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Old 04-18-2015, 09:50 PM   #3193
Groundhog
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
Not sure if this would interest anyone except me, but I've never been happy with the (lack of) diversity in foreign players in FBCB. I've manually been updating them for years in my slow-sim universe, and this weekend I put together a little Python program that takes an export of all the incoming foreign recruits (via FBCB's print button from the recruits screen using the foreign player filter), and then generates replacement names/cities/countries for all of them, based on the nationalities of players in the last NCAA Div 1 season. There's 100 different name/country files.

Unfortunately I can't connect to the FBCB save directly to update the names. The script produces a report listing the current player, and his new details, and then it's still a manual process of editing the players.

It's currently a quick and nasty little command line tool, but if anyone thinks it's worth the time of me building it into a webapp or something, let me know.
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