Primacy Updater V 1.0 - Sim Stat Fix of Sorts

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Primacy Updater V 1.0 - Sim Stat Fix of Sorts

Postby Mark. on Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:01 pm

Last year Cwebbiverson made a Primacy Updater which I found very handy in trying to keep the simmed statictics in my dynasty realistic.

Since this years simmed stats are no better I thought id have a crack at making an updater.
Basically when this patch is run it updates all the primacy ratings in the players.dbf for the Dynasty save file.

Before downloading make sure to read these points:

:arrow: This patch will update the Primacy ratings of certain players which will hopefully improve the simulated statistics.
:arrow: These ratings arent extremely accurate, ive made them more so that players that should be averaging high amounts of points will hopefully do so.
:arrow: That being said I dont guarantee that the stats will be simmed to you liking.
:arrow: I havent covered all players, only the sort of key players on each team.
:arrow: I encourage you to edit the primacy fields in this patch so the simmed stats will be more to your liking.
:arrow: This hasnt been properly tested yet, ive just been using it for my dynasty, so it will be getting tweaked a few times.
:arrow: If Andrew ends up making a NLSC roster patch, with his consent I will make a version of this which uses the Primacy ratings he decides on.
:arrow: You will need to run this patch often, basically everytime a player gets inujured, signed/release or traded it will need to be run.


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Installation:

Simply Unzip the archive, then place all the included files in the dynasty folder you wish to update (My Documents/NBA Live 07/Saves/Your Dynasty).

Run the file .bat file "Primacy Fix 07".

Your Dynasty should be updated.


Editing the Updater (Not too hard, but if you hate code and aren't willing to try work out problems yourself, then maybe this aint for you :wink: )

Right Click on the .bat file (Primacy Fix 07)

Choose Edit from the list of options, this will open a notepad window which will show lots of lines of the following code:


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"cdbflite.exe" players.dbf /case /filter:PLAYERPKG=LOWRIGH /field:PRIMACY=40 /update


Note: this particular line updates Lorenzen Wrights primacy rating to 40


The PLAYERPKG field controls which player is editied, while the PRIMACY field is value that the players Primacy rating to change to.

So say for example I wanted Wright's primacy rating to update to 20 rather than 40. I would change the Primacy field in the code to 20 instead of 40. Simple as that :D

Now if you want to add a player to the updater you will have to find that player's PLAYERPKG (Player Package). To do this you will need a dbf editor such as DB Commander 2000 Pro and then search in your Dynasties players.dbf which is found in the Dynasties Save Folder and find the player you need and then find his PLAYERPKG.

For most players their PLAYERPKG is simply the first two letters of their name followd by the first 5 letters of their Surname e.g. Kobe's PLAYERPKG is KOBRYAN. However this is not always true, so to be safe I reccomend finding the value in the players.dbf

OK so say I want to add Sean Marks to the Primacy update and want to update his Primacy to 80 :crazy:
Marks' PLAYERPKG is SEMARKS so I would add the following line of code to the file:


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"cdbflite.exe" players.dbf /case /filter:PLAYERPKG=SEMARKS /field:PRIMACY=80 /update


Thats pretty much all it takes (Y)

Also you might have noticed that I had grouped all the players into their teams, with Atlanta being at the start and Washington at the bottom, this should make it easier to find if players are included etc.

Hope this helps (Y)

Lastly I will say it one more time:
There is no Guarantee that this will fix the simmed stats completely, it has helped me so I thought I would share it (Y)
Last edited by Mark. on Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:25 am, edited 3 times in total.
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Postby Lagoa on Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:08 pm

Hummm...

Please...show screens...

How many points per game Kobe/Lebron/AI and Arenas have with this patch?

Who is leader in assists (how many assists per game) in Dynasty mode?

I´m waiting! :D (Y)

If this patch fix this stufs...will be GREAT! :D
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Postby Mark. on Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:15 pm

Well as I just added (forgot to write it before) I havent tested it much, ive just been using it with my dynasty. The thing is its hard to test it since you need to be running the .bat file often to keep the Primacy ratings how you want them, so ill just be changing it as I progress in my dynasty.

Thats why i'm encouraging others to edit it themselves.

Basically to have Kobe, AI etc averaging a high amount of points you need to have their Primacy at 99 while the rest of their team (espeically the other players who get a large amount of minutes) need to be considerably lower so Kobe/Ai will be getting the Majority of the shots.

Once again im not sayig it fixes the problem completely, but it sure helps (Y)

I find the best way to keep the ratings how you want them is to run the file everytime you finish playing live :D
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Postby Ryan on Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:19 pm

I like that you have it sorted by team. It makes it nice and organized. (Y)
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Postby e-mat on Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:23 pm

This seems to be a great patch! I'm really tired of opening the players.dbf after every day in my dynasty and changing the primacy ratings over and over again. However, I can't download it. I get some sort of error every time... :( Could you please upload it somewhere else? Would appreciate that. :)
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Postby Pablito on Sun Oct 22, 2006 5:03 pm

I really worked with your sim stat fix patch for hours, but i still haven't figured it out! First of all i just don't understand why for example Boston stats are so realistic, with the primacy ratings EA gave them, and at the same time Miami or Cleveland are way off!!
And i really tried hard to fix that, put Wade to 95, and everybody else at 5 except for Shaq, who i gave a solid 25!..............But still same stats!
Shaq 18 or something, J. Williams 16, and Wade with 14 ppg.
Same with Cleveland. James at 90, and the rest of the team at 5. One time i got really realistic stats (L. James with 31.4 ppg, Ilgauskas 13 Hughes 12 and Gooden 12) and the next time, with the same ratings, Marshall with 20 and James only 16 ppg.
Same with Philladelphia!

I really was able to turn the simmed stats into realistic ones in 06 by myself, just by editing primacy ratings, but in 07 primacy ratings allready look pretty realistic, but the stats that are the result are far away from beeing realistic.
I think there are some other factors in the game, that have influence on primacy. Got to be!
I just can't play a dynasty with those kind of stats!
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Postby e-mat on Sun Oct 22, 2006 9:04 pm

Pablito wrote:I really worked with your sim stat fix patch for hours, but i still haven't figured it out! First of all i just don't understand why for example Boston stats are so realistic, with the primacy ratings EA gave them, and at the same time Miami or Cleveland are way off!!
And i really tried hard to fix that, put Wade to 95, and everybody else at 5 except for Shaq, who i gave a solid 25!..............But still same stats!
Shaq 18 or something, J. Williams 16, and Wade with 14 ppg.
Same with Cleveland. James at 90, and the rest of the team at 5. One time i got really realistic stats (L. James with 31.4 ppg, Ilgauskas 13 Hughes 12 and Gooden 12) and the next time, with the same ratings, Marshall with 20 and James only 16 ppg.
Same with Philladelphia!

I really was able to turn the simmed stats into realistic ones in 06 by myself, just by editing primacy ratings, but in 07 primacy ratings allready look pretty realistic, but the stats that are the result are far away from beeing realistic.
I think there are some other factors in the game, that have influence on primacy. Got to be!
I just can't play a dynasty with those kind of stats!


Tell me about it, LeBron averaged more rebounds than points in my dynasty before I started messing with primacy ratings... :evil: Top MVP candidates are Donyell Marshall, Lamar Odom, Pau Gasol, Mehmet Okur... :?

The thing is primacy ratings change automatically after every game. If you change it once, it probably will get you somewhat realistic stats for one single game. But you have to change them every day in dynasty. It works quite fine for me. Kobe is averaging about 28, Wade about the same... LeBron, Iverson, Arenas are quite off at about 20. But I'll start a new dynasty anyway once the season starts so it remains to be seen. This patch sounds so cool, too bad I can't download it... :(
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Postby Pablito on Sun Oct 22, 2006 11:40 pm

So the primacy ratings that are set by EA, should give realistic stats, but i have to keep them that way by editing them after every game??
Yeah, that patch is really awsome!
You can't download it? If you want, you can contact me on MSN messenger, and i just send the file to you! Just give me your MSN information!
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Postby Mark. on Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:17 am

Sorry guys, ive been reformatting my computer recently, ill upload the file again later today.

Ive realised that another reason for a lot of the stars not getting as many points as they should be is that they aren't playing as many minutes. I had a look at their fatigue ratings and A Lot of them have ratings that are too low, IMO players like Kobe should have 99 in fatigue since you dont really want them off the court, anyway it does help a bit if you increase that to 99 for the main stars, but I still quite often get sim results where players like Kobe, Arenas, Lebron etc play 25-30 minutes and they werent even in foul trouble.

Although changing the primacy seems to help a bit, ims till really confused as to what the other controlling factors are. Im beggining to think that there are some other files that are controlling the stats other than the Primacy ratings. Ive read that editing the simeng file didnt change anything.......

How I wish they implemented something similar to the DStats we had in previous years.



EDIT: Ive uploaded a new file, try the link in the first post now (Y)
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Postby e-mat on Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:06 pm

Mark. wrote:Sorry guys, ive been reformatting my computer recently, ill upload the file again later today.

Ive realised that another reason for a lot of the stars not getting as many points as they should be is that they aren't playing as many minutes. I had a look at their fatigue ratings and A Lot of them have ratings that are too low, IMO players like Kobe should have 99 in fatigue since you dont really want them off the court, anyway it does help a bit if you increase that to 99 for the main stars, but I still quite often get sim results where players like Kobe, Arenas, Lebron etc play 25-30 minutes and they werent even in foul trouble.

Although changing the primacy seems to help a bit, ims till really confused as to what the other controlling factors are. Im beggining to think that there are some other files that are controlling the stats other than the Primacy ratings. Ive read that editing the simeng file didnt change anything.......

How I wish they implemented something similar to the DStats we had in previous years.



EDIT: Ive uploaded a new file, try the link in the first post now (Y)
Yeah, I also noticed the minutes problem. But the problem with 99 fatigue rating is that when you play a game and one of the players has a fatigue rating at 85 or higher, he doesn't tire. At all. So I changed everyones fatigue ratings so the highest is 84 (Allen Iverson, LeBron James...) and the lovest is 60 (pretty stupid to sub in a player and see his fatigue bar empty after a couple of minutes). It's better when you play but probably worse when you simulate... :(
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Postby Mark. on Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:37 pm

Yeah your right. But I think players like Kobe, Lebron, AI, DWade etc are fine with 99 since its not uncommon to see them play most of the game and not get too tired, I gues its just preference, I know id rather see better simmed stats at the cost of seeing them play a lot of the game.
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Postby e-mat on Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:31 am

I'm planning to add all missing players to your patch, even if they're benchwarmers. Why? Because there have been multiple occasions when some scrub all of a sudden has a 90 primacy rating. So even if Kobe has 99, some scrub will take away some of his shots. I hope it works out even better. :)
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Postby Mark. on Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:55 am

Good idea, this is exactly what I wanted people to do with the patch :D Let me know when you are done (Y) I simply don't have the time currently to go through all the players. So it will be good if someone can make a complete version.
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Postby e-mat on Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:47 pm

Well...I kinda finished it in about 4 hours yesterday. However I'm not familiar with all the rookies (2nd round especially). So I assigned most of them very low primacy ratings. The good thing is I use Jimmy's roster patch so I have almost every player. However I'm determined to set more realistic primacy ratings for rookies looking at their preseason performance. I let you now when I'm done.

p.s. Your ratings were pretty good although I still had to change most of them to some extent... :lol:
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Postby Pablito on Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:48 am

Hey e-mat!!
Have you finished your update on Primacy ratings of all players! I would really appreciate, if you could share it, as i want to start a season and dynasty, and i really want sim stats to be fine!
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