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The New DYNASTY League Baseball Online FAQ
Dynasty League Baseball FAQ
Q: How do I join or start a private draft league?
A: The designated meeting place for people looking to join a private draft league or Commissioners to recruit league members is at the DYNASTY League Baseball Facebook Group:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/6560799421/
You can also post at the DYNASTY League Baseball Facebook Page.
Q: Is there anything I need to install to play?
A: If you have the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in already installed in your browser there is no need to install anything. Once you try to “join” a game the game will detect if you have Silverlight installed and prompt you to install it. If you are having any issues go to this link to detect if you have Silverlight installed correctly:
http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight
Q: Are there public leagues available?
A: There are Greatest Team public leagues available to join year round. Public draft leagues and the new live draft room will be available at a future date.
Q: What happens if I can’t play the next scheduled series live at the series date and time?
A: The MLB.com blog post explains your options for rescheduling. You can also have the computer manager profile play for you:
http://dynastyleaguebaseball.mlblogs.com/2011/02/22/greatest-teams-leagues-debut-with-new-scheduler/
Q: Are “Dynasty” draft leagues that go from one season to the next available?
A: Yes, you can even start or join historical Dynasty leagues. You can learn more at the MLB.com post:
http://dynastyleaguebaseball.mlblogs.com/2013/02/07/the-first-real-time-fantasy-dynasty-league-draft-leagues-arrive/
Q: How do I find the rules and learn more about the game?
A: The Official DYNASTY League Baseball Rulebook can be found at this link:
http://www.dynastyleaguebaseball.com/Docs/DYNASTYRulebook2012.pdf
Q: Can I play solitaire?
A: Yes, you can play solitaire “Series” vs. the computer manager with any teams or seasons in the DYNASTY League Baseball library. Learn more at the MLB.com post:
Q: Can I play a “Series” live with a friend?
A: Yes, you can invite any friend to play a series with any teams from any season in the DYNASTY League Baseball library. The MLB.com blog post has more on how Series with friends work:
Q: Where are the Roster and DL rules?
A: Roster and DL rules are detailed at the MLB.com post:
http://dynastyleaguebaseball.mlblogs.com/2011/08/09/roster-rules-revisited-with-new-dl-rules/
Q: Can I play on my iPad
A: You can view your stats, standings, leaders and box scores as well as change your Manager profile. Apple has decided to block Silverlight and other browser plug-ins such as Flash so you can’t play a game on your iPad. Apple does not block Silverlight on the Apple Mac so you can play on your Apple Mac.
Q: How close of an experience is playing the Online version to the original Board version?
A: DYNASTY League Baseball Online is a direct translation of the DYNASTY League Baseball Board game. The default settings give you a transparent view into how the play results are derived by allowing you to see the player card results, dice rolls and sections of the game charts.
Q: Where can I purchase the DYNASTY League Baseball Board version and season player card sets?
A: The Ticket Window at
http://www.DesignDepot.com
has the DYNASTY League Baseball Board game version.
Q: How many days off are there between the Regular season and LCS?
A: In the automated playoffs, there are 2 rest days between the regular season and the playoffs.
Q: What is the difference for Commissioners in choosing between custom and standard automated playoffs?
A: Custom playoffs do not have automatic advancement of winners like the standard automated playoffs do –you have to set up the new series once the old series are done. Custom playoffs do allow you to control exactly who is playing, how many games in the series, night and day games, how many rest-days between series and things like that. There is a “create custom playoff series” button on the commissioner page.
You’ll just want to make sure you pay attention to the Last Played Date of the teams you are scheduling, as this is an internal date that wasn’t exposed before. This will allow you to set up the first day of the playoffs with the right number of off days. Things are set up internally so that the playoffs begin on Oct 1. The last regular season game is set to be Sept. 28th so that teams have 2 days off before the playoffs. You can obviously choose to keep Oct 1 as your start date or use a different date.
Once caveat–custom playoffs don’t currently have a way to add regular-season tie-breakers, so you will have to use 1-game playoff tie-breakers if you use them. If you use the standard playoffs, they will use regular-season tiebreakers like MLB where the games count as regular-season games. The custom playoffs will treat them like the 1-game wild-card playoff games.
Q: Can I play a game from work?
A: You may or may not be able to depending on the corporate firewall. The two ports you need open to play Dynasty League Baseball Online are outbound TCP ports 943 & 4514.
Q: I can’t see the OK button at the bottom of the page and move past the Roster page when playing a game.
A: You must have your IE, Chrome, Fire Fox and Safari browser zoom set to 100%. You can read below how to change the Fire Fox zoom:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/font-size-and-zoom-increase-size-of-web-pages
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.
Greatest Regular Season Day in MLB History? | Preview of the new 2011 season player cards
Rays react after Dan Johnson 2 out 9th inning HR caps 7 run comeback
September 28, 2011 arguably goes down in MLB history as the Greatest single day in regular season history with a finish so unlikely and so dramatic it seemed it was scripted from the writers of “24″.
Dan Johnson’s 2-out, 2-strike Home Run in the bottom of the 9th that capped off a seven run comeback vs. the Yankees and saved the season for the Rays. For Johnson’s heroics he earned a Clutch hitting situation rating on his new 2011 season DYNASTY League Baseball player card. It is very unusual for a non-RBI leader to earn a Clutch hitting rating, but it has happened before with Al Weis 1969 Mets, Tom Lawless 1987 Cardinals and Manny Mota’s 1977 Dodgers player cards.
The Tigers Victor Martinez epitomized Clutch hitting by raking at a .375 clip with RSP/2 outs and .394 with RSP along with Miguel Cabrera (.382/724, .388/.673).
The AL East perennial powers Boston and New York both failed to earn a JAM situation rating for their relief aces Jonathan Papelbon and Mariano Rivera. Papelbon lost his chance for a JAM with an unimpressive .273 BA with RSP/2 out. Rivera was not only mediocre with a .261 BA/.435 SLG with RSP/2 out, but got rocked with RSP at a .326 BA/.488 SLG clip.
DYNASTY League Baseball fans Dave Kerpen and Andrew Kaufmann debated the merits of the Mets R.A. Dickey chance for a JAM rating in the 2011 season player card set. What it came down to is that even though Dickey won only 8 games he was a candidate for a JAM rating because he was amongst the Official ERA leaders with his 3.28 ERA. Dickey earned his JAM rating on the basis of a .184 BA/.241 SLG with RSP/2 out.
The poster boy for a JAM rating is Tim Lincecum who dialed it up with RSP/2 out allowing a .115 BA/.177 SLG. Now THAT is a pitcher who can get out of a jam!
Carp JAM rating? This year a resounding YES for Cardinal Ace Chris Carpenter.
How could he not after besting Phillie Ace Roy Halladay in a Game 5 NLDS 1-0 duel of aces to end all pitching duels? A .236 BA with RSP/2 outs during the regular season helps too.
Chris Carpenter celebrated after his duel with Halladay in Game 5 of the 2011 NLDS
Beer in the bullpen? The Red Sox cleaned house after the season becaue the clubhouse chemistry had gone awry. The starting rotation of Beckett, Bucholz, Lackey and Lester all got slapped with a D intangible rating for their Boston beer party.
Mark Buehrle staked his claim on this generation’s version of Jim Kaat with an A+ Range rating and 90 Error rating. Buehrle ranked #1 in the Fielding Bible Plus/Minus leaderboard for pitchers with a +4 score to his right, +2 in the middle and 9 runs saved.
Troy Tulowitzki (A/100/-5) earned an A Range rating on the basis of his excellent 5.05 Range Factor (1st) and his solid Fielding Bible +10 score. Error 100 ratings are historically rare and Tulowitzki’s .991 Fielding pct. got him the top historical rating on the scale. Tulo’s player card is a true gem topped off by his -5 Double Play pivot rating which was earned on the basis of his #1 ranked DP pct. of .681.
In the AL, Brendan Ryan (A/70/-5) ranked 1st in the shortstop Fielding Bible rankings for the second year in a row with a +22 Plus/Minus.
It’s rare that a rookie would debut with an A range rating, but that is exactly what the Angel’s Mark Trumbo (A/70) did ranking 1st in Fielding Bible Plus/Minus (+11).
Washington’s Rick Ankiel continues to not just impress, but to put himself in the pantheon next to Clemente in terms of throwing arms. Ankiel’s 7 “kills” and 9 runs saved ranked him 1st among all CF. MLB scouts also graded Ankiel’s arm an 8 on their 2-8 scale. Ankiel (B+/90/-4) earned a very rare -4 throwing arm rating in 2011 in both CF and RF.
Atlanta’s Michael Bourn continues to be as menacing as Jason Bourne – only Michael does his killing on the basepaths. Bourn scores a 10 Baserunning rating and top tier lead (7/6/2) and steal (8/7/1) ratings at 2nd/3rd/Home.
The new DYNASTY League Baseball 2011 season player card set is available for DYNASTY League Baseball Online right here right now and available in the original Board version format at the Ticket Window.
Mike Cieslinski
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