SSBA

Alright guys, if you go to the ssba rosters page ( http://ssba.phillyarena.net ), you'll see a link on the top bar called "FA Resigings".  When you click on that, it will (or, at least, should) bring up your free agents.  It will display their requested contract, tell you what your current decision is, then on the right it will have a link to accept or decline the contract.

If you change your mind, just go back and re-click the button and you can change your decision.  It defaults to declining a contract.  You will be allowed to change your decisions until I run the sim.  Afterwords the it will shutdown and display all the accepted contracts.

If you don't see anything listed on the page, or if you get someone elses resigining offers, or if it doesn't work, let me know.  I just whipped it up during my lunch break, so it may not be fully bugtested :P

Also, it pulls up your offers based on whether you're logged into the forum and that username, so if you're not logged in, you won't have any extension offers.

BTW, this was one of the very reasons for moving to this board.  It's very developer friendly in combining the user logins with your own code.  So all kinds of things will become web-based rather than pm based in the future (although maybe not this ssba season, as I don't really have time).

Wow, cool  :shock:

This is the best thing since... :hail:

This is real cool bods...Dampier never wants to retire!!!!

You will never know, he could sign and then retired.

yea that's true, he wanted another 2 year deal but obviously i'm not going to use my money on a guy who is rapidly getting worse

Yeah, I really like this thing.

This year it didn't save me much time, since I had to build the thing.  But next year it will take the re-signings time from taking about 1.5 hours to about 15 minutes for me :)

Plus now no PM's have to be sent, don't have to worry about changing your mind.  easy.

is this the only new thing like this you have planned? or is there more up your sleeve?

More planned, but I'm not sure when they will be done.  Probably not in the next 6 weeks as I finish up school.  This was the easiest of the additions.

Nice, this addition is absoutely outstanding. Thanks!, and i'm sure it makes your life about 100 times easier too.

Nice new feature. No re-signings for me as I expected. I'm just waiting for the lottery/draft... 8)

your welcome :D

Haha, thanks. I don't even remember what trade I got that pick in...

Found it. #7 pick in the 2012 draft, aka Charles Phelps. Pretty good trade.

This is incredible, well done!

Wow this was great.


And maybe the greatest part about it was locking up Max to a contract that is below the Max.

That's right, no Max for Max.

What's really nice is on my screen I have two tables, 1 that lists all the currently accepted extensions, and one that lists all the declined extensions.  Now I don't have to go through 40 pm's, it's all at one screen :P

nice addition.

and wow on the offer/s I got.

Does this means Danny The Man Forston is gonna retire?

yea I guess that isn't too bad, assuming you get one of the top 2 picks

Players who are going to retire often times make extension offers.  So no, it doesn't mean anything, except that Danny the man has gotten tired of continually being bounced in the first round :P

Really nice way for it to work.
Can't wait to see what other bonus this system has, as well.

Lol. What a lie. When was the last time i lost in the first round?

what? you made the playoffs?

that's not true. they ALWAYS get bounced in the 2nd or 3rd round, at least in SSBA.

but hey, there are 28 losing teams each season so he's in good company ...
:-)

I think he got me confused with CelticsGM

yeah, another one of the 28 losers each year.

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I'm not looking for excuses but i'm 100% sure if it wasn't for the Iggy injurie i would have been in the Finals. But nvm.

Hey Bods, you still need to shirten Randolph's contract by one year. It helps that people can see it for when i'm making trades. Thanks.

Great feature!

Barton O'Connell will be a Rocket 4 life... baring any rediculous trade offers ofcourse! :)

Hey guys, new feature.

In the past FA has presented some problems.  People not remembering who they're bidding on.  People not giving first and last names.  People sending 18 different pm's to update bids.  So I've added a script.

Go to the main rosters page ( http://ssba.phillyarena.net ), and click on "GM Actions" at the top (it replaced the FA Resignings).  Now click on free agents.  This will be our new FA submission system.

After each day gone fa's will automatically be cleared.  You can submit offers, update offers, and cancel offers right there.  You can then update them until I have run the day.  If the player is still there, it will carry over to the next day.

It's not nearly done.  For example, right now it shows the starting salary when you click to edit an offer (which is where you'll view the details of an offer as well).  Eventually it will display each years value as well as the total.  You will also be able to see a history of offers to another player.  And on the frontpage You will see all the offers you currently have.

right now it's just a test.  It has all the potential free agents.  But give it a whirl just so we can see any bugs.

I am looking at the FA Signings page, and all of the players have varying potentials that include +s and -s (i.e. A+ potential and B- potential)

Is this the correct potential or just a bug?

Actually...as I look at it, it seems that the rebounding rating is just doubled.

Haw.  You're right.  Fixed.

And this is why we test things early :)

Will FA this year be done like always?  Or is this new feature to be used immediately?

One also really nice feature of this thing that I've coded in is when you "update" a bid, you don't actually update that entry, you set it to inactive and create a new entry.  When you 'cancel' a bid, you don't actually delete it, you set it to inactive.  Once it's entered, nothing is ever changed or deleted.  This removes any discrepancies.  Otherwise it's possible you could submit a bid, I process it, you then come back the next day "Hey, this isn't the bid I made!  shorten the contract!".  this thing records the exact date and time a bid is made, and updated/cancelled.

Not that there's anyone here who would do that, but it's nice to have just in case.

Most likely be used immediately unless there's a glaring bug found.

BTW, don't worry if the interface blows chunks, or if it's underutilized (i.e. there are options that can/should be added).  I'm just throwing things up there quickly.

just to let you know if some bug occurs ive re-signed both of my FA :P

this is different than the fa-resigning.  I've got your decisions, thank you.

so basically under FA i just need to make offers to other players on other teams, and is there a limit like before of sending 5 offers ?

Well, there's no official limit.  But generally, limit them to 5 each so I'm not there all week doing day 1 of FA.

BTW, that PM you all got, it was a mass PM.  If you've made your decisions, ignore it.

ok boss :)

And the last section we'll see for a bit (not counting updates to current sections).

Click on GM Actions, there's now a link for team bank.  This will display a list of team banks (with your bank bolded), and their amounts.  It will also give a list to view the log of additions and subtractions.

Why added?  Well, for one, it makes things much easier for me.  No more adding, subtracting, and upkeep.  I just enter in the team, what it's for (i.e. DC), click submit, and it will update totals for me.

But, it will also allow you to view a log of transactions, so you can see exactly what's been applied to your account.

(unfortunately, right now there's only one entry per team, which is the carry-over from the old forum post).

I'll hopefully add this years $ tomorrow.

Alright, now I've got to get to sleep.  I'm processing the end of year tomorrow.  Partly because I'm tired, and I have a ton of work, but also because there are a few GM's I'm waiting on.

h crap, I responded to it. haha. sorry

Bods....have you determined the schedule for the rest of the offseason yet?  Dates of draft, FA period, etc.  I just want to make sure I don't miss any check-ins.

BTW, very nice Bods...  Now the Kings can make an MLE to every free agent that exists, and not have to bother you with it :)

Not exactly. This DB doesn't put the offers in FBB I believe, it's still bods who has to do this manually. Thats why bods upheld the limit of 5 offers per day.
:-)

quick question: i have tried the team bank link and i can view every team exept mine. Is it because you can´t see yourself or am i the only one missing ?

Ahh, how sad...   :cry:
really wanted to see the Kings get McKinley Blair for the MLE   - http://ssba.phillyarena.net/players/player475.htm

Yeah, I still have to manually enter the bids.  I wish I could find a way to automate that, but it's just not possible.

I could have it count the # of bids you have active and prevent you from inserting more than 5 though :)

Pacers: No, I missed you.  Let me add that.

GoldenState: I'll have that updated today.

Banks Updated with all the end of year Stuff.

Award Winners:
http://www.phillyarena.net/ssba_pages/bankawards.php?year=all&stype=allawards

Bank Totals:
http://www.phillyarena.net/ssba_pages/bank.php

You can then view your log of transactions.

Banks are now fully up to date.  Remember, I'm only going to be giving out DC money once at the end of the regular season, but if you need the money, you can claim it.

I think the Bank and the Resigning are the two most useful additions, both for you and me.  It's 100x easier keeping the bank up to date and remember what's been added/removed now for me.

Resignings Up:
Retirements:
2014    170    Timberwolves    PG Rafer Alston retires
2014    170    Kings    C Danny Fortson retires
2014    170    Timberwolves    C Radoslav Nesterovic retires
2014    170    Kings    PF Tim Duncan retires
2014    170    Knicks    C Vladimir Stepania retires
2014    170    Supersonics    SF Shareef Abdur-Rahim retires
2014    170    Hornets    SF Tim Thomas retires
2014    170    Kings    C Nazr Mohammed retires
2014    170    Timberwolves    SF Keith Van Horn retires
2014    170    Trailblazers    PG Damon Jones retires

Extensions:
http://www.phillyarena.net/ssba_pages/resignings.php

Look over your roster and make sure it's right.

Also add this for extensions (He pm'd me before he left):
2014    170    Heat    SF Bertram Shultz resigns for $82,125,000 over 6 years

Wonderfull news.

bods, do we still send you a list on fa or not? because I think some players are still available when there team have already re0signed them.

BTW, while I was putting in some offers for 4,500,000 (not MLE). I noticed that when I edit my offer, it turns to MLE automatically.

The FA list needs to be update.  Some players already resigned with their former team and some retired still on the FA list.

The FA list isn't updated.  I told you guys this.  It's currently in testing :P

BTW, it will stay "MLE" no matter what value you enter if you don't change the dropdown to custom.

gotcha. btw, I've already sent my list in. after having certainty that my picks won't affect this cap I have.

Huh?  Draft picks will count against your cap.

i've traded them already. hehe

wth, my list got lost.

Ugh.  Yes.  I told you the "offers" you were making were just testing, and that the offers didn't count until the official list got up there.

Now you can make your offers.  That wasn't the list, so the offers were cancelled.

oh ok. sorry. I thought it would get updated without losing all the offers.

wow only 1 FA resigned. that must be a record. Also timmy, danny and the great rasho all have fun now at maui after they decided they had enough and retired.

Guess they found out their GM owns multiple teams ... and then discovered the chat transcript:
http://z13.invisionfree.com/DJSL/index.php?showtopic=1898

Hey, you're still surprised they call it a career BEFORE that happens here ?
 :lmao:

can't open the whole league. even the boards of DJSL :S

No, there's only one FA on the transactions sheet.

It's a weird way that FBB operates.  If you accept the extension before the end of the season, it's not listed as a transaction.  If you accept the offer after you hit "end season" (when FBB asks you again whether you want to sign any fa offering an extension) it will list it on transactions.  Just a bug.

There's also now an option to specify "max" in the dropdown.  This automatically gives him the max possible contract with max raises, so you don't have to go with custom if you know you want to offer him the max.  You can select how many years you want the max contract for.

Is the list official now?  I still see Max & O'Connell on the list.  And there are several players duplicated: Peja, Hinrich, Brice and others.

Yeah, it looks like something did get messed up.  I'll fix that tonight.

Don't submit anything for anyone that's not on here as well until after I've fixed it:
http://ssba.phillyarena.net/fa/fa-pos.htm

Any submission's you've made won't be cleared, they're tied to a name.  So as long as you submit a bid for a name that's on the official list, it will carry over.

yeah, Buehler is also there and shouldnt be.

Alright guys, a few things:

• The FA list should now be up to date.  Let me know if there's anyone in there who shouldn't be (this was fixed last night during the sim)
• There's been a change to the bank.  An option's been added to keep a comment about the transaction private.  What this will do is you will only see a private comment (under the bank log) if you are logged in with the username of the account.  I.e., if I'm under WolvesGM's log, I won't see his private comments.  Why private comments?  If, for example, someone buys the true potential of a draftee, you don't want everyone to know that's who you're targetting.  But, I also wanted everyone to know exactly what they spent their money on.
• On the Free Agents page, it now displays your current offers at the top, so you don't have to scroll the entire list and click "edit" just to view your current bids.  there are also edit/cancel links there as well.

If anyone finds any bugs, let me know.

Danny The Legend retired?! :(

Bods, any idea when the first day of FA will be?  Just want to know so I don't miss getting all of my offers entered.  I am still analyzing team needs and who's available.

Not sure if this is a bug or not.  But under the current offers at the top of the page it shows $0 for the starting salary on both MLE & LLE offers.  Which means I really have to remember what I offered to who....which for the old man on the board can be difficult.

Yeah, it was a bug.  Just a display issue, not a submission issue.  Fixed now, should display correctly.