06-07 FINAL FRANCHISE RELEASE:
Everything described for the roster in the post above applies to this file as well. Additionally:
--All the rookies in my 07-08 roster files have been added to the offseason draft class with their current ratings applied.
--All remaining draft selections from the actual 2007 draft are also in the draft class (ie those players who were drafted but didn't make any team, those who are on practice squads, & those who went on IR prior to the season). This includes players like Florida State's Buster Davis, the Bengals' Kenny Irons, the Patriots' Oscar Lua, as well as numerous low round selections who never got past training camp.
--Approx 40 additional 2007 prospects who were never drafted or signed at all are also in the draft class to fill it out more
--The remaining 16 "game-generated" draft prospects in the class are either TE, K, or P & all have every attribute set to zero. These 16 players are left so that they can be overwritten into any other new players as desired.
--06-07 Schedule is loaded
--Several hundred players have real-life contracts in terms of years, contract value, guarantee/bonus (or some combination of these factors if player's-wants & cap room made matching each impossible)
--Every single player with a one-year contract is a player who is no longer with that team in 07-08 or who signed a new contract during the offseason
--36 Players are on injured reserve to start the season (see attached spreadsheet)
--QBs who began the 2006 season as starters are currently #1 on the depth chart (eg Drew Bledsoe, Kurt Warner, Kerry Collins, Mark Brunell, etc)
Spreadsheet
The attached excel spreadsheet includes an accurate IR list for 2006 thru Christmas for the 06-07 season. The players highlighted in yellow are the 36 guys already on injured reserve to start the season.
The workbook is tabbed with three sheets: There are 2 sorts for easy navigation (by team & by date). The "week" column in each of those tabs indicates the first week missed by the player because of IR (So, if you're following this, you'd put him on IR prior to that week). The final column in those 2 sheets has a "B" for some rows. This is used to indicate that there was no more room on the team's in-game IR list at that point in the season (max of 5 players). So the "B" indicates that the player was moved to the bottom of the depth chart in my sim as an alternative to IR. The third tab in the spreadsheet just indicates what other parameters I followed in executing the 2006 "real season outcome sim" (e.g. it lists depth chart changes like which QBs started various weeks, which RBs split starts, & which games needed their outcomes changed to get accurate 2006 playoff seeding).
^Basically this spreadsheet acts as an informal "what happened in 2006"
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