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Tullius
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At the moment i am exploring the possiblity to include a Draft Module in MF. The problem of MF is that the games provides no real draft AI and the AI uses the team profiles which are static and considers nothing. To make the case worser at the start of a new season all teams will have no profiles regardless of their sense. So a defense happy team can change in a pass crazy team.

Iit is a necessary to seperate the team profiles from the draft. The team profile are only (but very important) a pattern for the AI to organize it`s roster. Today i finished some code which allows you to override all team profile settings. Now there is no need to import or export these profiles, you can now edit all roster settings on a screen. The picture shows the basic screen. After "Update" the new settings were saved in the database, "Save Template" means that the acutal setting is saved in a text file which can be loaded every time (esp. when the programm changed all profiles after the start of the season, you hit now only "Load Template" all is restored). The only disadvantage is that now the criterias are static for every position (which you can change in the game manually) and the old "round numbers" do not have any importance.



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Kewl, cant wait
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I have made a little progress. Here is a link to the webpage. I think i will release a public beta on 12/27. The main code is in the box and now i am desingning screens (which is a little bit boring and costs time) and then i will make some serious test to check if all components work together.

The colleges are assigned by JDHalfracks editor 1.7 . Even when you have a fantasy league you can use this option because you can edit the ini of the editor. The ini file is a simple mdb database which can be edited. So you can remove and add every college you want.

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Amazing!
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sweet.
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Tullius
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As i am waiting at the moment i have updated the page and complemented the feature list. I will add more infos and perhaps screens in the next days. I want add that for an inaugural draft you have still to use the game system.
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I love this. If you are expanding your league, can you set the Free Agent Rounds just for the expansion teams?
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Was given a chance to test an earlier build of this utility on my MFL solo project and was blown away by it's potential. This could serve as the GM engine for ai team building that the game is currently lacking. Being that it will include some customizable features will make for an even better utility. Also it has use for online leagues and human owned teams, as well. This could be quite a significant 3rd party addition for MaxF.

Keep up the great work Tullius.
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If you are expanding your league, can you set the Free Agent Rounds just for the expansion teams?

It is an indirect feature. At the start of the tool the program makes a draft order based on the success of the previous season. The runner up will draft second last and the winner as last (despite the record of the regular season).

Now you can change the draft order generally or reorder the single draft picks so that only some teams are picking.


DreamTeams has done some valueable testing because he has an old league which has seen various seasons and versions
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