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maglie · 11-08-2004, 03:21 PM

I've just exported a long going solo historical league from v4 to v5 and then to v6. When I start the new season (2000), all goes swimmingly until rookie draft time. I click real players, I designate them to go into the rookie draft pool, not the actual drafting team, I direct the engine to find them in the last available Lahman base, (covers through '03 season), which I have stored in C:\STATS. This always worked without a hitch in v4. I've done this about half a dozen times now in v5 and v6 with similar results - the rookie pool either consists of Barry Zito alone, (guess if the league can only draft one player, you could do worse), Zito and two or three others, or Zito and a bunch of names I've never heard of.
Finally gave up, started importing all players who debuted in 2000 and actually had a career individually through the FA screen. I get a choice of designating them FAs or Rookies. If I choose Rookies, I can then find them by a name search in SetUp, but can't figure a way to assign them to teams. If I choose to designate them as FAs, they ask for mucho moola, signing bonuses, etc., which many teams can't afford.
Anyone ever experience this, or have a suggestion for working around it?
Thanks,
Maglie

11-08-2004, 03:21 PM	#1
maglie Bat Boy Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 17	Rookie draft problem... I've just exported a long going solo historical league from v4 to v5 and then to v6. When I start the new season (2000), all goes swimmingly until rookie draft time. I click real players, I designate them to go into the rookie draft pool, not the actual drafting team, I direct the engine to find them in the last available Lahman base, (covers through '03 season), which I have stored in C:\STATS. This always worked without a hitch in v4. I've done this about half a dozen times now in v5 and v6 with similar results - the rookie pool either consists of Barry Zito alone, (guess if the league can only draft one player, you could do worse), Zito and two or three others, or Zito and a bunch of names I've never heard of. Finally gave up, started importing all players who debuted in 2000 and actually had a career individually through the FA screen. I get a choice of designating them FAs or Rookies. If I choose Rookies, I can then find them by a name search in SetUp, but can't figure a way to assign them to teams. If I choose to designate them as FAs, they ask for mucho moola, signing bonuses, etc., which many teams can't afford. Anyone ever experience this, or have a suggestion for working around it? Thanks, Maglie