Racer
01-23-2012, 08:29 PM
Looked over statistics and consulted USA Today's team reports to create the roster file. I think the overall talent in the roster is pretty good. The talent pool is quite a bit higher then what's suggested in the FOF CSV notepad but from what I can tell it's actually a little less then the overall talent pool 25 to 30 years down the line which I compared it to. Hopefully that will help alleviate the cap issues that some computer teams have within 4 or 5 years of the start of a new career.
I've tested the No Manning roster file several times. There's quite a bit of variance (especially with lower end teams) but teams such as the Patriots, Texans, Ravens, Giants, Packers, 49ers, and Saints are consistently making the playoffs. Teams that seem to struggle to make it that made it in real life are the Lions and Bengals. Bengals make sense (very easy schedule) but I'm not sure what the issue with the Lions is.
A few other notes:
- There doesn't seem to be a way to change what a team's default defense. I tried making all the Texans players have 3-4 positions but the game turns the ILBs to MLBs and NTs to DTs. I'm guessing it's hard coded.
-The schedule isn't the 2011 schedule. It's the 2010 schedule. I'm guessing the schedule is hard coded.
-I had to lower a few of the salaries on the Chiefs, Vikings, Steelers, and Chargers so they didn't immediately have cap trouble.
-I found a site that listed a lot of players salaries. While some salaries are probably fairly accurate in this file I didn't spend enough time on this portion to make sure that most are.
-I worked off of Jim Gindin's 2010 CSV file (I think). I didn't alter HOF points at all but I did run a macro to make sure everyone's experience was increased by one (with the exception of John Kasay as a player can't have more then 19 years of experience in the initial file)
-The roster is much more geared towards end of season. I used the nfl.com's rosters for the most part. Player with large contracts such as Bernard Berrien and Donovan McNabb I tended to keep on their original team.
-Edit: All new players had their hometown randomized using a macro.
2011 Roster With Peyton Manning
https://rapidshare.com/files/392598878/2011Racerroster.fdt
2011 Roster Without Peyton Manning
https://rapidshare.com/files/1437041408/2011RacerNoManning.fdt
2011 Roster CSV
https://rapidshare.com/files/2638848343/2011RacerCSV.csv
I've tested the No Manning roster file several times. There's quite a bit of variance (especially with lower end teams) but teams such as the Patriots, Texans, Ravens, Giants, Packers, 49ers, and Saints are consistently making the playoffs. Teams that seem to struggle to make it that made it in real life are the Lions and Bengals. Bengals make sense (very easy schedule) but I'm not sure what the issue with the Lions is.
A few other notes:
- There doesn't seem to be a way to change what a team's default defense. I tried making all the Texans players have 3-4 positions but the game turns the ILBs to MLBs and NTs to DTs. I'm guessing it's hard coded.
-The schedule isn't the 2011 schedule. It's the 2010 schedule. I'm guessing the schedule is hard coded.
-I had to lower a few of the salaries on the Chiefs, Vikings, Steelers, and Chargers so they didn't immediately have cap trouble.
-I found a site that listed a lot of players salaries. While some salaries are probably fairly accurate in this file I didn't spend enough time on this portion to make sure that most are.
-I worked off of Jim Gindin's 2010 CSV file (I think). I didn't alter HOF points at all but I did run a macro to make sure everyone's experience was increased by one (with the exception of John Kasay as a player can't have more then 19 years of experience in the initial file)
-The roster is much more geared towards end of season. I used the nfl.com's rosters for the most part. Player with large contracts such as Bernard Berrien and Donovan McNabb I tended to keep on their original team.
-Edit: All new players had their hometown randomized using a macro.
2011 Roster With Peyton Manning
https://rapidshare.com/files/392598878/2011Racerroster.fdt
2011 Roster Without Peyton Manning
https://rapidshare.com/files/1437041408/2011RacerNoManning.fdt
2011 Roster CSV
https://rapidshare.com/files/2638848343/2011RacerCSV.csv