Fictional rosters & starting year

[DougWyatt]

I'm wanting to start a career in a year different than 2006. For whatever reason, looking at current and future dates make me compare my leagues to the NFL - which I don't want to do.

So I'm wanting to start a fictional in, say 1922. Now I know I can't adjust league size and such - but I'm almost sure I can do it. Here's the plan.

1. Make a roster file (.csv) with 1 player (with a 1895 birthday or so).
2. Convert the .csv file to a .fdt file with the Player file generator (setting the salary cap as I want & setting the year the career begins at 1922).
3. Start a new career (using alternate player file & begin with draft).
4. Draft and go.

Now, I think the game would generate the appropriate number of players to fill the league and that'd work. But I'm wondering - when doing this; how will the game generate players ? Will they be a bunch of scrubs, or will FOF follow it's usual generating formula ? My worry is that it won't be the same % of good/average/poor players that the future drafts will have, and future draftees will either not be good enough to make an impact or be better than the current players and in 3 years my league would be all players from the amateur draft.

Lol, I probably could've ran an experiment in the time it took to type out this question.

[DougWyatt]

Dang. Not the best idea. Every player the game generated was a 21-23 yr. old rookie. Had a few centers, kickers, and DB's rated in the 70's.

[nilodor]

Maybe you could start with that roster and just run in for 10 years so you have built up fresh players and a little history? The other choice would be to liberally use the rand() function in excel or do a search on the board (and check the stickied reference thread) because I'm pretty sure there was a fictional player file generator for FOF 2004 and I think it may have been updated to 2007.

[aran]

I'd suggest starting the way you indicated, then doing a quicksim for like 5-10 years to rebuild the talent levels.

[AnalBumCover]

Dang. Not the best idea. Every player the game generated was a 21-23 yr. old rookie. Had a few centers, kickers, and DB's rated in the 70's.

That might be a pretty cool alternate universe dynasty:

Soon after the end of WWI, the United States seeked an aide to post-war recovery. Baseball was still digging itself out of the Dead Ball era. Puncuated by the "Eight Men Out" scandal of 1919.

A group of young soldiers, two thousand strong -- with no real identity, with no other place to go -- joined together to form the first ever professional football association...

Here is their story.

[AnalBumCover]

Doug: PM sent. I might want to try out this universe. :)

[DougWyatt]

I mailed it out to you. :)