What's new in Out of the Park Baseball 18.8.76
Oct 12, 2017
- Improved sim module with more options for simming playoff series
- Fixed issue with importing rosters and having "do not allow AI moves" flag set
- Fixed last year ticket price display issue
- Fixed not respecting number of draft rounds
- Fixed crash if game minimized while bullpen dialog open
- Fixed issue with setting no cap on amateur FA
- Fixed issue with placing minor league players on the major league 60-day DL
- Players may now be sent to rehab assignment before the minor league seasons have begun
- Added team and MLB totals to player batting and pitching stats pages
- Fixed expansion draft scheduling for historical games to not conflict with rookie draft
- Fixed issue with resetting beard frequency
- Fielding ratings will no longer be reset to a 200 internal value in the player development code if manually edited to values exceeding 200
- Other bug and cosmetic fixes
New in Out of the Park Baseball 17.12.75 (Oct 28, 2016)
- Fixed case where scouting reports would show negative reviews for players with ratings above the max
- Fixed case where teams would fail to sign any international FA despite having budget room available
- Fixed issues where international FA or draftees would only show as RP
- Fixed issues where international FA demands would change based on their selected position
- Fixed a problem with retired pitchers showing up as 1B
- Fixed several issues with historical minor leagues
- Fixed database errors with historical transactions and real lineups
- Fixed issue where clicking on association tab could cause a crash if there are faulty team IDs.
New in Out of the Park Baseball 17.11.73 (Sep 30, 2016)
- This update fixes a bug which causes the AI to release recently acquired players.
New in Out of the Park Baseball 17.11.72 (Sep 27, 2016)
- Problems with releasing players in online leagues
- Stats display in top prospects lists
- Assign fictional financials not setting new media values
- Fatigue for very old players
- Negative cash if owner does not control budgets (owner will now chip in money like if they do control budgets)
- DFA menu item
New in Out of the Park Baseball 17.11.71 (Sep 17, 2016)
- Fixed error where low ticket price and high stadium capacity could cause too many season ticket sales
- Fixed FB landing locations to better reflect CF putouts
- Fixed error where low active roster could cause huge estimated league average team payrolls
- Fixed issue with export/import of player stats where fielding stats would not import with a league id
- Fixed shop player error when team is negative financials
- Fixed case where human teams could not offer extensions during reserve era rules when extensions were allowed
- Fixed team pitching splits reports
- Fixed case where signing bonus was incorrectly counting towards the salary cap
- Fixed player talent calculation in historical leagues when talent is based on remaining peak years
- Fixed draft AI when using predefined historical player draft values
- Fixed case where AI would negatively value prospects
- Added the option to edit a player's historical draft value (player editor tab, draft status section)
- Adjusted international amateur FA demands
- Adjusted RP demands
- Adjusted player expectations
- Adjusted AI secondary bullpen roles
- Fixed several small bugs and cosmetic issues
New in Out of the Park Baseball 17.11.70 (Sep 7, 2016)
- Fixed error where low ticket price and high stadium capacity could cause too many season ticket sales
- Fixed FB landing locations to better reflect CF putouts
- Fixed error where low active roster could cause huge estimated league average team payrolls
- Fixed issue with export/import of player stats where fielding stats would not import with a league id
- Fixed shop player error when team is negative financials
- Fixed case where human teams could not offer extensions during reserve era rules when extensions were allowed
- Fixed team pitching splits reports
- Fixed case where signing bonus was incorrectly counting towards the salary cap
- Fixed player talent calculation in historical leagues when talent is based on remaining peak years
- Fixed draft AI when using predefined historical player draft values
- Fixed case where AI would negatively value prospects
- Added the option to edit a player's historical draft value (player editor tab, draft status section)
- Adjusted international amateur FA demands
- Adjusted RP demands
- Adjusted player expectations
- Adjusted AI secondary bullpen roles
- Fixed several small bugs and cosmetic issues
New in Out of the Park Baseball 17.10.67 (Aug 9, 2016)
- Added game recaps for playoff games
- Added optional inflation for all financial amounts
- Added option to set all minor leagues to base AI on potential or current ratings
- Added option to disable rainouts, contract opt-outs
- Improved 2016 MLB roster sets (need to start new game for changes to apply)
- Adjusted scheduled starters for playoffs
- Adjusted written scouting report to better match displayed ratings
- Fixed cases of balls rolling under walls
- Fixed case where switching to viewing OSA ratings could alter player demands
- Improved trade speed
- Adjusted aging for player's speed and stealing
- Adjusted contract demands for young players
- Fixed player expense calculation for salary cap
- Fixed crash if defensive player injured on 3rd out and due up first next inning
- Fixed case where users could create quickstarts out of online league games
- Fixed where the computer manager could ignore age limits in certain situations
- Fixed issues with historical leagues which have no first-year player draft but historical minor leagues
- Fixed AI issues with historical league teams that have no minor league teams in the 1920's
- Fixed case where rule 5 picks were not being returned to their original teams in online leagues
- Fixed case where we were recalculating player ratings in historical games when no recalc was specified if other options changed
- Fixed several small bugs and cosmetic issues
New in Out of the Park Baseball 17.10.65 (Aug 6, 2016)
- Added game recaps for playoff games
- Added optional inflation for all financial amounts
- Added option to set all minor leagues to base AI on potential or current ratings
- Added option to disable rainouts, contract opt-outs
- Improved 2016 MLB roster sets (need to start new game for changes to apply)
- Adjusted scheduled starters for playoffs
- Adjusted written scouting report to better match displayed ratings
- Fixed cases of balls rolling under walls
- Fixed case where switching to viewing OSA ratings could alter player demands
- Improved trade speed
- Adjusted aging for player's speed and stealing
- Adjusted contract demands for young players
- Fixed player expense calculation for salary cap
- Fixed crash if defensive player injured on 3rd out and due up first next inning
- Fixed case where users could create quickstarts out of online league games
- Fixed where the computer manager could ignore age limits in certain situations
- Fixed issues with historical leagues which have no first-year player draft but historical minor leagues
- Fixed AI issues with historical league teams that have no minor league teams in the 1920's
- Fixed case where rule 5 picks were not being returned to their original teams in online leagues
- Fixed case where we were recalculating player ratings in historical games when no recalc was specified if other options changed
- Fixed several small bugs and cosmetic issues
New in Out of the Park Baseball 17.9.60 (Jun 25, 2016)
- Improved 2016 MLB roster sets, for example error corrections, added lots of player histories, fine-tuned international league rules (need to start new game for changes to apply)
- Improved 3D Animations (foul balls, cutoff relays, ground balls etc.)
- Updated 3D infielder positioning
- Modified fatigue calculations for relievers
- Improved trading AI speed
- Improved free agent AI and free agent AI speed
- Adjusted trade AI for injured players
- Fixed case where inaugural draft demands were wrong if playing with 0 ratings value AI evaluation
- Fixed problem where text data was not uploaded in online league file
- Fixed underflow case if league stats modifiers were incorrectly specified
- Fixed case where extreme high scoring games can continue forever
- Fixed bug where coach list filter items were causing application to exit
- Fixed budget calculations if using a hard salary cap
- Fixed finances for rescheduled games that switched home teams
- Clarified warmup for RTS games
- Unaffiliated college teams no longer give pro service to players
- Fixed several small bugs and cosmetic issues
New in Out of the Park Baseball 17.8.54 (May 13, 2016)
- Improved 2016 MLB roster sets (need to start new game for changes to apply)
- Updated the historical databases (error corrections and fielding ratings improvements)
- Fixed rare crashes in 3D in-game mode
- Fixed issues when scouting discoveries were disabled and international FAs were enabled
- Added new GM ratings to coach filter lists (need to delete data/tables folder)
- Adjusted top prospect list rankings
- Fixed age in real-stats for randum debuts in fictional leagues
- Fixed spring split stats report
New in Out of the Park Baseball 17.7.51 (Apr 28, 2016)
- Improved 2016 MLB roster sets (need to start new game for changes to apply)
- 3D in-game movement improvements
- Fixed rare crashes when playing out games in 3D on Macs
- Updated the historical databases (error corrections)
- Fixed problem with All-Stars being placed in wrong positions
- Adjusted AI active roster construction
- Adjusted AI player evaluation
- Fixed bug when runner got hit by ball
- Fixed bug with draft budgets not being counted properly
- Fixed bug where AI was not always respecting players refusing demotion
- Added option to not allow relievers winning Cy Young Award
- Fixed rare error where some games would not load
- Fixed errors where independent league teams would sign International Amateur FA
- Fixed several small bugs and cosmetic issues
New in Out of the Park Baseball 17.3.33 (Mar 24, 2016)
- New 3D animations, real historical minor leagues, the MLBPA license, auto-generated game recaps, historical exhibitions, multi-core processor support and so much more.
New in Out of the Park Baseball 16.11.43 (Feb 18, 2016)
- Fixes an issue with relievers batting too frequently.
New in Out of the Park Baseball 16.10.42 (Jan 29, 2016)
- Fixes the Mac crash when quitting the application and has some minor internal changes implemented, for example the display of the company news dialog has been improved.
New in Out of the Park Baseball 16.9.39 (Sep 7, 2015)
- Fixes a reported problem with relievers sometimes not being pinch hit for by the AI in late innings.
New in Out of the Park Baseball 16.8.38 (Aug 25, 2015)
- Fixed various crashes dealing with deleted leagues
- Fixed in-season wildcard standings if the first subleague has a tie for wildcard spots
- Adjusted players refusing to play for leagues
- Fixed DL notification for minor leaguers
- Fixed several minor bugs + text issues
New in Out of the Park Baseball 16.7.36 (Jul 29, 2015)
- DL notification fixed if a human is controlling all teams
- Crash fixed for very early historical leagues (related to coach contracts)
- Fixed MLB quickstart DSL team affiliations (Red Sox 2 & Mariners 2, need to create new game for fix to apply)
- Tweaked player position AI when generating depth charts
- Fixed "Force start" issues in minor leagues
- Fixed suspension days count
New in Out of the Park Baseball 16.7.33 (Jul 24, 2015)
- Added option to force DH in All-Star game
- Modified All-Star player in-game usage
- Fixed disabling player popups not sticking in options
- Fixed incorrectly notifying to activate a player during off-season while not on DL
- Fixed incorrect stats in team leaderboards
- Fixed incorrect wildcard calculations when division leaders tied
- Fixed duplicate field in team_history_financials export
- Fixed case where "strict" rotation mode would still skip starters on occasion
- Fixed case where locked positions persisted after manager "takes control" of them
- Added ability to remove players from specific shortlists
- Improved offseason processing time
- Fixed several minor bugs + text issues
New in Out of the Park Baseball 16.6.30 (Jul 6, 2015)
- Improvements / fixes:
- Added dynamically generated hint / loading text based on the currently loaded game
- Emphasized leaders for batting & pitching stats in player screen
- Added pitcher WAR to team register history
- Allow separate overall and potential scales
- If not displaying current ratings, show potential ratings on player lists instead
- Improved game substitution logic
- Improved depth chart logic
- Improved lineup logic
- Added option to use 40-man roster for playoff roster eligibility
- Implemented playoff injury rules (players may be placed on DL in playoffs and replaced, but must miss the next series)
- Removed ability to use the DL in the off-season (players must be activated)
- Added quick accounting widget to finances screen
- Generate HTML game logs by default
- Fixed custom create game crash
- Fixed bug where remove DH would not work in game
- Fixed issue where custom lineup would be placed in wrong spot in 7-day lineup
- Fixed issue where custom lineup would give an incorrect error
- Fixed 1942-1945 league total stats
- Fixed error of double counting draft offers
- Fixed park factor for batter WAR calculations
- Added Batting runs to sortable player lists (park-adjusted, need to delete "\tables" folder in OOTP custom data folder, can be found via Settings dialog -> Troubleshooting -> Open folder containing customizable data")
- Fixed last 10 calculation for rescheduled games
- In Find a Player, added ability to only include "hometown" players, as well as search by award wins
- Fixed issues with 3D ball flight
- Updated Opening Day rosters (need to start new game for changes to apply)
- Fixed several minor bugs + text issues
New in Out of the Park Baseball 16.5.23 (May 26, 2015)
- Updated roster set (need to start new game for changes to apply)
- Added support for up to 100 custom lineups per team. Save & manage lineups from the team lineups screens and apply them in the pre-game lineup selection, the 7-day lineups screen and the regular lineups screen.
- Adjusted players refusing to sign with rebuilding teams
- Adjusted some owner goal evaluation and feedback
- Introduced support for WEBP image format for ballpark background pictures and 3D texttures, reducing the download size of the game
- Attendance chart in front office page now scales to stadium capacity
- Fixed potential crash in draft if draft rounds do not get updated properly
- Ask AI in online draft list will now populate closer to the number of potential players needed
- If running without a draft or feeders, create more players to avoid running out of players
- Fixed some HOF issues if playing with multiple major leagues
- Fixed issue with increasing a contract offer being refused by Owner
- Fixed scout recommendation in draft
- Added flag to force a player from each team for All-Star game
- Fixed crash if AI handling substitutions and starting pitcher is injured
- Fixed contract negotiation loophole
- Fixed incorrect playoff rosters
- Fixed rare issue with the batter sometimes coming up twice while playing out games
- Fixed several minors bugs + text issues
New in Out of the Park Baseball 16.4.17 (Apr 20, 2015)
- Updated roster set (need to start new game for changes to apply)
- Player counter offers should now be acceptable deals to them
- Fixed performances of the day for all-star games
- Adjusted reputation calculation for coaches
- Adjusted budget calculations double counting cash. Adjusted budget calculations to tie closer to revenue.
- Fixed online leagues duplicating player shortlists on upload
- Fixed HOF text for closers (to regenerate cards, delete news\html\images\hof\*.png files from saved game folder)
- Added batting GS stats to historical import for years starting in 1975
- Fixed several minor bugs + text issues
New in Out of the Park Baseball 16.3.16 (Apr 14, 2015)
- This update fixes reported bugs and includes final updated Opening Day rosters (need to start a new game to take advantage of them):
- Updated Opening Day rosters (need to start new game for changes to apply)
- Added HOF metrics to voting page on higher screen resolutions
- Added HOF metrics to sortable player lists (need to delete "\tables" folder in OOTP custom data folder, can be found via Settings dialog -> Troubleshooting -> Open folder containing customizable data")
- Fixed playoff series fixed date bug
- Fixed International FA available money display
- Adjusted player and coach contract demands, and coach reputation calculation
- Fixed owner goals evaluation
- Fixed Mac slowdown
- Fixed play-mode selection when playing for a minor league team
- Fixed problems with the AI not selecting a DH for the Platinum Stick award
- Fixed human managers sometimes being promoted too quick when managing minor league teams
- Clearing league history now also clears the HoF
- Leagues with no playoffs now award "rings" to players of the team with the best winning percentage
- In play-off games, the batter & pitcher info now show current season stats instead of last season stats
- Top prospects are now more likely to expect a starting lineup assignment once they've reached the majors
- Fixed issues when trying to create minor leagues with an uneven number of teams per subleague
- Pitchers warming up in the bullpen now start to tire a bit later there
- Fixed several minor bugs + text issues
New in Out of the Park Baseball 16.3.5 (Apr 8, 2015)
- This update fixes reported bugs and includes final updated Opening Day rosters (need to start a new game to take advantage of them):
- Updated Opening Day rosters (need to start new game for changes to apply)
- Added HOF metrics to voting page on higher screen resolutions
- Added HOF metrics to sortable player lists (need to delete "\tables" folder in OOTP custom data folder, can be found via Settings dialog -> Troubleshooting -> Open folder containing customizable data")
- Fixed playoff series fixed date bug
- Fixed International FA available money display
- Adjusted player and coach contract demands, and coach reputation calculation
- Fixed owner goals evaluation
- Fixed Mac slowdown
- Fixed play-mode selection when playing for a minor league team
- Fixed problems with the AI not selecting a DH for the Platinum Stick award
- Fixed human managers sometimes being promoted too quick when managing minor league teams
- Clearing league history now also clears the HoF
- Leagues with no playoffs now award "rings" to players of the team with the best winning percentage
- In play-off games, the batter & pitcher info now show current season stats instead of last season stats
- Top prospects are now more likely to expect a starting lineup assignment once they've reached the majors
- Fixed issues when trying to create minor leagues with an uneven number of teams per subleague
- Pitchers warming up in the bullpen now start to tire a bit later there
- Fixed several minor bugs + text issues
New in Out of the Park Baseball 16.2.9 (Apr 4, 2015)
- This update fixes reported bugs and includes updated rosters (need to start a new game to take advantage of them).
New in Out of the Park Baseball 15.6.34 (Nov 5, 2014)
- Fixed parks file in Major League quickstart game
New in Out of the Park Baseball 15.6.33 (Oct 23, 2014)
- Fixed issues with some graphic chipsets displaying 3D mode
- Fixed problems with licensing on Mac OS X 10.9.6 and OSX 10.10 (Yosemite)
- Improved in-game AI
- Improved play-by-play commentary
- Fixed several user reported bugs and glitches
New in Out of the Park Baseball 15.4.19 (Jul 12, 2014)
- Here are the improvements / fixes:
- Improved 3D ball flight engine, using realistic physics-based calculations
- Improved 3D ballpark importer / editor
- Improved memory management resulting in increased stability and speed, especially with large games
- Free agent compensation / arbitration is now more realistic. OOTP correctly assigns FA comp status to all free agent-eligible players who stayed on the team the entire year, and compensation draft picks are only given when the user/AI offered arbitration to this player.
- Draft picks with signability of "impossible" no longer state their demand. You have just one shot to convince the player with a great offer.
- Added the option to hide player nicknames (in the player personality section of the game setup)
- Improved the league events editor. When in commish mode, users can edit the dates of existing events and also create events using the internal event types. That way experienced users may fix problems with events caused by league scheduling errors.
- Improved in-game AI for several situations
- Improved in-game play-by-play commentary
- Moved the "Force Start / Position" section in the player strategy screen from the depth chart strategy to the pitching strategy for pitchers and renamed it "Force Role."
- Re-ordered the items in the team menu to match the order of tabs on the team screen
- Fixed issues with touchpads on Macs
- Fixed several bugs and rare crashes
New in Out of the Park Baseball 15.3.11 (May 24, 2014)
- A maintenance update which does not introduce new features, but it includes several bug fixes (including 3D issues on the Mac, sound works now in 3D mode) and updated real opening day rosters (need to start a new game for changes to apply), so we definitely recommend installing the update.
- Another change we had to make, at the request of MLB, is to remove real team nicknames for the game, unfortunately. This does not apply to existing saved games though, of course.
New in Out of the Park Baseball 15.2.8 (May 14, 2014)
- Added the option to use the team text color in the interface more often (preferences dialog)
- Added the option to select the background effect when dialogs are open (preferences dialog)
- Added the option to select player nationality in the create fictional player dialog
- Improved real roster sets (need to create new game for changes to apply)
- Improved simulation speed
- Improved AI in various areas
- Fixed crashes while using 3D mode
- Fixed Facegen on Macs and improved Facegen in general (i.e. shadows under visor, new sideburns)
- Fixed problems in the player editor (projected stats etc.)
- Fixed issues with selecting regions during league creation
- Fixed issues with coaches contract negotiations
- Fixed issues with the AI not picking players in a manually scheduled free agent draft
- Fixed several other bugs & crash problems
New in Out of the Park Baseball 14.7.42 (Feb 15, 2014)
- Added 'Clean up scouting database' function to the scouting settings (game setup screen). This is useful for online leagues as it greatly reduces the league file size.
- Fixed several bugs.
- Improved performance on Mac computers
New in Out of the Park Baseball 14.5.28 (Sep 12, 2013)
- Improved in-game substitution & defensive positioning AI.
- Improved roster AI
- Improved player evaluation AI
- Added the option to disable player development for draft-eligible players (does not apply to players in feeder leagues)
- Fixed issues with minor leaguers being placed on the major league 60-day DL
- Fixed various other bugs
New in Out of the Park Baseball 14.2.9 (Apr 26, 2013)
- Fixes reported bugs
- Fixes rare crashing and freezing issues
- Includes updated & improved major league rosters (must start new game for changes to take effect)
- Added "Auto-play to next playoff round" to the play menu, if the league is in playoff mode
- Added an input line which lets you modify the internal historical year of the league (progressing options in game setup) which is used for auto-import routines. That makes it easier to properly set up fictional historical leagues.
- Improved player talent creation in feeder leagues
- Fine-tuned player development & aging code
- The player list view in team screens is now remembered, for example when returning to the lineup screen
New in Out of the Park Baseball 14 (Apr 17, 2013)
- 2013 Opening Day Major League Rosters
- Completely Recoded Player Origin System
- Recoded Player Creation Algorithms
- New Fielding Ratings Development System
- Better Player Development Tracking
- Expanded Real-Time Simulation Experience
- Improved Trading
- Improved interface, with new font-size setting
- Better player evaluation AI
- Roster AI recoding, resulting in better managing of minor leagues and the 40-man roster
- Better contract negotiation AI
- Improved league strategy settings; i.e., define the number of starting pitchers, relief pitchers, and position players carried by the AI teams, split by DH and non-DH sub-leagues.
- Smarter in-game AI
- Improved in-game control, including "Pitch to Contact" option More storylines
- Improved play-by-play commentary
- One-click joining of online leagues
- New graphical depth chart screen
- New playoff series analysis screen
- A Free Agent Draft can now be scheduled from the League Setup functions screen. It's similar to the inaugural draft, but it doesn't clear the team rosters and it assigns picked players adequate 1-year contracts. Such a draft is useful if, for example, if you want to have contraction and draft the players released from the contracted teams. Or if you import several historical players into the FA pool and want the teams to draft them.
- Unlock plenty of performance-based achievements! How many can you discover during your managerial career?
- Spring Training games are now automatically played in a spring ballpark with proper climate settings
- Player height is now a factor in determining first base defense rating
- Many more tweaks and improvements to the core elements of the game
New in Out of the Park Baseball 13.10.37 (Dec 13, 2012)
- Improved font rendering
- Improved add-ons dialog
- Commish email after sim -> improved error messages (sometimes it crashed when showing error message)
- Fixed a few minor bugs
New in Out of the Park Baseball 13.9.32 (Nov 2, 2012)
- Maintenance release, it fixes a crash bug which occured in certain leagues when exiting the game
New in Out of the Park Baseball 13.8.30 (Oct 23, 2012)
New in Out of the Park Baseball 13.7.29 (Oct 2, 2012)
- The historical player import dialog (league transactions screen) can now import multiple historical players via a text file.
- Any non-affiliated league can now optionally feed into the amateur draft pool of another league (based on age-restriction settings).
- Added a scout task list for scouting players, which can be found and edited in the scout's profile screen. This allows you to mark several players to be scouted and the scout will work through the task list, filing reports automatically.
New in Out of the Park Baseball 13.7.28 (Sep 29, 2012)
- The historical player import dialog (league transactions screen) can now import multiple historical players via a text file.
- Any non-affiliated league can now optionally feed into the amateur draft pool of another league (based on age-restriction settings).
- Added a scout task list for scouting players, which can be found and edited in the scout’s profile screen. This allows you to mark several players to be scouted and the scout will work through the task list, filing reports automatically.
- Fixed several bugs
New in Out of the Park Baseball 13.6.23 (Sep 11, 2012)
New in Out of the Park Baseball 13.3.10 (May 9, 2012)
- Added the option to place the toolbar at the bottom of the screen (found in the preferences dialog)
- Added "Auto-play to your next game" to the Play menu if the game is in the future
- You can now pick a color directly from the team logo / league logo in the team color / league color dialogs.
- Added optional latitude & longitude fields to ballpark data
- Added the option to disable the automatic season prediction creation (found in game options / reports settings)
- Added the option to import historical rookies as free agents when the first-year player draft is disabled in historical leagues (found in league setup / historical tab)
- Tweaked contract evaluation AI, so players no longer react to an offer and sign with a different team on the same day
- Improved minor league roster AI when incomplete minors (ghost players) are enabled
- Tweaked development of injury history rating, so short-term injuries have less effect now
- Improved major league roster set (need to start new game for changes to take effect)
- Fixed several bugs & glitches
New in Out of the Park Baseball 13.2.6 (Apr 26, 2012)
- 2012 Opening Day major leagues roster set
- Groundbreaking Real Time Simulation mode, watch the action unfold while you browse the game
- Revolutionary Random Debut Historical League mode, relive childhood fantasies!
- Interactive storylines. Do you bench the clubhouse cancer who just insulted you in the media?
- League associations & enhanced custom playoff modes – who is the real Champion of your baseball world?
- Redesigned interface, it’s easier to use and looks simply stunning
- Various AI and core engine improvements, making the most realistic game even more realistic.
- Much more, over 100 new features & improvements
New in Out of the Park Baseball 12.5.46 (Dec 7, 2011)
- Recoded fielding engine, major league 2011 rosters, and MUCH more
New in Out of the Park Baseball 12.5.44 (Nov 17, 2011)
- Made some tweaks to historical replays
- Added 'Purge Database' function to database info page
- Several minor bug fixes
New in Out of the Park Baseball 12.5.38 (Oct 22, 2011)
- Fixed several problems with database exports (MySQL dumps)
- Added feature to write data dumps directly into a MySQL database
- Added support for use of "extended INSERT" when creating data dumps for MySQL
- Improved the database info page
- Fixed rare OOTP 11 league importing crash
- Fixed rare crash bugs when simulating
- Fixed crash bug when offering certain player minor league contracts
- Fixed other rare crash bugs and a few minor cosmetic bugs
New in Out of the Park Baseball 12.5.34 (Oct 7, 2011)
- Added an "Offseason Summary" to the Offseason Center which lists players added/lost during the offseason for each team, along with WAR and team leaderboard for WAR added.
- Added a "GM Transactions History" section to the Manager History screen. It lists all major transactions made for the teams you were in charge of. This only applies for transactions happening after using this patch.
- Added a "Preseason Predictions Report", listing projected standings and a top 10 hitters & pitchers list for each sub-league. It gets generated on the first day of Spring Training and is available from both the league menu or the Spring Training screen. For leagues without Spring Training it is available in the league reports screen on Opening Day.
- Added functions to add states and edit state names in the nations editor
- Decreased effect on fan interest of players signing/leaving
- Tweaked formula that determines FA compensation status to make the number of Type A & B FA's more realistic
- Added "FA type" as a possible column to sortable player lists. For this to show up, the user has to delete his \tables folder inside the OOTP 12 user data folder (i.e. My Documents\ OOTP Developments\OOTP 12\)
- First year player draftees no longer change their bonus demand after being drafted unless they are drafted far higher than expected.
- Improved roster AI
- Added the option to disable delayed injury diagnosis
- Fixed several bugs and minor issues
New in Out of the Park Baseball 12.4.27 (Sep 9, 2011)
- We added a new internal player rating: 3B/2B ratio. When this rating is set in the editor, it will be used for determining the triples rate of an extra-base hit (instead of the player speed rating). This rating is automatically set for all historical players upon import, improving statistical accuracy. Fictional players occasionally get a rating applied as well.
- Trades now work even when a team has a negative projected balance, as long as the balance improves or stays the same through the trade.
- Several problems with contract negotiations have been fixed.
- Players now react faster to minor league contract offers.
- During the offseason, lesser-talented free agents demand minor league contracts more often.
- We changed the behavior of the "Meet Demand" button in contract negotiations. It now takes the player's demands and automatically asks for the player's response to that offer.
- We made the number of international free agents generated a bit less predictable.
- We tweaked teams' spending behavior, resulting in fewer instances where great free agents go unsigned for a long period of time.
- We tweaked default financial numbers in fictional leagues to give teams more money to work with.
- We tweaked OOTP 11 league importing for more stable financials.
- The diagnosis for a 'delayed' injury now appears sooner sometimes; the typical delay is 1-4 days.
- After deactivating an OOOL league, it will now automatically be a standard online league.
- In OOOL leagues, the league URL and all other text values can now contain "less than" and "greater than" characters.
- The OOOL league browser contains link to league web sites and info about each league now (move the mouse over the league name to see it).
- Fixed a bug that made downloading an online league file fail.
- Fixed the problems with the "clear league file cache" feature.
- Fixed several small bugs.
New in Out of the Park Baseball 12.3.22 (Aug 11, 2011)
- Tweaked salary arbitration contracts
- If using playoff roster rules, players put on the 15-day DL shortly before the playoffs will allow an additional player to be made eligible for the playoff roster
- Tweaked the age of created international free agents because too many young players were created
- Fixed draft bonus issue for AI-controlled teams (too-high ML contract for some players as part of signing bonus)
- Fixed problems with finances for historical expansion teams
- Tweaked top prospect list calculation
- Fixed problems with team import in online leagues on a Mac
- Fixed problems with contract offers in online league mode
- Added several commissioner features for OOOL leagues (co-commissioners, change league owner)
- Added button to reset league file version cache in OOOL leagues, to force a new league file download if needed
- Fixed several other bugs and cosmetic issues
New in Out of the Park Baseball 12.2.17 (Jul 26, 2011)
- Tweaked budget & player contract demand calculation
- Added new baseball card templates
- Added search filter function to city list in nation editor
- Added a function to export the world data to XML
- Added an option to correctly display potential ratings that are lower than the actual ratings, instead of adjusting them to match the actual ratings. This is useful only for leagues without scouting enabled.
- Fixed first-year player draft major league contract demands
- Fixed arbitration-related contract issues
- Improved roster & trading AI
- Fixed several other bugs and cosmetic issues
New in Out of the Park Baseball 12.1.16 (Jul 15, 2011)
New in Out of the Park Baseball 12.1.11 (Jul 2, 2011)
- Fixed player demands in the offseason (again, these were too low in the major league set)
- Fixed player contract negotiation text (player said terrible offer despite it being OK.)
- Fixes to the major league set (scouting budgets, Adrian Gonzales extension, fixed Colorado Rockies + Minnesota Twins weather & home town) ... these only apply when starting a new game.
- Fixed: Normal GMs gain access to commish account each time a league file is downloaded in game (non-OOOL download)
- Fixed: Mac ootp12 clients can not ftp anything
- Fixed: Check Team exports button in commish portal does not work for OOOL leagues
- Fixed: In Non-OOOL leagues, OOTP incorrectly tells you that you must first sign in to online server
- Fixed: Non-OOOL league online league file is incomplete
- Fixed: Incorrect error when downloading new league file but no new file is on server
New in Out of the Park Baseball 11.2.29 (Mar 7, 2011)
- Fixed bug in Add-Ons dialog
New in Out of the Park Baseball 11.2.28 (Nov 1, 2010)
- The message panel and the league news article reports should show Facebook and Twitter buttons now! Please try to post news articles to your Facebook and Twitter accounts!
- Added several baseball card features
- Ongoing stories will now be saved in world.dat instead of an extra file
- Fixes:
- Fixed issues with awards not going to deserving players when they are not on a team
- Fixed projected payroll calculation when extension offers exist
- Fixed rare crashes when enabling the DH prior to a game
- Fixed some PbP issues
- Fixed issue that resulted in duplicated players when manually activating minor league players from the DL and asking for AI minor setup afterwards
- Fixed rare instances when players have no demands listed in the free agent list but asked for a major league contract in the offer screen
- Fixed a bug which caused bad fielding ratings when importing a historical league with custom CSV files and neutralized stats enabled
- Fixed a bug which causes bad injury ratings in non-recalc historical leagues for imported rookies
- Fixed a bug during expansion draft which caused drafted players to cause expenses on the old team
- Improved trade AI
- Fixed problem where story line messages did not contain person names
- File version of english.xml file displayed on database info page
- Fixed multiple small bugs, mainly cosmetic ones
New in Out of the Park Baseball 11.2.26 (Oct 21, 2010)
- The message panel and the league news article reports should show Facebook and Twitter buttons now! Please try to post news articles to your Facebook and Twitter accounts!
- Added several baseball card features
- Ongoing stories will now be saved in world.dat instead of an extra file
New in Out of the Park Baseball 11.2.25 (Oct 11, 2010)
- Recoded fielding engine, major league 2010 rosters, and MUCH more.
New in Out of the Park Baseball 11.2.23 (Aug 28, 2010)
- Changes:
- Enhanced selection dropdown for free agency minimum service years to 25 years
- Introduced user confirmation before resetting history text files to current game date when loading a database, i.e. after a crash
- GMs in online leagues can now create baseball cards for persons with pictures
- The "import photo file" feature is now available even if Facegen is disabled
- Fixes:
- Fixed/improved several hardcoded PbP entries
- Fixed several issues with the scoring engine for earned/unearned runs
- Entries in history files being deleted when older league file loaded
- Quick start always defaults to New Game
- Ghost players unavailable in fictional leagues
- Problem importing historical players into a draft pool
- Legacy bug involving fielding substitutions
- Problems with using master.csv instead of odb file
- Career Stats on Baseball Card for HOFer include minor league stats
- Baseball Cards in online league can only be made by commish
- Inning ends on a Single
- ER scoring issue involving error on OF throw to 3B
- Crash upon importing online league
- run incorrectly scored as earned
- Unusual box score error involving a hit batter
- College players who aren't signed get assigned to new colleges
- CI not reported as an error in Game Log inning summary
- Typo in a news report object
- League strategy options in 2010 game aren't sticking from season to season
- Bottom of Box-score text has an error concerning a player's affiliation
- League Evolution log has [new team city] [new team name] move to [new team city].
- ER scoring error
- User reports ER scoring error
- Ball Animation option can be re-enabled after selecting "Big" PbP Box
- Post Season Changes in Rotation Size
- small change request: PbP token
- Possible problem with the player ratings editor
- Earned run scoring error #21346
- Choosing a high number of divisions makes it impossible to change teams in a division
- Write/Edit News field is shortened
- Another possible ER scoring error
- Appeal play missing information
- Throws Column for Spot Starter is not aligned correctly
- In imported leagues, expansion teams don't get owners
- Defect in a specific player-of-the-week news object
- Make fictional player contracts doesn't clear extensions
- Added league did not get owners created
- Too many infielder leaps in PbP
- SB/CS: no crowd reaction
- Text object error in Personality
- Problem with starting in-game from calendar ribbon at top of screen
- Historical Newts are missing the Fielding Part
- Arbitration awarded even though no offer submitted
- Defensive Efficiency is .000 in Pre-Game Stats Screen
- Nicknames are nicknames, but.....
- Perplexing problem related to expansion draft in 1997
- Historical Teams Running Out Of Players
- Minor change to hardcoded PBP: unable to turn DP
- Online League update failed
- PBP Not reporting rain delay
- Duplicity of Players in Historical Leagues
- Minor hardcoded PBP change: batter reaches second with double
- Fictional FaceGen pictures created even when fictional pictures are turned off
- Fixed the bug where the same picture was used for multiple players
New in Out of the Park Baseball 11.2.18 (Jul 21, 2010)
- Includes primarily fixes for some FaceGen/player image issues.
New in Out of the Park Baseball 11.2.15 (Jul 16, 2010)
- Added option for the 10/5 rule (players will accept trades to teams that they like, for example to a contender)
- Added over 600 new entries to the play-by-play database!
- Added an editable league evolution log to the league history screen
- Added the option to disable recalculation of player potential ratings in historical leagues, resulting in improved AI for career leagues using ratings recalc (each time players get imported, their talents will get locked to the option you chose upon initial import (career totals, remaining years, etc.)
- Added additional tokens to the baseball card customization options
- Significantly tweaked AI logic regarding AI extensions for arbitration-eligible players (fewer cases should go to arbitration, players should not receive pay cuts through arbitration, arbitration-eligible players should not accept contracts with salaries less than their current salary, 1-year contracts should be close to arbitration estimates, contracts should feature non-linear escalation)
New in Out of the Park Baseball 10.2.18 (Aug 7, 2009)
- Contains just one fix, that will help the Mac/Linux licensing system to stop reporting license failures when portable modems are added to / removed from the computer.
New in Out of the Park Baseball 10.2.16 (Jul 7, 2009)
- Fixed problem with disabled list notifications for minor league players.
- Fixed problem with crash when scouting accuracy set to "High".
New in Out of the Park Baseball 9.2.13 (Mar 6, 2009)
- Fixed a problem with the draft order screen which caused traded draft picks to disappear after viewing the screen on a certain day
- Full setup file now includes the latest historical database including the completed 2008 MLB season.
New in Out of the Park Baseball 9.0.27 (Jun 24, 2008)
- Fixed L/R split ratings set to same values in imported OOTP 8 leagues
- Fixed crash when clicking on player news stories while playing out a game
- Fixed game getting stuck when DH is ejected
- Toned down suspensions resulting from brawls (duration of suspensions)
- Fixed position selection menu disappearing at times
- Fixed foreigner rule selection in league setup
- Fixed missing list bullets on help pages
- Added "crashed_on_startup" flag to config file to reset graphics to default after a crash
- Additionally, there are several fixes to the MLB file:
- Arizona League Padres added
- Issue with retired players resolved
- Several missing prospects added
- Several fixes to Cleveland Indians
- Updated positions for players on numerous teams
- Updated ratings for some players who were missing ratings
- Some managers updated
- Personnel contracts adjusted to prevent them from being signed for 263 years