NCAA Football 10 News Post

NCAA Football 10 Rosters Issue

06:11 PM - June 10, 2009 by Russell_Kiniry_EA

Hey guys... so we are aware of the issue with no (or few) freshmen on some teams in TeamBuilder and yes the same issues are found on the NCAA 10 disc. Over the past few days, one of our top priorities has been investigating solutions.

The TeamBuilder teams require some data on the disc to set Depth Charts for every team created before they can be used in a game. For example if you use the Cupcake roster as a starting point, NCAA 10 will give you a default Depth Chart for the Cupcakes for your TeamBuilder team (which you can edit in game). This means any changes we make could cause some problems with teams already created using TeamBuilder. So we need to ensure we are taking to proper steps to correct the issues.

We understand the concerns with how this can affect Dynasty mode and Online Games, so we are working hard to have a solution in place before launch on July 14th.

-Russ

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# 541 countryboy @ 06/17/09 07:39 PM

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...rs-update.html

A "fixed" roster will be available on release day.

# 542 benbrown1 @ 06/17/09 08:08 PM

this is good news

# 543 Security Device @ 06/17/09 09:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NOBLE


	I know defending EA is your thing, but this is totally different. Madden fixes important things like pass rush and momentum, not botching simple things like rosters to begin with. Decent rosters should be a given for any sports game.

Madden has the right to use real players. They have contract info and only 32 teams. NCAA has no player name rights, players only staying 3-5 years. They have mass amounts of change every year with 120 teams (hopefully more in the future) to update.

I, for one, can see how NCAA Rosters is a much more daunting task than Madden. An unfair comparison if you ask me.

# 544 nstod @ 06/17/09 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by hawkeyekid


	They "claim" they had 2 roster sets and the wrong one got loaded.

They never said they had "2". They said they uploaded the WRONG set. Look, I don't mean this personally towards you, but people that have NO clue about software development need to settle down a bit.

I'll explain it one more time. It's called Software Version Control. What happens is the roster guy has the initial version of the rosters. He updates the roster, and saves it (or sometimes "checks it in"). The system creates a new version of the file(s), while saving the older versions. So now the system holds RosterFile.1 and RosterFile.2. This iterates and iterates, while the whole software package (what we know as NCAA 10) creates "stable baselines", which are when milestones in the program are met, and each part of the program gets delivered to this common baseline.

What can happen (and happens A LOT) is that the final baseline (the released version of the product) can get the wrong version of a file into the baseline. This is how this happens, and it isn't the roster's guy fault, Russ's fault, Adam's fault, or any combination of the above. It usually will fall on the Software Configuration Management group, and you're stuck with it.

I work for a large software corporation that is a contractor for the Department of Defense. It happens in our products, and these products are just a tad bit more important than a video game. It happens. They're fixing it, and that's the important thing.

# 545 rudyjuly2 @ 06/18/09 12:46 AM

If they don't patch the sliders along with this other crap, they just lost a sale. I've now completely lost faith in the NCAA dev team. Just beyond ticked right now. Time to go to bed.

# 546 KleShreen @ 06/18/09 10:59 PM

Come on I just want to know if the messed up rosters are on the PS2 version or not.

# 547 kerrigjl @ 06/22/09 09:15 PM

Russ/Adam,

Vandy's rosters are completely updated for the fall and are available on http://vucommodores.cstv.com/sports/...ootbl-mtt.html - if you are still updating them for the EA Locker/Patch release. The accurate depth chart is available at http://vucommodores.cstv.com/sports/...rospectus.html with the exception of Freshmen, most all of whom are to be redshirted.