Draft utility Mock Draft problem?

[Shakes]

With a new draft coming up in our league it was time to get the new draft file up for the utility. I got the FOFrooter, draft order file, and draft preview files up into the utility. But a strange thing happens when I do the mock draft portion after I put the FOFroster.csv file in. The order and players are fine. But the weird thing is the comments section:

"{insert team name} has already picked at all positions, and this is the best player still on the board."


I asked Jon about this and he seems to think it is a draft order file problem. I do have the print to file, generic printer/text only printer that I saw in a thread here in FOFC. I also have placed this all over the HD just to see what would happen. But I still get the same result as above. Has anybody had this problem before and if so, does anybody know a solution to this?

Not sure if it matters or not but I have Windows Vista.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[jdavidbakr]

With a new draft coming up in our league it was time to get the new draft file up for the utility. I got the FOFrooter, draft order file, and draft preview files up into the utility. But a strange thing happens when I do the mock draft portion after I put the FOFroster.csv file in. The order and players are fine. But the weird thing is the comments section:

"{insert team name} has already picked at all positions, and this is the best player still on the board."


I asked Jon about this and he seems to think it is a draft order file problem. I do have the print to file, generic printer/text only printer that I saw in a thread here in FOFC. I also have placed this all over the HD just to see what would happen. But I still get the same result as above. Has anybody had this problem before and if so, does anybody know a solution to this?

Not sure if it matters or not but I have Windows Vista.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The mock draft requires you to assign the team names from the extractor export to the team abbreviations that are in the draft order. You should get a screen after you import the extractor file that allows you to assign all 32 team names to their abbreviations. If you don't get this screen, or if you don't assign the team names to abbreviations in the draft order, you'll get the message you got above. If you don't get all 32 teams when you import the mock draft file, then you didn't export the extractor run on the entire league. If you did get all 32 teams and assigned them to an abbreviation but you're still getting that message before the team has picked anything, it means that the team abbreviation wasn't assigned to a team in the extractor upload, which can happen if you assign the abbreviation to more than one team or possibly have more abbreviations (from previous draft uploads) than you actually have in the draft, and have assigned the team names to abbreviations that are not in the draft.

[Shakes]

I do get that screen and also get the correct team abbreviations. For the draft eligible I have tried both the xxx and also the blank abbreviations and still the same thing occurs

[jdavidbakr]

What do you mean by the "draft eligible"?

[Shakes]

On the Mock draft screen I have the following teams:


Team Code
Arizona Cardinals
Atlanta Falcons
Baltimore Ravens
Buffalo Bills
Carolina Panthers
Chicago Bears
Cincinnati Bengals
Cleveland Browns
Dallas Cowboys
Denver Broncos
Detroit Lions
Draft Eligible
Green Bay Packers
Houston Texans
Indianapolis Colts
Jacksonville Jaguars
Kansas City Chiefs
Miami Dolphins
Minnesota Vikings
New England Patriots
New Orleans Saints
New York Giants
New York Jets
Oakland Raiders
Philadelphia Eagles
Pittsburgh Steelers
San Diego Chargers
San Francisco 49ers
Seattle Seahaws
St. Louis Rams
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Tennessee Titans
Washington Redskins

[jdavidbakr]

Ah, ok. I think I usually have the free agent export turned off, that's what those guys are. Just leave that blank, that should be fine.

Post the contents of your draft order text file

[Shakes]

I have it off too actually. I guess I can try it on and see if that helps.

Here is the requested info:

Front Office Football 2007
Amateur Draft Order

Pick Rnd 1 Rnd 2 Rnd 3 Rnd 4 Rnd 5 Rnd 6 Rnd 7
1 IND IND IND IND IND IND IND
2 PIT BAL DET PIT BAL DET PIT
3 BAL DET CAR BAL DET PIT BAL
4 DET PIT BAL DET PIT BAL DET
5 KCY KCY KCY KCY KCY KCY KCY
6 BUF BUF BUF BUF BUF BUF BUF
7 NYJ ATL NYJ ATL NYJ ATL NYJ
8 ATL NYJ ATL NYJ ATL NYJ ATL
9 OAK SEA WAS OAK CIN WAS OAK
10 CIN WAS OAK **PHI WAS OAK **PHI
11 WAS OAK **PHI WAS OAK **PHI WAS
12 DAL DEN ARI TEN NYK CHI CIN
13 DEN ARI TEN STL CHI SEA DEN
14 ARI TEN CLE CHI CIN GBY ARI
15 TEN STL CHI CIN GBY ARI TEN
16 STL CHI CAR SEA ARI TEN STL
17 CHI CIN DEN ARI TEN STL CHI
18 TBY NED MIA SFO CIN TBY NED
19 NED MIA SFO DAL HOU NED MIA
20 MIA SFO JAX DAL NED MIA PIT
21 SFO CIN DAL NED MIA SFO JAX
22 JAX TBY NED MIA SFO JAX TBY
23 NYK CLE NYK DAL NYK NYK NYK
24 BUF NYK KCY NYK CIN NYK DAL
25 GBY HOU CAR **PHI NOS GBY HOU
26 DAL PIT **PHI NOS CLE HOU CAR
27 CAR **PHI NOS GBY HOU CAR **PHI
28 **PHI NOS GBY HOU CIN **PHI NOS
29 NOS GBY HOU CAR **PHI NOS GBY
30 CLE CLE CLE CLE CLE CLE CLE
31 MIN GBY MIN MIN MIN MIN MIN
32 SFO SDO SDO SDO SDO SDO SDO

Estimated Cap Cost, by Round

Round Estimated Cost
1 $1,750,000 - $6,160,000
2 $1,100,000 - $1,380,000
3 $700,000 - $730,000
4 $560,000 - $560,000
5 $490,000 - $490,000
6 $460,000 - $460,000
7 $430,000 - $430,000

Number of First-Round Picks on Roster

Team #1 Picks
San Diego 15
New England 13
Baltimore 12
Carolina 11
Indianapolis 11
New York G 11
Tampa Bay 11
Cincinnati 10
Denver 10
**Philadelphia 10
San Francisco 10
St. Louis 10
Washington 10
Cleveland 10
Arizona 9
Atlanta 9
Dallas 9
Green Bay 9
Minnesota 9
New York J 9
Pittsburgh 9
Houston 9
Jacksonville 8
Miami 8
New Orleans 8
Detroit 7
Kansas City 7
Front Office Football 2007
Oakland 7
Seattle 7
Tennessee 7
Buffalo 6
Chicago 5

Edit: Nope turning Export Free Agents on produced the same results

[jdavidbakr]

Well, that draft order looks like it should. Might need to delete the config.inc.php file to force a re-install. Once the team list has been created it doesn't delete existing teams - so it could still be something wrong from when the draft order file was incorrect.

[Shakes]

I asked someone to send me a draft order file that uses a different system (XP) and still got the same results.

[jdavidbakr]

Have you re-installed the utility?

[Shakes]

no not yet

[Shakes]

Well Now I have two Jets teams for users. One that has NYJ and one that has NJY on the utility. Listed as 33 teams instead of 32. Could that be the problem?