schedules

i've been playing live 06 for some 6 years now and i always play as my beloved celtics so i've been compelled to play either the random schedule or the nba schedule which leaves me playing the same teams all the time. does anyone have a method to change the schedules? (no, i don't want this years' shortened schedule).

thanks

stratjim

Yes, you can edit the schedule.dbf file. A quick rundown:

DELETED: Standard column, all values set to True this time
TYPE: Seems like the standard value is 0 or blank
SPECIAL: Can be left at 0 as well
ID: Standard ID field, except they'd appear to be out of order
PERIOD: Can be left at 0
DATE: Date in YYYYMMDD format (eg November 13th, 2005 = 20051113)
TIME: Time of game in 24 hour format (eg 7:30 = 1930)
LOCATION: Seems to be all zeroes, I'm guessing that means it will just grab the home team's location as specified in location.dbf
PLAYED: Game has been played in season, True/False
OVERTIME: Game went into Overtime, True/False
TEAMHOME: The home team, refer to the Team IDs guide
TEAMAWAY: The away team, refer to the Team IDs guide
SCOREHOME: The home team's score. Leave at 0 for the default schedule file
SCOREAWAY: The away team's score. Leave at 0 for the default schedule file

Note that it's likely to be a lengthy and probably frustrating endeavour, you'll need to double check yourself before you start a proper Dynasty or Season game to make sure everyone is playing 82 games. Honestly, using the Random Schedule option is probably preferable unless you're keen to do all that work.