TCY DRAFT IMPORT's

[cdunlap]

Is there really any advantage to importing TCY files into FOF 2004?

The college stats disappear after the first season, and there is no other additional information regarding the players college career.

Just want to know if I'm missing something.

[Darkiller]

Originally posted by cdunlap


The college stats disappear after the first season, .

oh..really ???
why is that ? too bad if that's the case...

[OldGiants]

Originally posted by cdunlap
Is there really any advantage to importing TCY files into FOF 2004?

The college stats disappear after the first season, and there is no other additional information regarding the players college career.

Just want to know if I'm missing something.

They don't disappear from TCY and it's quite easy to keep that open in a separate window. then you can check out the career of any player you've imported.

I create a season stat save at the end of every TCY season and a pre-draft save in FOF for reference.

At draft time, I open the stat file of the draftable seniors and examine them in TCY and compare to the FOF draft data. This let's me see whose stats were unreliable becasue they were injured or suspended (and that's a lot of players), what my college scout thought of them, where they were ranked in HS and what kind of offense their school played so I can allow for that in the stats.

Right now, I'm about to start at a study of injuries to see if injury prone players in TCY will be injury prone in FOF. I doubt they are related, because I think the injury prone stuff is randomly assigned by the games, but which of us knows for sure?

Basically, I don't make a draft pick or FA signing unless the kid was "yellow" in TCY. Doesn't guarantee a gem, but it seems to avoid huge dissapointments.

At least I haven't had a major draft bust since I started doing that. Only four drafts though, so it could be random luck.

[cdunlap]

Yea, Know but it would be nice if the college stats carried over to Fof 2004, which they don't

[yabanci]

I think he meant the college stats that show up on the player's report in FOF2004 go away after the first year. At least that's the way I read it.

[cdunlap]

Yes, that what I meant.

[OldGiants]

Originally posted by cdunlap
Yes, that what I meant.

I understood that.

[Leonidas]

I think the only advantage to using your TCY files is if you developed an attachment to those players you can still use them.

I also am sick of the high amount of guys off a TCY file who have no college stats, just zeroes. And I'm talking about first round picks. I'd say at least three first rounders in my last draft had no stats. So they were good enough to be one of the 32 best as determined by the NFL, but not good enough to play a single down in college? I think the X factor may run amock from time to time.

[MizzouRah]

I think the only advantage to using your TCY files is if you developed an attachment to those players you can still use them.


Exactly. No big advantages for using them over the generated ones except for this reason. I recruit a guy from my hometown, watch him mature into a good player in college, then draft him onto my pro team.

Todd

[OldGiants]

Originally posted by Leonidas
I think the only advantage to using your TCY files is if you developed an attachment to those players you can still use them.

I also am sick of the high amount of guys off a TCY file who have no college stats, just zeroes. And I'm talking about first round picks. I'd say at least three first rounders in my last draft had no stats. So they were good enough to be one of the 32 best as determined by the NFL, but not good enough to play a single down in college? I think the X factor may run amock from time to time.

Yeah, I don't like it either, but, if you look, there are three main reasons for the zeros, roughly in the frequency they occur (for first rounders, that is. Reverse the order for lower rounds)

1) guy was suspended and dropped out

I hate this reason

2) guy was injured and missed the year.

Sort of understand this one. this is where keeping TCY open and checking his career is useful/

3) the guy played behind a better player

happens in real life, but too much in TCY. I can think of the Simms/Appelwhite situation as a recent relavent situation, but few others. Too many solid seniors lose their spots to slightly better underclassmen in TCY for my taste.