10-25-2018, 08:42 PM
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I hate you Norv
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: San Diego
Posts: 4,797
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NCAA Football 14/Madden 19 Draft Class Conversion (PC)
UPDATE 12/8/18
Uploaded wrong file last time. Now attached is the Madden 19 draft classes. Not the csv files. My bad.
3 more test draft classes attached with all positions added. Full ratings conversion is done along with draft projection.
Premise
To be able to take players going pro in NCAA 14 and convert that into a working draft class file for Madden 19 (PC) with all ratings adjusted and inline with a regular generated Madden draft class. This was one if my favorite features in years past with NCAA and Madden.
My Plans
Ultimate goal - I want to create a tool that others can use as well. Who wouldn't love to see the players they've been using in NCAA make it to the NFL. I don't know how automated I can make this so I'm not sure how feasible it is just yet.
First goal - To be able to make the draft class file work. After that I can hopefully do something along the lines of CWSapp and Radierz with their fictional draft classes. But for the PC guys obviously. It wouldn't be as in depth with scouting reports and what not but it would give players some backstory. Off the top of my head you'd have yearly awards, all americans, all conference, season and career stats, college football backstory, top incoming recruits, top returning players, etc. So some fun stuff.
Where I'm Currently At
I've just begun really. I've had this idea for quite awhile. Just this past week StingRay was able to make MaddenAmp export/import draft class files to csv. That's my forte. I've been hard at work figuring out how to make this possible. Lots of things are the same (quite a few ratings) but lots are different as well. It's going to take quite a bit of work. I love automating things but to do that you have to put in all the work the first time.
As far as how to adjust ratings I have a really good plan in place. Basically it involves their original NCAA rating, a random number formula, and a specific table to get the information from. The cool thing about this method (at least in theory because I've only completed a few attributes) is that with one click of a button every rating will change to a certain degree for the entire draft class. So you could make 10 draft class files with the same players and everyone will have them rated different. I think the rating part will be easy.
Now to the harder stuff. How to transfer over age, body stuff, ethnicity, college's, mock draft position, dev trait, etc. Some of this stuff isn't in NCAA or the code is just different. I do have a plan for this (basically creating vlookup tables) but I'd have to find all the correct information in both games first. Time consuming stuff to say the least.
Release Date
TBD.
At this point I don't know how long it will take. Then once I finish it's going to be about fixing bugs (because there is always bugs). But I'm hoping to have a working draft class out by the first week in Nov. Depending on family and work responsibilities. Once I get the Excel file done pumping out draft classes shouldn't be to hard. Other then figuring out a good format to give the backstory information. Hopefully after that I can release a working copy for everybody to use. Or at the very least for a little while I could have you email me your NCAA csv and I could create a draft class from it. That's a bit down the road though. Gotta stay focused on the task at hand first.
Conclusion
This has been a dream of mine since I heard Madden was coming to the PC. Hopefully some of you other guys are interested as well. Regardless this project is near and dear to me so I will get it done no matter what. Thanks for reading.
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Last edited by tdawg3782; 12-08-2018 at 07:01 PM.
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