Not much to update lately…the league is goign well, we’re about a quarter of the way through the first season.  I’m a lowly5-6, but having a blast.  On the ROM front, part of me wants the baseball season to end (partly because my Brewers suck, and partly because I want to start editing up my end of season ROM), and the other part doesn’t want the season to end because baseball is awesome.  Either way, a new ROM is coming, hopefully with even more refined ratings…stay tuned for updates as the end of the season approaches.

I’ve always wanted to start a league for RBI Baseball. It’s part of the reason why I started the RBI Players Circuit. Lots of RBI leagues fail due to incompetent commissioners, poor commitment, etc. The RPC has helped me find a number of guys who seem like they want to play the game and are already setup to do so online. With that, and the success of the NES emulator Nestopia and the P2P online client Kaillera, this is now possible. The league has been formed and the draft has been started. If you want to play, check out this thread over at dee-nee.com.

In an effort to make my editing job easier, and because it’s just fun, I’ve started a project that pulls the most recent baseball stats from a source and collects them into a database. I have entered the short, 6 character names by hand, but everything else is automated. I’ve gotten it to the point where I can basically create a ROM that reflects the current stats of all the MLB players in under 5 minutes. While not 100% accurate, it does portray how players are playing at a snapshot in time, and it does provide a good editing base. It will no doubt save me gobs and gobs of time for my all-star break and post-season edits. Cheddar may make hobbies better, but so does technology.