selseyseal wrote:
hi guys
darrell invited me to the game
just won the derby in my first season lol......
would like more information please on the online leagues.....what kind of races/how many races are there/how often/ and how many dogs would u need to be competitive....
im still in my first season on game just coming up to peterborugh derby
have 3 top grade at mom a1 450/475 a1 275/375 a1 625 plus.....
and sitting with 110k in bank.i wish......
anyway pm me if u can please with any help
regards
k
Hi there and welcome to Mark's Strategic Designs forums. General information about Greyhound Manager can be discussed here. However, if you wish to find out about the Greyhound Prol League, you will need to come over to my Online Racing League World forums, in particular the Greyhound Pro League Inaugural Season. The link to that particular forum is right here.
http://www.gallopracerseries.yuku.com/forums/231.
to know which distance races we will be running you will need to look at the GREYHOUND PRO LEAGUE'S EXHIBITION TRACK RECORDS. You can find that thread in this forum or in the forum on my board. They are both up to date. Do not let the times scare you though. If you would like to build up a kennels quickly and maybe join us mid-season read my posting in this forum on how to build up a league competitive kennels fast. I think it will help you.
The Inaugural season will be somewhere around 12 weeks for regular racing with a couple of weeks for season-ending chamnpionship competition. There will be a break for the Christmas holidays though.
We will probably have a maxium kennels of 40 dogs. That number is totally based on the number of dog listings the league-only Race Builder will allow without having to scroll the screen up. Because I will be screen capturing every Trainer's kennels roster and posting it in a separate forum for their and other trainers' viewing, I do not want to have to capture two screens. It will just take too much time each week. And it will have to be done every week in order to update the trainers' kennels roster.
When you have a chance, check out the Starters Orders Pro League's TRAINER'S OFFICE MANAGER (TOM) located here
http://www.sopl.info/tom/tom4/index2.php. An amazing ORLWorld member by the name of DodgyDave, created and maintains that league operational program for the SOPL. I believe he started building it for the SOPL's third season and they are now into their seventh. It is now up to version 4. Version 5 which is being built now, promises to host leagues from any of Strategic Design's games including Greyhound Manager. So hopefully by Season II, it will be run entirely in TOM, thus endnig our need to screen capture kennels rosters.
There will probably be 12 races ran each week. Players will be able to submit a Primary and a Secondary Entry to each race. Primaries will qualify first and if there is enough room, Secondaries will be chosen to fill up the races.
Shayne Hannaford is our Race Grader. He has written a program that will sort dogs into races. I am the Race Secretary and run the races in the league-only Race Builder each week.
Race Day is always Friday morning Los Angeles time. Entry Deadline for the following week is always Saturday noon, Los Angeles time. Shayne has written a little spreadsheet program that makes it very simple to submit Entries on a weekly basis.
Well, thats it for now. Visit us on the other site and ask any further questions that you may have. I am sure Darrell and the others will be more than happy to answer them for you. We look forward to seeing you competing in the GPL soon!
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