How to update your player database: It is reccommended you backup for league files before doing any database updates. While we are not the experts on the software, we have done many updates with few problems. We suggest you read all the notes below before starting the update. - Backup your league files and backup a copy of your league output html files - Read all steps below before updating. a - Put the GHL0102.DRS file in your FHL main directory. b - Open your simm and at the main screen select , . c - You will receive a warning telling you that all stats will be overwritten [WARNING read notes below], select ok. d - You will then be asked if you want salary information updated as well, select yes to use new salaries and no to keep your old ones. [read note below] Make your decision accordingly. e - Once you proceed from the step above the coversion will start. [read note below] f - When process is complete Thats all thats to it, when completed your team rosters will contain the new player stats. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 - TROUBLSHOOTING: SIMM HANGING ON CONVERSION Sometimes the simm will hang as it is processing a team. Simply stop the update process and close your simm with out saving, nothing will be changed. Make a note of the team that the simm hangs on, it is likely that a player that is not in the new database but is on a team roster is causeing the problem. As of SIMM version 1.1 if a player in the simm has a salarie of >3,000,000 and that player is not in the new drs database, the conversion will hang. The solution is to cancel the update. Go into the SIMM and edit the offending player(s)salary to less than 3,000,000 or release them. To help you with seeing what players are in the new database we have included a html file of all the players. We know that Eric Lindros will stop the process. The simm normally should take the guys that are on a roster and not in the new database and place them in your prospect list. NOTE CASE SENSITIVITY ON NAME SPELLING IS IMPORTANT.. differences in case sensitivity will cause the player not matching in your simm to be moved to the prospect list. Example John Leclair vs John LeClair or Al Macinnis vs Al MacInnis... Any player in your current league that is not in the new DRS will be moved to the prospect list of the team they were on. CHECKING PROSPECTS: Use the menu picks from the main startup simm screen to see who didn't update. If there are players that didn't update because of name spelling you can delete the players by highlighting the name and selecting the delete button. To get any players back to the team rosters that fell off as described above go to the appropriate edit team roster screen and select add player. A box will come up where you can find the players in the database that didn't have a team assigned to them. Highlight the player you want to add select the team he is to go to and hit . The player will be assigned to the team. UPDATING PLAYER DATABASE AFFECT ON STATISTICS: Player injuries are cleared on a player stat update, if this is important you will have to save the injury info for each player and reenter it manually when the update is complete. The update will erase player statistics, if you are updating in the middle of a season all players personal stats will be reset as well.