"when starting a season, will all teams be available in the season mode? is there anything i need to know about how to make that happen? or can i only have a certain number of teams? One more question: i have seen a couple posts about the player ratings. do they need to be tweaked once i get the roster files?"
I suggest you do NOT play the Season mode, because it will likely freeze in Week 11 and the Simulation stats are HORRRIBLE!! The Titans go 14-2 or better every season; sim a few seasons and see for yourself.
You can only control one team in season mode. Rate Sports has head-to-head files where you can play as 8 different teams. His season files, you can only play as one team.
You need to edit the player ratings if you want the game to play like the real NFL. Thank God that Rate Sports did the majority of the work of changing names and getting the NFL set up for us on APF. However, the ratings are generic and not at all reflective of how the real NFL players play. After all the work he put in, it should be up to use to enter the player ratings because Rate Sports has already done soooo much by himself.
I use this site to do my player ratings:
http://www.fbgratings.com/members/index.php
You may need to add a few ratings points to players agility and certain elite WR's Catching rating.
Follow these links to learn how to edit the rosters and save the ratings changes you make:
http://www.operationsports.com/featu...ll-2k8-editor/
http://www.operationsports.com/featu...8-for-dummies/
http://www.operationsports.com/forum...ppened-13.html (Check Post #121)
http://www.operationsports.com/forum...ppened-12.html (Check Post #113 to download Flying Finn's APF PC Editor)
I have 15 of the NFL teams player ratings written down in my Notebook. I have completely edited 8 user teams in rate sports NFC Alt.(MIN) file and it plays EXCELLENT.
I REALLY wish we could get three or four people together and edit rate sports files together, as a small, elect group of people so many of these files can get finished.
I am willing to write down the ratings of five more teams, so that would be 20 NFL teams ratings written down. And if a few people could do a few teams each, we could exchange the ratings between us and get a bunch of file done before we reach Christmas time.
If anyone is willing to do this and stick with it, instead of quitting half-way through, please send me a PM(Private Message). Thanks Guys for contributing to these forums!!
And one more thing, in APF, each team has 42 players on the roster, which includes a Kicker and Punter.
Have Fun!!