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@APBA-GO-Jeremy Just a reminder that it’s early November :smiley:

No autoplay. Roll all the games myself. Solitaire, but I manage both teams to make the best moves to win. Keep all the stats in Collections, one folder for the AL and one for the NL.
This has been great. Of the 448 regular season games, only three (the last three of a final series between the Reds and Cubs) had nothing on the line. It took me eleven months, playing (on average) four games every three days. There’s really nothing I would do any different. Very enjoyable.
For 12 teams, I’m thinking a 32-game season might be a good length. (4 games vs each division opponent = 20 games. 2 games vs each non-division opponent = 12 games. That makes for a nice, balanced tournament.). I would definitely recommend having two or three teams make the playoffs in each division though. That helps keep things more exciting right to the end.
With a post-season, that would be approx 215 games max… which is a nice length. I suppose a lot depends on how often you get to play. I knock off most games in about 30 minutes, so it’s pretty easy for me to squeeze in a game a day.
Good luck!

(Edited to add:) Another cool option is just have a short double- or triple-elimination tournament. Those are always quick and fun. And every game is important. A triple-elim tourney for 12 teams would last approx 35 games…
https://www.printyourbrackets.com/triple-elimination-bracket-12-teams-seeded.html

@chaneyhey great question! Hope we hear something.

@NateFader We tried on Friday but immediately ran into issues. Put a fix into testing… If it clears, we’ll go live tomorrow.

@APBA-GO-Jeremy Thank you for your response. The replay features on will allow me to a replay like I can do APBA for Windows on my Apple devices.

I’ve had very little success with Malcolm or Pedro. They both make very strange decisions. I often play with older seasons and none of the pitchers have the relief pitcher *. Even if I make all the starters unavailable, it doesn’t help. Malcolm is notorious for picking any random player, such as an outfielder, as a relief pitcher, even if that player doesn’t have a pitching grade. Pedro tends to leave starters in even when they are getting shelled, or will pull the starter early and let the reliever pitch 6 or 7 innings. I’ve had Pedro let a reliever give up 5 runs and not pull him. For now, I’ve given up on the auto-managers and continue to hope they get fixed one day.

I played the 1959 season and the White Sox played the Braves. I created a world series 1959 collection.
At the end of the game I added the game to the 1959 collection. All my world series record were kept.
Sox won in 7 games.

Alpharetta has fixed it! It should be there now.

It is working!

The 2018 Regular Season Contest is now over, with Mcooper42 taking the win and 20,000 credits in September.

Thanks to all who participated! And congratulations to BS, dwakar57, ds102908, Seanvmoney, bsucard86 and Mcooper42, our contest winners!

Jeremy, I fully realize this would be low priority on the to-do list… but do you think it might be possible in the future to add some type of “take back a play” function?
I had a solitaire tournament game a while back where a home team was losing by two runs in the ninth inning. They had a fast runner on second with two out. I actually had him playing safe, as his run was meaningless. Yet he was thrown out trying to steal third… to end the game.
I suppose one could argue that bonehead plays happen in real life. But it just seemed like a lousy way to end what had been a good game. To at least have the option to NOT have it end that way would have been good.
Love GO. Keep up the great work.

@sloef There is the Solitaire option in which you can control the pitching and lineups for each team, but you then have to make decisions without Malcolm’s assistance.

@hoffridge I also saw today that I pitching change I made didn’t appear to take, before I hit the pitch button. I went back into the lineup… I couldn’t put him in because he was listed as already being used… so I just closed the lineup… and boom… he appeared in the lineup as he should have been. I was then allowed to finish the game. Before I have replaced the awry pitcher with someone else and tried to finish… but that just messes it up more.

@apba-go-jeremy awesome! Thank you!

@marunyon I second this. Perhaps an ok sign off button on the computer mgr. Does the Windows Computer Versio n have something like this?

@jjgils said in Unable to insert pinch hitter in 2 games tonite:

u are saying in your reply. I need to make the changes when the bat icon is in the action bar. I am playing again tonite and it works if I try to make a change with the bat icon in the action bar. I was attempting to make the changes last nite when the batter was due up but before I had clicked to where the bat icon was in the action

I have made the same mistake many times. =) The first few I thought something was wrong, and then I figured it out. Even after figuring it out I sometimes still try to do it.

@buffalohead I would agree on that priority…though not being a software person I never know how hard it is to do certain things. If something is easy to do but low priority of course no reason not to include it in an update.

@hoffridge No worries, glad it worked out!

@tigerscott That one wasn’t us… not sure who ran it.

@randysteinman I imagine it’ll be an ‘it happens when it happens’ thing.

GO is designed to accept new content from the Alpharetta folks whenever they want to add it - we don’t require a heads up.

I am a fan of new content, so I also hope it’s sooner rather than later!

Thanks,
Jeremy