[Comedian2004]

Let me try again...

The random photos were collected and all put into a big folder. I then ran software on this folder that looked for files that were exactly the same size as others and it then did a byte by byte comparison. This removed all duplicate pictures. For instance, if you get an ugly picture of Kirby Puckett that was called pic1000.jpg and made a copy of it and called it pic1001.jpg, the software would find that the files were the exact same files, just renamed. So, if this software worked as advertised, it should have removed all of the duplicate photos. It did cut the original list from 29,000 to 24,000.

OK, my program will assign the same photo to as many players as it feels like. In my testing and playing, I very rarely recognized the duplicates, as you really only got to know your players and the stars on the other team. At the time, I thought checking for duplicates would slow down my software too slow. Plus you have the problem of retiring players and new players arriving. With 24,000 players, I thought you would run out or just not have as many to pick from.

Here is what I am going to try to do....

You first would have to clear out all of the player photos. I can have the program do that. There is NO way around this if you want this option. I would not have an idea on how to write a routine to find duplicates like this other software did.

BTW, this option would be designed for fictional leagues only, not for the MLB players without photos. I feel that the missing photos for MLB is low enough that duplicates would not be noticed. Plus, most of the ones missing photos are crappy players anyhow.

So, now you have no photos for any players. You run the software and it starts at player

1. It randomly grabs... wait... what is that bright bulb above my head? Oh, I know.. it is another plan...

Maybe I grab the 24,000 photos and I randomize them, assigning new numbers to them. Yeah. Good thought Larry. It then writes the new collection of players to a new folder for use with THIS league only. This would AUTOMATICALLY give you 24,000 players with different photos.

But wait, wouldn't it be easier to use to...

(Sorry for the delay, went to watch the end of the football game, man, did Dallas blow that one. HA HA HA)

Duh to me now. I will work on a mod to eliminate the duplicates in 2007, but here is a quick fix for you.

Lets go to a new message....