Need help with exchanging Data Numbers in Qbasic

[ISOTOPES]

We're trying to write a text based basketball game that relies on real-life stats instead of an arcade style play.
To do this we import real players statistics into a qbasic file ie sixers.dat

an example would be
"Bell Raj","sixers",1,5,6,1,4,1,3,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,2,1
"McLeod Ra","sixers",2,1,15,1,1,0,1,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,1,2
"Miller Ant","sixers",4,1,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0

this would be used like this
input #1,name$,p$,g,m,fg,fga,tpt,3pta,ft,fta,ast,oreb,dreb,
stl,blk,turno,pf

now I can get the info in and out of the program fine. However the problem I need help with is this.

Let's say we have a starting lineup of
1. mutombo
2. hill
3. lynch
4. iverson
5. snow

and our other players are lets say
6. McKie
7. Bell
8. MacCollough

Ok, now how do I assign data to these players during the game?

Each team would have 12 around 12 positions so I take it I would have to have the program auto assign these like
homeplayer(1) - homeplayer(2) - homeplayer(3)

how would you go about doing that? How do I assign the different numbers so essentially everytime HILL would score a point I could credit him (player 2) or if Iverson were to get a rebound I could give it to him (player 4) I know there has to be a simple solution I just can not figure it out.

Thanks,
Jamie
isotopes@seeyouonline.com

 

[edfair]

You probably are needing to assign the data into an array. Loading it in at the start, accessing when needed, updating it during the course of the game , and writing it out at the end.
Has been a while so I'll probably screw this up but with an array p(9,15) point upgrade for player 5 for example would be p(5,8)=p(5,8)+2.
Ed Fair
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