Hello, I’ve previously owned your College BB and Pro Football games, and successfully modded both of them. For football I was able to easily install graphics mods as well as historic initial rosters and a reliable annual draft made of players from that year. I went from something like 1965-2050.

I want to do this now with the Pro BB game, but having downloaded the demo and added mods, it doesn’t appear this is possible or it’s not working or perhaps I have missed important steps.

For one thing, I am able to get the demo to show me accurate 1976 rosters, but the draft pool for 1977 is made up of random fictional players/a few stars from 2010.

I recreated another league and made sure to keep “randomize draft order” unchecked, and apparently all players were them fictional. The game asks for me to provide a historical roster set in a certain folder, but I can’t find the existence of such a file anywhere.

If I can kick start this thing with real rosters and logos, I’m all in for this. If that isn’t possible (which feels like maybe it is not any longer), I will simply move on.

Sorry to be so long-winded. Thanks.

37 views and no replies or emails is a kind of answer: the focus isn’t really on historical mode. Too bad. This is really the only way I enjoy these sims. The demo was awesome.

I’m just really trying to not play OOTP for the 900th time.

So far as I know there is no need to load an historic roster - the draft is automatically created with the correct players for each year. Not sure which setting you may be changing, but I have never had issues with this when starting in the 70s

Wow - ok. Maybe it’s a limitation on the demo?

Oh, on that note - I’ve read that the demo begins at 1976 but the full game starts earlier. When does it begin?

Thanks!

Pretty sure it is 1976 - the merger of ABA and NBA.

Yes the demo has limitations just to provide an idea of what it does. The full game allows you to start at any point from now back to the merger - if you choose to randomize draft classes it will put them in in random order (and fill in with fictional players to give enough players to draft) or you can just leave that off and have the players come in based on when their first nba season was. You can mod in older team logos or player photos and you can choose to expand the league either to match real life or in any season you want and it will expand based on the proper number of teams for the next historical expansion allowing you to go up to 32 teams.

Hey! Thanks for the great response. I’ve been playing for about a week now and am at the expansion date for 1980. I’m not sure, playing in Sandbox mode with historical rosters, if I need to do anything for the Mavericks to appear.

It sounds in one place like it will happen automatically, but there’s a bit in the pdf guide that sounds like I need to bring them in. I’ll patiently sit by and wait for a response - I need a break anyway.

You have to make the expansion happen - if you click on where your name is on the left side game menu that is a dropdown and you can go into commissioner mode. On the commissioner office page you will see a button to expand the league. It is only available on a specific date in the game (I don't recall off the top of my head what it is but its prior to the draft). When you start the expansion it will automatically bring in the next appropriate team (or teams) and will go through the expansion draft so you will have to decide which of your players you will expose to the draft and then the CPU will draft its players and then you can switch back to your user and continue play

Perfect timing! The date in-game is June 20. Time for the Mavs to appear. Thanks, much fun—

Matt in Dallas