The goal of this script is to graphically show the peaks and valleys of your team’s won-loss record throughout the season. The graphs are broken up into months. In the last month, there’s a button to show the full season graph. To use, go to a team’s Team Schedule and Results page and then scroll down to the bottom to view the graph. The graph results are a bit primitive (it’s no baseball race ) but it’s still fun to follow throughout the season.
For some extreme win/loss fun try the script in this theme league. This was a league where every team tried to lose as many games as possible, except one which had all the superstars on it. This league is apparently a model for debunking the “normalization” discussions that come up from time to time.
Download Stratomatic Monthly win Loss Records
Some pretty significant updates have been made to the Strat-O-Matic 90′s keep track of Mystery Cards and Strat-O-Matic Save Lineups scripts. Now, these scripts will support multiple teams. Before, if you had multiple active teams the data for these scripts would carryover when you switch active leagues. This renders the scripts pretty useless unless you can keep track of the ONE league you were using the scripts for.
The scripts will now store information of up to five teams. If all five slots are taken up, a drop down will appear asking which team you want to overwrite:
Strat-O-Matic Save Lineups
Keep track of Mystery Cards
I conducted a poll at the Strat-O-Matic Baseball Online Forums and most managers (68%) usually have about 1-5 teams running at the same time. There were a few managers who had more than 10 teams going on at the same time. I probably could expand the scripts to support more teams but this could cause too much overhead.
New Script: Pluggable SortTable Stratomatic
I have written a modified version of Pluggable SortTable for Stratomatic Online. Now, when you go to Team Stats the columns are sortable.
Download Pluggable SortTable Stratomatic.
SportingNews just announced yesterday that the Strat-O-Matic Baseball: 2010 Season has been released. Whenever a new season arrives the first thing usually I do is browse the player cards. As I was going through the cards yesterday I was thinking that it would be great if there was a quicker and more effective way to find cards fit the type of ballpark I use (I usually choose AT&T Park as a ballpark simply because I’m a Giants fan 
). This year, the ballpark factors (si 10/10 hr 5/10) for AT&T Park mainly favor right handed players. When searching for pitchers that are best suited for AT&T Park one would look for pitchers who have low ballpark diamonds on the right side. Since the ballpark home run rating for AT&T Park on the left side is relatively low (1-5) one can still find an effective pitcher who’s ballpark home runs on the left side are on the high side.
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
One day I was reading the source page of the Front Office page for my Stratomatic Online League. I don’t remember why I was viewing the HTML source in the first place but I discovered a URL link that was commented. I haven’t checked to see if this link is still viewable but it was only visible after waivers and disappeared when the league started. This URL is http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/draft/draft_results.html. This page shows a list of all players that were requested by multiple teams. The results also show which team landed the player and substitutes that were given to the other teams that requested the same player.
Here are the draft results from my current league. Six teams, including my team (Timlins), went after Brian Shouse. Edinson Volquez was another popular choice with four requests. Surprisingly, only two managers, including myself, tried to land Manny Ramirez!
Results from one of my Back to the 80′s league:
Chris Bando – 5 requests
Tim Burke – 6 requests
Robin Yount – 5 requests
I suppose one of the reasons why SportingNews decided to leave this page out was to prevent managers from learning the draft patterns used by the system. The draft order is random so I don’t think anyone would gain much of an advantage with this information. Nevertheless, it’s interesting to analyze.
UPDATE: Unfortunately, SportingNews had to shut the page down due to some complaints.
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.
