My CD-Rom (v14) game arrived. Stratomatic already has a patch out for it. Last night, I was trying to find a way to automatically transfer my SportingNews Online team to the CD-Rom game. I don’t see a way to do this, even with the new interface used by the CD-Rom game. The new interface really behaves like the old interface. The only difference is the look and feel.
I was looking for a way to copy data from the roster chart with a Greasemonky script and then copy the data to the clipboard. This aspect is doable. There are programs out there that can automate mouse clicks and keyboard entries but I haven’t found a program that will work well with the CD-Rom game. I was thinking about a way to automatically search for a player’s name with the CD-Rom player search. Unfortunately, it’s not a very user friendly player search. It will tell you where the player is but won’t take you to him!
So, you need to take note of the search results and then find the three letter abbreviation (above, it’s TIM) of the team that player plays for.
The CD-Rom game has a feature that allows you to see a player’s web page. I was thinking maybe there could be a way to use this to link the player to Stratomatic Online. Unfortunately, this isn’t working. I get “Unable to start web browser:
I have the CD-Rom game installed on my flash drive. Maybe this is why it’s not working. I’m not sure what’s the problem.
Hopefully one of these days Stratomatic will allow users to import leagues and rosters from Stratomatic Online into the CD-Rom game with ease. Until then, we have to do it the old fashioned way – which is quite tedious. In the meantime, this is how I setup leagues in the CD-Rom game so I can test strategy for upcoming Stratomatic Online games:
1. Duplicate the ’2008 Major Leagues’ league.
2. In the duplicated league, cut/paste all players into Free Agents folder.
3. Create a new league(your SOM Online team). Just fill in League Year, 2 Character Abbreviation, and name of league.
4. Create your team. Just fill out Year, City, Nickname, and abbreviation and then click Ok.
5. Now, drag your players into your team one by one.
7. To make sure you haven’t made a mistake go to Team>PromoteDemote Minor leaguers and compare the number of eligible batters and pitchers to your team.
8. Next, go to Team>Generate Computer Manager to setup default starting rotation and lineups to help you get started.
9. Repeat steps 4-8 for the other teams in the league. I usually do this as a face each new team. Setting up divisions isn’t really necessary unless you want to do this.
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