Due to my ignorance of the Windows 7 “Run as Administrator issue”, in the last six months I have twice lost hundreds of hours of work, most recently at the start of September….I am happy to report the issue has been solved and that my efforts since then have been seen by Archi! I’ve emailed a copy of the in-progress database and he too sees what I see! Success!
So I thought I'd give a
Progress Report/Update...
RE NHL ROSTERS (1974)
The main thing that has not changed throughout the last six months – the NHL starting rosters are done! Based on the rosters from 1974 editions of the 1974 Hockey News!
AND throughout the last six months there have always been hundreds more “historical players” in addition to those in the NHL
BUT everything else I actually accomplished was lost x2
BUT much has again been accomplished (since September)
RE TEAM NAMES
All of the NHL teams are historical teams (NHL + WHA).
The AHL teams and Major Junior teams (WHL, OHL, QMJHL) have been edited to include all available historical teams.
RE MODERN PLAYERS
It took about 6 weeks, but I have once again removed (made Invalid) all modern players
- with a CA 101-200
- with a CA 0-100 and a PA 101-200
- with a PA of -15, -14, -13, -10, -9, -8, -7 or -6
So basically there are no modern players likely to make any kind of impact/appearance in-game (2400+ players removed)
RE AHL ROSTERS, MAJOR JUNIOR ROSTERS, “MINOR HOCKEY” ROSTERS
BACKGROUND
The starting point was the original default db, and then user Pens66 created from that the 1979-80 db.
I took the 1979-80 db and started to modify it to be a 1976 db, but after many weeks…
I decided on a 1974 db
So my “starting database” was part 2006, part 1979-80 and part 1976!
What I needed to do (again) is determine exactly which historical players are in the database, ensure their age is correct, determine what team they are on/should be on AND ensure a correct/age appropriate CA . The actual moving players about only takes a couple/few days, but the research and prep work (spreadsheets-Initial Editing) beforehand takes many, many weeks.
In addition to correcting age/CA the Initial Editing includes ensuring the Draft Details/Rights tabs are cleared, as well as clearing the Player Info/History tabs
The majority of this work has already been done
- 634 NHL players
DONE
- 252 AHL players
DONE
- 42 Major Junior players
DONE
- 101 Minor Hockey players (Atom-Novice-PeeWee)
DONE
- 93 European/Russian players
DONE
- 535 players on “Placeholder teams”
In-Progress
I am currently about 25% done going through the 535 placeholder players (almost all will end up on Minor Hockey/Major Junior teams). This task needs to be completed before a public release will happen.
RE STAFF
Currently some work has been done making the NHL Staff historical – there are 19 Chairman, 3 Presidents, 27 General Managers, 28 Head Coaches and 24 Coaches in-game now. There are 0 NHL Scouts and 0 NHL Trainers in-game right now (I made all NHL Staff Free Agents almost a year ago). I have spent many hours on this issue already, with lists of additional staff to create prepared…..
currently I’m looking to at least have historical NHL Staff (and no modern staff appearances in the NHL) before a public release will happen
There's more in the works that I could comment on but won't at this time (things like historical Referees, coaching Attributes/play styles, Arenas, team finances, additional AHL players, and additional historical staff).
I can't give an exact date of when a public release will happen, but the knowledge that previous editing issues have been overcome is very good news indeed! I am quite excited!
Progress continues...
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I'll try a few other pre-2006 start seasons to see if any of them work. I guess if all else fails, you could always use a 2074 start date. 
