Ya I'm creating a vlookup table for this exact purpose. It'll keep me distracted as I mourn the loss of the Seahawks.
On a different topic, I was trying to change more things in the template.dat databases and failed changing default rosters, schedules, coaches, etc. I did some of these in a batch change though so I haven't figured out what exactly worked and/or caused failure. The roster requirements was successfully changed though, and I'm certain I wasn't able to change the default roster database.