Yes and no. A little bit of both, depending on what you are doing. It reads all historical stuff from the almanac, so if you did not save the P files, it won't tell you much on some stuff. Some of the other stuff is pulled from the ONLINE LEAGUE REPORT folder, which has to be ran, even if it is not an online league. Reason: The latest player HTML files are not available unless you do that.
The indexing should be ran at the PROCEED TO THE NEXT SEASON prompt, but, it does not hurt to run it at any other time, but it can just be ran one time during each season. So, if you run it at the start of the season, you will not have access to players 'created' after that point, until next season.
The stuff on the current season, like play by play, team stuff, etc., can be ran at anytime.
When you index, it finds players that have retired. It copies them to the retired players folder and then other parts of my program access these files, like the career post season or the top 10 leaders, etc.
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Originally Posted by canadiancreed
just some questions assuming this is still being worked on:
does this software extract directly from the game itself, or does it read the almanac files?
does it have to be at the end of the season in order to process like CATO, or can it be run at any time (assuming ti extracts from the game that is)
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