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jupiter29 · 02-25-2004, 05:13 PM

I am having a problem with the Cato utility. I have searched the board and not been able to find a solution.

I am using OOTP 5 and am in 2005, which is approximately year 35 of my league. I want to bring all the career stats into OOTP History and then update year by year. I downloaded the History utility from www.cato.net/downloads and installed Version 4, then overwrote it with version 5.1 and then 5.3. I then downloaded the CommishJoe exporter from the Cato page and edited the batch files as necessary.

I ran the exporters on a directory containing a backup of the league, because that was the only way I seemed to be able to find the player.dat file. I seem to recall in OOTP4 that you used the online league setup and exported these files, but that doesn't seem to work now, so I may be missing something here.

When I run the exporter batch files, I get files with career stats for batting and pitching. When I open them up, I can see that there is more than one year for each player, so the data seems to be there. And when I run the history utility, the career files are processed.

However, when the whole process is finished and I got to look at the stats (the only easy way I know of is in the "Add Hall of Fame" page, but let me know if there is an easier way), only stats from 2005 are present. All the historical players from previous years are listed, whether or not they played in 2005, but they have no statistics.

Can anyone suggest any reason for this? I have tried re-downloading both the exporter and the history utility with no success. And I've set up the history utility a number of times. I can't absolutely swear that award names are exactly correct, but I have triple-checked the data directory settings. And, as I said, the files are being processed (I know because the names are in the HOF drop down), they are just not being assigned statistics.

I'm hoping I'm missing something obvious. Any help will be appreciated.

02-25-2004, 05:13 PM	#1
jupiter29 Bat Boy Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 12	Cato Utility Problem with Career Stats I am having a problem with the Cato utility. I have searched the board and not been able to find a solution. I am using OOTP 5 and am in 2005, which is approximately year 35 of my league. I want to bring all the career stats into OOTP History and then update year by year. I downloaded the History utility from www.cato.net/downloads and installed Version 4, then overwrote it with version 5.1 and then 5.3. I then downloaded the CommishJoe exporter from the Cato page and edited the batch files as necessary. I ran the exporters on a directory containing a backup of the league, because that was the only way I seemed to be able to find the player.dat file. I seem to recall in OOTP4 that you used the online league setup and exported these files, but that doesn't seem to work now, so I may be missing something here. When I run the exporter batch files, I get files with career stats for batting and pitching. When I open them up, I can see that there is more than one year for each player, so the data seems to be there. And when I run the history utility, the career files are processed. However, when the whole process is finished and I got to look at the stats (the only easy way I know of is in the "Add Hall of Fame" page, but let me know if there is an easier way), only stats from 2005 are present. All the historical players from previous years are listed, whether or not they played in 2005, but they have no statistics. Can anyone suggest any reason for this? I have tried re-downloading both the exporter and the history utility with no success. And I've set up the history utility a number of times. I can't absolutely swear that award names are exactly correct, but I have triple-checked the data directory settings. And, as I said, the files are being processed (I know because the names are in the HOF drop down), they are just not being assigned statistics. I'm hoping I'm missing something obvious. Any help will be appreciated.