Changing the Year

[rise]

Can you make a season/franchise start at the year 2010, or change it to any other year? Because in franchise mode, players won't retire for a good 5 years and their years pro get all out of wack when playing with 2010 and 2011 rosters.

Also is it possible to change the year in the middle of a franchise?

[Bucket]

I think it's impossible.

[ize]

I learned a method from tommy, simulate up to the 2010/2011 season, save the game, go to your saved folder and copy the 2010-2011 players.dbf file over the existing one. Go back to the load/save menu and load your saved folder. That simple, and it works fine

[rise]

Then the ratings of players will be ridiculous. Steve Nash will probably improve from 93 overall to 98 overall and Rajon Rondo will be dominant 3 point shooter. Even Desagana Diop gets an overall rating 85.

[ize]

It works fine for me

[Andrew]

As far as I know, it can't be done as you'd like it to be done. The way I've compensated in the NBA Live 2005-08 rosters is to offer a batch file which changes the year of birth for all players so that the game recognises them as being older.