SimLeague Baseball Updates

Changes within the last 4676 days...

05/09/2023

  • Fixed a bug where users were able to enter public leagues with more than one team.

04/28/2023

  • 2018, 2021, and 2022 Shohei Ohtani can now be drafted as a pitcher for SimLeague and SimMatchup.

11/19/2020

  • Modified the SimEngine to address an issue where low-inning pitchers were being assigned league average stats (e.g. HR rate) if they had a value of zero.

10/23/2020

  • Fixed a bug that prevented opponent information from showing up on the Manager's Office for play-in games.

09/30/2020

  • 2020 players are now available

07/03/2020

  • Added restrictions to team names to eliminate certain characters from causing display issues.

06/16/2020

  • Fixed an issue where hidden trades would reappear after a few days.

06/01/2020

  • Fixed a display issue with the playoff bracket page.
  • Slightly increased text size and darkened link color to improve readability.

04/23/2020

  • Fixed an issue that happened in some browsers related to the waiver claim and release pages not canceling correctly.

01/09/2019

  • Updated the defensive range data for 34 2018 OFs who had an issue with too many GPs.

05/26/2018

  • Made some changes to account for a recent update to Microsoft Edge breaking certain pages.

11/17/2013

  • Fixed a waiver claim bug where we were not permitting the addition of a player to a team if the team also owned a prospect that was derived from the same player.

03/16/2013

  • Restarted the LIVE service. Based on data submitted by users, it appears the 1/11/2013 update to fix increase in OF errors did not take.

01/11/2013

  • Engine fix for OF fielding. Transposed number in 12/31 update caused a small drag on OF defense.

01/03/2013

  • Engine fix pertaining to players moving to another position as part of defensive replacement. Missed the check to make sure player leaving game as part of position move was allowed to exit for a defensive replacement (player setting). Thanks to rejthegreat for the discovery.

12/31/2012

  • During dire situation (i.e. trailing in final inning), manager will evaluate PH/PR setting before lifting his only catcher or shortstop. This will prevent situations where team comes back to tie or take lead, then must play player out of position at key position. Will still occur if aggressive or very aggressive.
  • Logic will now consider shifting a player's position in order to lift another player for a PH/PR. Will only occur if manager has aggressive or very aggressive PR/PH setting.
  • Improved stolen base attempt logic. Previously, a hard SBA% cutoff was in place based on a myriad of factors. The hard cap has been removed in favor of a linear cap so that players who, for instance, when 12-13 in real life will now attempt some steals. Based on testing, this results in a ~10% increase in stolen base attempts including a 6% increase in successful steals and 15% increase in runners caught stealing.
  • Improved defensive replacement, double-switch and injured fielder replacement logic. Manager will now try to put best defense on field instead of performing a 1-for-1 swap at each position. for example, you may now see a defensive replacement enter at CF and the previous CF shift over to LF.
  • Boxscore has been modified to show a player's original and final position to help better track in-game position changes.
  • Improved PH/PR logic. Previously, manager would get into bad situation when using a 2nd or higher PH/PR in same inning. He'd earmark a player to enter at 2B but later earmark same player to enter at SS, for instance, and then team would be stuck with a player out of position. Manager is much smarter now and won't PH/PR unless all positions are covered with available players in hierarchy.
  • Improved relief pitcher selection for tie games in 7th or later when closer should not enter, manager now looks at specialists before setup pitchers. Previously, specialists were being looked at after setup pitchers in this situation.
  • Improved PH logic when team with a small lead late in the game is in a non-crucial situation. Manager will no longer PH for a strong defensive player when backup is defensively inferior.
  • Improved PH logic regarding pinch-hitting for relief pitchers. If a non-crucial situation, manager will evaluate current pitcher's pitch count vs target pitch count along with available relievers. If it's best to keep RP in game so he can pitch another inning or two, he will hit for himself. This will prevent situations where stud reliever only throws a handful of pitches, is PH for, and then a LR or mopup is forced to enter next inning half.
  • Improved logic for double-switches, pinch-hitting and pinch-running. Previously, manager didn't really consider other players in lineup when making decisions. Now, there's a chance a player will move to another position (if in hierarchy) to accommodate a PH or PR entering the game.
  • Added double-switch logic during inning. If new relief pitcher enters, evaluate if double-switch should occur based on game situation and appropriate hierarchy. This won't happen often as rest or defensive replacements would have typically already occurred.
  • Improved pinch-hitting logic for late/close situations. Previously, some hard cutoffs (based on managerial setting) were preventing many candidates from being lifted during dire situations when a much better hitter was available on bench.

12/07/2012

  • Fixed a player search bug where pressing "Enter" in Chrome would trigger a Save Search instead of the expected Search functionality. Thanks to frozen_rope for helping us track this one down.

11/08/2011

  • Added option to Theme League Wizard that allows author to use a custom salary cap for the league.

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