Pure Baseball Community

Thanks to all of you for making PB a great game.

John Meredith, Jeff Brown, Dave Milner and myself are going to do everything we can to make PB a better baseball community. Reaching that goal will hinge on our being able to first (#1) make the interface "market-ready" and secondly (#2) to reach and win that market.

# 2: I think we all agree that building and managing our own PureBaseBall sim-ball empires is a wonderful use of leisure time, but finding others so disposed has never been an easy task. My understanding of new Internet advertising trends has convinced me that the market can more easily be reached now that ever before. In my mind achieving #2 reachable with a moderate level of expertise combined with some hard work.

#1: Reaching and luring the market to PB will do us no good unless we can properly run PB. This has always been difficult and it became much more difficult after 2000 when PB became the province of part-time, part-owners. Perhaps this is a cop-out (baby boomer glossary might be required here), but I believe that at least two of us have to become full-time employees for #1 to be realized. This will take an infusion of investment capital. Not necessarily a large infusion but an infusion nonetheless. How can this best be accomplished?

Owing to the fact that there are a lot of very intelligent people in our community, this New Year's resolution is to first ask and then fairly consider any and all input concerning the future economic and spiritual health of our beloved hobby.

Your input may be best voiced to the community or perhaps better suited as direct commentary or suggestions to me. Direct comments to the commish blog or email to me (michaelbravard@gmail.com).

Happy Holidays to all and to all a very prosperous New Year. Mike Bravard (PB)

FA picks are much more valuable to "managed" teams as these picks can fill needs.

UNM teams use generic commish list and draft for future potential and much prefer rookie picks to FA picks!

In fact a good strategy is to offer rookie picks you think may not make your team to UNM teams who might have roster room for useful FA picks.

Mike Bravard (PB)

Game Startup problems:

1. PRIMARY KEY error---if you see this the opposing team's default lineup has holes caused by missing players on the active roster (traded or farmed). Until we solve this problem by eliminating bad lineups when starting games on Thursday, here is the best solution to this problem:

email commish, technical AND opposing manager

bad lineups for "name road team" in "name of league" should be the subject of the email

This will ensure the quickest possible response to your problem.

2. NO AVAILABLE STARTER--sometimes a pithcing staff will get so out of sorts tath the team will nto be bale to start a game. Usually there are clues. After selecting your home team starting pitcher the oppoising lineup will come up with no starter named or a "0" in place of the starting pitcher. Occasionally a game like this will start and it will no play and have to be reset. The commissioner will have to add a ready pitcher from the farm team (usually selecting the least effective availalbe starter iof possible) or if no ready starter is available he will add an INN stating pitcher from the FA list.

The best solution to this problem is to STOP the game startup process if no opposing pitcher is named. Contact COMMISH and TECHNICAL and describe the problem.

3. RUNTIME error or other error messages usually signal a lack of RAM or Cache issues. You should delete temp Internet files and reboot your computer and try again to start the game.

Mike Bravard (PB COMMISH)