Free Agency Workaround - IMPORTANT!!

[Andrew]

Here's the solution Robby and I came up with this afternoon. We basically took Squint's suggestion of replacing the offers.dat file with an older one, and deleted it all together. This basically removed all offers which fixed the issue with Projected Budget Room. However, it deletes valid offers as well so here's what we'll do:

- I'll delete the offers.dat in my copy and re-upload the league file tonight. No days will be simmed.

- Everyone will need to re-export for Sunday's sim. You should make offers to every player you're interested in since the old offers are wiped out.

- I'll then import all the offers and run the sim normally. After the sim, I'll delete the offers.dat and we'll repeat the process for the rest of FA.

This means you'll need to re offer free agents every sim. However, we're currently in the 21 day sims so I don't expect any FA's (except maybe Stiver) to wait that long to make their decision.

Any questions?

[Clay]

Just one for the dumb...

Whatever I exported for tonight's sim...just reexport for Sundays???

I get the going forward part.

[Andrew]

Just one for the dumb...

Whatever I exported for tonight's sim...just reexport for Sundays???

I get the going forward part.

No, you should download the file I post tonight and re-do any changes you made. The current exports *might* still work, but I wouldn't trust it if you have anything important to do.

Tonight's league file will be a full league file (including all news and messages) so you don't need to worry about deleting your local copy and starting from scratch.

[Clay]

Got it. Thanks!

[HungryB]

Sounds good to me!

[robster1225]

I think this might be the lesser of two evils, so I like it.

[robster1225]

Just one for the dumb...

Whatever I exported for tonight's sim...just reexport for Sundays???

I get the going forward part.

Andrew, could you import all of our exports just in case we made any transactions within the team, i.e. callups/send downs, then delete the offers.dat? That way we don't lose work we've done on our rosters, we only lose work we did in Free Agency

[Squint]

Should we all just revert back to the pre-patch file? The only one I know of that may have an issue would be Los Lunas but I'm sure someone on the OOTP boards has an original .exe for a Mac file.

[Andrew]

Andrew, could you import all of our exports just in case we made any transactions within the team, i.e. callups/send downs, then delete the offers.dat? That way we don't lose work we've done on our rosters, we only lose work we did in Free Agency

Yeah, that's a good idea.