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The First Real Time Fantasy Dynasty League Draft Leagues Arrive
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Back in 1992, the concept behind naming the successor to Pursue the Pennant “DYNASTY League Baseball” was to design the first baseball simulation game specifically for draft league players. A Fantasy Baseball “Dynasty” league is synonymous with “keeper” draft leagues that continue for more than one season. To start with there needed to be Official rules for draft leagues and those rules appeared back in 1994 during the launch of DYNASTY League Baseball. The DYNASTY League Baseball Official league rules are basically the Official Rotisserie rules adapted for Baseball simulations where an auction style bidding draft is held and players have contracts based on the dollar amount of the bidding. On February 1, 2013 the first real time Fantasy Baseball sim “Dynasty” leagues became a reality with a new update to DYNASTY League Baseball Online that allowed multi-player leagues to migrate seamlessly from one season to the next.
Most new draft leagues will start with the newest season (2012) and continue forward, but there is now a new option to have historical Dynasty draft leagues that start with any year from 1996-2012 and continue forward. From the Commissioners tools league organization menu when you click on “Starting Player Season” you can now select any season from 1996-2012. Coming soon will be the ability to have a single season multi-player draft league with the 1957 or 1967 season. Coming after that you will have a choice to start your league with any season from 1967-1975 and eventually 1967-1982 or even possibly through 1985.
The new migration code update on February 1 migrates your league organization, rosters and schedule from one year to the next in one click of the “Advance league” to the next player season button. Your private draft league history season-by-season can be found in the lower right-hand corner of your league page.
You can select any year from 1996-2012 to start your private draft league.
The new league migration feature combined with the real time draft leagues that update stats, standings, leaders and box scores automatically without having to import and export files to a central commissioner makes it a breeze to run your draft league with DYNASTY League Baseball Online.
What’s new in the recently released 6th Edition Game charts?
The color game charts are designed to be the stable rock of DYNASTY League Baseball so when there is a new edition it is big news. The last new DYNASTY League Baseball game charts edition (5th) was released in 2004. The new 6th Edition game charts are included in all new Board game editions at the Ticket Window. The 6th Edition game charts can also be ordered separately as ITEM# charts ($12.95).
DYNASTY League Baseball Online which runs on both Windows and Apple Mac platforms will be incorporating the new 6th Edition game charts in the future. There is a free trial for the new DYNASTY League Baseball Online version for Apple Mac and Windows at the new DYNASTY League Baseball Online site.
DYNASTY League Baseball Online New Busch Stadium screen shot shown running on Apple Mac in Safari.
The new 6th Edition game charts will be included in DYNASTY League Baseball Online.
What’s new?
ATTEMPT chart
The F rated Pitcher Hold section of the ATTEMPT chart has an increase in the Pickoff Pitcher result and a decrease in Good jumps. The end result is that potential pickoffs by F Hold pitchers have been doubled and it is also a bit more difficult to get a Good Jump off a a Pitcher with an F Hold rating.
Great examples of the type of pitcher this will help are F rated Hold pitchers like Jason Isringhausen (Pickoff rating of 9), Matt Thornton (Pickoff 5), Jesse Crain (Pickoff 7), Tony Sipp (Pickoff 7), Matt Lindstrom (Pickoff 5), Ross Ohlendorf (Pickoff 6), Tommy Hanson (Pickoff 3), Dan Runzler (Pickoff 10), Jordan Walden (Pickoff 4), Tony Watson (Pickoff 6) and Eric Surkamp (Pickoff 8). These pitchers fall into the category of easy to get a Good Jump off, but also very adept of picking runners off. It’s an interesting combination of a Hold and Pickoff rating that is more common that you might expect.
Umpire Crews
Umpire crews have all been newly updated along with new strike zone ratings. Crews now include their last name as well as first initial. Also new is the red HOT symbol ~ for certain umpires that come into play on the updated BIZARRE play charts. If you guessed Joe West as the leader in ejections has a HOT symbol you are right!
UMPIRE chart
Umpire result # 16-24 has been changed to decrease the number of singles and increase the number of strikeouts for Umpires with a Normal strike zone.
New weather and wind for Target Field is included in the new 6th Edition game charts and will be updated in DYNASTY League Baseball Online
BIZARRE plays
There are 15 new play result changes to the Bizarre plays. Skip Schumaker and the rally squirrel, ground rule HR off the C ring in Tropicana Field, Jeffrey Maier’s interference play, video replay on a disputed HR and rf shoe string catch and doubling off runner at 1st by the likes of Ichiro Suzuki Nick Markakis and Jeff Francoeur
WEATHER charts
Minnesota Weather and Wind were researched over the last two years at Target Field using box score data (thank you Josh Nelson) and are included in the new 6th Edition weather charts.
Preview of DYNASTY League Baseball Online Private Draft League Commissioner Tools
If you already have an existing Private Draft League that has completed your draft (you can still use the upcoming new live draft room next year) you are in for some very exciting news. These new Commissioner tools allow your league to enjoy the first and only real time multi-player draft leagues for Baseball simulation leagues.
What is the benefit of real time web based multi-player leagues as opposed to the old stand alone PC leagues? In short, a Commissioner’s dream unless you like the drudgery of importing and exporting league files only to get stats, standings and leaders from last week or even last month. That is way outdated in today’s connected online world. DYNASTY League Baseball Online allows your league to have your stats, standings, leaders and box scores updated in real time.
You can even watch other league games box scores and game summaries update in real time which is a great feature for late season pennant races when you want to know the “out of town” scores in real time.
The new Private Draft league creation tool lets you create a private league by entering the league name, number of teams and team names in the league. Once you enter the number of teams you will see options for the number of divisions and playoff format.
You will also select the number of series your league will play each week and the scheduled league play times. Keep in mind that the scheduler allows you to submit changes in game time for any of your scheduled series during the season and you also can have the new Computer Manager profile manage for you if you can’t play that week.
Once your Private Draft league is created there is a page that allows the Commissioner to edit the settings of the league.
The Commissioner is then be able to go to a page to invite friends into the Private Draft league. You can also use the current “Invite a Friend” button on the left hand column of the home page to invite people you know to DYNASTY League Baseball Online using their email address. Once new people you invited have an account you can then add them as your friend.
League members can choose and edit their team settings.
Once a league member is invited to a private draft league he can then select his team settings.
After you have created your Private Draft league, then the league Commissioner can use the new roster tool to place the players on each team. The roster tool interface allows you to promote and demote players to and from the major and minor league rosters.
The screen shot shows Ryan Braun, Rickie Weeks, Cory Hart, Prince Fielder, Francisco Rodriguez, Yovanni Gallardo, Zack Greinke, Shawn Marcum, Randy Wolf and John Axford added to the roster.
Roster import tool allows the Commish to place players on each team
The new scheduler tool allows you to use the default 12 and 24 team schedules or you can manually create your own schedule.
The new Private Draft League tools are easy to use and will allow you to start playing your DYNASTY League Baseball Online private draft league.
The New 2012 DYNASTY League Baseball Official Rulebook is your guide to the first and only real time draft leagues for Baseball simulation games.
The new 2012 DYNASTY League Baseball Official Rulebook has been updated to include previously released new rules that were not included in the last edition from 2004. Most notable is the new 60 AB universal pitcher situation JAM rating used in all situations for all pitchers facing pitchers batting with less than 60 AB. You will also find the new 0-4 IP 2 day rest requirement in the Pitcher Rest Rules on page 9.
The DYNASTY League Baseball Official league rules that start on page 10 are basically the Rotisserie League Baseball rules including salaries and contracts for draft leagues adapted for basball simulation leagues. What’s new is that DYNASTY League Baseball Online leagues are now included along with local DYNASTY League Baseball local Board version leagues in the Official Rulebook and there are quite a few updates.
DYNASTY League Baseball Online is the First and Only Real Time Baseball Simulation for Draft Leagues
If you have players in many different locations, the beauty of DYNASTY League Baseball Online is that it can easily manage your league and update stats, standings and leaders in real time. This is a first for Baseball simulations. Never before have real time draft leagues been available for Baseball simulation games. Previously each league member would have to export his league file and send it to a central commissioner who would then have to import each league file and then export and send the files back to each league member so that league members could import the updated file again. Of course that is far from real time and in today’s connected world it is downright prehistoric to have to go through all that drudgery to update your stats, standings and leaders.
You join a league and then choose a franchise that includes the matching ball park and then draft your team with a fictional $300 budget from the most recent season of DYNASTY League Baseball player cards that continues each future season when the new season player cards are released in a Dynasty play format. Draft day consists of a Major League draft in which you draft your 25 man roster and then a Minor league draft of 8 additional players that you can call up and send down during the season for a total of 33 players under your control.
After the draft, you are then able to start your season immediately because all of the team rosters have already been saved and integrated by the new live draft room and the scheduling is all done for you. You are then able to easily play live games for your series just by clicking on the join game button or if you can’t make a series have the new computer manager profile play for you.
The first DYNASTY League Baseball Online public and private draft leagues are targeted for this coming April.
Mike Cieslinski
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