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Originally Posted by Bluenoser
Over the years I've converted leagues at all kinds of different times, including mid season. Never had a problem myself, but that's not to say one wouldn't arise.
I will say this though - Before converting, make sure you have a couple of Backup copies of your league tucked safely away somewhere.
It can save you a lot of grief  |
This.
I know Markus too has stated you can import at any time for at least the last several versions. One caveat is you do this knowing some AI decisions would have been made with the "old" code and decisions after import with new code. There could be some AI roster moves due to new coding, contracts negotiated before and after import may be done differently etc. etc. So if you are a stickler and want all decisions in a season to be based on the same code wait for one of the suggested off season times. If you don't care about this any time will work fine. I've done it both ways without issue.
One good suggestion made here already is after import take a moment and check all of your league settings. I do this no matter when I import as sometimes Markus adds new options and you never know what default is until you go look. There's also the off chance one of your current settings will change I suppose so, better safe than sorry.
I backup my league before I import though it really isn't necessary. The act of importing doesn't do anything to your old league other than read files to do the import. You can always go back and re-import the league if you feel the need. But as above "better safe than sorry".
After import I backup the new imported league before I do anything in it. Again a safety net in case any little bugs are found or a setting ends up being something I didn't want.
All things being equal I agree with Matt and several others here that sometime during off season or pre season is best if for nothing else the continuity of having all decisions made for a season to be made with the same set of rules\evaluations. If I simmed my games and could finish in an afternoon fine but i don't, I play out all of my games so if I'm anywhere in my current season, other than maybe September, I'm not leaving v16 on the shelf until I finish. Oh no, when OOTP 16 shows up it goes into use immediately