Historical draft files revisited

[3ric]

This is from the chat transcript thread:

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Originally posted by Solecismic
Given the amount of work that has clearly gone into the draft project, I'm going to do what I can to help out there.

If those draft files originally came from spreadsheets, the good news is that it won't be hard to convert those spreadsheets into ones compatible with the draft file generator.

If not, I'll try to find some time to write a converter in the days following the release.
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That's great, Jim. But that won't be necessary - with my editor, it's possible to copy the entire content of a draft file to Excel just like that. Just select the whole sheet, Ctrl-C, switch to Excel, Ctrl-P. See the attached file, should take me about an hour to do all 30 of them.

OK, the hour has passed and I have a ZIP file with 33 Excel files with each draft from 1970 to 2003 (linked below). We don't have the FOF2004 draft file generator yet, but we can do an audit of the files and eliminate spelling errors (no more updating of *.dll files, yay!), and some other mistakes, like players born twenty years earlier (in the 90s) or twenty years later (in the 70s).

excel_drafts.zip

[FBPro]

Excellent, great job. Thanks for the work.

[JeeberD]

You da man, 3ric!