by clamel » Sat Jan 02, 2021 1:42 pm
I digged into that historical json file I found in the PF20 version.
I tried starting in 2002 when all todays teams was set (I think). I found several weird things starting with ratings. Since that file had only Overall Rating and no speicifc ratings I looked it over. A huge amount of players have +100 OR, which turned out that they popped up with something much lower in the game. I checked several but take Rams, with Kurt Warner on -80 (in the file 104) and having Marc Bulger at 100 (in the file as 110).
This "find" was after I worked over the whole file and trying to add players that missed 2002 season or was on IR or practice squad. I sensed the same problem OOTP baseball game had with historyplayes years ago. If you got a player missing the year you start in, he will never pop into the game after that year. Might not be the same in DDS, but I added these missing lines in the file.
It came to a lot of missed players checking up on all types of roster sites and such, but when I saw the strange cutting of ratings overall on all the players that had +100 I let it rest for a time.
It's a massive work indeed and if I can figure out why so many had +100 ratings I might get going again.
I do assume that if one start in 2002 and have all players that really was in or close to for all teams the game will handle drafts with players popping up later on in the correct year (or the year they first took a snap)
Thi file looks to be auto set at some points since looking over players on their years they got sometimes the same ratings the first year and then all the rest of the years. Not sure how this will play out with assuming a player develop over the years.
Some years aroiund 2010-2012 looks very weird in those lines. High rating, no college, all players born 1st Jan and so on.
This file needs a massive workover and that takes time. Then afraid to maybe misunderstood how historical run play out. Putting tons of hours into this file before I know 100% that it can work is a must.
Of course adding 2017,2018 maybe even 2019 and 2020 is even more massive work, but possible.
Not sure what this file looks like in PF21, so not like to be surprised it all changed already. Talk about a player.csv file I read that is new in PF21, but not know anything about that.
I really wished this football game was on the same level as the basketball, but it is what it is. A good game, but still a bit lacking in FOF7-8 stats, ratings and maybe also playbook style.