Oct 26 18:42:58 2023 : College Basketball
Significant CBEL alignment has been performed this offseason. All planned changes, except for the independent conference and two teams moving into it, were completed. This also included CUSA moving from Tier I to Tier II.
Conference Changes:
Mid Altantic: combines into one division
Independent: new conference (Tier III)
Team Moves:
Hartford: America East -> Independent
Stony Brook: America East -> Colonial Athl
Connecticut: American Athl -> Big East
NJ Tech: Atlantic Sun -> America East
S Utah: Big Sky -> Western Athl
Hampton: Big South -> Colonial Athl
James Madison: Colonial Athl -> Sun Belt
Marshall: Conference USA -> Sun Belt
Old Dominion: Conference USA -> Sun Belt
S Mississippi: Conference USA -> Sun Belt
IL Chicago: Horizon League -> Missouri Valley
Monmouth: MAAC -> Colonial Athl
Bethune Ckmn: Mid Eastern Athl -> Southwestern Athl
Florida AM: Mid Eastern Athl -> Southwestern Athl
N Carolina AT: Mid Eastern Athl -> Colonial Athl
Loyola Chicgo: Missouri Valley -> Atlantic Ten
Bryant: Northeast -> America East
Mt St Marys: Northeast -> Metro Atlantic Athl
Robert Morris: Northeast -> Horizon League
Austin Peay: Ohio Valley -> Atlantic Sun
Belmont: Ohio Valley -> Missouri Valley
E Kentucky: Ohio Valley -> Atlantic Sun
Jacksnvlle St: Ohio Valley -> Atlantic Sun
Murray St: Ohio Valley -> Missouri Valley
Abilene Chr: Southland -> Western Athl
C Arkansas: Ohio Valley -> Atlantic Sun
Sam Houston: Southland -> Western Athl
Stephen Austn: Southland -> Western Athl
IP Ft Wayne: Summit League -> Horizon League
AR Little Rck: Sun Belt -> Ohio Valley
TX Arlington: Sun Belt -> Western Athl
Chicago St: Western Athl -> Independent
CS Bakersfld: Western Athl -> Big West
MO Kansas Cty: Western Athl -> Summit
Team Change:
Houston Bapt -> Houston Chr (Southland)
New Teams (2021-2022):
Bellarmine (Atlantic Sun)
St Thomas MN (Summit)
Tarleton (Western Athl)
Utah Tech (Western Athl)
UC San Diego (Big West)
New Teams (2022-2023):
Lindenwood (Ohio Valley)
Queens (Atlantic Sun)
S Indiana (Ohio Valley)
Stonehill (Northeast)
TAMU Commerce (Southland)
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Sep 20 20:35:04 2023 : Basketball
A bug in the computer coaching settings for box&1 and double player defenses has been corrected. This will allow computer-coached teams to be more effective when applying either of those defenses.
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May 29 13:56:18 2023 : Pro Basketball
The pro basketball simulation has been rebalanced to better reflect NBA three point shooting in recent seasons.
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May 29 13:14:58 2023 : Football
The two-minute warning capability has been restored in both pro and college football leagues.
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May 28 16:12:55 2023 : All Leagues
The performance penalty for changing positions between training camps and the first game of the season has been eliminated.
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Nov 26 14:21:21 2022 : All Leagues
A web page showing teams with open exhibition games by game day has been added to the Schedule menu.
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Nov 26 13:24:44 2022 : College Basketball
A human-readable comment has been added to the HTML play-by-play source code indicating when teams switch situational strategies (for example, early to late and close). Note this is generally not displayed by default by most web browsers as it is not part of what is in a typical play-by-play call on TV, but is now available for coaches if they are wanting to understand why the team seemed to change strategies at a time they were not expecting.
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Nov 26 13:04:04 2022 : Pro Leagues
Trade blocks are now automatically cleared during season initialization. In addition, trade block posts more than two weeks older than the most recent post are not displayed.
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Nov 26 12:41:01 2022 : College Leagues
Updated the invitation controls to not auto-check the "scholarship" option if a team has no scholarships to offer.
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Nov 25 08:32:31 2022 : Pro Football
Small changes have been made to playing time satisfaction in pro football, which will make WRs, FBs, and TEs more likely to re-sign with their existing teams. The updated calculations should put all offensive positions on similar footing.
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Nov 25 08:03:22 2022 : Pro Leagues
Commissioner control screens now default to "gift" rather than "fine" due to requests from commissioners (who generally use gifts far more often than fines).
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Nov 24 10:19:17 2022 : Pro Baseball
The designated hitter has been added for all pro baseball games.
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Nov 7 18:07:17 2022 : College Football
CCEL has realigned to the current (2022 season) conferences.
First, the conference changes:
- American Athletic, Conference USA, and Pacific 12 condense to one division and have a championship game played between the two top teams
- Mountain West and Sun Belt renamed their divisions
- Atlantic Sun and WAC added to FCS
Teams moving conferences:
- Connecticut: American Athletic -> Indep-Tier II
- Marshall: Conference USA -> Sun Belt East
- Old Dominion: Conference USA -> Sun Belt East
- S Mississippi: Conference USA -> Sun Belt West
- S Utah: Big Sky -> Western Ahtletic
- Kennesaw St: Big South -> Atlantic Sun
- Monmouth: Big South -> Colonial Athletic
- Presbyterian: Big South -> Pioneer Football
- James Madison: Colonial Athletic -> Sun Belt East (note Tier III->II}
- N Carolina AT: Mid Eastern -> Big South
- Florida AM: Mid Eastern -> SWAC East
- Bethune Ckmn: Mid Eastern -> SWAC East
- Bryant: Northeast -> Big South
- Robert Morris: Northeast -> Big South
- E Kentucky: Ohio Valley -> Atlantic Sun
- Jacksonvl State: Ohio Valley -> Atlantic Sun
- Austin Peay: Ohio Valley -> Atlantic Sun
- C Arkansas: Southland -> Atlantic Sun
- Abilene Chr: Southland -> Western Ahtletic
- S F Austin: Southland -> Western Ahtletic
- Sam Houstn St: Southland -> Western Ahtletic
- Hampton: Indep-FCS -> Colonial Athletic
- N Alabama: Indep-FCS -> Atlantic Sun
- North Dakota: Indep-FCS -> Missouri Valley
Removed Teams
- Savannah St: Mid Eastern [becomes Merrimack]
- Jacksonville: Pioneer Football [becomes Long Island]
New Teams (2019 season):
- Merrimack: Northeast
- Long Island: Northeast
New Teams (2021 season):
- Tarleton: Western Athletic
- Utah Tech: Western Athletic
- St Thomas MN: Pioneer Football
New Teams (2022 season):
- Stonehill: Northeast
- Lindenwood: Ohio Valley
- TAMU Commerce: Southland
Divison Moves:
- Troy: Sun Belt East -> West
- Alcorn State: SWAC East -> West
Name Changes:
- Houston Bapt -> Houston Chr (Southland)
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Mar 20 09:57:19 2022 : College Basketball
Computer coaching logic in CBEL has been updated to honor playing time promises. While imperfect (for example, if multiple players at the same position had promises), it should greatly reduce the number of CPU-run teams that severely underperform due to promises being ignored.
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Oct 17 15:56:04 2021 : College Leagues
Similar to the CCEL page to help teams find potential twelfth game opponents, the other college leagues now have added teams available for non-conference tournaments to the preseason scheduling page.
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Apr 3 17:36:50 2021 : Basketball
Time-killing logic (when ahead or trying to get the last shot) has been improved to ensure that the shot clock is not violated.
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Dec 28 16:57:11 2020 : Basketball
The script that writes leaders for the end-of-year awards in pro leagues has been updated to correctly point to the player's history. The pages in question will be fixed next game day.
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Dec 14 18:11:52 2020 : College Basketball
Issues related to the WAC standings have been resolved. However, as this issue (which has been present all season) was not reported until after conference tournaments had been finalized, this season's WAC tournament will proceed as seeded based on the WAC standings as of game time today, rather than the fixed WAC standings that should be seen tomorrow.
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Aug 1 18:18:10 2020 : Football
Additional statistics have been added to the scouting reports contained in the box scores:
- Rushing: FB runs, draws, misdirections, reverses, and options
- Passing: RB and TE targets, play action and screens
- Defense: man coverage, blitzing, and stunts
As with other statistics, these are available by situation and overall
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Aug 1 16:49:11 2020 : Basketball
While tip-ins have been part of the basketball simulation for years, the logic to display tip-ins was flawed so they were incorrectly displayed. This has been fixed. At the present, there is no change to the simulation's inner workings, though it appears the frequency of tip-ins may require a second look.
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Jul 27 13:27:35 2020 : Pro Leagues
The issue with Trade Block page sidebars always showing EPBL has been resolved. Note, however, that you will continue to see EPBL sidebar until someone in your league updates their team's trade block.
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Jun 16 18:44:03 2020 : Pro Leagues
Trade evaluation criteria have been corrected, so that the "cash limit" threshold is only applied to cash that is part of a trade.
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May 3 12:42:31 2020 : College Leagues
Additional information has been added to the college league talent rankings pages: number of recruiting points, number of scholarships, and number of roster openings.
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May 3 12:32:26 2020 : Football
Offense and defense computer ratings have been incorporated into the same webpage as the other ratings, and are sortable (unlike the old O/D Ratings page). Links to the old O/D Ratings page will be removed from the league home pages.
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Apr 18 14:18:42 2020 : Pro Leagues
Budget calculations used during free agent signings have been improved. What has not changed: a team that is $40M under budget can still submit a free agency budget of up to $40M.
What has changed: the maximum bid on a player would be the team's budget, reduced by the amount of money that needs to be set aside to fill the rest of the roster (assuming minimum salary for the youngest players). For leagues with minors, the amount is also reduced by the amount of money that would be needed to fill the rest of the full roster (assuming $0.04M per player). This change was made prior to CVBL's free agency, and the league has a much better result regarding teams being under budget.
Note this is still not a perfect system, as older football and basketball players can have minimum salaries of $0.45M above the assumed minimum. In hockey and soccer, the difference can be $0.27M. Additionally, coaches who play the preseason with extra players will have to pay their full salaries during those games.
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Apr 10 09:15:26 2020 : Pro Football
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Mar 21 18:11:00 2020 : Basketball
Box & 1 had an issue where the PG-on-PG matchup was not defaulted to if the coach neglected to specify matchups. This has been resolved.
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In terms of how change requests are submitted, I will note this was submitted as a "critical error", which is overly alarmist. Spot-checking a few games where I forced this condition, the difference in final margin between the "before fix" and "after fix" was only a few points.
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Mar 13 20:05:34 2020 : All Leagues
Human-controlled teams will be designated with an asterisk after the team name in most web pages. (The asterisk will be avoided for the auto-generated e-mails.) If there are specific additional pages you would like to see designated as human-controlled, or if there are instances where the asterisk is unhelpful (or manages to make it into e-mails), please use the "Contact" link at the bottom of the page to provide details.
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Mar 13 18:42:25 2020 : Pro Baseball
To be consistent with how teams are selected, the pro baseball "playoff race" page has been corrected to remove head-to-head as a tiebreaker between division winners and between potential wildcard teams. The ranking will be based solely on records, with computer ranking as the tiebreaker.
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Mar 13 18:06:20 2020 : College Basketball
With no independent teams this season in CBEL, the WAC was incorrectly treated as independent for scheduling purposes. This issue was reported too late to resolve this season, but has been fixed for next season.
I have also confirmed the WAC tournament will take place (seeded based on computer rankings), that the WAC tournament winner will receive an automatic berth to the CBEL tournament.
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Mar 13 17:22:39 2020 : Basketball
Two-point shooting statistics (attempts and made) have been added to roster stats and other screens showing player stats in pro and college leagues.
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Jan 31 19:14:07 2020 : Pro Leagues
For the first round of free agency only, free agent bids must be at least the minimum salary for the player's age. Minimum salaries are provided on the "Negotiating Contracts" help page, but a summary is as follows by sport:
Soccer and Hockey: $0.25M up to age 22, increases by $0.03M per year to $0.52M for age 31+
Basketball and Football: $0.40M up to age 22, increases by $0.05M per year to $0.85M for age 31+
Baseball: $0.30M for all ages
The eventual goal is to incorporate this minimum bid into the free agent bidding web tool. However please note that no coach will be punished for under-bidding; his free agent bid will be increased accordingly.
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Jan 31 18:22:58 2020 : All Leagues
The team talent rankings page has been updated to allow coaches to sort by category.
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Jan 27 21:41:50 2020 : College Leagues
Team prestige has been added to the team talent rankings page for all college leagues.
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Jan 27 21:03:20 2020 : College Football
Recruiting has been updated to ensure players are graded on appropriate positions immediately following recruiting. Effectiveness of the update was confirmed in CCEL recruiting for season 110.
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Jan 16 19:17:59 2020 : College Leagues
A capability to copy recruit groups has been added to the MyDEL recruiting controls.
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Jan 13 18:16:24 2020 : College Football
CCEL alignment has been updated to reflect the recently completed NCAA season.
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Jan 11 18:16:39 2020 : Baseball
Additional criteria for sacrifice bunts have been added to the baseball sim. In addition to the existing criteria (hit is unlikely, never bunt with a man on third, with nobody on first or second, two outs, or bunts set to "never" in the coaching options), the following criteria apply based on position (pitcher vs. non-pitcher).
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Pitchers
- Never: never bunt
- Less: man on first, second open
- Normal, More, Most: no additional criteria
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Non-Pitchers
- Never, Less, Normal: never bunt
- More: man on first, second base open, no outs, tied or down one
- Most: man on first, second base open, no outs
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The help pages have been updated to reflect the additional criteria.
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Jan 11 17:40:25 2020 : Pro Baseball
Due to a concern of CPU-run teams cutting young highly-rated players they should not be cutting, I looked into all of the reasons why this could happen. The players specified all appear to have been cut following that CPU-run team's signing of a better player to replace him. However, it seems that age is accounted for in that logic, so no change to the game was made at this time.
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However, in order to be better able to research into this in the future, I have added a note to the transaction log for each player released from a team that will help understand the rationale for each player being released. I would request that, if this behavior is seen in the future, it be reported via the contact form, which gets to my inbox better. Hopefully the additional information will allow me to better solve the issue.
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Jan 11 13:17:13 2020 : College Football
CCEL bowls have been updated (number of bowls increased, names and tie-ins updated) to match the 2019 NCAA football season's bowl list and tie-ins.
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Jan 10 19:13:49 2020 : College Leagues
The playing time promise belief algorithm has been modified for all sports. The primary change for all sports generally opts toward belief of the promise, when previously the algorithm only opted toward belief if the player was clearly the best at the position.
For basketball and hockey, an additional change was made to reduce the likelihood of a player ignoring a promise because one or two players are better than him at multiple positions.
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Jan 8 19:27:06 2020 : College Basketball
CBEL has been realigned to match the current NCAA.
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Jan 2 15:12:58 2020 : Pro Leagues
Mock drafts will be published for each pro league in future league initializations (aside from soccer). Players will be grouped by position group (e.g., QB, offense, defense, and kickers in football) and ranked using the same calculation used to show projected future grade on the published draft list.
For EPBL, which does not show projected player ratings until players are drafted, no mock draft will be shown.
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Dec 30 15:05:16 2019 : All Leagues
I can add something that would sort comments in order of the coach's most recent comment, but cannot track multiple comments from a single coach independently.
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Dec 30 11:04:19 2019 : All Leagues
AIM Chat has been removed from the coach info data.
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Dec 26 18:57:46 2019 : Basketball
The player inbounding the ball is now preferentially a designated "handler" instead of defaulting to a guard.
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Dec 26 18:20:59 2019 : Basketball
The five late-game situations have been redefined (by adding time-to-go into the calculation) to better map to situations for which a team may want to adjust coaching.
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New definitions and the number of points are as follows. Note that "Time" is remaining clock time in seconds, and "Shot" is shot clock in seconds. Definition is in the perspective of the team with possession; the team on defense will use the opposite situation (e.g., if the team with possession is "Far Behind" the team on defense will be "Well Ahead").
- Far Behind (formerly Blowout Loss): Trailing by more than 6 + Time/30
- Behind: Trailing by more than 3 + Time/60
- Close (formerly Late/3 points): Final five minutes, and no other situation applies
- Ahead: Leading by more than (Time-Shot)/60
- Well Ahead (formerly Blowout Win): Leading by more than 3 + (Time-Shot)/30
If none of those five situations apply, the "Early" situation will be used. Note that all but "Close" can be used prior to the final five minutes if the score margin is large enough.
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The intent of these time-based definitions is "need to score a lot", "down but not yet desperate", "close enough that normal preferences can be used", "ease up the pace but still try to get good shots", and "trying to run out the clock".
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Note there is no change to the determination of when the bench is cleared in case of a true blowout.
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Dec 23 11:20:32 2019 : All Leagues
Formatting of message boards and press release archives has been fixed.
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Dec 23 11:18:49 2019 : All Leagues
A play-by-play link has been added to the MyDEL page.
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Dec 20 20:45:52 2019 : All Leagues
Team rating pages are now sortable for each of the ranking categories.
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Dec 8 13:55:53 2019 : All Leagues
The press release and trade block tools have been updated to remove the automatic line breaks that created poor formatting with some e-mail tools. The typewriter font will continue to be used (to facilitate sending player stats and skills), but line breaks will be based solely on the user inputs.
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A request to add text formatting (e.g., bold, italic) could not be fulfilled without significant effort, though users can continue to use HTML tags when entering press releases to have them formatted as desired.
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Dec 8 13:15:44 2019 : Pro Leagues
Free agent bids now give an option to specify maximum budget per group (in addition to maximum budget overall). Setting this value to zero will disable this limit (though, the maximum overall budget limit is still enforced).
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Dec 8 12:32:08 2019 : College Leagues
The all-star/all-American selection algorithm has been updated to reduce the likelihood of reserves being nominated to the ballot.
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Nov 30 16:00:12 2019 : Basketball
Several improvements to basketball end-of-game logic:
- Existing logic for team with final possession of game has been improved
- Logic for 2-for-1 situations has been added
- Use of long inbound passes has been increased when a team needs to score quickly
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Nov 30 12:42:28 2019 : Pro Basketball
The ability to advance the ball on a timeout has been added to the pro leagues. This has two aspects:
1. The game uses existing timeout logic. If the team inbounding took a timeout in the final two minutes, the ball is advanced.
2. If a team could use a timeout to advance and no timeout was otherwise taken, it may choose to take a timeout based on the time remaining and score difference.
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Nov 30 10:54:30 2019 : All Leagues
The top-ten leaderboard for individual awards (MVP, rookie of the year, etc.) are being added to the player individual statistic leaderboards. This will show the ranking for all end-of-season honors except for pro baseball gold gloves.
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Nov 29 22:08:07 2019 : College Leagues
For college baseball, football, and hockey, league leaders will be shown by total stats in addition to the stats/game currently shown. Pro and college basketball and pro soccer will continue to be shown by stats/game only.
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Nov 29 20:29:31 2019 : Baseball
The baseball controls now have features that allow copying right-to-left (or vice versa) batting order, pinch hitting order, and defensive assignments.
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Nov 29 19:58:07 2019 : All Leagues
All-Star and pro baseball gold glove selections will be saved in the season archives. Additionally, FCS leaders (CCEL only) have been added to the archives.
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Nov 29 16:46:19 2019 : College Football
Te 2019 overtime rule change, in which teams alternate two-point tries starting in the fifth overtime, have been implemented for CCEL. In addition, the scoring summaries in the box scores have been updated to specify which overtime scoring occurred in.
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Nov 29 15:38:29 2019 : Football
The football simulation has been updated to permit defensive scores on two-point tries. (Should returns of blocked field goals are added, this possibility would also be added.)
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Nov 29 13:40:42 2019 : All Leagues
Sortable columns have been added to team statistics, wins, and points.
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Nov 29 12:49:24 2019 : Baseball
Logic for stealing third base has been modified:
1. No stealing third with two outs.
2. No stealing third if "steal" setting is "least" or "less"
3. Reduced stealing third in other conditions (effectively reducing your stealing setting by one).
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Nov 28 19:51:03 2019 : Pro Football
New contract lengths in DEL pro football have been limited to a maximum of eight years. (This equals the current longest contract in the NFL; the second-longest contract is six years.) We may reduce this further after seeing how the two-year reduction works out.
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Nov 28 19:41:55 2019 : Pro Basketball
Pro basketball contracts are being limited to seven seasons (for now). Most likely we will take a second step in the future (no current NBA player has more than a 5-year contract), but in order to prevent too much of a discrepancy between existing and new contract, we will make a partial change now.
If, after 6 months or so, another 1-2 year reduction in max contract lengths is warranted, please request via the "Change Requests" page.
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Nov 28 13:50:33 2019 : Pro Hockey
Hockey players can become unrestricted free agents at age 27 (down from previous age 31).
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Nov 28 13:39:34 2019 : College Football
The CCEL individual leaderboard now has FCS leaders in addition to FBS.
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Nov 28 12:09:15 2019 : College Basketball
Basketball injury distributions have been updated. The number of 4-10 (college) and 6-10 (pro) game injuries has been reduced, with a corresponding increase to shorter injuries and very small increase for longer injuries.
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Nov 28 11:37:28 2019 : Pro Baseball
Injured reserve has been added to the minor leagues. Note this is not a system-wide IR total - the number of players at each level (less those in injured reserve) has to meet the roster size requirement (25 baseball/hockey, 22 soccer).
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Nov 22 16:56:32 2019 : Basketball
Making two changes to substitution patterns:
1. Reduced the bias against making substitutions.
2. Reduced the bias against using the #3 player on a depth chart (or injury reserve). Note these players are still well behind the #2 player in terms of preference.
What has not changed is the preferred starter vs. backup usage as a function of bench usage, stamina, and game situation.
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Oct 6 14:29:09 2019 : College Football
The Big Twelve championship game has been added, starting next season.
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Sep 8 10:58:33 2019 : All Leagues
The default list for the "Change Requests" screen has been limited to Newly Submitted, In Review, and In Work categories.
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Aug 4 08:56:51 2019 : College Leagues
An error has been fixed in both the non-conference game scheduler (all college leagues) and the 12th game scheduler (CCEL only). At least for the one instance that was reported, I was unable to submit a game on my iPad prior to fixing the error, and was able to submit the same game on my iPad after fixing it. So, I can confirm this error has been fixed, at least for this one instance. If there are additional issues with either scheduler, please let me know.
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Jun 23 10:37:44 2019 : Pro Hockey
Pro hockey alignment and playoff format changes are complete. There are several changes:
1. Both hockey leagues converted to two-division alignment
2. Division playoff seeding changed to #1, #2, #3, wildcard
3. No re-seeding between rounds
4. In the first two rounds, home ice goes to the higher seeded team. In the final two rounds, home ice goes to the team with the better record.
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Jun 9 10:17:00 2019 : Pro Leagues
An additional check has been added for trades involving cash so that teams cannot trade more cash than the difference between their cap and the league minimum. This prevents the situation that, once the season begins and the low-salary tax is applied, teams have no way of getting under budget.
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May 23 20:02:11 2019 : All Leagues
Links in the "Search Coaches" tool have been fixed. In some cases links were being provided for leagues whose stats are not available; in others links were simply incorrect.
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Apr 28 16:21:48 2019 : Pro Leagues
The trade block feature has been updated to show most recent updates first. Note this will be updated on a league-by-league basis whenever the next trade block is posted, so will not be seen immediately.
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Apr 20 10:20:13 2019 : Pro Hockey
NOHL alignment has been updated.
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Feb 14 13:45:41 2019 : College Football
CCEL realignment complete for the upcoming season. Conference changes:
- Campbell: Pioneer -> Big South
- Charlotte: Indep FCS -> CUSA East
- Coastal Carolina: Big South -> Sun Belt
- Hampton: MEAC -> Indep FCS
- Idaho: Sun Belt -> Big Sky
- Liberty: Big South -> Indep Tier II
- Navy: Indep Tier II -> American Athletic
- New Mexico St: Sun Belt -> Indep Tier II
- North Dakota: Big Sky -> Indep FCS
- UMass: MAC East -> Indep Tier II
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Finally the conference changes
- American Athletic splits into two divisions: East (UCF, Cincinnati, Temple, South Florida, ECU, UConn) and West (Houston, Tulane, Memphis, SMU, Navy, Tulsa)
- CUSA: UAB moves from east to west
- MW East rename to MW Mountain
- Sun Belt splits into two divisions: Group A (App State, Troy, GA Southern, Coastal Carolina, Georgia St) and Group B (ULL, Ark. State, ULM, S. Alabama, Texas St)
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Note there were three new teams I intended to add, but for some reason that isn't working right now. I'll get to them next CCEL offseason.
- E Tennessee: Southern
- Kennesaw St: Big South
- N Alabama: Indep FCS
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Feb 9 15:23:50 2019 : All Leagues
Coaches who have not submitted orders will be sent reminders 48 hours prior to the first rounds of college inviting and recruiting, and pro free agent bidding and draft.
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Jan 19 12:10:49 2019 : Pro Hockey
The pro hockey leagues have been realigned to two divisions in each conference. (I had hoped to do it only for HEL, whose season just ended, but that is a switch that needs to be made at the same time for all leagues.)
HEL has also been given an expansion team to get to 31 total teams (8 teams per division except Central). NOHL's expansion and realignment will come mid-April once their season is done.
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Jan 13 12:41:07 2019 : Football
Made very slight change to bump up use of TEs in certain situations, so I will note this in the changes log.
The larger request was to generally increase the number of receptions by TEs, which is already a feature in the game. (I have had seasons when my leading receiver was a TE.) Setting "TE Passing" to most will make a TE equally likely (as a WR) to be the primary receiver. In addition, here are a couple of tips for formations and plays:
- Make sure you always use formations including a TE. While my TE is only my 4th leading receiver, he is also only my 4th leading receiver in terms of downs played.
- On plays where the primary receiver is a WR or RB, make sure the TE is running a route instead of blocking.
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Jan 13 12:06:50 2019 : Football
The player generation routine has been modified to prevent anything more than maximum speed + weight of about 15.
There was also a request to give fast players more of an advantage that is not being incorporated. Speed is already a very important ability in the game, and realistically defenders covering a speedster are going to give more cushion rather than getting left in the dust play after play after play. This is already accounted for in the game, and explains why faster receivers also have an edge in short passes. I will note that of the coaches who voted, the majority did not want to see this changed.
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Jan 5 17:04:10 2019 : All Leagues
Sortable player lists (linked from roster, draft, free agent, etc. pages) have been enhanced, so that clicking on the column header will sort the players by that stat or ability. Note that additional statistics (e.g., shooting percentage, rebounding rate) are supported in the sortable player lists.
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Jan 3 18:31:32 2019 : Pro Basketball
Pro basketball league schedules have been updated so that finals games are correctly played on the appropriate game days.
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August 19, 2018: Basketball
Added logic to increase number of three pointers during 2-on-1 and 3-on-2 breaks. These will no longer occur only as time runs out and the team is down by three.

April 30, 2017: Pro Basketball
Fixed bug in playoff selection to ensure all division winners are included.

January 2, 2017: Football
Added option to key against the weakside WR.

November 12, 2016: Basketball
Improved intentional foul logic for inbounds not following made shots.

September 11, 2016: Pro Football
Extra point attempts moved to 15 yard line.

September 5, 2016: All
Computer votes in all-star and all-American polls have been reduced. College polls will now zero out the computer vote if 15+ coaches vote; pro polls will zero out the computer vote if the number of votes exceeds 1/3 of the number of teams in the conference or league.

August 27, 2016: College
Added a counter to the invitation screen so you know how many invitations have been sent.

August 27, 2016: Pro Baseball and Hockey
Contract lengths of entry-level aged players can no longer be reduced below the number of years remaining at entry level.

August 27, 2016: Pro
Income / expense from cash trades is now counted separately from regular income. Towards the salary cap, cash trades can now only offset buyouts; it cannot be counted as income towards player salaries.

April 10, 2016: Basketball
In the final ten seconds of a game, a player can intentionally miss a free throw if his team trails by two or three points.

April 10, 2016: College
After the first round of recruiting, inviting out-of-region players does not cost an extra point.

April 3, 2016: Pro
Player retirement decisions will be based entirely on age, not talent, stats, or contract.

April 3, 2016: Pro Basketball
Updated foul shot logic. Teams will shoot free throws after the second foul in the final two minutes (in addition to previous logic).

April 3, 2016: Pro Basketball
Updated playoff format to select top eight teams in each conference, and updated finals format to 2-2-1-1-1.

March 27, 2016: College Basketball
Changed shot clock to 30 seconds.

October 31, 2015: Basketball
Improved logic in the final minute, when a team needs two scores to win.

Fantasy-style football league - FFL (posted August 1, 2010)
Full pro baseball sim - EPBL (posted March 7, 2004)
Finance inflation (posted January 8, 2004)
Baseball simulator changes (posted December 29, 2003)
Restricted Free Agency changes (posted December 27, 2003)
New football league - CFL (posted December 7, 2003)
Minimum salaries in pro leagues (posted July 3, 2003)
I-AA football added to CCEL (posted February 14, 2003)
Overhauled basketball simulator (posted May 8, 2002)
New baseball league - IBL (posted February 19, 2002)
DEL Payment Policy Changes (posted August 18, 2001)
Budget and Trade Changes (posted July 27, 2001)
E-mail Outage at DEL (posted July 17, 2001)
Jeff Koss (posted June 27, 2001)
One-week DEL stoppage (posted June 14, 2001)
College hockey league - ECHL (posted May 16, 2001)
New football league - EAFL (posted May 2, 2001)
Simcoach.com Licenses DSG Games (posted April 25, 2001)
New Baseball League - DBL (posted April 21, 2001)
Free Soccer (posted January 1, 2001)
Luxury Tax Added (posted October 1, 2000)
DEL Accepts PayPal Payments (posted June 24, 2000)
Changes to Pro Rules (posted June 10, 2000)
More Hockey Changes (posted Jan 25, 2000)
Major Hockey Changes (posted Jan 9, 2000)
Major Football Changes (posted Dec 14/21, 1999)
DEL Cup (posted Dec 13, 1999)
Daily Schedule Changes (posted Dec 11/13, 1999)
Draft Leagues Added (posted Dec 10, 1999)