2007 Draft Project

[Fluffy Taco]

Heres the all the rest of the prospects potraits. it did this today but some of them dont look great or have that grey outline, but its no big deal. the fact that there is like 40 of them more than makes up for it



thank god thats over!

are these the rest of the guys coming into the NBA as rookies for the 2006-07 season?

[---]

no, these are guys for the 07-08 season

[RSox]

Except English had a few players in the 06 rookies installer Flite_23 and I didn't have frenchy put in his roster. Would it be easy to change? And we couldn't find cybers for a very few of the end draftees last year.

[---]

i probably wouldnt be up for it anyway lol, its tiring
but i may make one for 2008-09

[RSox]

I would rather enjoy using the year before draftees.
I only know OJ Mayo, Marcus Johnson, DeMarcus Nelson, and Sean Williams.

Also you will have to make 66 more portraits and cybers. The 2 years before already have portraits and cybers.

[---]

yea but the only reason im even considering doing another year is because )J is n the draft

have u tested the first round?

[RSox]

Yeah the ratings worked, but I forgot to get the players Id and change it so skin colors are wrong. It also seemed like every player had high socks and a left wrist band. Cybers and portraits look nice

[---]

yea im still figuring out the accerories prob

[Fluffy Taco]

no, these are guys for the 07-08 season

ohh, so okay. i was a bit confused. so the 2006 rookies draft are for the 2006-07 year, 2007 draft for the 2007-08 year, and the 2008 draft for the 2008-09?

[---]

yep thats right

[---]

Anybody actually interested in this patch? me and hammer have put alot of effort in and it seems that nobody really needs/wants it. i would consider stopping this project and begin working on it again within 7 months, because theres alot more fun stuff to make

[hammertime23]

Yea im down with that, i might stop patching all together because i got madden pc and im getting a 360 in a few days.

[---]

alright, just coz i wanna finish what i start, im gonna finish this. Frenchy kept the BAT files with all the ratings, appearances, etc. but still only half the project is done. basically i dont care how long it takes, but im gonna get it done. I will resume work on it once Frenchy can email the file to me, but since his internet is down, it may be a while

[jlaman26]

I am looking forward to this project...Hope you can get it done... Great work on all the patches....

[---]

well. i just got a PM from frenchy telling me that his computer also crashed. This sucks because i would have to start the entire project from scratch, and that is gonna take forever... so heres what im gonna do. As soon as i get my hands on some money, I'l go and buy 07, then, I will start the patch from scratch, because i know that the patch will be far more helpful to players becasue it is the most recent game. That way, not everybody misses out, and i still finish the project.

[---]

Update - This MAY be back. I will have another talk to OleEnglish, and see if instead of starting all over again, I can convert his update for 07. It's 50/50 right now, because I will still have to do ratings and change some things in his DBF's. If it goes through, thank him, not me.

[RSox]

This will be nice to hear that the portraits I made won't go to waste.

[cklitsie]

So basically, everything is gone? That'd suck, all the hard work gone to waste and no extra CF's for the NCAA mod.

[RSox]

No. I still have most of the cyberfaces. Flite sent the cyberfaces to Dirt-dog, I think. I think he got the portraits too. OlEnglish has them too I think because he said he was just going to take the .png file and import them into files. We just lost the ratings.

BTW, nice custom title CK. STYLES P

[Ryan]

Flite, some players missing school id numbers

This is for 07, but they might be the same in 05

Morris Almond =107
Rodney Stuckey=36
Jared Jordan=288
Bobby Brown=216
Blake Schilb=283
James Hughes=87
Brad Newley=508

[jwin]

if it helps any, the rookie ratings are not actually computer generated, they are all in the players dbf file.

if you take the number 1 projected rookie from the dbf, change his name, appearance, height, etc. to say greg oden, then go through the players dbf, which will have all the ratings columns blank, over to the column PSTEALS through CPTURNOVER, you'll see a bunch of numbers in those columns which rookies couldn't have accumulated as stats yet. those are the actual ratings for rookies in order corresponding to the normal ratings columns starting with fg.

so the FGBASE rating will be the number in the PSTEALS column
THREEPTBAS will be the number in the pdefreb column, and so on.

there does appear to be a 2-5 point difference in some ratings once the draft is over and you can see the players actual rating, but it isn't usually in more than a few rating categories at most.

i have only tested this once for 2007, and only after reading the thread over at eamods, so to get a more accurate feel for it just try changing one rookies values in these columns, PSTEALS through CPTURNOVER, to 99 in the dbf, then run through a scouting report for the player if you want, you should see mainly a+ with maybe some a or a-, then just sim through the season and post season real quick, sim through the predraft tasks or even the draft unless you want to see where the player was picked, then sim up to and enter the trade phase of offseason. this is where you can see the rookies ratings if you also want to alt/tab out and look at the dbf file to see if the other rookies ratings reflect the numbers in those fields.

hope this doesn't sound like more work than it is, it's really simple actually and should make it easier for you guys if you could pick and match players from the rookie pool by position and then just change the heights, weights and colors if need be in the appearance dbf.

[---]

Not sure what you mean. So you want the ratings to be in effect before training camp?

Ratings will be included, half the first rounders are done, but the way this patch is made makes it so the ratings don't come into effect until after training camp. Therefore, the grades from scouting players mean nothing.

[Ryan]

jwin, I think your right. It looks like it goes in order and skips shooting range. I'll give it a try.

EDIT: It's not in exact order as the dbf or on the scouting report, but I figured out which is which. The ratings tend to fluctuate from -10 to +10 from there original value as well.

[jwin]

cool, i hadn't done a whole lot of testing on it but hoped it might be helpful to you guys. i'll have to check it out some more too.
btw did you notice if there were any positions that had more or less difference in any particular ratings?
i noticed guards were usually closer to the value you put in things like speed, quickness, and dribbling but would lose more with strength, rebounding, and blocks.

[Ryan]

I only tested it on Oden, but I'll have another look at it to see if I can find any trends.