Creating a Draft File

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Revision as of 13:34, 21 August 2007

• Go to Draft > Draft Preview
• We're going to take the computer-generated draft file, and edit the good players the computer generated to be based off their historical counterparts. You want to take the better players so that the draft doesn't produce 40 stars as it would if you edited the bad computer generated players (the real life players + the good computer generated players). The way I typically do this is sorting by defense, then making any good defensive players that have a pulse offensively the real players.
• Select a good player, then click Edit
• Go to Basketball-reference > Draft, and select the year.
• Click on the player to import. Change the player in FBB's Name, Position, Height, Weight, College and Age to match the real life player.
• On the bottom of the player, there is a "Statistics" Section. Enter in the players first year totals from their rookie year. Use totals, not per game averages. Leave "Stat Level" to be NBA.
• Once everything has been entered (they're in the same order on basketball-reference player pages as they are in the Edit Rookie page of FBB, so you should be able to tab and enter them in order), click "Generate Attributes".
• There is one attribute we are going to edit, particularly for guards/sf's in the 80's area. 3 pt shot. If you don't edit this, ALL guards will be C- or worse outside shooters, with 3 pt shot ratings in the single digits. This is because the 3 point shot wasn't used heavily. To make it more realistic, edit the rating to what you think it should be.
• Click Save.
• Do this for all players in the first round of the draft (plus any notable 2nd+ round picks you wish to include)
• Save the roster file when finished.
• Go to tools > CSV output. For Output Type, select draft file. Select All players. Click Output CSV
• Go to your fastbreak basketball folder, then the output folder. In here will be a file called savenameDraftFileYear.txt