Okay, this has finally gotten old and time consuming.

I want to make this easier.

Give us 3 to 5 Drop Down Boxes. These Boxes will hold the Abilities.
Give us a Text Box for each of the Drop Down Boxes. This will allow us to input manually a Minimum Score.

So now instead of choosing to look for a DB by Zone Coverage and having to sift through 1,017 guys with 17 Speed that simply are not viable, I can expedite my search process and more Quality Players can actually be found.

Like this. I go in to find a RB Coach. Ball Carry is key for me, but I also have to look for Avoid Fumble, and I wouldn't mind Pass Blocking.

I start 'high'... I want a 100 Ball Carry guy, but he needs 80 Avoid Fumble and no less than 25 Pass Blocking. Hmm, none exist. Okay, now I have options... give up entirely on Pass Blocking? Lower my acceptable Avoid Fumble? Come off that 100 Ball Carry? I can continue to fine tune my search until I get a short list of viable guys for the job.

Same for Players. No less than 75 Speed, no less than 90 Zone Coverage, and for good measure let's add no less than 70 Tackles. Press 'Find'... if any exist in those Ranges, they are shown to me.

Age should also be an Input.

I just went through about 200 DB with 17 freaking Speed to find some one with Zone Coverage that's viable. Now you could say 'just search Speed'... then I go through 200 guys with 90 Speed that can't Zone Cover.

Search Engines are fairly easy to code, this shouldn't be to difficult and would save a TON of time/energy, along with slightly improving Roster Qualities around the board as there are a few (very few) marginal players dying on FA because no one is sifting through over 1,000 Players to find those 10 guys that exist.

Please, pretty please, sugar on top and a Play Off Run of a Century for your NFL Team, improve this Player (and since you're there, the Coach) Search Feature. Bring it out of the Spread Sheet Stone Age and into our Modern Statistical Hearts.

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If you could do this via the MFN interface then computer/Excel experts would no longer have an advantage over those who aren't.

There goes the neighborhood.

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yeah, they really deserve the advantage, I totally see the link excel<=>football

No bout....alot of good points as filters are great.

But my weights pull alot guys out with speed and severely punish those without. The next allocation I was thinking of allowing the auto draft to do the draft but based off those weights and a volatility rating of 1.

I think it will build a very good team with very little effort . ...well besides the countless hours in the past year I put it to come up with these weights.

Very simply said players overalls are rarely above their top speed. In a seasoned league the scales of which players are truly elite are narrowed down to a dozen at each postion. If not less.

I edited my post.

my apologies, recognizing sarcasm in my 4th language is something I haven't quit mastered.

But I can see we are on the same page here, so no hard feelings I hope

HOW DARE YOU TAKE AWAY MY EXCEL ADVANTAGE?!?!?!

Ray, it's not finding Elite Players that is the problem.

It's finding the 45th guy for my Roster... who needs to be a DB with Zone Coverage, that doesn't take a Week to run a 40.

Right now I'm stuck with going "Sort by Zone Coverage" then manually opening each Player Card to see '17 SPD'... well ****, next '41 SPD'... '21 SPD' then some 67 odds attempts later '68 SPD' and signing that guy.

It's the same if I go by SPD... then it's '17 ZC', '21 ZC' until 100 attempts later '81 ZC'.

When it would be way faster to go "SPD 60+" "ZC 60+" and get a list of guys with 60+ SPD and ZC back to look through. If I get 'to many' back, I can up the SPD/ZC, or add another like "TKL 50+" or 'PUN 60+' until I get a list the size I want to individually look through to find the guy.

It pulls them all out ....just designed to be more accurate when evaluating who is elite.

If I want a guy who could zone cover I would look at my FS or MLB as I have zone rated a bit better there. Same for pass rushers or run suffers I just filter that position. Its fast at pulling out the best no matter who good or bad or whatever opinion anyone has....speed kills.

All the top teams are stacked with fast and strong guys.....

I think you are misunderstanding me.

There are no Fast guys available that ALSO have another Skill. If there were, they would have already been taken as a FA by a Team. We're talking the Left Overs here.

Also, I can't see their Overall in the Search Function... unless the ONLY thing I search by is Overall. In which case now I have to sift through a ton of people with absolutely no ZC... I've just made my list even bigger of people I'm NOT wanting to look at by Sorting based on OVR.

Even with OVR, I'm still stuck doing exactly what I'm doing now. Opening each and every Player Card individually until I find a guy with 'good enough' numbers at multiple Abilities... and having to sift through NUMEROUS guys that are nothing close to what I'm looking for in the process.