Searching for a pitcher that suits AT&T park can be a bit tedious with the Player Set Browser because you basically need to go through and open each pitcher card to find their ballpark home run ratings.  So, I decided to write a script to make this search a bit easier.  At first, I was thinking about a way that would analyze each card and categorize cards with the type of ballpark it would perform well in.  A high ballpark diamonds pitcher would be a better fit in a pitcher’s park and a pitcher with a low amount ballpark diamonds would be a better fit in a hitter’s park.  Then you have ballparks that favors righties (AT&T) and parks, such as Miller Park, that favors lefties this year.

Since the average Strat-O-Matic manager already has a good understanding of ballpark advantages I decided to write a script that simply adds two columns to the Player Set Browser for each player’s left and right ballpark home run diamonds.  Now, it’s a little easier and quicker to find those bargain pitchers for your ballpark.

Download:  http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/98356

Steps:

1.  Turn on Compact URL: 2.  Refresh your page.

3.  Click the circled times symbol: 4.  Mouse over the text: 5.  Copy: 6. Paste into Twitter:

Jose Contreras tosses a no-hitter in Stratomatic Online 2003.

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Update: In the Strat-O-Matic Card Chances 2008 cardset I have added support for the ATG4 cardset so now it works with 2008 and ATG4.

Update 2: The Strat-O-Matic Card Chances 80s cardset now works with the 70s cardset.

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I have released two new Greasemonkey scripts for Sporting News Stratomatic Online:

Strat-O-Matic Card Chances 2008/ATG4 cardset
Strat-O-Matic Card Chances 80s cardset

These scripts will parse a player’s card and then show an output of the chances a player has on getting on base, hitting a home run, etc. The results also take ballparks effects into consideration. You can also change the default ballpark.

Everyday, these scripts really come in handy for me. Instead of relying on the Ratings Disk or the Player probability tool in the Stratomatic CD-Rom game I have all of the information right there on the same player card page. There’s no need trying to count the how many ballpark diamonds a player has or figuring out the clutch rating. Also, the pitcher cards even have Best Results calculated for you. I hope you enjoy!

To my knowledge the results are 100% accurate. Please let me know if you find any mistakes in the calculations.

For some reason there’s an HTML layout difference between Firefox 2.x and 3.x so I have designed these scripts to work in Firefox 3.x.

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.

I used to keep notes in notepad like the following:

Guerrero 82,85,87
McRae 79,82
Johnson 91
C,Martinez 85,87

Instead of doing this in Notepad, how about having this information right on the player’s card?  With this Greasemonkey script, just click on a bullet icon next to the year. The next time you view the card the icons will be highlighted in red for you.

After the season is over, go to the front office and click on the “Reset Possible Years” link to reset everything back to zero. Now, you are ready for next season.

Download:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/12440