feel free.

Patsen, this information is great, but please try to stay on topic. This topic is for Modding Questions, not Plate Patience Stats...

You know there's a slider for that, right? It has an effective impact on balls for sure.

Haha yep, I know there's a slider for it. I think that editing it in the datafile, if there is a corresponding value, would give more of an accurate impact.

Like for example:

BallSpeedMaxMod_BatterPower is the speed the ball comes off the bat. The default factor is set to 1.15. That means a pitch that is thrown at 100 mph, would hit off that bat maximally at 115 mph.

I know that approximately 37% of pitches are balls, so I want to reflect that in the datafile. :)

Hey folks:

I'm trying to create a modify my datafile, but am coming up lost. I've looked at both the wonderful Datafile Editing Spreadsheets, and they've been helpful, but I can't seem to find a value for changing the frequency of the number of balls (pitches thrown outside the zone).

Is there are a value? or is my search futile and an endless goose chase? If anyone can help, thanks in advance!

patsen said:

I see your point. I've been lurking for years, so I know exactly what you're talking about.

But it seems my techniques would be better in Total Minors Total Classics. Of course I can't make one of those myself, so I need to assist people on an ongoing mod. Hence the replying to '99 mod.

Nominally, this would be most useful for the 2009 rosters, but my projections are nothing compared to PECOTA, ZiPS, CHONEs, and all the other projection algorithms named after token third basemen. And, until I see how KG or other roster modders run things, I can't propose changes or scripts.

So, I'll just pull back and run my research on empirical ratings. Preliminary results were interesting... I'll post when I have more info.

Patsen, although your stat compilation process is impressive, you can't assume that others will want to use it. If they ask for them, then by all means share. But don't assume.

I love this thread for it's original purpose, highlighting the amazing work done by the Total Classics team, let's try to revive it [the original purpose].