Statsplus updates statsplus.net

New

After years of the same user interface, today StatsPlus is rolling out a major change. When clicking on player names on most pages, instead of going to the player page on the site, a popup will come up with the player's ratings, profile, contract info, and some relevant stats. An example pitcher popup:

Clicking again on the player name at the top of the popup, or the pop-out icon will navigate to the full player page.

There's a slider to show OSA or Scout ratings, if appropriate for a league, and also an option to add/remove a player from a shortlist.

The only pages where this change wasn't added was the draft pool page, to avoid having a change in flow for making picks, and the HoF ballot page.

In the future, the stats showing on the popup will likely be configurable by users, but that isn't available in this initial version. Also, a dev tab may be added in the future.

As always, feedback is welcome. This is a pretty significant change, and I don't expect everyone to prefer it, but there has been quite a bit of beta testing with very positive feedback in general.

New

First phase of a long-requested feature, Stat of the Day, has been rolled out. For now, the place to find it is linked from the Stats menu:

More stats likely to be added over time, but there are enough now for people to start enjoying them.

The Stat of the Day is randomly chosen for a league each day at midnight Eastern, and a different random stat is likely to be chosen for each league. If you can't wait to see all of them, there's a link to the full list of the Stat of the Day choices at the bottom of the page.

By default, most stats cover the time frame when humans started playing in the league. StatsPlus tries to figure that out automatically, but if the commissioner wants to change it, they can change the "Human Start Year" on General Settings on the admin menu.

Improvement

For OOTP22 leagues with base coaches, the Coaching Vacancies report will now show missing 1st and 3rd base coaches.

Improvement

On the Player Stats link, there's now a "Show All" option available if you want to see more than the top 100 for a given query.

New

New release of the StatsPlus desktop app is now available for commissioners and those running sims.

Changes:

• Add pitch counts to real-time sim page if box scores enabled
• Better support for accented characters in OOTP22 real-time sim pages

Screenshot of the pitch counts:

Improvement

For MLB style leagues, or fictional leagues with two teams in the same city, made a small improvement to team select drop-downs, adding the team nickname for the duplicates, so it's easier to pick the right team.

Improvement

For milestones, if 100 or less players in league history have reached the milestone, the number of players reaching it so far will show, like:

1B Danny Trautmann (MON), 33 yo, reached 500 extra base hits (38 players have reached this milestone)

A few more message types are now visible, including trade messages.

If the league is an association, and you view "All Leagues", the league abbreviation will show after messages tied specifically to one league.

Fix

For the "My Messages" section, a couple fixes were rolled out in the last couple days:

• In the Hall of Fame in-game message, the "Dropped" text is now visible, and likely some other colored text in other messages will show up now, too
• Some in-game messages about injuries previously ignored are now showing up

New

A major new feature was rolled out this week, the Sim Recap. This page shows a number of interesting pieces of info from the last league sim.

• Top league performances for batters and pitchers
• Rookie debuts
• Player milestones such as 100th HR, 500th hit, etc.

If a GM is logged in and linked with a team, the page will also show:

• GM in-game messages (with full contents if included in upload)
• Best team performances, and best performances in org's minor league affiliates

If the StatsPlus update post to Slack or Discord is enabled, the post includes a link directly to the sim recap page.

For associations, users can select to see each league individually, or best performances across all leagues.

If the list of messages is long, the user can click on the arrow in the upper right of the page near "My Messages" to collapse the list.

Improvement

Made some improvements to the method for identifying a primary team for players inducted into a league's Hall of Fame. A player's organization is chosen by most WAR, and the team name will now show as the name of the franchise in the year the player had the highest single-season WAR.