Real Staff Update Released...

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Real Staff Update Released...

Postby Andrew on Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:39 pm

It's been a while since I released anything apart from a roster update but here's a small mod for Dynasty Mode, the Real Staff Update.
This patch consists of a modified staff.dbf file that can be used to replace the generated staff names in any Dynasty Mode game with the names of real NBA team staff with their own ratings. Please note that it will overwrite all selections made by the user and CPU teams during the Staff Signing period in Dynasty Mode.


To install, simply copy to a Dynasty already in progress. Please note that any existing messages in the PDA will still use the original generated names. The changes will be reflected when you view the staff list or get any new messages.

The patch shouldn't cause any problems but as always I'd recommend making a backup of your Dynasty should something go wrong.

How you can help out with this patch

Version 1 adds real names for all staff members on each NBA team. However, there is still much work that can go into this patch.

First and foremost, I have not been able to properly assign ratings to all staff members because I'm not familiar with all the assistant coaches and trainers. At present all trainers have a B grade across the board while most other staff members have all C grades with a couple of B grades. Any input on staff members would be greatly appreciated as I'm keen to improve the ratings, including those who have already been given their own grades.

Second, the assignments are open to change. For the most part I've given more prominent assistant coaches such as Del Harris and PJ Carlesimo Assistant roles even though the title of Assistant Head Coach would seem more fitting for their place in the coaching hierachy on their respective teams, since the Assistant role allows them to affect player training. Likewise, I've given one of the assistants on each team the role of Scout in the game.

I've done this to ensure that all staff members have a real name, corrections are certainly welcome. I'm sure some staff members can be swapped around or replaced entirely. Speaking of which, I'm planning on adding other real people to the staff free agency pool as well as second Assistant coaches for as many teams as possible. Some teams already have a second Assistant.

The final elements that are likely to be revised in subsequent updates are salary and contract length. For the moment all staff members are signed to 3 year deals of $200,000. This has been done so that everything will work under budget, it's something I will be revising so staff with better grades will be more expensive, Assistant Head Coaches demand higher deals etc. Any input there is of course welcome.

And of course, anything else you can think of that could improve the update. ;)

I appreciate any feedback you can provide. Hope you enjoy the patch! :)
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Postby NJNETSFANFORLIFE on Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:50 pm

Nice!
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Postby lookvod on Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:54 pm

good job (Y)
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Postby Joker. on Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:16 pm

Great job Andrew (Y)
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Postby Ryan on Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:19 pm

Thanks for this Andrew. Not sure about how to go about rating them except Mike Abdenour should easily be an A or A+. :) Nice job on sneaking your name in as well.
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Postby endofeye on Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:59 am

Crashed when I went to go look at staff members in Dynasty.
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Postby JohnnyLi on Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:13 am

Awesome, hope it works :)

Great idea Andrew :)
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Postby LaSing on Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:53 am

HOUSTON ROCKETS

Assistant Head Coach - Tom Thibodeau
http://www.nba.com/coachfile/tom_thibod ... l?nav=page
Great defensive coach. I know he been working with Yao all these years. He watched game film with Yao on the plane.
In 14 NBA seasons, Thibodeau has helped his team finish in the NBA's Top Ten in team defense 11 times. He has also coached in 80 NBA playoff games in his career, including New York's appearance in the 1999 NBA Finals.


Trainer - Keith Jones
http://www.nba.com/coachfile/keith_jone ... l?nav=page
He's the all-star game trainer for a few years. He's also the trainer for USA basketball team.
His peers voted him the NBA Trainer of the Year in 2001.

During the summer of 2002, Jones was promoted to Vice President of Basketball Operations/Athletic Trainer after three seasons of holding player liaison responsibilities.
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Postby dsigns on Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:25 am

Maybe you have all these already, but if not it should help: http://www.sportsmedresources.com/Conte ... s_NBA.html
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Postby Mark. on Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:53 am

Nice patch Andrew (Y), I might wait till a few more ratings are updated before I install... Since my current AHC is awesome :P
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Postby --- on Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:35 am

Cool. Little things like this make a dynasty that much more realistic (Y)
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Postby guan lu on Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:03 pm

This is a great idea Andrew. I try this in most of my dynasties, although the only staff I get to change are in my teams'. What sucks, though, is that, in the interest of realism, I give them their actual ages, so my asst. coaches almost always retire early, notably Sacramento's Pete Carrill. :(
Anyway, another thing I do is try to 'entice' former, retired players of my team as the asst coaches, as a cheat. :lol: So if I'm Houston, I pawn with an asst. team of The Dream, Sir Charles, The Glide, and AHC Rudy T.
That's in extreme cheating cases, though. (N) This idea of yours is still waaay better. (Y)
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Postby Andrew on Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:42 pm

Thanks everyone, to be honest I wasn't expecting so much enthusiasm over a small update. :) Thanks also for the feedback so far, I'm hoping to get a lot of the ratings ironed out in the next version.

endofeye wrote:Crashed when I went to go look at staff members in Dynasty.


Was there a dbf related error message displayed? How far along in the season are you?

Anyone else experience any crashes or weird bugs so far?
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Postby sucram on Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:04 pm

So i paste this patch in my chosen dynasty folder in my docs/nba live/saves?
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Postby tixleod23 on Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:15 pm

Thanks everyone, to be honest I wasn't expecting so much enthusiasm over a small update. Thanks also for the feedback so far, I'm hoping to get a lot of the ratings ironed out in the next version.
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Crashed when I went to go look at staff members in Dynasty.



Was there a dbf related error message displayed? How far along in the season are
you?



Anyone else experience any crashes or weird bugs so far?





here some errors when you put the staff.dbf in nba live 07 database/original,current,working, and create a new dynasty the salaries of realstaff is not included when you select again asst.coaches,asst,trainers,scout will have a 2 people!!!! why???
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Postby funk99 on Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:39 pm

Thanks for this Andrew. Nice Work. (Y)
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Postby Andrew on Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:26 am

tendodweeb wrote:So i paste this patch in my chosen dynasty folder in my docs/nba live/saves?


That's correct.

tixleod23 wrote:here some errors when you put the staff.dbf in nba live 07 database/original,current,working, and create a new dynasty the salaries of realstaff is not included when you select again asst.coaches,asst,trainers,scout will have a 2 people!!!! why???


It happens because you're not supposed to extract staff.dbf to those folders. As the instructions state, place staff.dbf in your Dynasty save folder.
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Postby Chris Baxter on Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:24 pm

First of all, Andrew, thanks for the patch. It definitely adds an element of reality to the Dynasty mode. However, I have an issue with this update in my Dynasty. When I get to the team staff menu, I can check the staff list, work with the Assistant Head Coach, Trainer and Scout, but when I try to enter the Assistant's menu, the game crashes.

I am not exactly sure why this happens, but I am near the end of November in my Dynasty, if that has anything to do with it. Another possibility that I was thinking of was that I only signed one assistant. Is it possible that you gave the Cleveland Cavaliers two assistants in the patch, and this creates some sort of bug?

Anyway, I'm sure someone will figure it out. I just thought I would let you know so the patch will be compatible with everyone's Dynasties.

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Postby Andrew on Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:23 pm

I think I only gave Cleveland one assistant in v1.0 but I'll have to double check. I'll do some more testing to see if I can find out the cause of that crash. It may be that the patch has to be applied at the very beginning of the season, before your staff is given any assignments...or perhaps it can be applied at anytime but you can't have any of your staff doing anything when you make the switch.

In any case, I'll do some more tests and see if I can find a solution. Thanks for the feedback. :)
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Postby Zoom on Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:33 pm

Hey Andrew!

This looks like a good patch and I will put it in my dynasty when I get the time...

However, just wanted to say that Gary Vitti; trainer for the Lakers, has a ton of experience and has been with 6 Laker championship winning teams and won Trainer of the Year in 1991 (not sure if the award still exists today)... so I thought he would deserve a solid rating.. maybe A or A- if you haven't given that to him...

About Vitti wrote:Having long been considered one of the top trainers in the country, Vitti's services are well in demand. Complementing his NBA duties, he has also served as lead trainer for numerous other sporting events since 1984, including Los Angeles Strings of World Team Tennis, the LA Summer Pro League and several summer basketball camps throughout the country. Vitti has given numerous clinics throughout Italy and was invited to travel to the Philippines, where he spoke at a Coaches/Sports Medicine Seminar. Vitti has also supervised physiological profile studies published in English and Japanese and has written a monthly column for "Sports Medicine Digest" and the "LA Times Syndicate". He also produced a conditioning video "Training for Excellence."


Just a suggestion. Hope you take it on board (Y)
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Postby gmoney on Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:57 pm

My game crashes as soon soon as i go to scouting the draft class. I am 2 months into a season
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Postby Andrew on Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:21 pm

Zoom_24 wrote:Hey Andrew!

This looks like a good patch and I will put it in my dynasty when I get the time...

However, just wanted to say that Gary Vitti; trainer for the Lakers, has a ton of experience and has been with 6 Laker championship winning teams and won Trainer of the Year in 1991 (not sure if the award still exists today)... so I thought he would deserve a solid rating.. maybe A or A- if you haven't given that to him...

About Vitti wrote:Having long been considered one of the top trainers in the country, Vitti's services are well in demand. Complementing his NBA duties, he has also served as lead trainer for numerous other sporting events since 1984, including Los Angeles Strings of World Team Tennis, the LA Summer Pro League and several summer basketball camps throughout the country. Vitti has given numerous clinics throughout Italy and was invited to travel to the Philippines, where he spoke at a Coaches/Sports Medicine Seminar. Vitti has also supervised physiological profile studies published in English and Japanese and has written a monthly column for "Sports Medicine Digest" and the "LA Times Syndicate". He also produced a conditioning video "Training for Excellence."


Just a suggestion. Hope you take it on board (Y)


I'll definitely be redoing the ratings for trainers. (Y) I'm actually considering giving most if not all trainers at least an A since logic suggests you wouldn't get the job unless you were pretty good in that field. ;)

gmoney wrote:My game crashes as soon soon as i go to scouting the draft class. I am 2 months into a season


I'll look into that too. Anyone else finding the patch crashes their game?
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Postby fliplaurel on Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:34 pm

Nice patch Andrew!
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One thing though, my game also crashes when i enter the assistant mode. Hope this bug could be fixed. Really want realism in my dynasty mode. Will wait for your future updates! Thanks!
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Postby Andrew on Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:37 pm

How far along in the season are you when that happens?
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Postby BOSS on Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:40 pm

Props Andrew.
The game crashes when I go to Assistants.
The reason is probably that the time has two and suppose to have one.
Jus a heads up ;)
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