mass delete all coaches

[doors11]

i need to delete all the coaches in my league at once. There is over 2000 of them.

How do you delete them in one quick sweep.

Thanks

[Questdog]

Can't be done.....

[Questdog]

okay...it CAN be done.....but I don't know if there are repercussions or not.....

[doors11]

wow 2134 deletes one at a time. Not sure i have that long to live.

All kidding aside not the answer i wanted to hear.. Anybody else

[Questdog]

Create a 2 team league......no minors.......fire all the coaches on the two teams.....go to available personnel and delete the dozen or so coaches there......save the game.....copy the coaches.dat file from the 2-team league to your other league overwriting the old one....voila!...no coaches.....

back up your original league before attempting this, as there may be unforeseen consequences......this is not something I have done on a regular basis and can say with confidence it is problem free.....however, I don't know why it shouldn't work....

[doors11]

worked like a champ.

Thanks alot

[The Game]

Wish Markus would add an option to delete the coaches we want to get rid of same way we do with players. I am in my 7 overall season with 3 active leagues and already am at 1200 coaches. About 1000 fictional.

[r0nster]

why not just fire them.... goto every team in commish mode then fire the coaches

[boshk]

Originally Posted by r0nster

why not just fire them.... goto every team in commish mode then fire the coaches

because when you create a league with 100 teams in it, do you know how long it takes to go through every team and fire every scout and coach? i do. it takes a long time. there needs to be a fire all coaches from the league option somewhere in the league settings.

a couple things on how i wish the game handled coaches.
-first, i wish when you created a team, it did not automatically create a coaching staff for it. the new teams should have to deal with the talent pool already available.
-second, i wish when the game did create new coaches, that it created them with zero years of experience.

not to mention that if a coach is specifically holding a job as a hitting or pitching coach, that it would keep track of their teams relevant stats that he produced. a W/L record really isnt much use for hit/pitch coach, or a doctor for that matter (i dont know if the game tracks records for doctors though?)

[The Wolf]

Demand mass delete for coaches in 15.

[24Rocks]

When you expand and create a team and a minor league team for each expansion team and least 2 teams and don't want game created coaches i've spent 15 hours total deleting coaches from Ten Major league teams and 38 Minor league teams in my games history, spent a night once doing it. I thought and option was added that you could mass select all coaches and so delete them I still haven't found it and would have liked to cause its easier to manually release them then release and delete and on to next coach. I wish it would use former players as coaches for expansion teams.

[24Rocks]

Originally Posted by boshk

a couple things on how i wish the game handled coaches.
-first, i wish when you created a team, it did not automatically create a coaching staff for it. the new teams should have to deal with the talent pool already available.
-second, i wish when the game did create new coaches, that it created them with zero years of experience.

to add to your point if its going to create coaches why not have some half decent ones that's the reason I delete them 95% of the time cause they are bad at everything

[The Game]

You can mass delete FA coaches but have to manually fire coaches from teams and then mass delete the free agent ones. I do this with every new expansion team and league takes forever. i wish expansion teams and new leagues would have the option to have fictional coaches or have them sign existing coaches.

[Lukas Berger]

You can already delete unemployed coaches, as The Game mentions.

Go to Transactions > Available Personnel.

Then hit the button 'Delete All Available Personnel' in the bottom right.

[boshk]

Originally Posted by 24Rocks

to add to your point if its going to create coaches why not have some half decent ones that's the reason I delete them 95% of the time cause they are bad at everything

i would not necessarily have a problem with the badness of them, as long as maybe they had the "potential" to be good at certain things, but as a new coach, they are not quite as good as it yet, and learn the tools in the feeder and minor leagues. too many times do i see good coaches making 200K+ on a high school team somehow.

[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by lukasberger

You can already delete unemployed coaches, as The Game mentions.

Go to Transactions > Available Personnel.

Then hit the button 'Delete All Available Personnel' in the bottom right.

It does not get them all. We need something that does.

[Ripamaru]

I am not sure why it matters if you have 2000 bum coaches in free agency......I can sort them to find the good ones.

I do agree that expansion teams should be choosing from the existing talent pool though. I imagine they did what they did to keep from running out of coaches.....

[boshk]

Originally Posted by Questdog

Create a 2 team league......no minors.......fire all the coaches on the two teams.....go to available personnel and delete the dozen or so coaches there......save the game.....copy the coaches.dat file from the 2-team league to your other league overwriting the old one....voila!...no coaches.....

back up your original league before attempting this, as there may be unforeseen consequences......this is not something I have done on a regular basis and can say with confidence it is problem free.....however, I don't know why it shouldn't work....

i tried this, and it works. however, a side effect is that it also deletes every teams owner.

so, i guess you need to pick your poison when deciding to use it. are owners important to you? or is it worth the time savings of deleting all the coaches in a couple seconds, rather then a few weeks?