New Fictional Roster

[1matt]

I play Madden 08 and Live 07. On Madden 08 I downloaded a Fictional roster and it was way more interesting in Franchise(Dynasty) play. I was going to start working on a Fictional roster for Live 07.

I just wanted to know what I'd need to make this roster work. I know I'd have to create at least 400 players just to fill rosters with starters and reserves, and an additional 90-120 for the free agents. My main question is how do I delete the players in the game already.

I have the dbf editor and all and I'm pretty good with it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Andrew]

Welcome to the Forum! The easiesy way to remove existing players from the rosters is to change their TEAM to 32. They'll still appear in the database but they won't show up in the active rosters and for all intents and purposes will be removed from the game.

[JaoSming]

I made a completely generic roster for Live 06 full of Created Players.

What I did was created a few players of different colors and face sizes and then opened the DBF files in open office's alternative to excel (it wont corrupt or crash DBF files like excel can)

To delete players, you can just delete their lines in both the appearance and players dbf files.


after taking a quick look at the tutorials I am linking you to below I created a bunch of formulas. At first I went to the names dbf, copied out the first and last names into calc (the programs names), randomized the names and imported them into the players dbf. Then I assigned the players a fixed amount of positions. So the first fifth was PGs, SGs, SFs, PFs, Cs and so on. From those position values I used random() in a bunch of equations to determine height, weight, dunkpacks, and ratings. Shooting range was based off of shooting abilities and mostly everything else was random within a range for that position.

For appearances, I actually went even further and assigned accessories to the players if they were good at a certain skill. So good dribblers got the long sleeve, shot blockers/stealers got headbands, dunkers got long socks, etc etc. Faces were randomized with the CAP values thru DBF editing.

When it was all said and done, I loaded up the game and did a fantasy draft. Saved out the dynasty roster to a regular roster file and that was it. Completely generic roster.

you can check out this thread for random screenshots of my generic roster
viewtopic.php?f=88&t=58233&hilit=enbseries


These pages help immensely

http://nbalive07.nba-live.com/index.php?go=dbf-players

http://nbalive07.nba-live.com/index.php ... appearance


If you have 06, I can send you this, but I dont really want to deal with converting a roster to 07 right now.


Also, if you are going to be using create a player a lot, you might want to look at this
http://download.nba-live.com/index.php?act=view&id=1049

That will work in 06-08

[1matt]

Thanks fellas.
I'll try to follow the dbf instructions. But you kinda lost me on how you opened the dbf file in an alternate program. Thats pretty new to me but I'll read up on it and give it a try..

[Andrew]

Open Office has a spreadsheet program similar to Excel which can be used to open DBF files. Excel can do that too but you have to be careful with Excel as quite often it corrupts the database.

[1matt]

Ok... So if I understand this right I can open the .dbf and create all new players using the Office Database program. Then I can use formulas to randomize the appearance and ratings of the players?

[JaoSming]

pretty much, yep

[1matt]

Saved out the dynasty roster to a regular roster file and that was it. Completely generic roster.

Ok, How'd you go about doing that? I had an Idea to just sim a Dynasty for about 12-15 years then convert that Dynasty to a regular roster. Is that even possible?

[JaoSming]

yep, sim your dynasty

save it

create your roster save in the game

then goto my documents/nba live XX/saves/(folder name of your dynasty)

copy out the appearance and player dbf files

paste them into your roster folder and overwrite

[paranoid66]

im also creating fictional league with created players.

i wanna change players that to be drafted in the start of the dynasty, how can i do that?

[Andrew]

You mean the generic rookies from the default rosters? You'll find entries for them in the database, they're on team number 39.

[paranoid66]

i'll delete the generic rookie and replace them with my created players... ill just put them in the free agents then change their team# to 39.

how can i assign their draft order?

[Andrew]

I don't think you can. The default generic rookies don't appear to utilise the ROOKIERANK field, but that would be the one to try.

[paranoid66]

im back.. is it posible to convert created players into generated players??

is the number of generated players cyberfaces(PLYR030,etc...) the same with Live 06?

[Andrew]

Yes to the first question, though you might as well just make them original players (ISCREATED False, ISGENERATE false) and assign one of those faces as their PLAYERPKG. It'll work out just as well.

I believe they're the same. If in doubt, you can look at the face files using FshX.

[paranoid66]

thanks man, you're really helpful