New features/changes:

Hardball Dynasty:

• Reduce the minimum TPC and MPC for starting pitcher to 20 Pitches to max reliever settings, this will also allow for opener strategies

• Added Globe Life Field (new Rangers Park) to stadium options

• Waiver Wire order will be displayed on the Waiver Wire page

• Transfer Budget update - added the ability to view/transfer budget in smaller increments (as small as $100,000).

Gridiron Dynasty:

• Mass Recruiting Updates:

  • Can add promises to on Recruiting Summary page, this includes:

    • Promises Start Freshman

    • Promises Start Sophomore

    • Promises to % play guarantee (25-75% in 5% increments)

• Increased # of allowed positional changes to default to 8 for all teams

  • Note: The CS team will no longer be granting additional position changes going forward

• Positional changes will no longer be allowed after the 5th regular season game of the season.

• New coach/ New world Hiring Process update

  • There have been updates to the job selection process which will make it easier for new coaches & coaches that have not coached in a specific world to climb divisions faster.

  • The update will allow coaches to climb to the upper divisions twice as quickly as before (note: a season of DIII is still required)

SimLeague Football:

• Allegiant Stadium (Las Vegas Raiders) added to stadium selection

SimLeague Baseball:

• Reduce the minimum TPC and MPC for starting pitcher to 20 Pitches to max reliever settings, this will also allow for opener strategies

• Added Globe Life Field (new Rangers Park) to stadium options

SimLeague Hockey:

• Added T-Mobile Arena (Las Vegas Golden Knights arena) to arena selection.

• Updated play by play to include the correct spelling of the work “deke”

Hoops Dynasty:

• Added a drop down for processing multiple Home Visits at a time during recruiting, and text to telling you how many Home Visits you have executed already.

• Expanded the Draft Big Board to 150 players from 100 players, because players not on the Big Board were getting drafted

• Changed consolation credit for missing the tournament to 30 day expiration from 60 day expiration

Forums:

• Added bottom sticky ad banner to forums.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed issue on mobile where ads would keep players from clicking on forums links forcing users to refresh the page.

• Fixed an error that would appear in GD every time a user switches the position of a player.

Posted by vikesrule69 on 1/14/2021 4:48:00 PM (view original):
The updates are good, but nothing that really made the game any better. JMO

Posted by vikesrule69 on 1/14/2021 4:48:00 PM (view original):
The updates are good, but nothing that really made the game any better. JMO

Posted by adlorenz on 1/14/2021 1:39:00 PM (view original):
In regards to the 2nd question, no plans right now.

Posted by chetty1963 on 1/14/2021 5:14:00 PM (view original):

Posted by vikesrule69 on 1/14/2021 4:48:00 PM (view original):
The updates are good, but nothing that really made the game any better. JMO

In my "real job", I work on a tech team that supports a product we sell to customers. In this product, we have a huge stack of quick improvements we can make and can prioritize to be worked on in any given 2-week period (which we call sprints), This is our low-hanging fruit - quick projects that we can get done and release to customers. Yes, customer don't typically get excited about those, but it's still valuable work and things we want to get done.

Now, that doesn't mean we aren't working on bigger things. However, big things require more time, more testing, more feedback from customers. We will typically "chunk" these things up into smaller projects. There could be a series of smaller projects that build into the big improvement that may take 6 months to complete.

I believe Adam follows a similar path. I think the positive I see is how quickly we are now starting to see updates, where we went years without anything. Keep the faith guys:)

Posted by adlorenz on 1/14/2021 6:20:00 PM (view original):

Posted by chetty1963 on 1/14/2021 5:14:00 PM (view original):

Posted by vikesrule69 on 1/14/2021 4:48:00 PM (view original):
The updates are good, but nothing that really made the game any better. JMO

In my "real job", I work on a tech team that supports a product we sell to customers. In this product, we have a huge stack of quick improvements we can make and can prioritize to be worked on in any given 2-week period (which we call sprints), This is our low-hanging fruit - quick projects that we can get done and release to customers. Yes, customer don't typically get excited about those, but it's still valuable work and things we want to get done.

Now, that doesn't mean we aren't working on bigger things. However, big things require more time, more testing, more feedback from customers. We will typically "chunk" these things up into smaller projects. There could be a series of smaller projects that build into the big improvement that may take 6 months to complete.

I believe Adam follows a similar path. I think the positive I see is how quickly we are now starting to see updates, where we went years without anything. Keep the faith guys:)

You are correct. This is low hanging fruit and took about 1/3 of our time this last round. Coming from a tech background, even doing these small changes took substantially more time that I thought they would because of how old the code is and how monolithic and statuesque the code is. Best practices have changed miles since the core of the website and the games were written and we are doing our best to continually add value but also work on some bigger efforts.

I am not looking for a pity part either but we have seven in a half games we support all of them are massive (especially the dynasty games). So making we hit all of them is going to be tough.

I appreciate the patience and I am asking for a little more as we continue to grow and enhance these games.

Posted by bjschumacher on 1/14/2021 7:03:00 PM (view original):

Posted by adlorenz on 1/14/2021 6:20:00 PM (view original):

Posted by chetty1963 on 1/14/2021 5:14:00 PM (view original):

Posted by vikesrule69 on 1/14/2021 4:48:00 PM (view original):
The updates are good, but nothing that really made the game any better. JMO

In my "real job", I work on a tech team that supports a product we sell to customers. In this product, we have a huge stack of quick improvements we can make and can prioritize to be worked on in any given 2-week period (which we call sprints), This is our low-hanging fruit - quick projects that we can get done and release to customers. Yes, customer don't typically get excited about those, but it's still valuable work and things we want to get done.

Now, that doesn't mean we aren't working on bigger things. However, big things require more time, more testing, more feedback from customers. We will typically "chunk" these things up into smaller projects. There could be a series of smaller projects that build into the big improvement that may take 6 months to complete.

I believe Adam follows a similar path. I think the positive I see is how quickly we are now starting to see updates, where we went years without anything. Keep the faith guys:)

You are correct. This is low hanging fruit and took about 1/3 of our time this last round. Coming from a tech background, even doing these small changes took substantially more time that I thought they would because of how old the code is and how monolithic and statuesque the code is. Best practices have changed miles since the core of the website and the games were written and we are doing our best to continually add value but also work on some bigger efforts.

I am not looking for a pity part either but we have seven in a half games we support all of them are massive (especially the dynasty games). So making we hit all of them is going to be tough.

I appreciate the patience and I am asking for a little more as we continue to grow and enhance these games.

Don't worry, Adam, we will be patient. You don't know how much excitement we all have about this renewed action and transparency, after so many years of stagnation and frustration.

Posted by chetty1963 on 1/14/2021 8:24:00 PM (view original):

Posted by bjschumacher on 1/14/2021 7:03:00 PM (view original):

Posted by adlorenz on 1/14/2021 6:20:00 PM (view original):

Posted by chetty1963 on 1/14/2021 5:14:00 PM (view original):

Posted by vikesrule69 on 1/14/2021 4:48:00 PM (view original):
The updates are good, but nothing that really made the game any better. JMO

In my "real job", I work on a tech team that supports a product we sell to customers. In this product, we have a huge stack of quick improvements we can make and can prioritize to be worked on in any given 2-week period (which we call sprints), This is our low-hanging fruit - quick projects that we can get done and release to customers. Yes, customer don't typically get excited about those, but it's still valuable work and things we want to get done.

Now, that doesn't mean we aren't working on bigger things. However, big things require more time, more testing, more feedback from customers. We will typically "chunk" these things up into smaller projects. There could be a series of smaller projects that build into the big improvement that may take 6 months to complete.

I believe Adam follows a similar path. I think the positive I see is how quickly we are now starting to see updates, where we went years without anything. Keep the faith guys:)

You are correct. This is low hanging fruit and took about 1/3 of our time this last round. Coming from a tech background, even doing these small changes took substantially more time that I thought they would because of how old the code is and how monolithic and statuesque the code is. Best practices have changed miles since the core of the website and the games were written and we are doing our best to continually add value but also work on some bigger efforts.

I am not looking for a pity part either but we have seven in a half games we support all of them are massive (especially the dynasty games). So making we hit all of them is going to be tough.

I appreciate the patience and I am asking for a little more as we continue to grow and enhance these games.

Don't worry, Adam, we will be patient. You don't know how much excitement we all have about this renewed action and transparency, after so many years of stagnation and frustration.

Adam, I agree with BJ.

Don't let any of the negativity get you down. You're doing amazing work and I couldn't be more thrilled that renewed effort is being put into these games.