League Setup

[Matt]

We Are Converted And Ready To Roll! Instructions Here.



Conversion Instructions:

1. Open FOF7 and click on the multi-player icon.

2. A menu box saying "Multi-Player" will come up. Click on "Enter New Career" under "Participant Functions"

3. Enter the league ID (Imperial) and choose your team based on the chart below. The draft option doesn't matter. It is case-sensitive though.

4. Then you'll be on the FTP screen. FTP info is as follows:

Server: ftp.fof-ffl.com
User: ifl@fof-ffl.com
Password: IfL1234%

Leave the port as 21, and you don't need to enter a base directory.

5. Click "Import Initial Game Files". Choose the entry for the Imperial league in the window. Enter ftp info again.

6. Download this file and unzip all files in it to your C:\Users\{yourname}\AppData\Roaming\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football Seven\leagues\Imperial directory:

7. Back in FOF, Open Multi-Player game.

8. Select your team.

9. Enter the password that will be sent to you in the PM

Make sure you read this thread for some details about how the conversion works, mainly on the financial side:http://www.younglifenorthdekalb.com/...ead.php?t=5900

[Matt]

TEAM	TEAM ID	TEAM
Arizona Cardinals	0	Calgary Stampeders
Atlanta Falcons	1	Texas Trojans
Baltimore Ravens	2	London Monarchs
Buffalo Bills	3	Columbia Fire
Carolina Panthers	4	Tulsa TigerHawks
Chicago Bears	5	Madison Demons
Cincinnati Bengals	6	Cleveland Clawz
Dallas Cowboys	7	Newark Bulldogs
Denver Broncos	8	Las Vegas Knights
Detroit Lions	9	Lansing Ogres
Green Bay Packers	10	Dakota Spirit
Indianapolis Colts	11	Houston Renegades
Jacksonville Jaguars	12	St. Louis Archers
Kansas City Chiefs	13	Portland Seals
Miami Dolphins	14	Hartford Whalers
Minnesota Vikings	15	Pennsylvania Lions
New England Patriots	16	West Virginia Beasts
New Orleans Saints	17	Georgia Generals
New York Giants	18	Orlando Pirates
New Jersey Jets	19	Norfolk Vipers
Oakland Raiders	20	Los Angeles Matadors
Philadelphia Eagles	21	Vermont Owls
Pittsburgh Steelers	22	Montreal Firebirds
San Diego Chargers	23	Anchorage Lynx
Seattle Seahawks	24	Arizona Wolfpack
San Francisco 49ers	25	Salt Lake City Stallions
St. Louis Rams	26	Vancouver Killer Whales
Tampa Bay Buccaneers	27	Little Rock Lancers
Tennessee Titans	28	New Orleans Demon Deacons
Washington Redskins	29	Boston Freeze
Cleveland Browns	30	Iowa City Arsenal
Houston Texans	31	Murfreesboro Mules

[Kobeck]

thanks for your work Matt


and FU Jim!

I will be missing that $37 on my deathbed!

[Matt]

from BEN

First off, there was an update early this morning from Solecismic.com:Solecismic Software: Home of Front Office Football

As far as our status goes, Jim used the CCFL to test the converter and I provided feedback. I *think* the version of our league files that I have is now considered to be the final converted version. (In other words, I don't think he made any more changes to the converter after I confirmed that all issues I had seen in previous test conversions had been resolved in the files that I now have.) I emailed Jim early this morning to get a confirmation that the files I have are the final version.

As part of testing the conversion, I had to sim forward to check contracts/reneg requests in FA1 and FA2. I also thought it would be important for everyone's info to see how significant the ticket price changes are, so I simmed through the preseason and jotted some notes on that as well. Here are the things that we need to know about the conversion:

• Cities are equalized. Population for all cities will be 2.01M, average income 30,400, and poverty level 15.1%.
• Fan Loyalty is also equalized as of the end of 2037. There's therefore a small change in loyalty when I hit End Season based on the 2037 performance. All teams are 77 at the end-season.
• The teams that did best financially in 2037 get the top picks in the staff draft. This matters more than you might think because...
• Some staff members have attributes that will make them suited for completely different roles post-conversion. For example, in FOF2K7, my HC has outstanding ratings in the five things that matter for HC in FOF2K7 (motivation, discipline, off/def playcalling, injury avoidance). Of those, only motivation and discipline matter for the HC in FOF7. And he's *terrible* in the other attributes, so player development, young talent, and scouting ability convert as you might expect: he sucks in all of them. There's virtually no chance that he'll be ATL's head coach next year, and he probably don't be anyone's HC. He looks like he could be a solid coordinator or assistance coach. Anyway, the point of that is that I would expect MASS changes in staff in the first staff draft, so even with the equalization, the teams that had strong finances pre-conversion still get a significant "win" for their pre-conversion financial success because of drafting higher.
• I strongly recommend that EVERYONE should start by hitting "recommend" on ticket prices post-conversion for that first offseason, and then tweak from there. To check this I found a team that increased significantly in population and average income in the equalization and quick-simmed through the first preseason. KC pre-conversion was 1.26M population and $10,000 average income. Post-conversion they are 2.02M population and $29,900 average income. If the financial engine were similar to that of FOF2K7, one would expect that leaving ticket prices as they were would bring a massive increase in attendance since the income level is three times as high and the population increased by more than 60% as well. However, if ticket prices are left static, KC's attendance drops from 44K to under 15K, and no one sits in any luxury boxes. You have all been warned.

Here's a visual of my aforementioned HC's conversion:

[Kobeck]

All good Matt


No real chance to investigate today, but Mules are there and other teams/cities seem good.

thanks for your assistance / work

[the-real-JZ]

WOO!

[Matt]

WOO!

+1

[Argot]

THIS IS GREAT!!!

[the-real-JZ]

Tried dowloading twice, got failed, network error?

[Matt]

Tried dowloading twice, got failed, network error?

what file are you talking about?

[VitoStallion]

Woot

both QB1 and QB2 unmasked to be 50 rated guys
SS and FS unmasked to be a great duo.
My offensive line is good, got balanced pass catchers;

need to add a WLB, RB, and TE

Rebuild looks to be more of a reboot now

[Matt]

Woot

both QB1 and QB2 unmasked to be 50 rated guys
SS and FS unmasked to be a great duo.
My offensive line is good, got balanced pass catchers;

need to add a WLB, RB, and TE

Rebuild looks to be more of a reboot now

ya, it was nice to see my QB and TE's ratings where I hoped they would be. They always seemed to play better than their ratings showed.

[VitoStallion]

when I attempt an export, I fail

[Matt]

when I attempt an export, I fail

what is the error?

[Argot]

Top 5 guys through conversion.

DE Cheung 99 becomes 94
SLB Falcone 96 becomes 94
TE Wilburn 84 becomes 68
QB May 83 becomes 71
CB Larocque 83 becomes 86

More people going down than up...But Coach Habich is terrible at overall impressions. At least...lets hope that's it.