Lidas Rosters 2008/09 - Version 1.0 out now!

[archibalduk]

*** DOWNLOAD VERSION 1.0 NOW ***


A lot of people have been waiting, and here it finally is. LidasDB 1.0. After spending a couple of hours every day since March 1st, I have finally decided to release a first version. There are still a lot of more changes I want to implement, but I’ll save them for later, as the hockey season is starting now, making the urge to start new games stronger.

The database is based on the TBN Updated Unfaking database, released March 1st 2008. This is just a first version, not yet thoroughly tested on all leagues. I will keep updating it, and keep releasing new versions on a regular basis.

So, what has been done? I have chosen not to keep detailed lists documenting all changes; I decided to spend more time on the actual updating process instead of documentation. I can however give you an overview of everything that I have updated:

- NHL rosters, contracts, staff, player rights, and attributes.
- Added rights to players drafted in the NHL 2007 and 2008 Entry drafts + edited their attributes.

- Swedish Elitserien promotions/relegations, rosters, contracts, staff, attributes, and team info.
- Swedish Allsvenskan promotions/relegations, rosters, contracts, staff, attributes, and team info.
- Swedish Junior rosters, staff, and attributes.

- Continental Hockey League (RUS) promotions/relegations, rosters and head coaches.
- Czech Extraliga promotions/relegations, rosters and staff.
- Finnish SM-Liiga rosters, contracts, and staff.
- Danish Oddset League rosters and head coaches.
- Norwegian UPC-League promotions/relegations, rosters, and head coaches.

- AHL league structure, rosters and staff.
- ECHL league structure, rosters and staff.
- NCAA rosters and current/potential abilities.

- Increased the age of ALL players and staff in the database by two years. (44000+)
- All transfers posted at Eurohockey.net since March 1st 2007. (10000+)
- Most changes suggested at the TBN board since March 1st 2008.

- NHL, AHL, and ECHL team affiliates.
- North American league structures.
- Traded future NHL and OHL draft picks.
- Unfaked a lot of Swiss players.
- Set thousands of birthdates, which were still randomized in the TBN database.
- Thousands of new staff and players have been created, mostly by overwriting retired/invalid players.
- Many other leagues are partly updated, and will be completely updated in future versions.

Due to hard coded league structures, some teams are not in the same leagues as they are in real life. Two AHL teams (Lake Erie Monsters and Rockford Icehogs) have been placed in ECHL, and UHL has received a WHL team (Edmonton Oil Kings) and three dormant ECHL teams (Toledo Walleye, Colombia Inferno, and Pensacola Ice Pilots). The KHL teams Barys Astana, Khimik Voskerensk, and Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod have been placed in Vysshaya league. Dinamo Riga and Dinamo Minsk remain in their national leagues. Danish Oddset League Totempo HVIK (Hvidovre) remains in the Danish First Division.


INSTALLATION:

Extract the RAR file to "\NHL Eastside Hockey Manager 2007\data\database\"

This will place the database files in
"\NHL Eastside Hockey Manager 2007\data\database\LidasDB1.0"

When starting a new game in EHM you will be presented with the option to choose which database to use. Select LidasDB1.0 to use the updated database and click on OK.

CREDITS:

Alessandro, Hobbit13, Hukkanen, ElQuapo, Mattski93, and Lazion @ TBN for the TBN Updated Unfaking Database.
Archibalduk @ TBL for researching NCAA and organizing the TBL research.
Shadd @ TBL for creating a spreadsheet for calculating player ability.
Nikki Nine, Ragnar, and Lumpjaw @ EHMSverige for tweaking attributes of Swedish players.
Jasonponty @ TBL for researching NHL staff.
Tasku @ TBL for researching SM-Liiga staff.
Jackknife77 @ TBL for a sheet with player birthdates.
Devils88 @ TBL for unfaking the Swiss leagues.
Manimal @ TBL for researching OHL (not yet implemented).
SteveBonus @ TBL for researching WHL (not yet implemented).
Falkky @ TBL for researching QMJHL (not yet implemented).
Andyjayp @ TBL for researching Germany and France (not yet implemented).
Calv @ TBL for researching Great Britain (not yet implemented).


Click here to post suggestions for changes to the data or any mistakes, omissions, etc

[bruins72]

Happiness!

Yeah, my challenge game might have to be put on the back-burner for a bit. I've got to dig into this...


Thank you, Lidas!

[archibalduk]

I can't thank you enough for this, Lidas. I don't think anyone will be able to comprehend quite how much work you put into this

[vanCanucks]

Thank you so much!! I have been looking forward to this for a long while!! da best!!

[josh1976]

Great work...god knows i dont have the time to do what you did.

How will free agency work? will the players that are set to be free after this season in the real NHL be free in the game?

Thank you,

Josh

[archibalduk]

Great work...god knows i dont have the time to do what you did.

How will free agency work? will the players that are set to be free after this season in the real NHL be free in the game?

Thank you,

Josh

NHL contracts have been updated and so they will be free after the season in EHM if they are in real life.

[Shadd666]

Wow, that's hell of a good news!

Big time congrats to you Lidas for all the impressive amount of hard work

[Silvarn]

Great job Lidas! Big thanks

[vanCanucks]

Do we have to manually update the player pictures by adding two years to their birthdays?

[Calv]

Do we have to manually update the player pictures by adding two years to their birthdays?

If you go to here: http://batchrenamer.sourceforge.net/
you can download a batch renamer to replace all palyers born 1983 with 1981 etc...

[vanCanucks]

Thanks! Any other years that we have to adjust? or is it just 1983 with 1981?
Thanks

[archibalduk]

Thanks! Any other years that we have to adjust? or is it just 1983 with 1981?
Thanks

It's every single year. They've all been aged by two years

[bobmcgoo]

Massive thanks to Lidas and the research team .

Better to use this for pictures: http://www.ghisler.com/download.htm, because it has a multi-rename function, so you can do it all in one go, by copying:

1959|1960|1961|1962|1963|1964|1965|1966|1967|1968|1969|1970|1971|1972|1973|1974|1975|1976|1977|1978|1979|1980|
1981|1982|1983|1984|1985|1986|1987|1988|1989|1990|1991|1992|1993
into the "search for" box, and:

1957|1958|1959|1960|1961|1962|1963|1964|1965|1966|1967|1968|1969|1970|1971|1972|1973|1974|1975|1976|1977|1978|
1979|1980|1981|1982|1983|1984|1985|1986|1987|1988|1989|1990|1991
into the "replace with" box.

Obviously, you're going to have to add dates pre-1959 if you have staff pictures for anyone older.

[getzlaf15]

Enough Said.

Actually - Thank you Lidas and the rest that are involved in this.

[Lidas]

The timing is a bit off, as the challenge has just started, but enjoy guys!

If there are any changes you want implemented for the next version, please post them in the following thread: http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/vi ... 1889#61889

[ozziethesaint]

First of all, thanks soooo much

But are there plans for more accurate AHL rosters in the next release?
If not, its not the end of the world, I can always do them myself if need be.

[khargrave20]

hey guys. First off thanks so much Lidas and everyone else for all you're hard work! I can't wait to try out the update.
Unfortunately I'm having a problem and I hope someone can help. My Order ID is messed and i have sent a message to elicense to have it replace I hope, but I was hoping I could start my game out just using the demo. I have downloaded the latest patch (I think? 3.0.2) and extracted Lidas' roster to the EHM database, but when I start a new game, the default rosters are automatically used. Is this because I only have the demo installed? Or is there something else I'm missing? Any help would be awesome, I can't wait to get back into this game!! Thanks

I just realized there is a third patch I'll install that now and see what happens

[archibalduk]

I've created a new thread especially for any data issues, mistakes, changes, etc: http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/vi ... 1889#61889

[CatchUp]

Dang-nabbit this is going to destroy my Thanksgiving weekend! Goodbye family time! Helloooo EHM!

Big ups to Lidas for all the hard work!

[Duxios]

Can someone please upload this file to another site please? Cant download anything from Filefront for a about a year....it just shows that there are no available downlaod servers! Please? someone?

[archibalduk]

Can someone please upload this file to another site please? Cant download anything from Filefront for a about a year....it just shows that there are no available downlaod servers! Please? someone?

Here's a temporary Rapidshare link for you: http://rapidshare.com/files/153009800/L ... 0.rar.html

[Duxios]

Thanks!

[Lazion]

I just made little update pack for Lidas rosters.

Update file unfakes some league names to correct ones:
Russian Superleague -> Kontinental Hockey League
United Hockey League -> International Hockey League
Czech Elite League -> Czech O2 Extraliga
Danish Oddset Ligaen -> Danish AL-Bank Ligaen
Norwegian UPC-Ligaen -> Norwegian GET-Ligaen
Finnish SM-League -> Finnish SM-Liiga
Finnish Suomi Division -> Finnish Suomi-Sarja

This update is not a roster file. Rar-file only includes language files.
Just remember to read readme to install correctly.

http://files.filefront.com/updaterar/;1 ... einfo.html

[19nazzy]

Thank you so much for your work.

[Valhal]

Nice one

A few changes though. Frans Nielsen of the Islanders has a one way contract and Jannik Hansen (Canucks) and Mikkel Bødtker (Coyotes) is playing in the NHL (for now anyway)