Antdroid's 2013 Roster Update + 2014/2015 College Draft Files

[antdroid]

03/13/2015 updated.

2014 Roster Updated:
Changed player rankings a bit.
Added a few new players.
Moved LaGarrette Blount to New England

2014 Draft Class:
Filled in Top 20-25 players in upcoming draft for each position.
Updated height and weight info for offensive players and some defensive.
Updated colleges for QBs only.

2015 Draft Class:
Filled in Top 20-25 players in upcoming draft for each position.
However, didnt have time (yet?) to fill in colleges, height/weight, etc.

2016 Draft Class:
Filled in Top 20-25 players in upcoming draft for each position.
However, didnt have time (yet?) to fill in colleges, height/weight, etc.





Description:

I'm pretty new to this community but have done some roster work on other games in the past such as Baseball Mogul. Anyway, I took a look at the 2013 rosters and made some quick updates to them and added a couple new players into it. It looks like the way the roster is set up, is that I set a overall score and then the game takes the player's info and generates skill ratings for each person.

So I went ahead and took the CSV file and sorted by position group and tried to modify their overall rank based on that. I hope that makes some sense - based on the help files in player file generator.


I also took a brand new stab at making a 2014 draft class. I had posted one previously, but started over from scratch with a 2nd version. For this one, I put in some more accurate player info such as weight and height for some position groups. I didn't do it for all of them however, so it's mainly just offense players.

For all players, I took CBS Sports Top Prospects by Position (roughly 20-25 players per group) and added them into a randomly generator draft file from Fictional Player Factory Web Player Generator. After that, I took a more logical approach of putting players to fictional players but sorting and filtering out by positions and then taking the average of the skill ratings that fit the requirements of the position and then renamed accordingly and adjusted weight and height.

Again, FOF takes these roster sets as a guideline but then randomly generates skill ratings accordingly.


Anyway, I attached the zip file. It includes an already created database for importing into the game for both the 2013 final roster and the 2014 draft class. I also attached CSV spreadsheets of what I did in the zip.

[polydamas]

When I select the .faf file it says that it isn't compatible for my version of FOF7. Any suggestions?

[nilodor]

Originally Posted by polydamas

When I select the .faf file it says that it isn't compatible for my version of FOF7. Any suggestions?

My guess is that the draft file generator is for the old version and the files aren't compatible with the newest version of FOF. Some small modifications need to be made to the csv files before converting them over for it to work properly.

[antdroid]

Can you let me know which file?

I am using the latest version of FOF7 and I've imported both draft classes and they work fine on my end. (Version 7.0a)


The generator was made for a previous version and it had a few extra columns of 0's in it which I deleted prior to saving the csv. I then imported it using the PlayerFile and DraftFile generator from the current FOF7 with no issues, and then imported both classes into the respective season without any problems either.

Is anyone else having problems?

[polydamas]

2014-draft-v2.faf

[antdroid]

I attached a re-compiled one that I am using in my current save that I am playing right now.

Hope that works.

[djsatu]

Looking to get back into this game tonight and this is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks antdroid, can't wait to try these out!

[antdroid]

I'm probably going to go back in and update the 2014 draft file a little bit more soon. I'm also working on 2014 roster update too, though this could be time consuming and I may end up quitting, but I've gotten it up to date as of this morning with free agency turnover.

[BarthXabbu]

Hello, I am relativly new on this game so it could be a mistake....but all players in the League with your file are born 1964....So I guess the whole league will retire at the end of the season....What can I do to change/avoid that?

[BarthXabbu]

OK sorry this has to be absolutely my fault. Because I started a new SP and now the birth dates are correct. What went wrong? Anybody please???

And an Update: this seems to happen after a while. I startet several SP and it happened on every one off them. My game is NOT cracked but I am on the last day of my free trial. I would love to buy this but I could not live with such a bug in the game and I hate the ratings for the Eagles Players in the original player file....

[polydamas]

Nevermind it works

[antdroid]

I just did a really quick update.

I updated the 2014 roster that is in the latest FOF7 update and tweaked some player rankings, added a couple players, moved LaGarette Blount to New England, and changed the salary cap to match closer to the real one for 2014.

I also just added the "names" of the top 25 position by position players for the 2015 and 2016 draft classes (though I did add myself to the 2016 list for kicks...).

The zip file has all the files in it.

[ferynn]

Thanks for the hard work man! Any user feedback on how this is working for them ?
Do you have any guide for install as well ? Is it just copy/paste in the game folder ?
And lastly, is it compatible with steam version ?
Many thanks again !

EDIT: Ok, nevermind. I checked and all goes fine to import. One more question though, I want to start from the 2014 season with the new version of FOF7, so my first draft would be the 2015 one. How can I edit the 2015-draftfile1.faf file?

Many thanks Antdroid!