Questions (Absolute ratings freeze, turning off finances)

[regenerator]

1) When setting up a league, I can't unclick the "Use Finances" checkbox no matter what type of league I select. Why have a checkbox if we're forced to use Finances?

2) So we have to convert from JSON to excel a lot I guess (using a CSV in excel was great for changing multiple players ratings quickly, much easier to use in general). What drove the decision to use this instead of csv?

3) Where does the position number come from? Is this a different "overall" number representing the attributes solely attributed to this position (so for example for a QB maybe Accuracy, Arm and Intelligence, ignoring the other attributes)?

4) So far in Options that ratings are frozen on "Absolute". Normally you could change this freely. When can you change to "Relative"? Is there a concerted movement towards using solely "Absolute" ratings? Personally I always got confused at the difference

Looks great otherwise so far. Such a superior UI

[brooks_piggott]

1. I left the checkbox to let people know finances were going to be on. No way to turn them off in this version.
2. All import/export files and historical files will be .json files going forward. Allows for much more complicated player objects since we added personalities, skills, etc. This also allows us to continue to add more fields to the import/export.
3. That's the skill at a position
4. We moved away from relative because it constantly confused everyone and made it hard to compare ratings across leagues, or import/export files.

[regenerator]

I'm still completely confused as to the Position Skill number. Why can't we edit it? Is it randomly generated when the player is created? Does it change over time on it's own?

[AKH]

no you cant edit it.

it is not completely randomly generated. But derived from a handful of things.

it will change with playing time and training.

[Tigerman]

I created a DE and it automatically selects it as a QB so I changed it. But now my DE has a QB skill rating of a 60. Will that reset if I export it with all the other players and then import it?

[brooks_piggott]

Did you change his position after you created him, or in the create screen?

[Tigerman]

Yes.