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Road to 1.0: Screen Grab Gallery

September 27, 2010May 19, 2020
by jfox015

The Road to 1.0 is a series of articles chronicling the journey of this mod from conception to full 1.0 release.

What is a better way to describe what’s in the OOTP Fantasy Leagues 0.1 beta release than just simply to show some of its features via screengrabs? We all love screengrabs, right? I know I do. Keep in mind, this is just a small sampling of the elements in the mod, and there’s still more planned. Come back tomorrow for the final introductory Road to 1.0 article: What’s yet to come.

In the meantime, enjoy the screen grabs.

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Road to 1.0

Road to 1.0: Feature List

September 27, 2010May 19, 2020
by jfox015

As the OOTP Fantasy Leagues 1.0 release date nears, I thought a couple of articles akin to OOTP’s “Road to Release” would be a fun intro to the Mod. So in that spirit, here is Road to 1.0 number one, The Feature List.

Global Features

Unlimited fantasy leagues based on an OOTP league (MLB, Fictional, historical, hobbit, etc.)
Users can own multiple teams across multiple leagues
Head to head Fantasy Scoring
League Standings
League Schedules
Full player scouting with stats and player profile
Full Transactions Log
Dropped players must clear waivers

Besides, OOTP Fantasy Leagues features a core set of basic fantasy league management features for three unique groups of users:

OOTP Game Owners/Admins – The person who owns the copy of OOTP and will set up and upload the league data and HTML and run the administrative tools on the site
League Commissioners – The creators of the individual fantasy leagues. These are owners who will manage the League, such as inviting and managing owners, choosing the draft date, and managing the draft and running the League.
Team owners – The owners of the actual teams in the League.

Owner/Admin Features

Full web-based installation wizard
Admin Control Panel with the following tools:
- Database import
- League Settings
- Pre-Season tools
- Sim Processing tools
- Edit Homepage splash content
- Add homepage news
Full Admin access for the whole site

League Commissioners

Create a fantasy league (one per player)
Commissioner control panel with the following tools:
- League Setup/Config
- Set avatar
- Manage Divisions
- Manage Teams
- Invite Owners
- Invitation Manager
- Waiver Claim Manager
- Draft Admin Tools
  - Draft Config
  - Manage Order
  - Manage auto-draft options
  - Manage Draft
  - Draft Summary with admin tools (Skip, rollback, clear)
  - Auto Draft Bypass

Team Owners

Draft War room
- Scout players with stats
- Create Draft List
- Make Picks
Manage Lineup
Add/Drop Players (with list or stats views)

And there’s lots more planned for future releases.

Next up, some screen grabs. Stay Tuned.

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0.1 Public Beta to be Released September 27th

September 15, 2010May 19, 2020
by jfox015

The public beta release of OOTP Fantasy Leagues 0.1 is currently going to be Monday, September 27th. The source files to load and install the mod onto user web servers will be posted to this site, the OOTP Public Forums, and sent to PadresFan for inclusion on his mods site as well.

A full administrator guide is currently being completed and will accompany the source code. A user guide is in the works and will be ready for the final 1.0 release (for which no release date is known).

Once the beta goes live, I will also be releasing the source code for the project to the open-source community via GitHub. If anyone has any preferences, please let me know.

I’m very excited and happy to see that almost two years of different types of development work culminate in this release. See you in a week and a half!

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0.1 Public Beta Release and Plans for 0.1.1

September 15, 2010May 19, 2020
by jfox015

I am very excited about the upcoming release of the first public beta version of OOTP Fantasy Leagues. What started as a custom two-page addition to Frank Esselink’s StatsLab mod has morphed into its own unique and challenging animal of a project. It’s one of my most ambitious personal development projects I’ve ever attempted, and I’ve tried a few.

What will the public 0.1 beta entail? I will release the code for interested users to download and install on their servers and then pretty much wait for the bugs and feedback to start rolling in. At this point and time, the site is feature complete for what I want in the 0.1 release, so I won’t be adding much, if anything, to the 1.0 final release. Just clean up what is there already if need be. For what I wanted to do and could accomplish time-wise this summer, I am delighted with the feature list thus far.

Working with John Rodriguez (Corsairs in the OOTP Forums) and the rest of the private BEBA and OOTP beta team gave me the chance to test drive the site, and it’s features and get some critical feedback from real users on what they’d need to use the mod daily. What we worked out and added to the 0.1 release adds, in my mind, at least, the most critical and vital scouting and management tools that are necessary for people to start enjoying this with their online leagues.

My ultimate hope and goal here is that the mod adds a new dimension of immersion and just plain fun to the running of the OOTP online league for their commissioners.

I already have a long list of possible additions. One might ask, though, why would you want to try and move this project from hobbyist work to full out development and release all within working and having a third child (which is in itself a full-time job sometimes too). Well, I guess it’s just in my nature to want to express myself. Anything that helps promote and can help to benefit a game that has given me many hours of fun and challenging distraction from life little complexities is well worth the effort to me.

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