Fbpro Utilities Reviews
Utility
Made By
Grade
What It Does/My Thoughts
CHKPLY
Rich Derr
A-
Play checker. You can tell it which things to check for, but there aren't alot of choices. There is a newer, better play checker avialable now but it requires Win95
EXPAND
Lorne Sundby
A+
Allows you to expand leagues and/or realign teams. Very simple and easy.
FBZIP
Rich Walls
A
Reads up to 5 profiles then puts the profiles and the plays they use in a ZIP file. Requires PKZIP.
FPSFEDIT
E.A. Gelat
A+
Does practically everything: edit leagues, teams, all players (even FAs and draftees), add champions, injury or heal players, etc. Possibly the best utility ever written. Easy to use and understand. You must register to use anything more than team and player editing though.
GAMEDAY
Lorne Sundby
A
Lists the stat leaders for the week's games. Good simple program that saves alot of mouse clicks.
INJURY
Lorne Sundby
A
Lists all injured players and the type and severity of injury. Saves you the time of looking over every team's roster page, but it goes a little overboard by listing the injuries by team AND game-by-game injuries from last week AND game-by-game status for next week.
MYCITY
Lorne Sundby
A
Allows you to change weather for existing cities or add cities to CITIES.DAT (used for Nearest City). Works great, but you have to find the weather conditions yourself. Note that if you use this program, your CITIES.DAT file will show up as being corrupt if you run the FBCHECK program that comes with Fbpro.
NEWS
Lorne Sundby
A
Collects output from other Sundby utils and puts it all in one file. Saves you the time of looking over lots of output files but only collects output from Sundby utils.
PLFIXER
Lorne Sundby
A
Allows you to change what teams are in the playoffs. Easy to use with simple drag down menus. The computer usually screws up playoff tiebreakers and if your favorite team didn't make the playoffs, you can change that too.
RECORDS
Lorne Sundby
A
Keeps a record book for single game, season, and career records. It takes awhile to update the records, but the book is HUGE.
ROOKIE
Lorne Sundby
B
Adds a '*' at the beginning of all rookie's last names. Must be run every year to be kept up to date. Simple and effective. But it will cut off the last letter of a player's last name if it is 12 letters long.
ROSTER
Lorne Sundby
A+
Lists the roster of every team, free agents, and draftees in one file. Saves you alot of time. Great for websites. Also required for using some other utilities.
SAWARD
Lorne Sundby
B-
Deciedes offensive and defensive players of the game and week. Neat, but some of the awards are bizarre. For example, what are the chances of a punter winning Defensive Player of the Week?
SCDMKR
E.A. Gelat
C
Lets you make a schedule of up to 18 weeks for Fbpro95 leagues. The idea is good, but you have to write the schedule from scratch and the slightest typo screws up the program.
UNRETIRE
Lorne Sundby
A
Allows you to bring back unretire a player. Handy if you're trying to simulate the real NFL.
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