OOTP Baseball:Perfect Team/Tournament Roster Builder

New to PT 25 is the Tournament Roster Builder.

The Roster Builder is a sandbox that allows you to create different rosters that you then can easily use for an upcoming tournament. The rosters are stored locally and you can decide which ones you want to upload to the PT server that will be available for the tournaments. For now, you can create up to 200 new rosters locally and upload 25 of them to the server. Note: You don't need to use all of the server slots and you can easily remove or reupload the rosters to/from the server.

Setting up a roster is similar to how you do it for league and/or tournament play. In addition, you can set the restrictions of one of the currently running tournaments to better choose the players for that tournament.

Accessing the Roster Builder

To find the Roster Builder you need to log in to PT, open the starter packs, set up a league roster (this is needed to be able to see the tournaments), click on "Show Tournaments" on the entry page and navigate to the "Roster Builder" tab at the top. You will find an empty list and some buttons on the top. In the list you will see your rosters that you have created, their info and be able to manage them separately.

To create a new roster press "Create New Roster" at the top. A new window will show up where you can set a name of the new roster and restrictions from the list of currently running tournaments. Once this is done your new roster will appear in the list. Note: If a name already exists a number will be attached to the new roster's name.

In the list you can see the name of a roster, it's restrictions (if any), the date of the last local change, the date of the last upload to the server (if it was already done), a "set" flag indicating if the roster was already set and some button to manage the roster.

Pressing the "Set Roster" button will take you to the team page where you can assign position and roles to your players. Note: You need to have some PT players available (open packs or buy cards in the card shop) and activated ("Manage Cards" button or "Actions" -> "Activate all eligible cards") to be able to use them here. Once you are done with the setup, press "Save Roster" at the top right and return to the roster builder page. All the changes done here have no influence on your PT league or other tournaments rosters.

Set rosters can then be uploaded to the server by pressing the "Upload to Server" button. You can upload up to 25 different rosters.

Uploaded rosters can be easily chosen from a list next to the "Set Roster" button on the "Traditional Tournaments" page (first tab at the top) or "Your Tournaments" page (third tab at the top) once you have signed in to a tournament. When you select a roster from that list the server will then use it for that tournament. You also can make some changes specifically for a given tournament after choosing a template roster. The changes will then only be used for that tournament and the roster template will remain the same.

Important: For now, you can choose all the uploaded rosters for any tournament. If the restrictions of the roster do not match the ones of the tournament a automatically assigned roster will be used instead for the simulation.

Actions Available

In the roster builder list you can also take the following actions:

1. Rename the roster file

2. Change restrictions

3. Delete (locally and from the server)

4. Delete only from the server

5. Restore the server roster setup (by overwriting the local roster)

6. Import the PT league roster to use it as a template (will also overwrite the local roster).

All these options are in the "More Actions..." menu for each roster individually.

At the top there are also additional buttons to help you manipulate several rosters at once. The "Update Rosters on Server" button will upload again all the rosters that are already on the server including your recent local changes to these rosters. This is helpful if you've done several changes to different rosters and want to upload them all to the server.

The "Delete All Rosters" and "Delete All Roster From Server" will delete all your rosters from the server and the former also the local record, then you can start again with a blank list.

Finally, you can also create a template roster for a specific tournament when expanding the tournament entry in the tournament list. There you can click on "Create Roster" and the restrictions of that tournament will automatically be chosen.

Another important note: the rosters from the Roster Builder are saved and loaded differently than the import/export functionality that is used for a tournament or your PT league roster. You can still import a previously exported roster, but you can't import a saved roster from the Roster Builder.

Roster Builder Usage

When you sign up for a tournament, you can select to use one of the server-saved roster for the tournament. When signing up, there is a drop-down box that you can view the available rosters. Any that match the restrictions will be listed first for easy access.

When a server-side saved roster is selected, any changes made to that template and uploaded before the tournament begins will be reflected in the roster used. Note that only when uploaded do changes take effect. If a change is made locally first, that will not be used.

If you wish to edit the roster, you can, in which case your local machine will load up the saved roster as it is. If you make changes within the tournament, that will be reflected in the roster used - once changes are made and submitted, that roster will change to being a one-time use roster. Any changes made to the saved template will NOT be reflected in the tournament.

Local Rosters

You have a limited number of slots to save tournaments on the server - those slots will be accessible if you log in from multiple devices, and can be pre-selected for a tournament. However, you may also save other rosters locally. These rosters can still be used for tournaments, but you will have to access a tournament first, load the roster, and submit. This can still be useful to use as a starting point for tournaments, but this will need to be done manually for each tournament you wish to use that roster in