2008 Roster File (CSV)

[NickSaban]

Does anyone have or is working on a CSV of the 2008 rosters? Thanks!

[Geld1941]

I'd like to know the answer to this too.
Anyone have an answer?

[zullojer]

Originally Posted by NickSaban

Does anyone have or is working on a CSV of the 2008 rosters? Thanks!

I have the 2008 rookie draft class file. you can run through the 07 season, and import the 2008 rookie draft file. if anyone needs it, i can email it once i get home in a few hours

[mattlanta]

Originally Posted by zullojer

I have the 2008 rookie draft class file. you can run through the 07 season, and import the 2008 rookie draft file. if anyone needs it, i can email it once i get home in a few hours

Please email it to me or PM it to me.

And how do you import a draft file?

[freddylamar]

Originally Posted by zullojer

I have the 2008 rookie draft class file. you can run through the 07 season, and import the 2008 rookie draft file. if anyone needs it, i can email it once i get home in a few hours

I would also like to have this file please. Thanks

[JetsIn06]

Originally Posted by Libid21

Please email it to me or PM it to me.

And how do you import a draft file?

When the draft rolls around you will see a little button that says "Import Draft File" I believe it shows up right before you click "Start Free Agency"

[freddylamar]

Just wanted to give this thread a bump. I would love to get my hands on the 2008 roster file if anybody has a file that I could use. I have the draft file but I am big on the rosters being correct and really have no interest in running the 07 season and drafting from the 08 class. You can send it to [email protected] if you don't want to post it on the board. Please help a brother out if you can. Thanks in advance!

[nilodor]

Since no one seems to be working on a file, I'll give one a spin, seems to be what I do.

[Nogram]

nildor,

You represent Calgary well!

Cheers!

Nogram

[freddylamar]

Thank you very much!

[mattlanta]

Does anyone have the roster file for the 2008-2009 season? I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

[Ben E Lou]

Threads merged.

[freddylamar]

Any progress Nildor?

[mattlanta]

Oops, sorry, Ben E Lou. Anyways...

yeah, any progress nildor? :P

[Sef0r]

Unless we get a few people together to edit 1 or 2 teams each in the players.csv file this will never get done.
We would all have to agree on player ratings, i.e. 0 = scrub, 9 = elite (less then 1% of players are elite, but again we would have to agree on players).

For example I could create a .csv file for each team (to be merged after completion) and send them out one by one. Allow for 60 players per roster.

Here is an example of the Packers roster of players rated more then 1;
Aaron Rodgers = 3
Ryan Grant = 5
Donald Lee = 3
Greg Jennings = 7
Scott Wells = 3
Mark Tauscher = 5
Chad Clifton = 7
Aaron Kampman = 8
Nick Barnett = 4
A.J Hawk = 6
Al Harris = 4
Charles Woodson = 5

The rest of the players would be a mix of 0s, 1s, 2s...

The hardest part will be rating (and agreeing to) certain attributes for standout players and of course their contracts.

An example of attributes is that while you don't want to rate Devin Hester as more then a 3, you have to rate his kick and punt returning duty at 9 (max rating).

A few players I could see as Elite;
Tom Brady
L.T
Randy Moss
T.O
Braylon Edwards
A.P
Antonio Gates
Tony Gonzalez
Jared Allen
Kevin Williams (DT)
Ed Reed
Troy Palomanu
Gibril Wilson

[nilodor]

Originally Posted by Sef0r

Unless we get a few people together to edit 1 or 2 teams each in the players.csv file this will never get done.

Pretty strong words, have some faith here.

[Sef0r]

I should edit that as I know how strong this community is.
Well then I am sure this will happen, just someone needs to organise and maybe start a thread on player ratings and who will take what teams.
Some can make suggestions on websites to use for accurate player salaries (I have absolutely no idea).

[AlexB]

Originally Posted by Sef0r

I should edit that as I know how strong this community is.
Well then I am sure this will happen, just someone needs to organise and maybe start a thread on player ratings and who will take what teams.
Some can make suggestions on websites to use for accurate player salaries (I have absolutely no idea).

Just chill a little. Nilodor's money.

[Sef0r]

I have gotten off on the wrong foot here with some people. I meant no disrespect to anyone here, it was only a suggestion. I didn't know someone was already working on a file.

[freddylamar]

Have some faith in Nilodor, these things don't happen over night. He will get the file up in due time. Don't worry about getting off on the wrong foot Sef0r, you were only trying to help out. Have faith in these guys though, they take this community serious and don't take on a project without giving it 100%. Thanks again Nilodor.

[mattlanta]

I have faith in Nilodor.

[freddylamar]

Any progress to report Nilodor?

[nilodor]

Coming around, quarter of the way there, probably by the end of the fortnight.

[freddylamar]

Thanks again for the hard work! Your the man!

[mattlanta]

When's the end of the fortnight... tonight? lol. Just wondering. (Please take your time.) Thank you again!!!

[GenoAndo]

Just make sure that the Redskins are the most injury-prone bastards in that file!!

[mattyeah]

Are you going to leave out Odell Thurman? (Please do)

and also can you just happen to forget that my beloved Bungles resigned Henry...that'd be great too?

Going to create a new chise with a clean non-80's Raiders, Bengals squad.

P.S Is it possible to change any draft picks for next years draft from trades this year?

[nilodor]

Update: Halfway home, for sure will be done before the season starts.

Answer a couple of questions, no, you can't trade draft picks in the file and I won't have proper salaries in the file. How I do them is I used the salary breakdown for starters from the nflpa, to divvy up the salary cap properly, then assigned the value of the contract based on the players experience and overall rating, the length of the contract is random, with the mean around 3 years. I'm not too concerned about not having proper salaries, because they seem to mean so little in the real NFL.

[TwisterCoo]

Just to say nilodor, many thanks for the update on how you are doing, and appreciate the hard work and dedication you are putting in for all of us. Looking forward to the end product, you rock dude...

[QuikSand]

I don't keep too careful track of these things, but my recollection is that we've never had a fall (read: start of football season, or thereabouts) go by where there wasn't either a new release, or a patch, to the latest FOF game. I know the community appreciates the effort from nilodor, but I'd hate to see him go through all this and just find out that he got in at exactly the wrong time here, right before an official release (as would be the case in pretty much every year I can remember). For a project apparently being measured in fortnights, I'd hate to see all that time invested for naught.

[nilodor]

When I started there were 3 possible things I saw happening:

1. Release of a new game (FOF 2008 or TCY 2), if FOF 2008 is released, I would like to release an updated version of the historical files (I imagine an update would be needed as probably some other ratings would be added to the files), or an update to the draft files, in either case the work I'm doing will be good, because I'm building the 08 rosters in the same file as the historical project.

2. No release of anykind - I agree that this would be unlikely, given the history here, but if this was the case than a new file would be a good thing

3. Release of an update to fof 2007 - Worst case scenario, so the work I'm doing right now wouldn't really be relevant to this season, but as discussed in 1, eventually it would need to be done, because I assume that there will be a new version of either game, where the roster/draft files carry a different format.

That being said, I do appreciate the concern but it is something that should be done eventually and it's a good break from thesis writing.

[freddylamar]

Your hard work is very appreciated! Thank you and I look forward to the file.

[Nogram]

Originally Posted by QuikSand

I don't keep too careful track of these things, but my recollection is that we've never had a fall (read: start of football season, or thereabouts) go by where there wasn't either a new release, or a patch, to the latest FOF game. I know the community appreciates the effort from nilodor, but I'd hate to see him go through all this and just find out that he got in at exactly the wrong time here, right before an official release (as would be the case in pretty much every year I can remember). For a project apparently being measured in fortnights, I'd hate to see all that time invested for naught.

Sure would be nice if Jim would give some indication.....but that is not his 'style'.

Nogram

[mattlanta]

Thanks, nilodor. Keep up the hard work.

[nilodor]

Sorry about not having the file ready, should be done in the next couple of days.

[WebEwbank]

Your work is great and appreciated. Waiting (im)patiently. Take your time and get it right. I play 100% SP and 98% historical start (60s Packers, for example).

[Havoc99]

Originally Posted by nilodor

Sorry about not having the file ready, should be done in the next couple of days.

Thank you very much for taking the time to assemble the file

[manwithcake]

Can whoever has the 2008 draft file please email it to [email protected]? Thanks.