Colleagues and fellow owners,

Here it is -- the long-awaited update to The Strat-O-Matic League's website. There are several important pieces of information here, so look it over.

• Strat has issued yet another patch (11.03a). You can find out if you need it by opening the Strat program, and going to the Help menu. Select "About...". The first line will tell you your program version. If it is anything other than 11.03a, then go to the Strat Patches page, and download the patch.
• Strat also has a recent article in the "Strat-o-Sphere" on loading the game onto a flash drive, to make it more portable.
• The roster files for our current season are available here, in .zip file format. I have also emailed them to you. (You should already have a program that will extract .zip files, but if not, you can get one free here.) To use these files, simply:
  • Extract the files.
  • Place the files into the Rosters subdirectory, which is inside the CDROMBB directory. Most likely, the path will be C:/CDROMBB/Rosters/.
  • Go to the Print directory (C:/CDROMBB/Print) and create a directory called 2006TS. Then move the one file called 2006TSmd from the Rosters directory into the new directory.
  • Open the Strat program, and select 2006 The Strat League. Go to the League menu and select "Restart League."
  • Once you have put the files there and re-started the league, you are good to go. The 2006 TSL league and rosters will appear on your computer list of leagues.
  • Two notes about these rosters: 1) I can not vouch for the accuracy of the ballpark information, specifically the wall heights. This page tells you how to check the wall heights for your stadium, and to change them if they are incorrect. 2) You'll notice a team called Goths2. This is because Greg and Tim are trying to corner the market on pitchers, but Strat will only allow one team to carry 25 pitchers. The Goths currently have 26. So I selected one unlikely to play this year, and put them into the Goths2 team, so that we had a clean record of who belongs to who.
• We've talked several times about pitchers coming in to bat, and fielders being put in to pitch. Here are the cards that the game uses for each of these situations.
• This page contains an archive of our official draft notes over the last few years. I don't have some years, so anything that I don't have posted here, please send to me.
• Instructions on how to make pitchers tired (or not tired) and players injured (or not injured) remain accurate, as far as I know. Go to the Resting Players page for that information, including screen shots.
• And of course, we can't forget the Members' Photo Gallery.

Finally, for those of you interested, you can follow the career and exploits of the league's favorite player here.