New, with some MP website questions

[OzWolf]

Hey everybody,

I have spent the last couple of years taking part in Madden GM leagues, but the reality is that I don't particularly use Madden itself except to run "sims" and to confirm contract values.

I recently went looking for alternatives to Madden and came across FOF. To be honest, I was shocked to find it out there. Guess I've been blinkered in my football software field-of-vision.

Anyway, for me these types of leagues are all about GMing against and with other human managers. So I'm interested in starting my own league.

Granted, I haven't fully explored the full potential of the game, but I was very impressed with the offerings of FOFL and IHOF's website. As a web developer, they are the standards I'd be aspiring to.

So, I suppose a major question I have is just how info can FOF put out for a website? Is it's output primarily text or html?

I've also built a number of applications for the Madden PC community, including an application that allows the use of custom teams in Madden 05-08.

So I was also wondering how people create utilities for the game? Is there a way to access the raw data of a league, or are the utilities based on screen readers?

I've probably got a bunch more questions to ask, but might just start with these.

[3ric]

The in-game HTML output is limited in its use, if you want to approach IHOF and FOFL's database-driven dynamic HTML you need gstelmack's utility to extract csv files from the saved game files. With those, you can easily populate a MySQL database with a php script and go on from there.

http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=54227

[marcmoustache]

You can use the in-game html output to grab stats from the boxscores, but the interrogator utility has a lot more data.

[cuervo72]

For FOFL, we've used interrogator to extract data (fabulous tool, and absolutely vital as FOF has no csv exports of data), and store it in MySql to be accessed through php scripts. FOF has its own html which is fine for some things, but limited for others (it's better in 2k7 than in the previous version).

[RedHawk00]

I have a question along these lines. How easy is it in FoF to manage a multi-player league?

I dont own the game but am thinking about picking it up for a friend and myself to run a 2 person league, computer runs the other 30 teams. (we are generally anti-social peeps, but mostly too busy with other things in life to join a real multi-player league.) anyhow, to anyone out there running a multi-league, is it easy or are there a ton of files we will have to upload and such?

thanks in advance...

[3ric]

With only the two of you, you should get by with emailing each other with the files... exports to the commish and league files to the non-commish.