Fast Break Pro Basketball 2013 Released!

[HeavyReign]

Originally Posted by TLK

I'm getting "Run Time Error 9 : Subscript out of range" when advancing from the playoffs to end season in the 1999-2000 season. I'm using the newest patch. Y2K bug?

Seems to be an issue with activating the DLG. I'll have a fix posted soon.

[mgsports]

Yes he did say updated Roster coming out at end of the season and I'm just suggesting that make it a Saved Game with Standings as on end of season because just changing Date to be in 2013 Offseason won't work because your would have to have the Date be at Draft and be able to sim in Calender at that time to.

[HeavyReign]

Originally Posted by sovereignstar v2

I kind of got that impression too and that's what I was testing when I noticed that top Syracuse recruit going undrafted. I had a hard time drawing any conclusions, so didn't post anything. One thing I wanted to ask is whether players in FBCB have birthdates or are merely given an age. There are birthdates in FBB, so I was wondering if players were having a birthdate generated for them when they hit the pro game and maybe that was causing some issues.

They do just have ages in the college game as opposed to actual birthdays. The conversion process isn't really an issue. From what I can tell, I'd say the issue lies in the ages of the starting rosters in FBCB. I loaded up your draft file again and I absolutely see the age issue but it has to do with players who were never recruits in FBCB. The starting FBCB rosters also appear to be too good which is why the draft files using them are so strong and a likely reason why the former #1 recruit is a scrub. He just happens to be the 75th most talented player in the file.

[whomario]

really not claiming to know your game better than you do, but just looking at it players simply do age 1 year between their export from FBCB (end of their college career) and them entering the NBA, they get imported at the start of the season, but get drafted nearly a year later and thus aging 1 year between the 2 versions.
So the conversion absolutely works, but the timing might be an issue. Would it be possible for the game to shave off 1 year of every player upon importing ? That way they´d get drafted at the age they leave college.

[IlliniCub]

Had a few bad seasons won the lottery got an absolute stud PF with the number one pick. Then the next year surprisingly one the lottery again despite winning 37 games and picked an absolute stud SF, combine that with offering a max contract to an amazing PG that year and a couple years later after 4 championships in a row I'm off to a 31-0 start

[whomario]

a stats related issue : Starting with fictional players, you get some wonky numbers like this :

    # Player             Pos  Team   Fgm   Fga   Fg%  Ftm  Fta   Ft%  3pm   3pa    3p%   PPS
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    1 Carroll Harris      PG   LAL  10.0  20.5  .485  0.9  1.4  .649  5.4  11.3   .484  1.28
    2 R.Gonzalez          PG   DET   9.7  20.4  .475  1.3  1.8  .724  4.9  10.8   .452  1.25
    3 Carlo Holman        SG   PHX  10.1  22.3  .452  1.5  2.2  .665  4.6  10.6   .434  1.18
    4 Thomas Krog         PG   SAC   8.4  20.9  .403  1.3  1.8  .712  4.4  11.0   .400  1.08
    5 David Smith         SG   NYK   7.2  14.4  .500  1.0  1.3  .775  4.2   8.5   .495  1.36
    6 Jacques Adams       SG   BOS   8.5  17.7  .483  1.0  1.4  .701  4.1   9.0   .463  1.26
    7 Carroll Freeman     PG   DEN  11.4  24.8  .459  2.7  3.3  .802  4.0   8.5   .469  1.19
    8 Chris Marcotte      SG   BOS   7.9  20.3  .388  0.9  1.5  .616  3.8   9.7   .390  1.01
    9 G.Chambers          SG   TOR   7.9  15.9  .495  2.1  2.5  .829  3.8   8.1   .466  1.36
   10 Walker Hartman      PG   PHI   8.1  17.4  .467  1.4  1.6  .833  3.8   8.4   .450  1.23
   11 David Lashley       PG   SAS   8.2  19.5  .420  1.9  2.8  .675  3.7   8.5   .439  1.13
   12 Jewell Bayer        PG   IND   9.7  21.6  .446  1.6  2.2  .751  3.7   8.7   .425  1.14
   13 Nicolao Enciso      SG   BRK   8.2  18.2  .450  2.3  3.4  .676  3.6   8.0   .453  1.23
   14 Joseph Adams        SG   SAS   7.6  16.4  .461  1.2  1.6  .726  3.6   8.7   .417  1.21
   15 Deangelo Curl       PG   NOH   9.3  23.3  .398  1.6  2.6  .619  3.5   9.4   .374  1.01
   16 Kenneth Harris      SF   LAC   7.8  17.8  .440  0.9  1.4  .676  3.5   8.3   .425  1.13
   17 Kendall Mays        PG   LAL   7.2  15.2  .475  1.4  1.7  .831  3.4   7.2   .474  1.27
   18 John Borowski       PG   OKC   7.0  16.7  .416  1.3  1.8  .702  3.3   8.3   .398  1.11
   19 Kevin Jackson       SG   WAS   6.3  14.0  .450  0.8  1.1  .722  3.2   7.2   .452  1.19
   20 John Riccio         PG   ATL   8.1  19.6  .411  2.8  3.8  .727  3.2   8.1   .392  1.13

2013 USBL Team Stats Leaders

   # Team                  Fgm   Fga   Fg%   Ftm   Fta   Ft%   3pm   3pa   3p%   PPS
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   1 Miami                35.6  86.5  .411  13.1  19.5  .672   6.5  19.8  .331  1.05
   2 Brooklyn             39.1  87.6  .446  11.7  18.1  .647   9.1  23.9  .383  1.13
   3 Indiana              37.5  88.2  .425  11.1  17.0  .656   7.9  23.2  .342  1.07
   4 Orlando              40.3  91.3  .441  11.6  16.9  .688  10.2  28.0  .366  1.12
   5 Denver               43.9  96.2  .456  11.2  16.6  .673   9.9  25.7  .384  1.13
   6 Dallas               37.8  87.5  .432  10.7  16.4  .651   9.9  26.8  .370  1.10
   7 Philadelphia         36.6  87.0  .420  11.4  16.2  .704   9.3  25.5  .365  1.08
   8 Memphis              36.1  86.0  .420  10.9  16.1  .679   9.5  26.2  .362  1.08
   9 New Orleans          38.5  89.3  .431  11.0  15.9  .692  10.2  27.9  .365  1.10
  10 Minnesota            39.5  91.0  .434  10.2  15.7  .650  10.3  29.0  .355  1.09
  11 Los Angeles (LAL)    42.4  91.2  .465  10.1  15.7  .645  10.2  24.1  .425  1.15
  12 Houston              35.1  85.3  .411   9.3  15.4  .602  10.0  28.1  .357  1.05
  13 Cleveland            38.4  86.8  .442  10.4  15.3  .678   6.8  18.5  .366  1.08
  14 San Antonio          37.8  88.1  .428   9.5  15.2  .622  10.8  29.8  .363  1.09
  15 Atlanta              39.0  90.3  .432   9.5  14.6  .652  11.1  30.0  .369  1.09
  16 Charlotte            34.2  83.0  .412   9.2  14.6  .632   8.3  22.9  .363  1.03
  17 Milwaukee            38.1  91.5  .416   8.8  14.4  .610  10.6  31.2  .340  1.04
  18 Chicago              38.3  88.2  .434   9.7  14.1  .685   9.7  26.1  .373  1.09
  19 Toronto              41.8  92.1  .454   9.7  14.1  .686  11.5  28.8  .399  1.14
  20 New York             42.2  90.9  .464  10.2  14.1  .723  13.5  32.5  .416  1.19
  21 Boston               38.2  91.2  .419   8.5  13.9  .613  12.4  32.4  .381  1.07
  22 Oklahoma City        38.3  90.0  .426   9.8  13.6  .717  10.0  27.6  .364  1.07
  23 Phoenix              42.0  95.4  .440   8.4  13.5  .626  14.1  35.1  .401  1.12
  24 Portland             36.5  87.7  .416   8.7  13.4  .648   9.4  26.8  .350  1.04
  25 Golden State         39.9  89.6  .446   8.2  13.4  .614  11.0  27.7  .396  1.11
  26 Detroit              39.9  90.1  .443   9.0  13.3  .673  11.8  29.6  .398  1.12
  27 Sacramento           39.1  91.2  .429   8.3  12.3  .672  11.5  28.9  .398  1.07
  28 Utah                 37.0  91.7  .403   8.4  12.0  .700   9.6  29.6  .325  1.00
  29 Washington           38.5  87.7  .439   7.6  11.9  .638  11.6  29.6  .392  1.10
  30 Los Angeles (LAC)    36.2  87.4  .414   6.2  10.7  .578  11.8  33.6  .350  1.03
     League Average       38.6  89.3  .432   9.7  14.8  .659  10.3  27.6  .372  1.09

basically too many 3s and too few FTs. Am afraid the FBCB imports have the same problem, even the top draftees don´t get to the line but a lot shoot 3s like nothing.

[HeavyReign]

Originally Posted by whomario

can anybody explain the mechanics of how the ABA is handled by the game ? Are the players coming from the historical DB and then are filled up with fictional players ? Is it all fictional to start ? How do the 2 leagues interact ? What setup should you choose when, say, starting in 1960 ?

It will depend on the settings you use. With the most recent patch, you can select historical db for both the ABA and NBA leagues. Just make sure you set the Database League setting to the matching league. In this setup, the game start the NBA league as usual with players from the correct seasons. Then when the ABA starts, it will add to the ABA rosters any player who was on the roster in the first season but has not already appeared as a player in the NBA. Each season the draft pools should get filled with any rookies from the corresponding league and then any remaining spots would be filled by scrubs.

Originally Posted by whomario

It seems starting in 1960 and then vaing the ABA added results in a ton of amazing players added for that league.

It could be that the fictional pool needs to be diluted a bit when starting a league in the middle of a career.

Originally Posted by whomario

Also, how do (as an example) the very low 3pt ratings of NBA players from the 60s impact the game engine ? Or how the game rates them ? (in 2012 a PG with a 0 for 3pt shooting will not be looked upon favourably when teams sign players f.e., how is it in the 60s ?). Is it just not taken into acount at all ?

Right now it is factored in normally. Might need to be tweaked.

Originally Posted by whomario

they don´t seem to have one, but when editing a league they do have an age displayed (in game all you see is if they are a freshmen, soph, jun or sen.)
The ages do seem to track, only that it´s that 1 year too high on average, it seems.

The problem is players on the default FBCB rosters are too old and too good overall.

Originally Posted by whomario

a couple issues when playing historically: players don´t play the heavy minutes they used to and there´s too many tall, good players that the game creates on it´s own (for the ABA ?)
Wilt for example averages around 30 MPG due to heavy, heavy foul trouble. Maybe a fouls modifier ? The "fouling" rating might be an issue here. Question: Is high good for avoiding fouls or does it signify a high tendency to foul ?

I'll be working on all of this. There definitely seems to be a bit too many fouls in the 50s and 60s. I also need to adjust the heights of fictional players based on the era a bit.

Originally Posted by whomario

also, is there any chance for blocked shots not being counted as a stat?

I made myself a note to think about an easy way of doing that.

[HeavyReign]

Originally Posted by bryce

My computer is treating the last two updates as completely new installs (rather than just quick updates as I had grown used to) - is this normal, or is there a setting I'm messing up?

thx

New approach to patching which takes care of the (x86) issue. It isn't creating a new install. Its just updating the previous one.

[HeavyReign]

Originally Posted by korme

Does this mean I can set the NBA and ABA to the historical DB now? Before that, the ABA was basically useless since it just created fict. players!

Yes. Just make sure you specify each league separately in the DB League dropdown during setup.

[HeavyReign]

Originally Posted by whomario

a stats related issue : Starting with fictional players, you get some wonky numbers like this...basically too many 3s and too few FTs. Am afraid the FBCB imports have the same problem, even the top draftees don´t get to the line but a lot shoot 3s like nothing.

Noted.

[whomario]

thanks for the quick response and all your hard work on this

but if i may ... ( )

Originally Posted by HeavyReign

The problem is players on the default FBCB rosters are too old and too good overall.

again, part of the problem simply is that they get robbed a year of their virtual lifes by leaving school and then sitting around the FBB universe for a year before getting drafted (i checked, players at the start of the season will show at the age FBCB exports them, then at draft time most are a year older naturally)
Maybe there´s issues beyond that in FBCB, but that 1 year would help plenty allready. (again, no idea if feasible but could it be coded to set every draftee back 1 year upon import?)

[HeavyReign]

Recruits in FBCB will be generated as either 17 or 18 years old. This means they will play their freshman season at either 18 or 19 years of age. If that player enters the draft they should enter the draft pool at that same age as the year in the draft pool corresponds with the year they spent playing college basketball. This is what is currently happening. In the draft file posted earlier in the thread, the #1 recruit who left after one season enters the draft pool at 18 years of age. Anyone who seems to be a year too old in that file has no recruit history.

[HeavyReign]

******************************************************************************************************************
Version 3.0.5: http://www.fbbgames.com/FBPB3Update305.exe
******************************************************************************************************************
Fixes:
*Fixed error 9 that could occur during end season when activating a fictional league.
*Fixed a bug that caused trades to be automatically accepted if a player who was recently traded is part of the deal.
*Developmental leagues activated after the start of the career should not be immediately filled with players.
*Fixed a bug that caused trade values of draft picks to reset to 0 when added to a trade.
*Printout of Awards screen should list the selected season at the top rather than the current league season.

Changes:
*Any untradable player will show up red on the trade screen.

[whomario]

Originally Posted by HeavyReign

Recruits in FBCB will be generated as either 17 or 18 years old. This means they will play their freshman season at either 18 or 19 years of age. If that player enters the draft they should enter the draft pool at that same age as the year in the draft pool corresponds with the year they spent playing college basketball. This is what is currently happening. In the draft file posted earlier in the thread, the #1 recruit who left after one season enters the draft pool at 18 years of age. Anyone who seems to be a year too old in that file has no recruit history.

ah come on now, my descriptive skills can´t be that bad

yes, he enters the pool at age 18, but he gets drafted at age 19.

4 examples from my most recent college class from my college team:

age FBCB season end (by editor) / age FBB start of seaon / age FBB draft day
       
Sobel                 18                            19                      20  
Knyazev             19                            20                      21
Delgado              20                            21                      22      
Sealy                 21                            22                      22  (dob jule30)

[Young Drachma]

Minor thing, not a priority in the slightest....but would it be possible to remove players auto-added to the HOF? For those instances where you autosim and forget to turn off auto HOF, it'd be nice to remove people who are in there mucking it up.

No biggie, just figured I'd ask and put it way down on the list.

[nol]

For those veterans of the series who have played it on different machines, which upgrades seem to ramp up the game's speed the most? It's working fine for me thus far, but would, for example, upgrading from 4 to 8 GB of RAM help when it comes to simming multiple leagues over 100+ years?

[HeavyReign]

Looks like FBCB is bumping their age just before export. So everything matches up with the what the draft file says but not what FBCB reports during the season. So....you win

[HeavyReign]

Originally Posted by nol

For those veterans of the series who have played it on different machines, which upgrades seem to ramp up the game's speed the most? It's working fine for me thus far, but would, for example, upgrading from 4 to 8 GB of RAM help when it comes to simming multiple leagues over 100+ years?

The biggest impact is going to come from CPU speed. Dual Core/Quad Core won't matter much as the game only uses one core. If you have 4 GB of RAM it probably wouldn't change much to go to 8 unless you like to have 5 million things open while playing. Loading/Saving will go faster if your hard drive is SSD or raid.

[Calis]

Really loving this game. Great work as usual HR!

I'm a quick simmer, so getting to replay large chunks of NBA history now is a blast. I started off with the '84 Bulls and ended up getting Jordan 7 titles, but for the majority of those he played second fiddle to Tim Hardaway.. Even had a year where I went 75-7, and a streak where we were 30-1 in the playoffs. Team is now in shambles, but a great little run.

So far very few complaints, having a blast... Probably start a new career soon to try out random debuts.

[korme]

Thanks. Sorry for making you repeat yourself.

[bryce]

Originally Posted by HeavyReign

New approach to patching which takes care of the (x86) issue. It isn't creating a new install. Its just updating the previous one.

Thanks, HR. You run a top-notch org; quality games and quality service.

[nZane]

Using the latest patch, I'm seeing an issue with training.

Each season, there is always one player not displayed. It's not the same player each season, but does seem to be a guard. On top of that, if I use the scroll bar to scroll down and then highlight a player, the game instead displays the name and info for the player two spots above. This doesn't happen when the scroll bar is at the top position.

[HeavyReign]

Originally Posted by nZane

Using the latest patch, I'm seeing an issue with training.

Each season, there is always one player not displayed. It's not the same player each season, but does seem to be a guard. On top of that, if I use the scroll bar to scroll down and then highlight a player, the game instead displays the name and info for the player two spots above. This doesn't happen when the scroll bar is at the top position.

Thanks, these things are now fixed.

[bryce]

Question on the historical sim: if we create a league with historical settings and with the developmental league (which I think started in 2000ish), does that mean the D-League starts appearing around 2000ish?

Edit: Think I just answered my own question. (Finally playing around with this for the first time.) Looks like D-League starts when historical league does. So to start the DL around 2000ish, should I leave it inactive to start the career and then activate that league during offseason after 99, say?

thx

[HeavyReign]

Originally Posted by bryce

Question on the historical sim: if we create a league with historical settings and with the developmental league (which I think started in 2000ish), does that mean the D-League starts appearing around 2000ish?

Edit: Think I just answered my own question. (Finally playing around with this for the first time.) Looks like D-League starts when historical league does. So to start the DL around 2000ish, should I leave it inactive to start the career and then activate that league during offseason after 99, say?

thx

Starting in the past and assuming you change nothing at all the historical USDL should be become active on its own when you reach the 2001 season. It shouldn't start any other time unless you change the first season value for the league under the league setup.

[bryce]

Originally Posted by HeavyReign

Starting in the past and assuming you change nothing at all the historical USDL should be become active on its own when you reach the 2001 season. It shouldn't start any other time unless you change the first season value for the league under the league setup.

Ok, that makes sense. And I think that's happening, except during the Coach hiring phase I saw the USDL teams there which made me think that league was active. Or were they just hiring 30 years in advance, hah?

[HeavyReign]

It is certainly possible that is happening. I'll look into it.

[korme]

It seems my best players always average 31-33 MPG because they foul too much. Using the historical db, for instance, my 1982 squad's top 6 guys in MPG all average over 3 FPG, with the top guys being 3.7,3.8,3.9

[IlliniCub]

I'm noticing a lot of guys winning ROY and MVP in the same year when I think it's because they are the number 1 option on otherwise bad teams.

[yeah826]

After buying the game today and playing with the fictional rosters Ive come to realize that 1.The fictional players are really good 2. There are a couple 19 year vets generated who are blue/blue. 3. After a couple years with the FBCB imports the league will start to normalize itself once the original fictionals are gone and the stats become better.

I like that there are bust in this game the number 1 overall draft pick from my FBCB ended up becoming nothing more than a role player going through 4 teams while the number 3 went on to have a hall of fame career.

[yeah826]

A bug I found when there is an expansion team entering the draft they are not allowed to have number 1 pick in the draft I think they get number 2 at best.

[HeavyReign]

That is the expansion eligible for lottery setting in the game. If this was set to no and the expansion team was in the top 3 let me know. This applies only to the lottery btw.

[BishopMVP]

Originally Posted by Calis

Really loving this game. Great work as usual HR!

I'm a quick simmer, so getting to replay large chunks of NBA history now is a blast. I started off with the '84 Bulls and ended up getting Jordan 7 titles, but for the majority of those he played second fiddle to Tim Hardaway.. Even had a year where I went 75-7, and a streak where we were 30-1 in the playoffs. Team is now in shambles, but a great little run.

I think it's possible to create too dominant a user team right now. Now, I was playing with finances off to do some fast-simming just to check things out (and occasionally exploiting the draft pick trade AI), so that's pretty much primed to set up a dynasty, but after starting with expansion Charlotte I was able to get Dwight Howard and CP3 with consecutive #1 picks, then after a couple complementary pieces (mainly Batum, Granger) fell into place I reeled off a 4-year stretch of 75-7, 80-2, 75-7 and 82-0. Ironically I lost in the finals of the 82-0 year when CP3 got injured, but I don't think I've ever even had an undefeated season in the most recent FBCB

Originally Posted by HeavyReign

The biggest impact is going to come from CPU speed. Dual Core/Quad Core won't matter much as the game only uses one core. If you have 4 GB of RAM it probably wouldn't change much to go to 8 unless you like to have 5 million things open while playing. Loading/Saving will go faster if your hard drive is SSD or raid.

This does seem light years faster than FBCB on my computer. Is that due to any changes in the coding, or just the much smaller quantity of teams/games to sim on any day?

Overall, definitely gonna have to play with some house rules on draft pick trading, but I'm loving it so far HR.

[yeah826]

Also the team im playing with waived my second round pick without my say so all I did was sent him down to the D League.

[HeavyReign]

Originally Posted by yeah826

Also the team im playing with waived my second round pick without my say so all I did was sent him down to the D League.

Could you post his transaction log?

[yeah826]

here you go

[Johnny93g]

The awesome 1st two seasons of Pistol Pete's career

 PLAYER DETAILS

 #12 SG Pete Maravich - Celtics
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 Height:       6-5
 Weight:       208
 DOB:          6/22/1924 (25)
 College:      LSU
 Exp:          2
 
 Attributes:
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 Type       INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
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 Current:    90  63  77  10  42  44  25  32  12  29  47  22  82  50  81  94
 Potential:   A   B   B   F   C   B   D   D   F   C   C   D                

 Health:      Good                                           
 Status:      Active Roster                                  
 Salary:      $3,058                                         
 Length:      2                                              
 
 Stat Averages:
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 Season  LGE TEAM   G  GS  MIN  PTS  ORE  REB  AST   TO   A/T  STL  BLK   PF
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   1948  NBA  BOS  60  60 36.9 33.2  1.5  5.7  3.5  2.9  1.20  1.3  0.3  2.9
   1947  NBA  BOS  48  48 33.7 29.1  1.8  6.2  5.0  4.4  1.14  1.0  0.3  3.5
 Career           108 108 35.5 31.4  1.6  5.9  4.1  3.5  1.14  1.2  0.3  3.1

 Shooting Averages:
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 Season  FGM  FGA   FG%  FTM  FTA   FT% InsM InsA   In%  JsM  JsA   Js%  3PM  3PA   3P%
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   1948 11.9 24.4  .488  9.4 11.7  .803  5.8  9.9  .582  6.2 14.7  .423  0.0  0.0  .000
   1947 10.5 24.5  .427  8.2 10.3  .790  4.0  7.2  .556  6.5 17.3  .373  0.0  0.0  .000
 Career 11.3 24.4  .461  8.9 11.1  .798  5.0  8.7  .573  6.3 15.8  .399  0.0  0.0  .000
 
 
 Efficiency:
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 Season  LGE TEAM   G   TS%  PPS  AST   TO  USG  ORR  DRR   RR  PER     VA   EWA   +/-  OEFF  DEFF
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   1948  NBA  BOS  60  .562 1.36  9.6  8.0  0.0  4.2 10.1  7.3  0.0    0.0   0.0   5.9 100.4  93.9
   1947  NBA  BOS  48  .501 1.19 13.0 11.3 41.9  4.9 11.7  8.4 23.1  304.5  10.2   6.9 102.9  93.5
 Career           108  .535 1.28 11.2  9.6 38.9  4.5 10.8  7.8  9.8  304.5  10.2   6.3 101.5  93.7
 
 Playoff Averages:
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 Season  LGE TEAM   G  GS  MIN  PTS  ORE  REB  AST   TO   A/T  STL  BLK   PF
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   1948  NBA  BOS  10  10 33.8 31.7  1.1  5.3  3.9  3.4  1.15  1.3  0.1  3.4
   1947  NBA  BOS   5   5 33.2 27.0  1.6  6.2  5.4  5.8  0.93  1.2  0.4  5.0
 Career            15  15 33.6 30.1  1.3  5.6  4.4  4.2  0.93  1.3  0.2  3.9

 
 Career Highs:
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 Type      Pts OReb  Reb  Ast  Stl  Blk   TO  FGM  FGA  FTM  FTA  3PM  3PA
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 Season     60    6   15    9    4    2    7   24   41   22   28    0    0
 Playoff    51    3   12    9    3    1    9   22   35   21   25    0    0
 Career     60    6   15   12    4    3   11   24   41   22   29    0    0
 
 Awards & Acheivements:
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 Season   Award
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 Total    Player of the Game: 42
 Total    Player of the Week: 5
 Total    Player of the Month: 2
 Total    All-Star Appearances: 2
 Total    All-Star Game MVP : 1
 Total    All-League First Team : 2
 Total    Playoff MVP : 1
 Total    Most Valuable Player : 1
 Total    Championships: 1
 1948     National Basketball Association Champion
 1948     NBA Playoff MVP
 1948     NBA All-League First Team
 1948     NBA Most Valuable Player
 1948     NBA Most Improved Player
 1948     NBA All-Star Game MVP
 1948     NBA All-Star
 1948     NBA Rookie Game Participant
 1947     NBA All-Rookie First Team
 1947     NBA All-League First Team
 1947     NBA All-Star
 1947     NBA Rookie Game MVP
 1947     NBA Rookie Game Participant

[HeavyReign]

Originally Posted by BishopMVP

This does seem light years faster than FBCB on my computer. Is that due to any changes in the coding, or just the much smaller quantity of teams/games to sim on any day?

Overall, definitely gonna have to play with some house rules on draft pick trading, but I'm loving it so far HR.

Certain things were done to improve speed so part of it is probably code based.

I can definitely see how trading for draft picks might be easier with finances off. Ultimately I'll probably add some settings that allow you to tweak how the trade AI values certain things. I also encourage anyone who sees a trade that shouldn't go through to send me the save and trade details so I can take a look at it.

[HeavyReign]

Originally Posted by yeah826

Also the team im playing with waived my second round pick without my say so all I did was sent him down to the D League.

This is a tough one. If he were cut by the DLG team he wouldn't go to waivers and it would say they cut him in the transactions. The only places for the main team to cut him are behind sections of code that guarantee the team is either CPU or using CPU roster. There was a problem with this in the beta that was eventually fixed so I've combed over this code a bunch of times. If you still have the full league transactions from the season that might help too.

[Bigsmooth]

Fired up the 1990 Sonics squad with Payton as a rookie and Kemp in his second year. That is a loaded roster with Dale Ellis, X-Man, McKey, etc. Just wanted to say I'm enjoying the game and the historical facet is simply remarkable. Well done!

[mgsports]

Thanks a Million.

[yeah826]

Originally Posted by mgsports

I'm trying to Create 1989 Historical League and start year always goes back to 2012.

When you press begin career under new game section there is a section called first season just set that to 1989

[korme]

Not sure if this is a bug but it's the first time I'm seeing it. Bringing up the trade screen midseason in 1984, the Spurs have duplicate picks through 1986. So it says 1984 Round 1 Pick (Spurs), 1984 Round 1 Pick (Spurs), 1984 Round 2 Pick (Spurs), 1984 Round 2 Pick (Spurs) and so on...

[nilodor]

How would someone go about preventing the Grizzlies from leaving Vancouver and the Sonics from leaving Seattle while still having the league expand and change alignment?

[korme]

Olajuwon is not showing up in the 1984 draft.

[yeah826]

Did you start the season in 1983?? Because I see him.

[korme]

Nope, started from '46. It's the first instance of a player not showing up that I've noticed.

[nilodor]

Originally Posted by nilodor

How would someone go about preventing the Grizzlies from leaving Vancouver and the Sonics from leaving Seattle while still having the league expand and change alignment?

In case anyone is curious how to do this:

1. Go into My Documents/GDS/FBB3/Historical Leagues/North America/Teams
2. Go into Memphis & Oklahoma City.csv
3. Copy down the entries for the team prior to moving
3a. If you created a backup of the team.csv file, don't store it in the /Teams directory or else you'll get an expansion franchise in that season.

[HeavyReign]

Originally Posted by korme

Not sure if this is a bug but it's the first time I'm seeing it. Bringing up the trade screen midseason in 1984, the Spurs have duplicate picks through 1986. So it says 1984 Round 1 Pick (Spurs), 1984 Round 1 Pick (Spurs), 1984 Round 2 Pick (Spurs), 1984 Round 2 Pick (Spurs) and so on...

Must be because they have been active in two leagues. Anyone else who came from the other league would have that issue too I bet.

[HeavyReign]

Originally Posted by korme

Nope, started from '46. It's the first instance of a player not showing up that I've noticed.

Ok, so you started in 1946. From the draft pick issue I'd say both pro leagues have been active. I'm assuming you set both to historical db and to the correct league. Let me see if I can duplicate it.