Technical Limitations in MADCAT

The roster section of Madden's franchise logs does not contain the full names of players. The full name is listed in the stats section, however. When you upload a franchise log to be parsed, MADCAT does its best to intelligently match up the full names in the stats section with the partial names listed in the roster section. I've tested it with countless seasons of data and the accuracy is quite high (I can't claim 100%, but it was well above 95%), but there is literally no way to guarantee that every player gets matched up correctly. Ways of manually fixing this are available, and I intend to add even better support for "fixing" the database in future versions.

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