BUILD: 4724
Release Date: April 29 2012
Next Planned Release Date: Spring 2012

[BUILD NOTES]

This build was focused primarily on ease of life and UI enhancements. Being a GM in a league I found there were quite a few things I found myself wanting / needing and found myself constantly switching back and forth between UHS and my league’s site (yes… 3 founds… I’m aware of that grammar nazis). Besides that there were a few developments I wanted to knock off the list while I was in there as they had been lingering or I really needed them in to help with simming the 2012 playoffs.

Forwards
We are introducing the new “Forward” position. We all know there are a few guys out there that can play any of the C-LW-RW spots so this position will represent that. It is not intended to create leagues full of Forwards or eliminate the C-LW-RW positions as I believe those are vital to overall team strategies but is more intended as a bonus.

– The Forward position will be represented with a F.
– Anytime a player is created that could be a C-LW-RW there is a 10% chance they will instead become a F.
– Forwards can occupy any C-LW-RW position in the game roster or custom lines with no position penalties.
– Commissioners have the option to change a player’s position to F when they edit a player.
– I intentionally did not add a toggle for this position as I believe it should be an added strategic piece for all leagues.

GM Personnel
– A Player’s Height and Weight will now be shown.
– The Personnel section is now sorted as C – LW – RW – F – D – G instead of by Position. This will allow us to group the forwards at the top instead of having them interspersed throughout the page.

GM Trade Centre
There were a bunch of things added / changed here. Previously only having two views (Incoming and All Trades) made things a bit heavy for trying to sort through all the trades a GM could potentially make. Speaking from first-hand use these changes should dramatically improve a GM’s experience in sorting through and dealing with trades.

– The Make Trade option is now available above all Trade Centre lists / reports.
– GMs now have a Recent Incoming and Recent Outgoing link. These will show all trades from the last 30 days.
– GMs now have a Recently Resolved link. This will show all trades that have been resolved within the last 7 days going forward. Trades resolved prior to this build being released will not be picked up.
– GMs now have a All Unresolved link. This will show all trades that are either Not Viewed or Viewed.
– GMs now have a Latest Trades link. This will show all Unresolved trades as well as trades that were actioned within the last 7 days. Again, trades actioned prior to this build being released will not be picked up.
– The Latest Trades section is now the default location a GM is taken to when clicking on the Trade Centre menu item or Trade Alert link.
– A link has been added for Trade Alerts.

Scouting Changes
Several Scouting Report changes have been made in addition to the Available Prospects section in the Entry Draft area.

– Scouting Reports older than 2 seasons will no longer be deleted.
– All scouting reports are now available for a given player by looking at the Player Profile and clicking on the Scouting tab.
– COMs will not be able to view scouting reports when viewing a player profile if their league is set to hide skills.
– Coach skills will now be shown on the Coach’s profile if their league is set to show skills.
– The Entry Draft page for GMs will now have links to the player profile for any given player.
– The Available Prospects section has been split up into Skaters and Goalies.
– The Available Prospects section will now show the height, weight, skill class, and previous season’s statistics for any given player.
– The Player Search text field now has focus once the page loads so you can start typing right away instead of having to click into the text box.

Alert Changes:
– The Salary Cap and Roster / Lines warnings that appear in the GM’s alert section will no longer be shown when the league is in the Off-Season.
– Roster / Line warnings no longer appear in the COM’s alert section if the league is in the Off-Season.

COM Team Management:
– COMs will no longer see GR/CL errors for defunct teams.
– COMs can now view a team’s finances and ledger. Clicking on a team name will bring up the Team Options submenu in the table of contents. The Finance and Ledger links are there.
– Junior teams that cannot fill a game roster will now automatically create their own players (by cron job) and correct the game roster without requiring the COM to manually do so.

COM Create Player UI: The Skaters option is now renamed Any Skater.

Simultaneous Updates: We’ve added a setting to indicate whether a game is currently being simmed in an effort to prevent games from being simmed by two people (or jobs) at the same time. This would usually result in a single game being simmed twice or even three times.

Standings Change: The previous season’s regular season standings will be shown if your league is in the Off-Season.

Award Names: COMs can now edit award names. They also have an option to have the name change be applied recursively instead of going forward.

Bug Fixes

– Fixed a bug that prevented the automated set up of new leagues. Released on April 20 2012.
– When GMs change their password this will also update their user information in the league’s Members table. Released on April 20 2012.
– Fixed an issue where a comma would sometimes appear in a trade line for the Activity Report.
– Fixed an issue where the Show All Players section in GM Scouting for leagues with skills shown will now appear properly.
– Fixed an issue where changing to a previous season’s Scouting Report list will no longer take you to the Player Search page.
– Debugging information is no longer shown when a player refuses a contract offer to hold out for free agency.
– Fixed an issue with the css styles for Show All Coaches in the GM Scouting area for leagues with skills shown.

[LEAGUE TABLE CHANGES]

[CoachMoves]
– Change MoveDate DATETIME NULL DEFAULT NULL

[Ledger]
– Change Date DATETIME NULL DEFAULT NULL

[PlayerMoves]
– Change MoveDate DATETIME NULL DEFAULT NULL

[PlayerTrades]
– Change Date DATETIME NULL DEFAULT NULL

[Transactions]
– CHANGE Date DATETIME NULL DEFAULT NULL
– ADD Season INT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0 AFTER Date
– ADD GMDate DATETIME NULL DEFAULT NULL

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