playing exhibition games

[raptors6thman]

i created a complete mock draft for 16 teams. i would like to play exhibition games with those teams. i copied the dbf files over to another folder and loaded it up. the teams show but i get errors with the other 13 teams. anyone know how to fix this?

[Rens]

Perhaps they have too many players on their team? Try releasing players in the Release Player screen, and make sure there are a maximum of 15 players on each roster.

[raptors6thman]

the rosters arent messing it up. what im getting is icons of the remaining 13 teams (we're not using) in the team select. also if i go into re-order rosters and scroll threw teams i'll get a bunch on line like ------- for those 13 teams. a message also states that teams need to have at least 8 uninjured players. i tried everything, deleting teams from the teams.dbf but it only makes things worst. i dont know what to do

[Andrew]

Those errors usually occur when two players are assigned the same roster position in the DBF, or there are more than 15 players assigned to a team (which usually means two players are sharing the same roster position). What exactly have you changed in the players.dbf file.

[raptors6thman]

andrew, all i did was sim a franchise from scratch. selecting the 16 teams we wanted. i saved it then i copied over the players, coaches, teams etc dbf over to another folder. thats it. i dont know why the other teams show up. when i open up the teams.dbf the unchosen 13 teams arent there but they show up in live.

[Andrew]

There's the problem. You can't use files from a Franchise where you are using less than 29 teams as the default rosters ie. ones you can load to play Exhibition games.

[raptors6thman]

http://www.enlhoops.com/

andrew check out their weekly rosters.. not only are they playing with 16 teams they also managed to remove all the all stars from the rosters as well. this is what i would like to do. since these guys did it there has to be a way for it to work for me.

[Andrew]

The EFNet patch has removed the All-Star teams, but it hasn't removed any of the 29 NBA Live teams - moreover, there are still players assigned to all 29 teams. This way, there are no errors.

You will still encounter errors if you copy rosters from a Franchise that features less than 29 teams to a saved roster file and try to load it. That's not what they've done - their patch still contains data for the 29 NBA teams plus the Free Agent pool.