Change_Tracker Updated to Version 1.2 1/13/2K5!

[primelord]

SKYDOG EDIT 1/16/2007: Clarification for those new to the series: this utility, though originally written for FOF2K4, works with FOF2K7 as well.

I have finished another release of the change_tracker utility. For the most part it was a code re-write. I was not happy with a lot of the code, but the new revision is much cleaner and much easier to maintain. Not that any of that matters to you guys, but it will make adding features to this much easier for me in the future. :)

I did add a few new features in this version though. Release 1.2 includes:

- A new Combine button that will allow you to easily combine Scout Overview printouts from multiple teams into one document so you can track the ratings changes for several teams or even a whole league.

- New player reports no longer over write the old reports. Reports now have a simple revision number in the title (ex. player_report_1.html). The utility will now detect if you have any previously created palyer reports int he directory and if you do create a new report with a revision number 1 higher than the last.

- Top 10 possible Busts/Breakouts screen. After you hit the track button in addition to creating the report file the utility will spawn a new window that lists the top ten players with biggest drop in future rating and the biggest gain in future rating.

Here are a couple of screenshots of the new utility:

http://fof.holymonkey.org/ctrack1.JPG

http://fof.holymonkey.org/ctrack2.JPG

SkyDog has been a huge help in the past hosting this utility for me, but I finally have my own space to host it. This will make updating far easier because I can make small bug fixes and what not and easily upload them without having to hassle Ben about getting a new version up. You can get the new utility from the link below:

Change Tracker v 1.2 (http://fof.holymonkey.org/change_tracker.exe)

Utility Operation:

Since this is a GUI utility you just need to double click the executable. Since it is written in Perl and has the Tk libraries bundled into the executeable it will likely take a few seconds to load up. So if you double click on it and it doesn't immediately spring up don't worry.

This utility tracks the changes in players overall ratings from the Scout Overview screen. In order to track the changes you need to print to file your Scout Overview screen at whatever time frames you want to watch. If you only want to watch ratings changes from year to year you can print the Scout Overview screen at the end of every season or you can do it as often as every game.

The printouts need to be saved in the same directory as the utility and they need to be plain .txt files. I would suggest saving them with naming convention such as 2004.txt 2005.txt 2006.txt etc. Or for multiple points within the same year 2004a.txt 2004b.txt 2004c.txt and so forth. You can name the files anything you want, but the utility is going to process them in an ASCIIbetical format (similar to alphabetical exept that 10 would be listed before 2 and 20 before 3 etc.). The utility will automatically find any .txt files in the directory and display them in the scroll box. The order in which they are displayed is the order that they will be processed.

There are 4 different output types for the application:

HTML1 - This is the old HTML format from the previous versions of the utility. I think it is kind of ugly, but it is functional and can be pasted to the board with no problem.

HTML2 - This is a cleaner looking output, but doesn;t paste to the board very well.

CSV - This will create a comma seperated value report that can be read into excel or anything else that will import csv files.

Text - This is a plain text version of the report. This report doesn;t always line up right.

There are also two type of report type:

Short - This is the defualt report type and the one I think will be used by far the most. It reads in all of the scout overview files you have selected and if a player is not listed in the most recent file he will not be listed in the report. That keeps you from seeing the ratings from players who are no longer with your team.

Long - This version will display the ratings it finds for any player in the scout overview files even if they are no longer on the team. I don;t think it is particularly useful, but just incase someone wanted that info I decided to leave it in.

Once you have selected your output types just select the Scout Overview files you want to track from the scroll box list. You can highligh multiple files by holding down the Ctrl key as you click the files with your mouse. Any highlighted files will be processed.

Once you have selected the files hit the "Track" button and a player report will be created in the directory with the utilty. If you chose an HTML output it will be player_report.html. If you chose CSV it will be player_report.csv etc.

New in version 1.2

The combine button allows you to take Scout Overview files from multiple teams and combine them into one document. To make this work print to file the Scout Overview screen from as many teams as you would like to track. I would suggest naming them in a format such as newyork_2004.txt detroit_2004.txt newyork_2005.txt detroit_2005.txt etc. When you start the utility up these files will be listed in the scroll box. Select the files you want to combine and hit the Combine button. The utility will prompt you for the name that you want your new combined file to be called. In my example you would first highlight newyork_2004.txt and then detroit_2004.txt and then hit Combine. When the utility prompts you for a new name you would just enter something like 2004.txt. The utility will then combine the two files into one 2004.txt file. You would then follow the same process for the 2005 files. After the have been combined just highlight your new combined files and hit Track.

As always I want to hear any feedback you have on the utility. What type of things could make it better, what features are missing etc and of course if there are any bugs. Let me know if you have any problems.

[Suicane75]

Dude. Nice. The Only thing I can think of is that some names are so long they go on to the next line, but thats just a cosmetic thing really, a ticky tacky observation.

[Subby]

Oh you are just FREAKING AWESOME.

Thank you!!!!!

[Joe]

woot!

[primelord]

Dude. Nice. The Only thing I can think of is that some names are so long they go on to the next line, but thats just a cosmetic thing really, a ticky tacky observation.
In both versions of the HTML out put or just the first one?

[primelord]

Oh you are just FREAKING AWESOME.

Thank you!!!!!
I am still planning on adding on option to piece together scout overview files from multiple teams that way you don't have to do that by hand. That is actually really easy to do, but I just wanted to make sure the GUI was stable before I started adding more features.

[Subby]

I am still planning on adding on option to piece together scout overview files from multiple teams that way you don't have to do that by hand. That is actually really easy to do, but I just wanted to make sure the GUI was stable before I started adding more features.
The ability to do that would be pretty amazing.

Thank you, sir.

[Gallifrey]

This is great!
Thank You!

[cuervo72]

Thanks primelord!!

[Pyser]

looks fantastic. thanks for all the hard work!

[Fritz]

can you please add an mp3 player to the utility so I can listen to some pink thank you

[gottimd]

So I have the Text Files from my scout overview labeled 2004.txt and 2004a.txt which show up in the file screen. I have tried every combination, but each one is just an empty screen with the column headers. Am I doing something wrong? Its that simple correct? Why am I not wearing any pants?

[primelord]

can you please add an mp3 player to the utility so I can listen to some pink thank you
It's on the list.

[primelord]

So I have the Text Files from my scout overview labeled 2004.txt and 2004a.txt which show up in the file screen. I have tried every combination, but each one is just an empty screen with the column headers. Am I doing something wrong? Its that simple correct? Why am I not wearing any pants?
Are you clicking on the files in the list? You have ti highlight the files in order for them to be processed.

[Alf]

perfect ! And first breakout player noticed via the util (my guy is now Top 10 Tackle in IHOF league :D)

[DaddyTorgo]

hey primelord I bumped the topic the other day but got no reply. How's the situational utility coming along? (just asking, im sure you're a busy guy and i thank you for what you do for the community, but i'm curious to know as I think that will add a lot to people's enjoyment of the game).

[Eaglesfan27]

This looks great. Thanks for your hard work on this.

[jbmagic]

wow thank you so much


man FOF gets better each day..loving this game


just curious what periods you guys run the change tracker for your games? what the best time to do it?

thanks

[sovereignstar]

wow thank you so much


man FOF gets better each day..loving this game


just curious what periods you guys run the change tracker for your games? what the best time to do it?

thanks
Before and after training camp, Before the end of a season and at the very start of the next season, and I'll also run it before preseason and compare the results to other stages of the season.

[primelord]

hey primelord I bumped the topic the other day but got no reply. How's the situational utility coming along? (just asking, im sure you're a busy guy and i thank you for what you do for the community, but i'm curious to know as I think that will add a lot to people's enjoyment of the game).
Well I didn't quote you in the thread, but I did respond. :)

I was actually ready to rlease it, but some beta testing showed me somethings I missed. Most notably that there isn't an easy way to not read in exhibition and playoff games. However I have figured out a way around that now so I am working on implementing that.

I also went back and finished this first for a couple of reasons. It was a good way finished already and I knew several people were waiting on it and since the gui is working now I can re-use a lot of that code as a gui front end to the situational util.

I may still add a few things into this util, but I would say my best guess on the QB stat util would be a couple of weeks at the most. I tend to write code in streaks. Once I get going on it it should only be a few days.

[DaddyTorgo]

oops. well then something messed up or else I'm totally stupid. Sweet. If I was in the least bit good with that stuff I'd offer to help, but of course I'm not.

[Zone]

I can't seem to get it to work.

When I click the link to download it I get save to disk as my only option.
When I double click the program I get a blank player report page.
Anybody know what I am doing wrong.

Thanks.

[Suicane75]

In both versions of the HTML out put or just the first one?

Sorry, the 2nd one.

http://home.comcast.net/~suicane/playerreport.html

[primelord]

Sorry, the 2nd one.

http://home.comcast.net/~suicane/playerreport.html (http://home.comcast.net/%7Esuicane/playerreport.html)
They all fit on one line on my screen. The table is set to stretch to 100% of your screen size. What resolution is your screen set at?

[primelord]

I can't seem to get it to work.

When I click the link to download it I get save to disk as my only option.
When I double click the program I get a blank player report page.
Anybody know what I am doing wrong.

Thanks.
You want to save the program to disk. Once you have downloaded the program and you double click on it you should see a list of the Scout Overview files you printed in the white box. Click on the ones you want to track and then click the Track button.

[Suicane75]

They all fit on one line on my screen. The table is set to stretch to 100% of your screen size. What resolution is your screen set at?

Ahh, maybe thats it. 1024X768

[Zone]

You want to save the program to disk. Once you have downloaded the program and you double click on it you should see a list of the Scout Overview files you printed in the white box. Click on the ones you want to track and then click the Track button.


When I double click the program I momentarily get the MS-DOS promt window that goes away in a few seconds then a blank player report screen shows up.

I am still not sure what I have screwed up.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

[Ben E Lou]

Any suggestions?Put it in the folder where your text files to track are.

[Zone]

Thanks for the suggestions guys but I still got nothing.
These are my steps:
1. Download link.
2. Print to file player overview's as a .txt file in the same folder as the tracker.
3. Double click the tracker (it is saved as change_tracker.exe)
A blank MS-DOS prompt pops up then goes away and that's it. Nothing else.
Sometimes in the folder a player_report.html appears but that is blank also.

[gottimd]

Are your Scout Overview pages saved as a numerical year (ie 2004.txt, 2005.txt) in the same place as the Change Tracker?

Did you highlight those text files when they are in the list box(see below)?

http://www.fof-ihof.com/upload/primelord/chng_trck.JPG

The MS-Dos prompt shouldn't come up, at least it doesn't for me, just the above picture and then I select the files and press track, and its done. The old version had the MS-DOS prompt screen.

[Zone]

The above picture does not come up for me.
I download the program from the link at the top of the thread. So something isn't right I just don't know what.

[primelord]

The above picture does not come up for me.
I download the program from the link at the top of the thread. So something isn't right I just don't know what.
It does sound like you are using a copy of the old version somehow. Try opening up a MS-DOS window and running the program from the DOS prompt. Type in change_tracker.exe -f list in the directory where you have saved change_tracker. If the program comes up and asks you to enter some file names you are still using the old 0.5 version.

[Zone]

Primelord,

Thanks I do have version 0.5. I downloaded it by clicking the link at the top of this thread.

Any idea's how to get your 1.1 version.

Thanks for all your inputs guys.

[primelord]

Primelord,

Thanks I do have version 0.5. I downloaded it by clicking the link at the top of this thread.

Any idea's how to get your 1.1 version.

Thanks for all your inputs guys.
I have to admit I don't know how you are still getting the old version. SkyDog overwrote the old version with the new one. I would suggest deleting the version you have now and try downloading it again. If that doesn't work let me know and I can e-mail you a copy of the latest version.

[Ben E Lou]

I'm wondering if he saved the new version somewhere else. There's no way he downloaded the old version from my server. As primelord said, I overwrote it yesterday, before he posted this thread. The old version isn't there.

[Zone]

When I click the link I save it in my tracker folder. the size of the file I save has always been 1460kb if that means anything?

Thanks guys.

[sovereignstar]

I noticed that a really long name caused a overrun problem with the HTML1 option. I use a 1152x864 resolution.

[JeeberD]

Outstanding, thanks Primelord!

[primelord]

When I click the link I save it in my tracker folder. the size of the file I save has always been 1460kb if that means anything?

Thanks guys.
Try saving the file somewhere else and then run it wherever you save it. If it works copy it over into your tracker folder and overwrite the exisiting one.

[primelord]

I noticed that a really long name caused a overrun problem with the HTML1 option. I use a 1152x864 resolution.
What do you mean by overrun? The name ran into the table element next to it?

[sovereignstar]

What do you mean by overrun? The name ran into the table element next to it?
Sorry for being cryptic. I'm PMing you a link to a screenshot of what it looks like.

[maximus]

Awesome work primelord. Thank you.

[jbmagic]

Thanks for the suggestions guys but I still got nothing.
These are my steps:
1. Download link.
2. Print to file player overview's as a .txt file in the same folder as the tracker.
3. Double click the tracker (it is saved as change_tracker.exe)
A blank MS-DOS prompt pops up then goes away and that's it. Nothing else.
Sometimes in the folder a player_report.html appears but that is blank also.


did you delete the old change tractor first, before you downloaded the new gui version?

[primelord]

The soon to be released 1.2 version:

http://fof.holymonkey.org/ctrack1.JPG

http://fof.holymonkey.org/ctrack2.JPG

[jbmagic]

The soon to be released 1.2 version:

http://fof.holymonkey.org/ctrack1.JPG

http://fof.holymonkey.org/ctrack2.JPG


wow very nice

is those busts based on runing the change tractor before and after draft? or before and after training?

[primelord]

wow very nice

is those busts based on runing the change tractor before and after draft? or before and after training?
That is actually based on a shot right after training camp over 4 years. It's maybe not the best example, but I wanted to get something up quickly. Carrington had such a huge drop because he suffered a severe knee injury.

[maximus]

primelord,

When I hit the print button on the game screen, I am given two options to print. One to be printed throught the printer, the other through MS Office image viewer. How do you print to file? Thanks.

[jbmagic]

primelord,

When I hit the print button on the game screen, I am given two options to print. One to be printed throught the printer, the other through MS Office image viewer. How do you print to file? Thanks.


http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/%7Efof/forums/showthread.php?t=34244&highlight=print+file

[maximus]

http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/%7Efof/forums/showthread.php?t=34244&highlight=print+file

thanks.

[Alf]

While we are at "Print to file" questions.

Since I switched to WinXP, my "Generic Printer" to print to file only opens a window to enter the filename to save. So far, so good. But afterwards, I have no idea where the file is store. It is stored randomly on my C:\ disk and I have to make a research to find it (and it is sometimes on the hidden part of the files.....).

So my, question is : can I do something to have it stored where I want (and no, there is no option in the Generic Printer configuration...)

[Ben E Lou]

While we are at "Print to file" questions.

Since I switched to WinXP, my "Generic Printer" to print to file only opens a window to enter the filename to save. So far, so good. But afterwards, I have no idea where the file is store. It is stored randomly on my C:\ disk and I have to make a research to find it (and it is sometimes on the hidden part of the files.....).

So my, question is : can I do something to have it stored where I want (and no, there is no option in the Generic Printer configuration...)Yeah. Create a directory with a short name right off of the c:\ drive to store your dynasty stuff. I have several:

c:\fof
c:\bbc (bear bryant challenge)
c:\ihof
c:\hac (house arrest challenge)

Then, you can just enter the filename, for example: c:\ihof\2007b.txt and it will store it in the ihof directory. Since change tracker is so small, I just keep copies of it in each of those directories.

[Alf]

perfect ! I already have a D:\IHOF\

[primelord]

Version 1.2 of the utility has been released. Details are in the first post of this thread.

[gottimd]

How does it figure out who will most likely bust and do well? I love that report! Does it just rank them in order by change?

[primelord]

How does it figure out who will most likely bust and do well? I love that report!
It is only a summary of the change in Overall Future rating. It is certainly no garauntee as scout chnages and what not may be responsible for the increase rather than a player starting to breakout or bust. With that being said though there is some pretty strong evidence that if a player gains or loses points after the draft that they will breakout or bust and the more they gain the bigger the breakout or bust. Again though there are quite a few exceptions to the rule.

At the very least that screen is just an easy way to determine who the biggest gainers and losers are over the time you tracked.

[gottimd]

The only thing I would say when it combines the reports, not to get rid of them all, but to just create a new file called whatever the end user puts into the "Name file as" line, and keep the old text files there too. People may want to do multiple comparisons and rather than having to print to file again, just be able to rerun the report with different text files.

[Subby]

Holy. Crap.

[yabanci]

Great work, thanks.

Question: I tried the text output option and tells me "text report option is currently disabled." Is that something I need to turn on somewhere or is it just not supported yet?

[primelord]

Great work, thanks.

Question: I tried the text output option and tells me "text report option is currently disabled." Is that something I need to turn on somewhere or is it just not supported yet?
Oh yeah sorry about that. I forgot to mention that I had disabled the text output in this version. I was having a hell of time getting it to line up properly and it didn't always lineup the same way on different computers. It finally bothered me to the point where I just disabled it. I'll fix the format in the next version.

[Runtheball]

I'm also having the problem of blank player reports. I have highlighted all the (3) files I want to use. Everything seems to work just as you described, except the final output is an html file with a title and column headings, but no player info below the headings. Even with 1.2, I get a small window with column headings for most likely busts and breakouts, but no player info.

<edit> Just for kicks, I now opened the .txt files and noticed that they all contain garbage characters (alot of "y's" and umlauts, etc). I'm no programer, but it seems like a text file should be readable. Could the problem be with the "printing" of the files?

[primelord]

I'm also having the problem of blank player reports. I have highlighted all the (3) files I want to use. Everything seems to work just as you described, except the final output is an html file with a title and column headings, but no player info below the headings. Even with 1.2, I get a small window with column headings for most likely busts and breakouts, but no player info.

<edit> Just for kicks, I now opened the .txt files and noticed that they all contain garbage characters (alot of "y's" and umlauts, etc). I'm no programer, but it seems like a text file should be readable. Could the problem be with the "printing" of the files?
When you setup your Print To File did you choose the Generic/Text Only print driver?
</edit>

[Runtheball]

When you setup your Print To File did you choose the Generic/Text Only print driver?
</edit>

Do what with a how?

Sorry, I'm not following you. Can you dummie-it-down for me a bit?

When I go to print the scout overview, the print window opens, and it lists one printer (oddly, not the printer that I own...which is not connected to this computer anyway). It doesn't give me any option to switch printers, but the "Where" line contains the word "FILE", so I assumed this was OK. There seems to be nothing that I can change on this print window.

Your phrase "When you setup your Print To File..." does not compute...guess I'm not as computer literate as I thought.

[primelord]

Do what with a how?

Sorry, I'm not following you. Can you dummie-it-down for me a bit?
I am pretty certain the problem is when the file is being printed and that is most likely because you aren't using the right driver to print the files.

If you go to Start->Control Panel->Printers you should have a printer called Generic / Text Only. If you don't then go to Add a printer->Next->Local Printer->Use File Port->Manufacturer=Generic Printers=Generic/Text Only

Then when you print make sure to sleect the Generic/Text Only printer as your printer.

[Runtheball]

WOOOHOOO!!!

Thanks for your help.
Works like a charm!

[primelord]

WOOOHOOO!!!

Thanks for your help.
Works like a charm!
Glad to hear it. :)

[primelord]

In the near future:

http://www.fof-ihof.com/upload/primelord/sit_stats.JPG

:)

[Ben E Lou]

In the near future:

http://www.fof-ihof.com/upload/primelord/sit_stats.JPG

:)Kleenex time.

[fantastic flying froggies]

Just now got around to d/ling and installing this latest version.

Hot damn, great work Primelord!

[Chappy]

So suddenly the program won't work any more. I keep getting an error when I start it up. I tryed redownloading to no avail.
(AppName: change~1.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: perl58.dll
ModVer: 5.8.4.810 Offset: 0004184f) That's the report I'm getting. Any ideas anyone?

[primelord]

So suddenly the program won't work any more. I keep getting an error when I start it up. I tryed redownloading to no avail.
(AppName: change~1.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: perl58.dll
ModVer: 5.8.4.810 Offset: 0004184f) That's the report I'm getting. Any ideas anyone?
I would understand it a whole lot more if I was distributing the perl58.dll outside of the application. Try searching your hard drive for the perl58.dll. If you discover it then delete it. Then delete the app redownload and try again.

I am of course assuming you don't have a stand alone version of Perl installed on your PC. Such as ActiveState perl. If you do finding and removing the perl.dll will likely mess ActiveState up.

[Chappy]

Well I figured it out. I had reset it to work with Windows 95 compatibilty for the old version and the new didn't change the setting. Unclicked and bingo.

[Ben E Lou]

Bump...un-stick....marked for archive...

[3ric]

http://fof.holymonkey.org/change_tracker.exe

Linky no worky.

[maximus]

http://fof.holymonkey.org/change_tracker.exe

Linky no worky.


worky for me. :confused:

[Ben E Lou]

Bump. File downloaded for new download site. Primelord, please confirm that this is the latest version.

[mrsimperless]

This link is not working for me and the master sticky thread has the older ver 1.1 Is there another place to get the latest version from?

[Ben E Lou]

This link is not working for me and the master sticky thread has the older ver 1.1 Is there another place to get the latest version from?I updated the version in the master download spreadsheet. I had both versions on my machine, and had uploaded the older one. My bad.

[Ben E Lou]

Clarification for those new to the series: this utility works with FOF2K7 as well.

[BradS]

Need a little help. I'm still getting an empty box. What am I missing?

Thanks in advance.



http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m219/BradS_62/changetracker.png

[BradS]

bump

[primelord]

There is likely something wrong with the txt files it is reading. Can you copy and paste the contents of one in a code box here?

[BradS]

too large edited down

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[Ben E Lou]

Well, uh, I think we see the problem...

[Ben E Lou]

Dola...

This is what it should look like:
Front Office Football 2007
Atlanta Falcons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Reese, Scott 12 QB 11 37 37 3 yrs
Olsavsky, Tommie 19 QB 3 25 37 1 yr.
Schneider, Sherman 14 QB 2 9 38 1 yr.
Mosier, Gino 47 RB 10 56 56 1 yr.
Garner, Heath 42 RB 3 47 54 3 yrs
Westbrook, Jesse 44 RB 3 44 44 1 yr.
Pirtle, Jamie 46 RB 8 29 32 1 yr.
Rose, J.C. 43 RB 2 27 35 1 yr.
Jacobs, Sean 24 FB 3 57 67 1 yr.
Harden, Todd 15 TE 10 44 44 2 yrs
Meyer, Nolan 83 TE 4 37 37 1 yr.
Russell, Dean 4 TE 3 27 29 1 yr.
Granata, Ken 85 FL 5 59 59 2 yrs
Floyd, Willie 87 FL 8 54 54 1 yr.
Lindsay, Trent 86 FL 6 42 49 1 yr.
Loud, Hardy 80 FL 5 32 42 1 yr.
Reeves, Junior 82 SE 9 58 58 3 yrs
Ferguson, Terrance 84 SE 8 41 41 1 yr.
Reiter, Clarence 50 C 6 62 62 2 yrs
Butler, Jamie 58 C 11 57 57 2 yrs
Blanchard, Richie 56 C 11 56 56 1 yr.
Atkins, Raymond 60 C 11 31 31 1 yr.
Neufeld, Artie 66 LG 8 34 34 ---
Madison, Corwin 51 RG 10 60 60 2 yrs
Babin, Frankie 63 RG 9 51 51 2 yrs
%%Farler, Jeff 64 RG 5 51 51 1 yr.
Erickson, Damon 77 LT 6 46 46 3 yrs
Schaplowsky, Emmitt 65 LT 11 38 38 1 yr.
Langlois, Rodney 54 RT 7 45 45 4 yrs
Wragge, Mitch 70 RT 7 39 39 1 yr.
Holliday, Zack 9 P 9 53 53 1 yr.
Asherian, Chester 2 K 5 47 47 1 yr.
Thompson, Jerome 72 LDE 10 58 58 1 yr.
Swayne, Jimmy 93 LDE 5 38 44 2 yrs
Watkins, Leland 79 LDE 2 27 42 3 yrs
Fredrickson, Ellis 78 RDE 6 48 48 2 yrs
Mayes, Zach 74 LDT 6 62 62 3 yrs
Barlow, Larry 59 LDT 7 45 46 1 yr.
Collier, Reuben 91 RDT 9 54 54 2 yrs
Reisinger, Keith 97 RDT 10 29 29 1 yr.
Whitfield, Richard 99 MLB 4 66 66 4 yrs
Henson, Vince 53 MLB 7 53 53 2 yrs
Farrell, Fernando 94 SLB 8 59 59 1 yr.
Ellard, Brett 55 SLB 10 55 55 2 yrs
Hatch, Juan 52 SLB 5 26 43 2 yrs
Hutto, Horace 90 WLB 7 66 66 4 yrs
Lutt, Andrew 37 LCB 11 61 61 1 yr.
Kozlowski, Billy 49 LCB 6 47 47 1 yr.
Kerr, Corwin 40 LCB 9 38 38 2 yrs
Jamison, Lenny 26 RCB 2 26 30 1 yr.
Vaughn, Dave 48 RCB 4 23 32 ---
Broadnax, Tommie 21 SS 9 39 39 1 yr.
Forbes, Hardy 28 FS 9 41 41 1 yr.
Robbins, Bobby 22 FS 6 39 43 1 yr.
Oliveira, Xavier 41 FS 8 31 31 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 52

Salary Cap: $83,000,000
Cap Room: ($12,530,000)
Maximum for New Player: ($4,480,000)
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $1,760,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $56,960,000

[gstelmack]

That's clearly not a Generic / Text Only printer. That looks like you took your regular printer and had it print to a file.

[BradS]

Thanks fellas.

[mattlanta]

I can't seem to be able to read the .db's with my Excel, is there any program I'm supposed to use specifically or is it just not working? The tracker is working itself, it's just that I don't have a program that can read the .dbs.

Thanks again, I hope you guys don't get tired of all my newbie questions. :-/

[surlyc]

I am pretty certain the problem is when the file is being printed and that is most likely because you aren't using the right driver to print the files.

If you go to Start->Control Panel->Printers you should have a printer called Generic / Text Only. If you don't then go to Add a printer->Next->Local Printer->Use File Port->Manufacturer=Generic Printers=Generic/Text Only

Then when you print make sure to sleect the Generic/Text Only printer as your printer.
Thank you for writing that, helped me no end.

[Eaglesfan27]

My computer died a week or two ago, and I have re-downloaded everything and am just getting around to re-downloading this. I thought the new version did a scan of the whole league, yet I can't seem to find that version. Did something happen that it was removed, or am I just going crazy?

[Ben E Lou]

My computer died a week or two ago, and I have re-downloaded everything and am just getting around to re-downloading this. I thought the new version did a scan of the whole league, yet I can't seem to find that version. Did something happen that it was removed, or am I just going crazy?

http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=62743

[Eaglesfan27]

Thanks. Maybe you can add that to the download reference thread as I think it has the old version still.

[surlyc]

http://fof.holymonkey.org/change_tracker.exe

Linky no worky.Linky no worky for me.

[Ben E Lou]

Check the reference thread.

[surlyc]

Thank you.:cool:

[Epi_862]

The download link in the reference thread is also dead.. Anyone got a working one?