Cannot change fictional player names

[TGunn19]

I am trying to create players with non random names. From what I can tell, you have to create the player with the random name, then change the name. The problem is, when I do that, the name reverts back to the original fictional name. Any suggestions how to fix this?
Thank you.

[SandMan]

Originally Posted by TGunn19

I am trying to create players with non random names. From what I can tell, you have to create the player with the random name, then change the name. The problem is, when I do that, the name reverts back to the original fictional name. Any suggestions how to fix this?
Thank you.

Make sure that you hit the enter key after changing the player's name.

[TGunn19]

Thank you, apparently i need to pay closer attention to the insructions!

[Bigrod]

If you have a bunch of those names you want to edit, there's a much easier and faster way to do it. Do you have a spreadsheet program? If not, go get apache open office. It's free and all I ever use.
1. Export your leagues rosters.
Make a backup of your rosters.txt file first!!!!!
2. Load it up in your spreadsheet.
3. Change the players names and nothing else. If you have just a few, use the Find feature to locate them.
4. When your done, save it. Make sure it saves as a txt file in csv (comma separated) format. If it saves as a .csv file, no problem, just rename csv to txt.
5. Import it to your game. Now those players names are permanently changed.
When making the changes in the spreadsheet, Don't sort anything unless your 100% sure of what your doing. It's easy to mix up the player/team ID numbers. Keep all data unsorted.