May 30, 2020 v10.06 ------------------- Tweak: Completely re-tooled the Injury/Rest/Heal formulas. This is not a retroactive fix - so you may need to manually heal if you were having issues. May 23, 2020 v10.05 ------------------- Bug Fixed: Spring Training would some times freeze while arbitration ranks were being calculated. Tweak: Pitcher injury frequency too low. Tweak: Current Player/Managers are prohibited from being traded between AI teams. Tweak: Off-Season sim speed increased 100%. Tweak: In-Season sim speed increased 50%. April 28, 2020 v10.04 --------------------- Bug Fixed: Creating a Fictional assn using Salaries caused a game crash when calculating player salaries. Tweak: Swapped Year Selection and Team Boxes on Exhibition Assn Creation screen. Tweak: Fictional Assn Creation screen now shows what year is used for team structure being selected. Tweak: Boxscores for Exhibition games are now titled as Exhibition games/series. Tweak: Strategy option screen for the manager during a game now has the Extreme Right infield positioning option. Tweak: Team Box Score added to Due Up screen between innings. Tweak: Injury algorithm tweaked. Tweak: Sim speed seemed a bit slow. Some minor changes made to hopefully improve. Tweak: Enhanced the chances AI considers and makes a trade offer to a human owner. Tweak: Exhibition Assn will now properly display cities with (A) and (N) designation for cities that have/had mutiple teams. Tweak: Exhibition assn will now auto-import the teams stadium. April 25, 2020 v10.03 --------------------- Bug Fixed: After Spring Training, teams that didn't have any SP on staff caused a RTE 3021. Bug Fixed: Calculation of pitcher Stuff Rating was calculated incorrectly under certain unusual circumstances. Tweak: Increasing chance of K's by another 10%. Tweak: Edit Player screen was displaying wrong number of ABs on Pitcher Control Stats. April 10, 2020 v10.02 --------------------- Tweak: Increased chance of strikeouts. Strikeout totals for pitchers seems bit low. Tweak: Increased percentage of receovery and rest for pitchers. They were fatigued for too long. Tweak: Increased HR control stat for those hitters with higher Outlier HRs. Tweak: Increased K control stat for those pitchers with higher Outlier K's. March 29, 2020 v10.01 --------------------- Bug Fixed: Run Time Error 3265 during off-season when using Auto-Transaction option. March 28, 2020 v10.0 -------------------- Official Release February 22, 2020 v9.9 Beta --------------------------- Bug Fixed: Deadball era pitching was league wide terrible and hits-allowed were sky-high. February 16, 2020 v9.8 Beta --------------------------- Updated: Historical 2019 real players added to historical database. Updated: MLB Managers database updated thru 2019. Added: Stats Screen - Team Totals can now be shown for all leagues or individual leagues. Added: Infield shifts now include Extreme Shift Right option. Added: 1903 & 1904 included as options in starting Historical assn's. Added: Ability to manually import a Retrosheet schedule before start of season (Historical & Fictional assn's. Added: Ability to manually import any historical player (1903-Present) into a historical or fictional assn. Bug Fixed: Team Fielding Stats does not recognize AL/NL option. Removed: # ML Days. Now just tracking by # Yrs. Tweak: Updated PreSeason SBN Hitters/Pitchers to Watch article. Tweak: Font size on Standings screen increased for assn's with 16 teams. Tweak: Every rating for players are now editable from Player Editor. Tweak: Initial and Amateur Draft - AI logic enhanced and stream lined. Tweak: Preseason Issue - Dream Team appearance improved. Tweak: Fictional Assn - whole new set of assn customizations added. v9.7 October 24, 2019 --------------------- Added: Bill James' Favorite Toy added to Special screen. Added: Teams' past season starters have been added under Team Reports screen. Bug Fixed: Several potential game crashing bugs fixed. Tweak: Pitcher and Hitter ratings tweaked to achieve better ratings for certain skills. Tweak: Massive changes to injury algorithms. Tweak: Massive changes to fictional ratings. Tweak: Massive changes to historical ratings. v9.6 September 24, 2019 ----------------------- Bug Fixed: SBN End of Season Issue "Where are They Going Now" should not list players who signed extension in current season. v9.5 August 5, 2019 ------------------- 1) Bug Fixed: couple of historical players caused bug during import in Historical Exhibition mode. 2) Bug Fixed: Creating a fictional assn would cause a game crash to occur. 3) Tweak: Implemented new code to detect real Windows Version (for those using Win 8.1 or Win 10) that is reported when using CTRL-D. 3) Tweak: When saving Boxscores and GameLogs...both are saved in same HTML file. - In order to achieve this, user must first open the boxscore and then click View GameLog. Immediately close GameLog and then click Save Boxscore. v9.4 June 7, 2019 ----------------- 1) Bug Fixed: Game crashing bug when building PreSeason issue of SBN. v9.3 June 1, 2019 ----------------- 1) Bug Fixed: Option Screen - AnnualPlayerMoves should not be an active option in Fictional Assn's. 2) Tweak: Historical & Fictional assn's each have their own separate ratings formula. 3) Tweak: Changed the way service time is calculated. Now, only players on MLB roster accrue service time. 4) Tweak: Exhibition mode - player ratings modified/enhanced. v9.2 May 25, 2019 ----------------- 1) Tweak: Veterans can only be re-signed during last year of contract; Others can be re-signed at anytime. 2) Tweak: If you import a Manager in Fictional assn, that Managers name and photo appears on Team screen. v9.1 May 21, 2019 ----------------- 1) Bug Fixed: nonFinance Assn's was showing Purchase button on Player Card. 2) Bug Fixed: Post Season Detail now shows correct World Series matchup on Almanac|Post Season screen when more than 1 division per league. 3) Tweak: Prior Imported Stats will now import stats before 1901. This affects historical assn's created in early 1900's. It is not retroactive and will only work newly created assn's. 4) Tweak: Imported ballparks that have a year at end of ballpark name will not be updated each season. v9.0 March 31, 2019 ------------------- 1) Maintenance Release v8.9 February 27, 2019 ---------------------- 1) Bug Fixed: Selecting Auto-Sign Players from UAP screen would cause a RTE 3265 during the off-season. 2) Tweak: Improvements in Sim Time. 3) Tweak: Custom Manager settings - Roster Activity can now be set in either Historical or Fictional mode. v8.8 February 18, 2019 ---------------------- 1) Bug Fixed: Choosing Age-Based Fatigue option would cause RTE 3075 during lineup creation. v8.7 February 17, 2019 ---------------------- 1) Bug Fixed: Transitioning from 1919 to Spring Training 1920 would produce a RTE 94. 2) Tweak: 1988 Retrosheet Schedule: Whitesox and Bluejays were missing 6 games; fixed. 3) Tweak: Lineup logic and Player Usage logic various tweaks implemented. 4) Tweak: In-Game ball animation and PBP Text Speed tweaked. Animation Speed: Tips --------------------- By default, the animation and speed settings are always set to a normalized viewing experience. If however, you want a faster experience, here are some of the options you can experiment with in the Play Options screen: 1) Play By Play Text Speed - this controls the delay of each new event that is shown in the PBP Text Window (From Very Slow to Very Fast). 2) Misc Options - there are six options in this group and they all affect pace of play. a) Animate Ball Flight - of course turning this off drastically reduces sim time. b) Hide On Field Play Result - this skips showing the result box when the ball is put into play at the end of every play. c) Disable Ambient Sounds - Unlikely to notice any appreciable difference. d) Show Due Up window - this is already turned off by default. e) On Field Result Box Delay (ms) - If you do have the On Field Play Result turned on you can control for how long it is shown (in milliseconds) on the screen. 1500ms is the normal set point. f) Show Pitch By Pitch - {New} - toggles on/off pitch-by-pitch sequence for each at-bat. ON by default. 3) Text Play By Play Options - first 2 options are only applicable to human managed games: a) Extendeded Baserunner Decisions - turning this off means the computer will always decide for human when to send runners on extra base chances. b) Extended OF Throwing Decisions - turning this off means AI will always decide for human when to try to throw out advancing runner or throw to cut-off man. c) Extended PBP Verbage - this is applicable for all games - turning it off means each new batter announcement will very basic. d) In-Game Trivia - OFF by default already. v8.6 February 12, 2019 ---------------------- 1) Bug Fixed: Retired players not displaying their career stats. 2) Bug Fixed: clicking on minor league player in any minor league grid causes game crash. v8.5 February 12, 2019 ---------------------- 1) Added: Gold arrows on player cards will flip thru position players (or pitchers) on your MLB roster. 2) Added: Stats to minor league screen. 3) Bug Fixed: Wildcard ties in playoff format with 1 wildcard per league could - under certain circumstances - cause a game crash. 4) Tweak: Fictional hitting algorythm altered to produce better batting averages. 5) Tweak: Made Traits and Values static. v8.4 February 2, 2019 --------------------- 1) Bug Fixed: Discipline rating for fictional players in historical deadball era was incorrectly rated. 2) Bug Fixed: Historical - If AnnualMovePlayers option used and player to be moved ends season on DL it would cause game crash. 3) Tweak: Lineup logic. v8.3 January 22, 2019 --------------------- 1) Added: Historical mode - six new backgrounds added for 6 newest Hall of Fame members. 2) Added: New game icon has been added. Choose to "insert desktop icon" during installation to update your disktop icon. 3) Bug Fixed: Free Agent table - game would crash when trying to sort by Stamina rating. 4) Bug Fixed: Pitcher can be inserted any where in batting order during Double-Switch. 5) Tweak: Fictional players introduced into Historical dead-ball era to help fill-out rosters; in order to prevent game crashes/lockups. a) These fictional players are low level minor leaguers at best. This does not apply to Auto-Transaction mode or Exhibition mode. v8.2 January 12, 2019 --------------------- 1) Bug Fixed: Game crash during the off-season (ex: 1919-1920); crash would prevent rookies from being imported for next draft. 2) Bug Fixed: Generate Almanac HTML was reporting wrong info for No-Hitters. v8.1 January 5, 2019 -------------------- 1) Historical 2018 real players added to historical database. v8.0 Beta December 28, 2018 --------------------------- 1) Player ratings enhanced. 2) Fictional stats enhanced. 3) Finances have been changed drastically: contract negotiations can only be made with players with expiring contracts (on last year of contract). Veterans and Arbitration Eligible players will submit to you their single offer and you may accept it (Sign them), reject it and they either become free agents, or offer Arbitration if they are Eligible. With Restricted Players, you can sign them to any contract years from 1 to 7 years. There are times when Veterans and Arbitration Eligible players will simply not submit an offer to you at all and either want to declare for Free Agency (Vet) or will go directly to Arbitration (Arbitration Eligible). 4) New Ratings introduced: a) Overall - a composite rating of the 4 ratings (Contact, Strength, Eye, Discipline / Stuff, Command, Control, Velocity). A short cut way of comparing players. b) Discipline - hitters plate discipline at avoiding K's. c) Strength - replaces 'power'; no longer applies just to homeruns. e) Agility - replaces 'range'; no longer applies just to whether player gets to the ball. f) Accuracy - throwing accuracy influences two dynamics: throwing errors, and ability to turn double-plays/make assists, either by infielders/outfielders. The Hands rating still influences fielding errors as it always has. g) Command - pitchers ability to control the strike zone and avoid the extra base hits. h) Movement - pitchers wth good movement will influence strike outs. i) Stamina - this takes the place of what used to be accomplished by 'endurance'. It is the max number of pitches the pitcher is capable of. j) Endurance - no longer has anything to do with number of pitches or how many innings a pitcher may last. It is now soley used in calculating player fatigue, injury, effectiveness, along with Rest value and consecutive games pitched. k) Intelligence - intelligence here is relevant only to the players smarts at running the bases; Base-Stealing is still relevant to the players Speed. l) Values - the six values are what will motivate players when deciding type of contract to offer in terms of amount and/or years. m) Traits - the four traits can influence the outcome of plays (Leadership & Morale), how hard the player works in the offseason to improve (Work-Ethic), and his aggressiveness towards baserunning and attempting throw-outs (Competitiveness). Baserunning here should not be confused with base-stealing. v7.33 October 30, 2018 (Test Only) ---------------------------------- Bug Fixed: Sometimes an infielder error was being shown as "booted grounder" even on popups/lineouts. Tweak: In-Game Play - PBP Box will now display result of each pitch sequence. Tweak: Fictional - Peak Age, Decline Age, and Cliff Age algorithm when creating new players. Tweak: Fictional - Potential based on difference between Decline Age and current Age when creating new players. Tweak: Chances of using pinch hitter for pitcher when team is leading by more than 3 runs after 6th inning increased. Tweak: Fictional - Retirement formula moderately changed. Mandatory retirement after age 45 implemented. Tweak: Fictional - Aging of player ratings (Improvements/Declines) greatly enhanced. v7.32 September 30, 2018 ------------------------- Bug Fixed: Historical - Due to game freezes and crashes that were traced back to September call ups, historical September call ups will only function after 1950. Once this bug has been permanantly fixed this can revert back to normal. Bug Fixed: All screens should now have scrollbars on right side of screen when applicable. Tweaked: All screens larger than 1920x1080 have been fixed and should now appear as designed. Tweaked: Injuries will not occur if there are not any free agents available in the Free Agent pool. v7.31 September 3, 2018 ----------------------- Bug Fixed: Run-Time-Error 3265 when clicking to View Contract Status Report on Team Page. Bug Fixed: Missing column header in View Salary Report. Bug Fixed: Players draft in expansion draft were signing for 0 years. Bug Fixed: Heading at top right of the Stats screen was not changing when switching between Career and Past Seasons. Tweaked: Scout's opinion added to player card. Tweaked: Team logos to Standings screen. Tweaked: Player pic to Almanac career leader screen. Tweaked: Player pic to Almanac single season leader screen. Tweaked: Post Season screen on Almanac screen changed from text to graphic. Tweaked: Past Champions screen on Almanac screen changed from text to graphic. Tweaked: If your Roster Activity is set to NONE and you have selected Pause/Prompt when human owned teams gets an injury, you will be notified of any injuries no matter how minor. Tweaked: Team logo and player pic to Almanac Greats At Glance screen. v7.30 September 1, 2018 ----------------------- Added: Once Roster Activity is set to NONE on your teams custom manager screen, the game will not alter your roster in any way, shape or form at any time (in-season, off-season, or during expansion drafting). The game will not change your lineups or your pitching rotation. The game will not rest your tired or injured players, it will not automatically place players on DL or remove them from the DL, the game will not ever sign or release players, the game will not draft amateur players, the game will not take any of your players during an expansion draft, the game will not even so much as call up a single player on your team during expanded rosters in September. You will have absolute air tight control over every aspect of your teams roster while your teams Roster Activity is set to none. Added: Game will no longer advance during Association setup until you choose a team to own. Tweak: Exhibition mode - player fielding ratings improved. Tweak: Totally re-coded the Trade, Shop, and AI-to-Human Trade offer. Tweak: Lineup logic totally re-coded. Tweak: Ability to change team ownership has again been enabled. v7.29 June 24, 2018 ------------------- Added: Historical associations that reach the end of the data base (Lahman) now have the option of continuing as a fictional association. Tweak: Usage and Lineups completely re-written for much better performance. Tweak: AI rotation generation logic enhanced. Tweak: Added button 'CLEAR' to usage screen that clears out all usage setting for this player only. Tweak: Added button "CLEAR TEAM USAGE" to Lineups/Rotations screen which will clear all Usage Settings for this team. v7.28 June 20, 2018 ------------------- Bug Fixed: After Initial Draft and before Spring Training going to team home pages caused error 3021. Tweak: Fictional amateur draft selections by AI improved. Tweak: Fictional amateur draft contracts improved in terms of number of years signed. Tweak: Unattended Auto Play now has check box to auto-sign human players with expiring contracts. Tweak: Trying to be a bit more informative when a team has an invalid Roster, Lineup, or Rotation before starting a game. Tweak: Amateur Draft History now shown in reverse order beginning with most recent completed draft. Tweak: Making sure Fictional association with no finances fill their 40-man roster during Spring Training. v7.27 June 16, 2018 ------------------- Bug Fixed: Could not sign player who was injured at end of season. Bug Fixed: After Fictional expansion took place you would encounter a game crashing bug due to new option not being set. Bug Fixed: Human owned team pitcher fails to be assigned to bullpen causing a Run-Time Error 21 no record found. Bug Fixed: Pitcher Endurance rating was showing different rating on minor league screen than the Player Card. Tweak: Base running advancement toned down to be more conservative. Tweak: Managers are less patient with Starting Pitchers who give up too many runs in opening innings of game. Tweak: Injury frequency adjusted. Tweak: Better Fictonal rookies generated. Tweak: Included 'Year' on the Fictional Expansion screen so that you know what year it is when asked if you want to expand. Tweak: When player rejects all contract offers his name will appear crossed out on Team Reports| Contract Status screen - visual aide. Tweak: Completely re-coded ratings for Fictional Associations. v7.26 June 9, 2018 ------------------ Test Version v7.25 June 6, 2018 ------------------ Bug Fixed: Upgrading an existing association was causing a Run-Time Error 9. v7.24 June 3, 2018 ------------------ Added: 1905-1919 years can now be selected from Historical and Exhibition modes. Bug Fixed: Promotion/Demotion setting on Manager screen was functioning in reverse. Bug Fixed: Team that placed a player on 60-Day DL was attempting to sign player on another team. Tweak: Volume level of in-game sounds lowered a bit. Tweak: PreGame Lineups for human owned team should respect the preset lineups - unless forced to make modifications due to inter-league game. v7.23 May 27, 2018 ------------------ Bug Fixed: Fictional assn setup was experiencing Run Time Error 9 if the generic player photos had not already been installed. Bug Fixed: If you turn control of team over to Computer and owned no team and then tried to sim you would get an error. v7.22 May 27, 2018 ------------------ Test Version v7.21 May 26, 2018 ------------------ Debug: Debugging info put into Import Fictional Batter - to help isolate where game crashes for fictional assn (See PointGuard forum posts RTE 9). Tweak: Beginning with v7.21, every pitcher vs. batter stat is saved for future use. Tweak: You can set how many Batters/Pitchers combination for your major league roster. Do this from the Custom Manager screen. Tweak: You can set your Promotion/Demotion activity to NONE. Do this from Custom Manager screen. v7.20 May 19, 2018 ------------------ Bug Fixed: Clicking Promote/Demote from Player Card and sending minor leaguer to another minor level was sending player to MLB. Bug Fixed: Hands rating was exceeding 100. Bug Fixed: Team Transaction page - shows weird Arbitration Lost transaction instead of trade transaction. Tweak: Arbitration Results added to list of Transaction drop down box. Tweak: Fictional Amateur batters Hands, Range, and Arm calculations re-worked. Tweak: Fictional Teams will try to draft all 7 rounds of ammy draft - if possible - and cut players later (non-Finance assn's only). Tweak: Game Notes has been vastly expanded and re-worked with lots more information and stats; now renamed 'Program' on Schedule screen. Tweak: Re-formatted Players Game Log. Updated: Manual in-Game and Online. v7.19 May 13, 2018 ------------------ Bug Fixed: Schedule Screen - Completed games during the post-season was showing POG and Attendance twice. Tweak: Exhibition Mode - Can now choose same teams - as long as they are from different years. Tweak: Minor League screen split up into levels. v7.18 May 8, 2018 ----------------- Bug Fixed: Game would crash when clicking View Defensive Chart from retired players card. Tweak: Re-worked percentage chance a fictional player has a secondary position. Tweak: Re-worked league fees calculation. v7.17 May 6, 2018 ----------------- Bug Fixed: Game would crash when trying to open player card when player is on Disabled List. Bug Fixed: Exhibition mode was crashing just before Spring Training. Bug Fixed: Historical amateur draft hitters were importing with minimal ratings in contact and power. Maint: Re-coded how the buttons on the Player Card shows and not shows depending on the status of the player. Tweak: View 'Organization' added to Graphical Depth chart. Tweak: Scouts Outlook on Team Contract Status report has been re-worked. Tweak: Re-worked pinch-hit for pitcher logic. Tweak: When computer team make a double switch during a game it will be noted in the game logs. v7.16 May 2, 2018 ----------------- 1) Bug Fixed: Fictional assn crashes during importing schedule for 2005 season (Angels). 2) Bug Fixed: Fictional assn was crashing during preseason scout signings prior to Spring Training 3) Bug Fixed: Fictional assn crashes if trying to change City to anything not on list 4) Bug Fixed: Fictional assn would crash when expanding to 30 teams 5) Tweak: Runners and Fileders on the game play screen now have differentiating background colors. v7.15 April 30, 2018 -------------------- 1) Added: Division, League & Overall menu options to Standings screen 2 )Bug Fixed: New Historical Assn creation would crash when trying to import players past seasons 3) Bug Fixed: Total Finances on Edit Region/City wasn't working properly. 4) Bug Fixed: Schedule wasn't importing when creating 30 team fictional assn due to an invalid team abbrev (Angels). 5) Bug Fixed: Removing player from Hall of Fame could inadvertantly remove all players from HoF. 6) Maint: Removed outdated and obsoleted lines from strategy.ini 7) Maint: Removed obsoleted tables from support data files. 8) Tweak: Re-formatted/Re-coded PreGame screen 9) Tweak: Re-formatted/Re-coded Lineup Card screen 10) Tweak: Re-formatted/Re-coded and combined Team View Lineups & Rotations screen into one screen 11) Tweak: Re-formatted/Re-coded all Team Report screens 12) Tweak: Re-formatted/Re-coded Team Player Stats screen 13) Tweak: Re-formatted/Re-coded Team Transaction screen 14) Tweak: Re-formatted/Re-coded Team Injury screen 15) Removed: Condition Percentage from Player Card 16) Tweak: Reformatted/Re-coded Past Champions and PostSeason Details 17) Tweak: Re-formatted/Re-coded the Team Set Lineups & Rotations screen 18) Tweak: Reformatted/Re-coded Trade & Shop Player screens 19) Tweak: Re-coded Dynasty HTML Reports for better speed/performace v7.14 April 22, 2018 -------------------- 1) Added: Expansion option for Fictional Assn's: If you proceed to the next season manually by clicking End the Season then after the Ammy Draft is complete you will be shown a pop-up box asking how many teams you want to expand to (or you can click Cancel to skip expansion). This next part is handled behind the scenes and you only wait for a few seconds while this takes place: The new teams are added to the assn, the new assn configuration is set for the new number of teams, and new players are generated. The Expansion draft is ran. At this point, the game follows its usual mode of play. Once Spring Training is complete, you will want to visit team screen of the newly added teams and customize their Team Name, Logo, Team Colors, and Import a Ballpark (or create a new one if that’s your cup of tea). That’s really about it…pretty straight-forward and no fuss. Now, about that "new assn configuration is set" mentioned above. If you're familiar with real MLB and its expansion years you'll find this part easy enough. Let's say you are a 16 team assn. Here are your expansion options and each configuration you'll end up with: a) Expand to 18 teams: 2 Leagues, 1 Division each League, 10 teams in one League, 8 teams in the other League. {corresponds to MLB 1961} b) Expand to 20 teams: 2 Leagues, 1 Division each League, 10 teams in each League. {corresponds to MLB 1962-1968} c) Expand to 24 teams: 2 Leagues, 2 Divisions each League, 6 teams in each Division. [corresponds to MLB 1969-1976} d) Expand to 26 teams: 2 Leagues, 2 Divisions each League, 7 teams per Division in League 1, 6 teams per Division in League 2. { corresponds to MLB 1977-1992} e) Expand to 28 teams: 2 Leagues, 2 Divisions each League, 7 teams in each Division. { corresponds to MLB 1993} f) Expand to 30 teams: 2 Leagues, 3 Divisions each League, 5 teams in each Division. { corresponds to MLB 2013-Present} Playoff Formats: The playoff formats for each of the six configurations above are: a) 18-20 Teams: Division winners play in World Series (2-3-2 format) b) 24 Teams: Division winners play LCS (2-3 format); World Series (2-3-2 format) c) 26 Teams: i. (1969-1984): Division winners play LCS (2-3 format); World Series (2-3-2 format) ii. (1985 - Present): Division winners play LCS (2-3-2 format); World Series (2-3-2 format) iii. All: World Series (2-3-2 format); World Series (2-3-2 format) d) 28 Teams: Division winners play LCS (2-3-2 format); World Series (2-3-2 format) e) 30 Teams: Two wildcard teams per League; Divisional Playoff (2-2-1 format); LCS (2-3-2 format); World Series (2-3-2 format) 2) Added: 'Keep at MiLB Level' to the Usage Screen. 3) Added: Edit Player|Commissioner Functions: Remove From Hall Of Fame 4) Added: Finances and Budget can now be edited from Teams 'EditCity/Region' screen. 5) Bug Fixed: Various bugs fixed in Shop Player function. 6) Bug Fixed: Couldn't AutoPlay multiple seasons without game stopping at Wildcard postseason. 7) Bug Fixed: Historical Expansion with Finances On (1993 or 1998) wasn't assigning drafted players a contract. 8) Maint: Massive code cleanup throughout to improve speed/performance. 9) Removed: HTML Dynasty Reports removed due to taking too long to process after approx 25+ seasons completed. Will revisit and re-code this later. 10) Tweaked: Re-formatted the Game/Schedule screen. v7.13 March 24, 2018 -------------------- Bug Fixed: Shop Player Screen - can't open player card by clicking on magnifying glass. Bug Fixed: When human team purchases a player and goes over roster size limit, the game will freeze up instead of releasing a player. Bug Fixed: Game freezing when human roster is invalid. v7.12 March 18, 2018 -------------------- Added: Historical Auto-Transactions added and updated through 2017 season. Bug Fixed: Auto Play parameter 'Stop For Trade Offers' was always being ignored. Bug Fixed: Game crash would occur when importing players in historical 2017 assn with 60 man rosters. Bug Fixed: A wrong wildcard team was selected for post season during the 1993-2011 era. Bug Fixed: Game crash when selecting pre-1954 team vs modern era team in Exhibition mode. Tweak: If historical assn created or moves within 10 years of end of Lahman DB then player potential will be set at 10. v7.11 March 11, 2018 -------------------- Bug Fixed: On Field Result Box flashes by too quickly in Game Play Screen. You can now adjust amount of time Field Result box remains on screen from Play Options screen. Bug Fixed: Play-By-Play Continuous option not stopping between ABs on Game Play Screen. Bug Fixed: Historical Catchers Arm ratings not calculated correctly before 1954 due to lack of SB/CS data. Bug Fixed: If team had fewer SPs on roster than rotation-type game could enter endless loop causing game-freeze. Bug Fixed: Scout Roster will no longer show human teams own players. Tweak: Shop Player screen changed to be more UI-friendly for those with lower resolution. Tweak: Default TradeDifficulty changed to setting of 100. v7.10 March 6, 2018 ------------------- Update: Various screens optimized for the various resolutions. Recommeded Screen Sizes ----------------------------- 1920x1200 1920x1080 Playable Screen Sizes --------------------------- 1856x1392 1800x1440 1792x1344 1776x1000 1680x1050 1600x900 Unsupported Screen Sizes ------------------------------ 1600x1200 1440x900 and anything less Bug Fixed: Shut down loop-hole in the Edit Player screen that could cause fielder ratings to max out by repeatedly changing positions. Removed: Nickname field from Edit Player screen. v7.09 MArch 4, 2018 ------------------- Test Version v7.08 March 1, 2018 ------------------- Bug Fixed: Triple Crown was causing a game crash. v7.07 February 28, 2018 ----------------------- Bug Fixed: Potential bug associated with Player Usage could cause game crash. Bug Fixed: Text describing how player felt on the Player Usage screen wasn't quite right when player was Injured. v7.06 February 27, 2018 ----------------------- Update: If your screen height is less than 1080 the game will display the old menu buttons along the bottom. v7.05 February 24, 2018 ----------------------- Added: 2017 Historical Players added to Lahman Database. Added: Website link in About screen. Added: Forum link in About screen. Tweak: Updated GamePlay | Lineup Screen UI. Tweak: Updated Expanded Team Results Screen UI. Tweak: Team Caption on top right hand corner of screen increased for easier readibility. Tweak: Top Menu on several screens enhanced. Tweak: Bottom menu on buttons all enhanced. Tweak: GamePlay screen - team colors used for Team Data, Lineups, Pitchers, Matchup widgets. Tweak: Minor changes to pitcher velocity ratings. Tweak: Minor change to batters speed rating. Tweak: Minor change to pitchers endurance rating. v7.04 February 17, 2018 ----------------------- Bug Fixed: Game would crash under unusual circumstances when re-building rotations. Tweak: New Game Title Screen Update: Historical Managers DB updated through 2017. v7.03 February 11, 2018 ----------------------- Added: Background pics of 6 newest members of 2018 Hall of Fame members. Added: Customized Player Usage Added: Games Played stat to Lineups and Rotations screen. Tweak: Budget Projection - formula adjustment for calculating budget projections. v7.02 January 20, 2018 ---------------------- Bug Fixed: Team Color Picker - wasn't choosing correct color under picker; wasn't saving color. Tweak: Trade Screen on some laptops cuts off buttons at bottom. Adjusted size of the contents of screen. v7.01 January 7, 2018 --------------------- 1) Added: 10 new background images specifically for Fictional Assn's. 2) Added: New splash screen when starting the game. 3) Added: SBN article - Front Runners for the various awards at seasons end (MVP, CY Young, ROYs). 4) Added: Longest Team Winning/Losing Steaks saved; shown in Special Edition. 5) Added: League championships added to Franchise History page. 6) Added: Fictional - Learning new pitches increases STUFF rating(w/ small improvement in CONTROL rating). 7) Added: Fictional - Learning patience increases EYE rating (w/ small increase in CONTACT rating). 8) Added: Fictional - Any player photos in the Generic face folder will be used for fictional assns (.jpg format 65x90). 9) Added: Your scout's opinion of each player in Ammy Draft Preview. 10) Added: Arizona Fall League for minor leaguers. 11) Added: Fictional - human owned team can force minor league player to learn new position from minor league screen. 12) Added: Customizable trade difficulty added to Options screen. Lower number = More Difficult / Higher Number = Easier. 13) Bug Fix: AI calls up too many pitchers during September callups. 14) Bug Fix: Player of Week - crash if player was recently released. 15) Bug Fix: After purchasing/selling players for cash only, teams were not signing/releasing players to meet the roster limit. 16) Bug Fix: Minor League SP's were not all getting their starts as they should have. 17) Bug Fix: Off-Season Free Agent Period - wasn't signing pending offers when free agent period ended. 18) Bug Fix: League Leader Stats - past season stats wasn't showing correct team he played for. 19) Tweak: Off-Season Free Agent Period - re-worked code and re-worked user interface. 20) Tweak: Players will have their future salary demands recalculated after contract ext, arbitration, and free agents before start of free agency. 21) Tweak: Fictional - throttled back the number of trades AI was making. 22) Tweak: A few cosmetic changes to the user interface. 23) Maint: A lot of behind-the-scenes code maintenace. v7.00 December 9, 2017 ---------------------- 1) Implemented fictional career mode into game. v6.99d November 15, 2017 ------------------------ 1) Bug: Error 3021 when trying to view Minors screen. v6.99c November 14, 2017 ------------------------ 1) Bug: Wasn't showing minor players at beginning of season before any games are played. v6.99b November 12, 2017 ------------------------ 1) Added: 50+ new articles to SBN. 2) Added: Minor League Stats to the Team|Minors screen 3) Bug: Scout Roster wasn't working as intended during assn's inital season. 4) Bug: Assn creation: when selecting to use Finances, should not have the option to AutoMovePlayers. 5) Bug: With 3 First PlaceTeamsand 1 WildCard Team - schedule not correctly deciding wildcard ties for playoffs. 6) Bug: With 3 First PlaceTeamsand 1 WildCard Team - standings not showing correct wildcard teams when there is a tie. 7) Tweak: Got the scrollbars to behave properly when viewing Minor League and Free Agent player cards. 8) Tweak: Todays date is shown at top of screen wihen you go to the Schedule screen. 9) Tweak: Veterans in the minor leagues will waive their Veterans Consent to be traded. v6.99a October 29, 2017 ----------------------- 1) Bug: Error 3021 during 'Considering Contract Extensions...' 2) Bug: No Closers assigned even though Closer option was selected. 3) Bug: non-Financial assn's are showing human owned teams as having re-signed a player for x-yrs for $0 amount - during off-season. 4) Bug: Salary column on Players screen is instead showing the players salary demand. v6.99 October 22, 2017 ---------------------- 1) Added: When simming multiple seasons, AI will attempt to sign/arbitrate as many good players with expiring contracts as possible instead of losing them to FA 2) Bug: After Spring Training, screen goes to Draft Screen, instead of Main Menu - this happens during Expansion years 3) Bug: Dynasty Report - crashed during Transaction html build. Placed error handling routines in this whole CDynasty class 4) Bug: Serious player contract bug could cause player salaries to explode between seasons. Bug been around since at least v6.80 5) Bug: Teams Total Finances goes negative 6) Tweak: Adjusted Expansion Teams finances for inaugural year 7) Tweak: Re-coded the Team Report - Budget Projection Report 8) Tweak: Total Finances and Budgets received a lot of adjustments and tweaks v6.98 October 15, 2017 ---------------------- 1) Bug: Calling Up/Sending Down dates after roster expansion ends was showing date of 10/31/xx 2) Bug: Expansion Teams were not given a team budget (Finances On) 3) Bug: Free Agent Draft for human offers showing incorrect contract terms than what was submitted (Finances On) 4) Bug: Players with 5 year MLB service time was not being processed through Arbitration even tho they were offered Arbitration (Finances On) 5) Bug PreSeason Hot Stove was showing incorrect contract terms (Finances On) 6) Bug: Team Total Finances increased astronomically when team released player (Finances On) 7) Tweak: Changed minor league leaderboard stat qualifier sine minors play few games than the major league teams v6.97a October 9, 2017 ---------------------- 1) Tweak: Changed minor league stat qualifier since minors play less # games than majors v6.97 October 8, 2017 --------------------- 1) Added: Included Table of Contents at top of each SBN issue 2) Added: Scouting comments to Team Reports|Contract Report 3) Added: Career Split Stats added to Career tab on the Player card 4) Added: WHIP, HRA, Opp AVG, vsLeft, vsRight to pitcher toggle Lineup/Rotation screen 5) Added: Sim minors can be turned on/off from Options screen 6) Bug Fix: Defensive Position Reduction was causing error 7) Bug Fix: Had to remove DH as a assigned position during player import 8) Bug Fix: Career Ending Injury could cause game crash when calculating Player of Month 9) Bug Fix: Budget for some teams larger than Total Finances 10) Bug Fix: Catchers caught stealing and caught stealing attempts were being double counted 11) Tweak: Pregame Lineup has been widened and lengthened 12) Tweak: Pick-Off attempts will pause for new strategy 13) Tweak: Adjusted pinch hit logic for pitchers late in game and behind 14) Tweak: Split Stats now shown on 1st page of Player card (Bio/Stats) 15) Tweak: Moved some of the Pitcher columns on the Pitching Stats on Player card 16) Tweak: Re-work Initial Draft Manager 17) Tweak: Re-worked the SBN article on Off-Season Hot Stove Free Agent Signings and Contract Extensions 18) Tweak: Initial Draft complete rewrite of fiscal responsibility 19) Tweak: Amateur Draft complete rewrite of fiscal responsibility 20) Tweak: Free Agent Draft complete rewrite of fiscal responsibility 21) Tweak: Re-formated Free Agent screen layout v6.96 September 13, 2017 ------------------------ 1) Added: Minor Stats to Team Contract Status report. 2) Added: Players Contract info shown on Bio/Stats tab of Player Card. 3) Bug Fix: Corrected Logo in Alamanac|HOF screen 4) Tweak: Team Lineup/Rotation stats relative to Regular Season/Playoffs 5) Tweak: Player Card will now show Ratings History button during trade talks. 6) Tweak: SBN Time Machine article removed Gold Glove & Silver Slugger lists. v6.95 September 7, 2017 ----------------------- 1) Bug Fix: Division By Zero error during Spring Training. v6.94 September 4, 2017 ----------------------- 1) Added: Minor League stat simulation option for associations with 30 teams & 60 Man Rosters. 2) Bug Fix: Player of the Month award could crash if a there was a CEI during the month. 3) Added: Assists, PO, and DPs to the Real Life tab on the Player Card. 4) Added: Minor League Leaders on the Stat Screen. 5) Tweaks: Completely re-did the defensive rating algorithms/formulas. 6) EOS Awards: Cleaned up layout and made things much less confusing and easier to read. 7) AnnualPlayerMoves: Prevented players from being moved who were acquired via Trade, Purchase, Cash Deal, or Free Agent Signing...for 5 years. v6.93 August 20 2017 -------------------- 1) Manual- added a section that outlines what the ratings mean and what they are based on. 2) Added RBIs, Runs, 2Bs, 3Bs, SBs, and Saves to the Milestone achievements. This is not retroactive and therefore will probably want to start a new Association. 3) Several minor bugs found and fixed 4) Added a new setting to the Custom Manager. You can now set how often you want the team manager to set fatigued players: Tired, Worn Out, Very Worn Out, or Exhausted. The manager will do his best to rest as many as he can... but it also depends on who/how many he has available on the bench. v6.92 August 14 2017 -------------------- 1) Maintenace and bug fixes. v6.91 July 2017 --------------- 1) Added Historical Exhibition mode - Choose any two teams in history and number of games to play (1,3, 5, 7). v6.8 thru v6.91 --------------- 1) The Game window is now 1920x1200 (1920x1080 minimum). Everything is bigger and easier to read. Plus, this allows for adding more content to each screen. Laptops, of course, are out of the question. Most laptops will not work. 2) Preseason Predictions - Each new season the final standings in 'real' baseball can be found here. Its a way to compare how your team is doing compared to how it did in real life that year. 3) Players of the Week/Month - Each week, a hitter and pitcher are chosen as Players of the Week from each league. Each month, a hitter & pitcher are chosen as Players of the Month. Players of the Month are considered an Award and are tracked on the Players Achievement tab on the Player Card. 4) Game Options - the Game Options screen now contains all the options on one large screen instead of four different tabs. 5) Events - In the lower left of Main screen (and most other screens) is the Events log - this tells you important dates that will take place for the current season (Spring Training, Opening Day, Trade Deadline, Expanded Rosters, End of Season, Playoffs Begin, Amateur Draft Begins). I found that the Trade Deadline occured on different dates in the history of baseball. The game now follows this history. 6) HTML Almanac - the old Create Dynasty HTML function was renamed to HTML Almanac. Each new season, the HTML Almanac is automatically created for you just before the season begins. 7) Post-Season Editor - At the beginning of each post season series you can change the visiting/home team matchup. This is useful if you have multiple tied teams and the game should select the wrong winner between tied teams. 8) To open a team page from the Game screen you now click the team logo. 9) New saber stats are now tracked (wOBA, WAR, Isolated Power, Extra Base Hits, Total Bases, Hits/9IP, HR/9IP, BB/9IP, K/9IP, K/BB, WHIP, FIP). 10) Fielding Leaders - now in addition to Batting/Pitching Leaders, a Fielding Leaders board exists to find leaders in Fielding PCT, Put-Outs, Assists, Errors, Double-Plays Turned, Range Factor, and Passed Balls. 11) League Filter - All of the stats for Hitting/Pitching/Fielding Individual Leaders can now be filtered by either the AL or NL. 12) The SBN has went through extensive work/re-work. Most importantly, all of the fonts are now more uniformed and the same size. It used to be a hodge-podge of mixed sizes and it was very annoying. 13) Pre-Season - content contains the Power Rankings, Most Feared Pitchers, Most Feared Hitters, and the Preseason Dream Team. 14) SBN: Regular Season - Content is still pretty much the same as it was except first of each month you will be shown the Players of Month just completed. 15) SBN: Post-Season - Content is much the same, although I did fix the problem of Silver Slugger award not showing for Right Fielders. Also, included is the All Rookie Team, Players of the Year, and Defensive Players of the Year. 16) Navigation - By hitting the Previous Issue button, you can move to the previous issue of SBN; continue clicking and you move to the off-season issue and the previous season issues. By hitting the First Issue, you now will be taken to the very first issue in your first season of your association. 17) Game Records - the game now tracks key stats for each regular season game. It will also track Hits For Cycle and No-Hitters/Perfect Games in addition to all the other key stats. 18) Annual Awards - As mentioned earlier, you can now see who Players of the Month were for both leagues since the beginning of your association. 19) Hall of Fame - now includes player picture, year retired, year elected, the team logo from the team he played the most games with, and the team names he played with. Note: the team names will reflect the name of the team AT THE TIME he played with them. Any awards for Player of the Year, Player of the Month, Def Player of the Year are now shown on the Hall of Fame plague. 20) Won/Loss Records - Single Season Records have been expanded to Top 15 and they will show the correct historical team name for that season. The All Time Team Records will show the current team name. 21) SBN Archives - If you want to jump back to a specific year in your SBN you can select the year and you will be taken to the first issue for that year. 22) Create HTML Almanac - This function used to be called Create Dynasty HTML; it has been moved here to the Almanac Menu. This HTML Almanac is automatically created for you at beginning each season (see #6 above). However this function exists should you ever need to create this HTML during the course of the season. 23) Hitting Streaks - This tracks the Top Hitting Streaks throughout the history of your association. 24) Major League Baseball changed the 15-Day DL stint to 10-Day DL stint beginning with upcoming 2017 season. This change has been implemented in code in the game. Of course, it will have no bearing in the game until the 2017 Lahman Database is released. 25) The background graphics on most screens will show a real Hall of Fame player (with some exeptions: ie., Shoeless Joe Jackson, etc). As new players are inducted into MLB their pics will be included in the game - provided a large enough pic can be found/resized. 26) Annual Player Moves - To compensate for the loss of Actual Transactions feature, I implemented this option when creating an association. This will move players to their proper teams at beginning of each season - provided the player was not traded within the last 5 years. This stipulation was included because it was thought that if a player was traded (either by the AI or human) then the player should at least have 5 seasons to help his new team. This option does override the Team Affinity option. It is also necessary for the receiving team to have space on their roster. v2.1 thru v6.7 -------------- Added the following items: 1) The game is now 100% Historical and covers the period from 1920 to present. 2) Removed Real Transactions and Actual Starting Lineup from game. 3) Many bug fixes. v1.17 thru v2.0 May 2014-November 2014 -------------------------------------- Following bug reports found and fixed: 1) Managers not importing during 1970 season 2) Park Pics not importing during 1970 season 3) Promoting/Demoting players could cause a crash v1.16 April 2014 ---------------- 1) Added Bullpen usage to the game when managing a game. v1.15 March 2014 ---------------- Strategy Baseball has been given a completely new User Interface. 95% of its HTML screens are now utilizing the 1366x768 High Definition resolution. If your graphics card and monitor are not capable of this high resolution Strategy Baseball will not work for you. We are turning a corner and leaving the legacy antiquated resolution of 1024x768 and 800x600 behind us. Those old resolutions will no longer be supported! 1) Logos - 80x80 .png format and historical logos are provided in the installation. 2) Faces - 65x90 .jpg format. A separate .zip file will be available containing every baseball player from 1900's to 2010's. You can unzip the files to your \mods\faces\[decade] sub-folder manually. A 2010 decade folder is supported also. About 2000+ generic faces are also included. All historical manager faces will be provided by the installation and they include the new managers for 2013 season. 3) Park Photos - 1024x768 .jpg format. We still support 1024x768 park photos. But, because the photo will be stretched to 1366 width when used in the game, any custom park/photo you import will also need to have all fielders, runners, and ball flight locations modified in the games Modify Park section. Or, you can just use the stadiums that come with the installation that have already been modified. 4) Herb Washington in 1974 and 1975 will now import for historical assn's. v1.1 thru v1.14 April 2013-October 2013 --------------------------------------- Debug releases v1.0 January 2013 ----------------- Removed Fictional from the game.