Sorry for the silence
currently, i am still twisting the arm of my friends to go in on a GM jr. book. until they cave or until i develop another unbiased rating system for rookies, i am sitting on creating all 255 rookies (plus there is the cutdowns issue).
in the meantime, i've been working on alleviating the sidearm problem & creating rookies from the first three rounds (the rookies least likely to get cut). i'll have something with them before mid-summer, but it will be MUCH closer to final cutdowns when i finish making all the rooks.
what i said in my last post here still stands: most of all, i want to make sure freezing does NOT happen in this file when it's used in franchise mode. getting it released during the summer is not as high on my priority list. With regards to freeze-ups, all the advice that Finn has given me has had one thing in common: do not continually create & overwrite new names (there is even an issue w/ the number of characters used). since i am not using any CAPs, i dont want to overrwrite a low-rated veteran who then ends up making a team in august. similarly, i do not want to create a bunch of 6th or 7th rounders who end up getting cut.
all i can say is sit tight. i know people want a roster but as far as my files go, the franchise will have to do for now. for playing head-to-head w/ current rosters, my friends & I have my franchise set w/ all 32 teams human-controlled. then we just play any matchup during the season that we like (w/o saving). i know all 32 teams don't play each other in the 07-08 schedule. if there are 2 teams who don't meet this season & you "absolutely need" to play w/ them head-to-head, there are ways around it: you could always use the franchise tool "export team" to get them into exhibition play. Or load a different season schedule to find some other matchups.