Is there a utility available for OOTPBM 2006 that allows you to trade draft picks?

[Killebrew]

Is there a utility available for OOTPBM 2006 that allows you to trade draft picks? Pierre once coded such a utility for OOTP 5 and 6 (it didn't work with OOTP 6.5) and it seems to me this would be pretty useful for both online commishes and solo play.

[Zubes]

i havent tried it personally...but i am pretty sure that this can all be done in game now without the use of a 3rd party utility

[Killebrew]

Originally Posted by Zubes

i havent tried it personally...but i am pretty sure that this can all be done in game now without the use of a 3rd party utility

Sorry, but nope. It's possible the game lists this as a feature but it has never actually worked properly. It allows you to trade a pick from only 1 season (the current one) and only allows you to trade it 1 time, which is actually worse than not allowing this at all as it screws up the games DB when that pick is traded a second time (as in an online league) and actually adds additional manual admin work to the manual post-draft traded pick player trades.

The main use for a traded draft pick utility (besides all the manual admin time saved) is to retain the correct draft info in the player & team/league history, as well as avoid all the ad hoc trade info after the rookie draft. Currently for traded picks you need to manually trade the player to his new team, it's a pretty convoluted, error prone & time consuming process.

[redeemed]

Originally Posted by Killebrew

Currently for traded picks you need to manually trade the player to his new team, it's a pretty convoluted, error prone & time consuming process.

Why? Even with draft pick trading working the way it is, you can keep a list of traded draft picks and just change the draft order at the beginning of each round, right?

[Comedian2004]

You can also use AUHistory2 to modify the history to show the draft trades.

Originally Posted by redeemed

Why? Even with draft pick trading working the way it is, you can keep a list of traded draft picks and just change the draft order at the beginning of each round, right?

[Zubes]

Originally Posted by Killebrew

Sorry, but nope. It's possible the game lists this as a feature but it has never actually worked properly. It allows you to trade a pick from only 1 season (the current one) and only allows you to trade it 1 time, which is actually worse than not allowing this at all as it screws up the games DB when that pick is traded a second time (as in an online league) and actually adds additional manual admin work to the manual post-draft traded pick player trades.

The main use for a traded draft pick utility (besides all the manual admin time saved) is to retain the correct draft info in the player & team/league history, as well as avoid all the ad hoc trade info after the rookie draft. Currently for traded picks you need to manually trade the player to his new team, it's a pretty convoluted, error prone & time consuming process.

like i said, i hadnt tried it myself personally.

[Killebrew]

Originally Posted by redeemed

Why? Even with draft pick trading working the way it is, you can keep a list of traded draft picks and just change the draft order at the beginning of each round, right?

Nope, changing the draft order does not change the team that owns the pick, so if you can't properly trade the draft pick then the draft order doesn't really matter.