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Position Changes for released Players?

By gstelmack
8/19/2013 8:13 am
2013 2013 Midweek 3
RG Nestor Kerr
Position changed from WR to RG
2013 2013 Midweek 3
RG Nestor Kerr
Released by Carolina

2013 2013 Midweek 3
LDE Bobby McConkey
Position changed from FS to LDE
2013 2013 Midweek 3
LDE Bobby McConkey
Released by Carolina

Is Carolina doing this to try to hide players from everyone else, or is the game engine doing this on a released player?

Re: Position Changes for released Players?

By ZootMurph
8/19/2013 10:29 am
I didn't change their position. Note that the position change takes place AFTER I release them, not before.

The game made the changes, not me.

Re: Position Changes for released Players?

By ZootMurph
8/19/2013 10:33 am
I think when a player is released, the game puts him at his highest rated position.

For McConkey, he was 30/30 as a FS, but is 19/39 at DE. I didn't look at Kerr. Hopefully, JDB can remove this feature. The problem for McConkey is that he is 206 pounds... he shouldn't be at DE at all.

Re: Position Changes for released Players?

By gstelmack
8/19/2013 11:20 am
Yeah, that's something I think he needs to tweak. I think the idea is okay, but the implementation looks pretty wrong.

Re: Position Changes for released Players?

By jdavidbakr - Site Admin
8/19/2013 12:24 pm
Hey guys, Zoot just PM'd me asking about this - Yes, the game did change the position to what it thought was the best position for the player, which up till now has been reasonable, those two though were really radical.

That's an old function that I had built originally to prevent a player from being able to change the position to something the player is bad at and then releasing him, so no one would find him. That's not really an issue with the way things have developed, since the player search would reveal that player anyway, so with this occurrence and that last thought I went ahead and disabled this today. I don't see that it's a necessary action by the game engine.

Re: Position Changes for released Players?

By ZootMurph
8/19/2013 1:16 pm
Thanks for verifying this, JDB! :)