Creating Teams?

[QBPR]

I see some of you guys posting that you're creating teams? What do you mean by this? Are you just creating uniforms or is there a utility out already to create rosters and such? I'm not interested in creating uni's but I am in creating rosters, just want to be sure that I'm not missing something here that I could be doing pre-release.

[Tullius]

Creating players and rosters is part of the game.

[Lions]

ORIGINAL: QBPR

I see some of you guys posting that you're creating teams? What do you mean by this? Are you just creating uniforms or is there a utility out already to create rosters and such? I'm not interested in creating uni's but I am in creating rosters, just want to be sure that I'm not missing something here that I could be doing pre-release.

Something you could not do in Madden games. Create any league you want..team name and players, 3 downs or 4 downs, unlimited number of games in a season..oh man the list can go on and on...
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Sladebuck

[Dark Horse]

ORIGINAL: QBPR

I see some of you guys posting that you're creating teams? What do you mean by this? Are you just creating uniforms or is there a utility out already to create rosters and such? I'm not interested in creating uni's but I am in creating rosters, just want to be sure that I'm not missing something here that I could be doing pre-release.

Guys are probably in the planning stages. When it comes to creating teams. If you type all the data out that you want for each player, once you get the game you can immediately start inputting it.

And, of course, they are designing the unis as well.

[JonnieR]

I am going to be creating NL seasons 1995 -2002. I have all the data set-up all I need to do is develop the formulas to give players realistic ratings for each relevant attribute based upon actual stats for the previous season. I will be creating NFL teams with accurate rosters and player performance ratings. With these rosters you can try to recreate as season with you managing one of the teams or chose a team and a year and use it in career mode to develop a "Super Bowl" winner or take a season put all the players in a draft pool and make your own team (I think you can do this). I find working with actual players (at least initially) with accurate ratings to be pretty compelling.

[echolodge]

Would you share your formulas? That could really help.

[JonnieR]

I'd be happy to send you my spreadsheets I use to calculate the ratings and you can figure out my formulas and perhaps develop your own.

Essentially I work up a "score" for each attribute for each player by position. For instance a DB in the NFL would have the following for Coverage:

Coverage = Team Pass Defense rating + # Passes Defensed + Interception score

Each of these measurements are weighted. Then I take all of the scores and fit them to a probabilty density function (normally a normal distribution). Then knowing a player's score I can derive a percentile ranking. The percentile ranking is applied to the rating limits for the attribute (i.e., ratings between 40 to 95) and, voila, you have a rating for that attribute for that player at a particular position.

[echolodge]

Thanks JonnieR. Seems like you have been working and thinking hard about this aspect of the game. It would be great to have rosters of past NFL teams (or individual players) that could be plugged into the game. The possibilities are endless. Thanks for your generousity.

[CFL_FAN_7]

When you create players can you upload a picture of yourself to be that players picture?

ex: I'm creating a player named Jarold Jones
Jerald Jones has no picture of him self because he's made up
Can I make a picture and upload it and use it as a picture for J.J.