[Killebrew]

Originally posted by jupiter29
But, I believe, these html files are not where the exporter pulls it's data from. Where do I use the exporter? On the directory that I saved the league to? That's what I have been doing and it seems to work fine.

Yes - you are correct here. The path you type in the CommishJoe Exporter batch (*.BAT) files should point to the OOTP league directory of the year that you are importing into Cato's OOTP History. If there are career stats from years before that you want to import at this time then run the CommishJoe career stats export batch file at the point the Cato OOTP History instructions suggest.

Originally posted by jupiter29
But the career stats are still not coming across completely. I created the HTML pages from Cato from my previous attempt and some career stats are there and some are not. So something went wrong. In any event though, the career stats are not really coming across in the way I am hoping for, so I may have to go back and do it year by year anyway. I just want to make sure I have the steps right.

I don't believe you can get the exact effect you want without doing this import year by year. The reason is that lots of the Cato OOTP History info the app requires is not saved by the game after you proceed to the next year. A.J. Holz is right on with his link example of how these 'career stats' years look within the Cato History pages - there does not seem to be much mention of the previous years except on the player pages - see 1999 - 2002 on this page:
http://www.fibb.net/Cato/players/d/drewjd612.html

Originally posted by jupiter29
My understanding now is that I create the HTML pages into one folder, run the exporter on the saved league folder (NOT the HTML) folder and then point Cato to both of these folders separately. Does that sound right to you?

That is absolutely right. In the options menu of Cato History you have 2 separate paths to input that guide the Cato app to look for the games html in one directory and the CommishJoe exporter (CSV files) files in another. You could put all these files in the same directory of course but for safeties sake I think it's good to separate them. When importing several years in one evening it is easy to forget whether you ran the exporter yet or not.

Note: My explanations here are a little long winded in an effort to be very clear about each step, but by doing so I make some of the processes seem more complex than they really are. Just keep that in mind, it's not as complex as it might seem at first. Also note: Cato's readme instructions trump anything we write here - they are already thorough, but sometimes when you're stuck you need a few more of the details to continue.