Problem with Free Agents
Sun Jul 02, 2006 1:17 pm
In my game the free agensts just keep piling up. The computer will sign maybe one or two a year leaving star plyers to sit out. Is there a way i can make the computer sign players more often or how can I assign players to a team myself? Thanks.
Sun Jul 02, 2006 2:09 pm
The computer signing agents is probably coded somewhere in the game and would be hard to dig up. On signing free agents, i think you just go to team management, roster management, sign free agents. I might have that wrong but just look around until you find Sign free agents.
Sun Jul 02, 2006 3:09 pm
You can place players on a roster through dbf editing; just change their TEAM and CASH_TEAM values, making sure that the team they're going to doesn't have a full roster and that they don't share the same ROSTERPOS value with anyone else on that team.
There's no way to get the CPU to do it automatically though. Unfortunately players don't lower their asking price and without the mid level exception in the game, good players often go unsigned.
There's no way to get the CPU to do it automatically though. Unfortunately players don't lower their asking price and without the mid level exception in the game, good players often go unsigned.
Mon Jul 03, 2006 8:08 pm
What I was used to do at the beginning of every season was to sign that best free agents and trading them to teams in need for a crappy second rounder (signed one year at the minimum so it doesn't affect really much your salary cap). I had a lot of fun doing that, it made the league more competitive, and it was nice to see some players in new jerseys 
Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:43 am
alexboom wrote:What I was used to do at the beginning of every season was to sign that best free agents and trading them to teams in need for a crappy second rounder (signed one year at the minimum so it doesn't affect really much your salary cap). I had a lot of fun doing that, it made the league more competitive, and it was nice to see some players in new jerseys
I'm pretty evil, I sign five foot 10 point guards. Switch their primary position to Center and then trade him to a team that desperately needs one... the fun starts when we finally face that team off in the playoffs!
Fri Jul 21, 2006 7:22 pm
One thing I've noticed is that other teams always sign players for the minimum, even if they're rated above 60, which is the cutoff for minimum signed players. Worse, they never appear to me as minimum signed players.
Sat Jul 29, 2006 10:42 pm
H Rock wrote:One thing I've noticed is that other teams always sign players for the minimum, even if they're rated above 60, which is the cutoff for minimum signed players. Worse, they never appear to me as minimum signed players.
Yeh I always thought that was unfair. However, I think there's a reprieve in that you can resign your own players even if you're way over the salary cap. I don't think I've been under the cap since season 2005!