I have finished importing the Canadian Major Junior players. I think there were around 1,400 - 1,500 new players. It was a lot of work and so I haven't bothered changing which teams are in which leagues - so some players will be on rosters that are currently defunct. There were a couple of players who I've put on other rosters because they only joined the CHL midway through the season (e.g. one player started at Detroit Compuware in the NAHL and so I've put him on that roster).
The rosters consist of every player who played on that roster during the season. For players who played on more than one CHL roster that season, I've put him on the roster he started the season with. However, I'm sure there must be plenty of players who started in non-CHL leagues and so this will need to be checked (the career history on Elite Prospects is really useful for checking this because it lists entries in chronological order - i.e. the first team listed in a season is the player's starting team for that season).
I have set some provisional positions for the players. I will upload a spreadsheet of players for whom I didn't have stick-side data (I had to randomly assign these). The positional ratings will need more work. I haven't set positions for defencemen (because no doubt many left stick-sided players played RD given the relative minority of right stick-sided players in NA). Thus these players are randomised in game and you'll find most CHL teams have very few defencemen (the game seems to insist on making them forwards). You can see which players need their positions finalised because they will have a zero in one or more positions. Again, I will provide a spreadsheet with more details on this.
I'll start looking into the AHL, CHL, ECHL and UHL shortly.
On another note, I have modified the EHM exe so that we can have a separate 'pictures' folder for the 1998DB. This means we can keep the logos, rinks, facepacks, etc for the 1998DB separate from the modern pics. You'll see in the screenshot below I have a 'pics1998' folder which will store all of the 1998 pics. Also, the modified exe is called ehm1998db.exe which sits alongside the usual ehm2007.exe. It seems the game doesn't mind what it's called. Thus we can have separate exes and pictures folders running alongside each other.
I am also going to modify the exe so that we can remove the foreigner restriction for the British ISL because the league didn't have one (and there were very few British players in the league).
Given all that all/most people use the digital download version of the game, I'd be very tempted to rename the hardcoded league names as and when needed. I'm also wondering whether it is possible to implement the CSD Patch into the exe...
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