Madden Career Toolkit 1.7 Release Notes

A Note on Importing Logs

The code for importing logs has been majorly revamped for MADCAT 1.7. This should improve accuracy greatly. The recommended process is to import the entire league roster from a CSV file first. This will fill the database with the full names of all players. Then, import your franchise logs. This will mean that you won't get any players with only first initial in the database, and will greatly improve MADCAT's ability to properly assign stats to players. I worked very hard to make this new code as fast as the previous code, but it may be a little slower on your system.

Additions

• You can now import free agents from MADscout CSV files. View Free Agent listing in free_agents.php
• standings.php finally has Combined All-Time Standings (thanks for riding me, Raistlin). It won't combine relocated teams yet, but I'll add that soon
• Added Career Statistical Leaders to career_leaders.php
• Via MADscout CSV files you can upload Pro Bowl rosters and Retired players.

Tweaks

• Added Total Touchdowns, Points Scored, Yards from Scrimmage, and All-Purpose Yards to leaders.php
• The formulas for Power Rankings have been tweaked. There is now proper calculation of Strength of Schedule, and the formulas have been tweaked around this re-calculation.
• If a player is not currently on a roster, their player card will use the NFL class as the background color and display the NFL logo instead of a team logo. Their contract info will also be listed as "N/A".
• The titles for each type of Power Ranking have been moved into the config file
• The existing method of creating a retired player list remains intact, but if you import the proper retired players list, it will use that list instead. No configuration is required for this.

Bugs Fixed

• retired.php would not work if you used a table prefix for MADCAT.
• On certain servers, the code for displaying stories on the index page wasn't working
• Using PHP in story.php was not working

Files Modified

If you do a lot of work customizing MADCAT, these are the only files you'll need to replace with the new versions.

• I'm just going to stop doing this section. I always end up losing track of what files I've changed :p

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