Ah beautiful, I think I've figured it out. I'll be putting it to the test today, haha. If something goes wrong I'll be sure to drop you a line Rongar.
Thanks a lot fellas.
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Ah beautiful, I think I've figured it out. I'll be putting it to the test today, haha. If something goes wrong I'll be sure to drop you a line Rongar.
Thanks a lot fellas.
Big tip: If you use different color fonts for different teams (blue for Mets, red for Red Sox, purple for Rockies, etc), PLEASE don't use yellow for the Pirates. It's damn near unreadable.
Thanks for the tip, Metsguy...appreciate you taking the trouble to write about it....Quote:
Originally Posted by metsguy234
If it's been said once, it's been said a thousand times, but I feel that it may need to be said again, this time in big, bold letters:
BEFORE YOU POST THE NEXT PART OF YOUR STORY, USE A WORD PROCESSOR TO CHECK FOR SPELLING/GRAMMAR MISTAKES!!!
If your dynasty is unreadable, people aren't going to follow it. Personally, I have all my dynasties saved in Word documents, where I can identify spelling and grammar errors before I embarrass myself (and draw the ire of BINGLEBOP)
Ya talkin' to me...?!?!? :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by PotatoOfCouch13
No, you're one of the good ones. Not mentioning any names, but they're pretty obvious: numerous mistakes in spelling, grammar, punctuation, et cetera: all of which could be avoided by using Word or something before posting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rongar
Seriously, Guys, even if you don't resort to a pukka WP, the posts themselves try to warn you...ever noticed them red lynes under certain words? They indicate spelling errors...tho not always -see, they missed one back there<- -
and sometimes they can't handle five-dollar words like antidisestablishmentarianism, which, according to Google (that top-left dialogue box is where I check all my doubtful words) is the way to go...and if you see a green line under one of your phrases, the post's WP is trying to tell you that this is grammar up with which, it will not put. (Dammit! -never works when you want it to)
When all is said and done though, I can't agree with my good friend, Spud, when he warns that typos will doom dynasties....if you write a good enough yarn, with plenty of drugs 'n' sex 'n' rock 'n' roll, I'd read it, tho it be writ in rancid Russian!
I think the best advice is to write it up in Word rather then in the reply box. That way, the internet can't crash and kill your dynasty (which has happened to several on this board). Plus, you can spell check.
What I do (I find it very effective)
I write it up in Notepad with all the [*B][*/B] included because it let's you keep a format and you can do things like [TAB] (Like Standings). All you have to do is copy and paste that into word hit [F7] and you are doing a spell check.
A typo here and there isn't too bad, and nobody will catch them all... even me! I try to correct the ones that are made over and over again, to help out the poster, especially if they're younger. If the dynasty is good and entertaining, I'm sure that some people will forgive constant typos, horrible grammar, etc. It just looks sloppy and careless on their part not to have taken 30 seconds to check the post, and I end up thinking that the rest of their dynasty will be sloppy and horribly-written as well. It may not be, but that's the impression that it gives to people. It's like job-hunting. If you have a stellar resume, but a typo on the first line, most employers won't bother reading the rest of it, and it'll end up in the garbage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rongar
I do the same thing. I keep my format saved in a template file with all the style formatting already done and then just go back and change stuff every post. Makes it MUCH easier.Quote:
Originally Posted by rockiesfan4ever
da blu doeg aet him breown shiot
An ebonics dynasty? Creative idea RSR.
tank u bonglebip, i use u spell sugestion and mak prety dienasty!Quote:
Originally Posted by BINGLEBOP
That's it, RSR - grab 'em with the first sentence!Quote:
Originally Posted by RedsoxRockies
Thank you for this thread. It has helped me out a lot with my dynasty (even though i need to work on a few things).
Protip: If random user writes a dynasty that is bizarre and incomprehensible, it's probably an alt.
Screenhunter v 4.0 by Wisdom-Soft is a must-have for dynasty writers.
I actually learned about this program at work where we'll cut and paste screenshots from problems in our applications to e-mail.
After loading the program, it will take you to a setup screen like this:
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x...reenhunter.png
Tell it what F key you want to use to capture items - pick one you're not likely to use for any other reason, then click on "Stand by." The program will appear to close, but will actually run behind the scenes.
When you hit that F key, a cursor will come up. Drag it to surround the picture you want to display, then let go of your mouse key.
As for what happens then, if you click on the "To" tab above you get two main options: It will save it to the clipboard, or save it to a file. Since I'm always in the habit of doctoring my pictures with text and stuff, I save it to clipboard. If you don't plan to modify it, then I suppose there's no reason you can't go straight to file.
The program is freeware and fully useable. There's an enhanced version through Wisdom's website (5.1 I think) with more bells and whistles, but that's shareware and will start adding watermarks to your files after 15 days.
Anyone who's read my dynasties know I tend to be a text oriented guy - that's more because I always found cutting, pasting and manually cropping a pain in the butt than anything. This makes things much easier if you're into adding pictures to your stories.
If you hit ALT+Prnt Scrn then it'll take a screenshot and then you can go to paint and crop/save/highlight/box/etc. whatever you want and then Copy Paste it
Very true, and that's what I've done to date. This gets the crop part out of the way though - only the part I want ends up on the clipboard rather than all the junk I'd just as soon never appear. Personally I find it saves time and effort.
Let's not forget Mizerak's apps
Box Score Parser
Dynasty Results App
Result Summary App
Game Scores App
Negotiator App
Rule V App
and the original
OFG Negotiator
THIS POST ORIGINATED WITH METSGUY234 IN THE SPORTS TALK FORUM
metsguy234;1407921]Nice article by Jason Fry
http://sportsjournalism.org/sports-m...he-game-story/
Also they make reference to a really interesting sounding program called Stats Monkey near the end of the article, which you can read more on (including a sample article produced by Stats Monkey) here:
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.co...h-theyre-here/
Anyone seen this movie, yet?...seems tailor made for this forum.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/...904159997/1023
The language of baseball
Thought that this might interest guys, especially those who commentate on games
http://grammar.about.com/od/words/a/baseballjargon.htm
I've just posted an article from the online N.Y. Times on one of my Canadian players, in the Canajun Ehs thread
.in fact, such a practice - that of googling for bios of one's players, and posting them in one's dynasty thread (especially those dynasties that operate in modern times) - might serve to perk up the dynasties of other Members in this forum
I've seen this on a few different dynasties, but for those that have them, I would suggest removing the opening post that lists year by year spoilers. While it's true that, as Nabokov writes in the opening section of Laughter in the Dark, "This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling", the antecedent paragraph (the first in the novel, incidentally), still invokes a sense of mystery. The spoiler post, in my opinion, removes all mystery from the equation, or, at the very least, diminishes it so greatly that I personally lose all interest in reading.
Jestor: It took me...almost 2 1/2 years to see this, but if you ever see my reply: Excellent advice.