The Legacy - Sim Style Dynasty - Work up Coaching Ladder - No Cheese

[Colossal28]

Console & League name - (360) The Legacy
League Difficulty: Heisman
Teams available/custom conference layout: Low Caliber Teams to Start, Real Life Conferences
Schedule (How quickly will weeks be advanced): 3 Days/Game
Scheduling: freewebs.com/diabolicole
Rules: Sim style. NO CHEESE. Try to mimic real life


Pure Fans, Pure Dynasty – The Legacy

Gentlemen, if you’re reading this it’s likely because you’re interested in a dynasty that focuses on mimicking real life as much as we can while accepting that NCAA is a game and in the end we want to have fun. That said, if you can bear through reading the entirety of our philosophy in both selecting members and the running of the OD, then you might just be a great match for us.
Game:
1. Team Change – We start with low caliber schools and work up
2. Sliders – TBD, we handcraft sliders to maximize challenge and fairness.
3. QTR – Historically 6-7 Mins
4. Deadline – 3 Full Days for each game
5. Commissioner: Colossal28/TheCheat22 (Central Time FYI)
Philosophy
1. No Cheese – this is our #1 goal in our dynasty. Nothing is more poisonous to a solid dynasty than users who exploit the game, where’s the fun in running one play on offense 90% of the game, or throwing to your HB in the flats (granted they claim this has been dealt with) to make him by far the leading receiver on your team? It’s stuff like this we try to monitor and simply won’t allow. If anybody cheats, they’re gone. Typically this is discovered via user games, for instance we had a guy that used the onside kick glitch during a user game to keep possession during the 4th quarter, come on. That said, we also don’t want people complaining after every single user game that so and so cheated because there’s no way that he could get 120 yards on the ground against him team, or his WR’s were catching everything, we’ve heard it all before, learn to lose with dignity. That brings us to our next point,

2. Good Sportsmanship – this is nearly as important as not cheesing for us. It’s hard to explain but we all know it, so stay with me. We want quality guys, not the guys you see on TV playing madden, yelling in each other’s faces about how much they dominate. The fun of the dynasty is the competition, not obnoxious gloating. However, there’s nothing wrong with rivalry and smack talk, there’s just a difference between the fun of a rivalry and the annoyance of a D-bag in the dynasty. Everybody should say good game after they play, regardless of how mad you are that Broyles just pulled in a one handed catch that looked impossible to put the game away. We’re not saying no smack talk, there’s just no way to quantify good sportsmanship, just win/lose with a little maturity and dignity and have fun, and not be a jerk. If this is a problem for you or upsets you in any way, don’t join us.

3. Play in the Deadline/Stay in the Game – this is a problem after about a month, when the new sheen isn’t as shiny as it was the day the game came out. It’s about this time when we start to weed out guys who just wanted to play for a season vs the guys who really love the game. Our dynasty is set up to be long term, not a quick fix in between Call of Duty games, so please plan on that or try your best to.

a. Deadlines – We have a 3 Day Rule. I will always move the dynasty in the AM. This means that you have the full day of the move +2 days to get your game in. For example, I move the Week on Monday at 7AM, you then have Mon, Tue, Wed to play, the week will move on Thur in the AM. Always a 3 day rule. We’ve had to tighten this up due to too many people taking advantage of a more flexible system. We’ll always move the week if everyone is done playing their games**. This means do your recruiting at the same time. We’ll never wait an extra day for someone to recruit. If you have a legit reason to slow the dynasty and get an extra it needs to be real and acceptable to all.

b. User Games – User games are the most fun and most competitive part of OD, so we want everyone to have fun and compete. DO NOT QUIT USER GAMES. Unless something uncontrollable happens, you cannot quit these games. Excuses rarely sound legit, especially when you’re losing/about to lose. We’ll carefully consider what happened and if the opposing player is ok with it, begin the game again, often as close to where you left as possible.

c. Focus – We want this dynasty to be your bread and butter. We would like to discourage guys who have multiple dynasties from joining. We’ve had several people join in the past who are in upwards of 4-5 dynasties, then they start to lose, or they begin to pick their favorites due to time constraints. Naturally this ruins the dynasty. The goal is to have a group that stays together, not a revolving door.

4. Ideally

a. We’re looking for people above the age of 23, who have enough maturity to take this serious and help us make it as fun as possible. You don’t have to be on 24/7 If you have a job/family there’s no problem, we won’t harass you, but make sure you can play on time to keep the dynasty alive and thriving. Also, we like to think we’re fairly competitive in the world of players, so if you’ve never played or are not as skilled, you might not have as much fun with us. Finally, we only have guidelines/rules to make the dynasty as fun as possible with as little issue as possible. Don’t be afraid to ask questions and if this is right for you, join up while there’s room!

Please Post: Gamertag, Age, Location, and a little bit about yourselft. We're trying to be picky.

[Colossal28]

Currently we have 3 Users in the Dynasty, leaving 9 Spots Remaining.

[Daywalker86]

I like everything I'm seeing here. Looking for a solid long running dynasty to join. I have no problem with playing realistically, and I play with Marshall and Marshall only. Last year they had dipped to a 2 star prestige, so if that's low enough caliber for you then I'm set. As for sportsmanship...it's the Herd haha. The program has been in decline since Pruett left in the early 2000's, and our game ratings show. It generally takes me 3-4 seasons before I have a decent top 25 program again, so I'm fine taking my lumps to begin with. But I expect to compete, do well against the CPU, and steal (not cheat, but surprise lol) a few games I shouldn't vs users. The three day window is perfect, with the web integration getting games and recruiting in should be no issue.

Tag: D4YW4LK3R86
Age: 24
Location: Martinsburg, WV
Team: Marshall
Been Playing NCAA Since: 1998

[Colossal28]

Sounds perfect Daywalker, I'll put your name on the list. We'll be using coach contracts, but if you want to stay at Marshall that's totally fine, they should definitely be on the selectable teams I think, all due respect haha.

[Daywalker86]

Yea, I don't see myself taking any other jobs haha. If I understand correctly we are starting as OC or DC? Or did you mean coaching ladder to be just starting at a lower tier school?
I've got a thread out checking for openings in OD's, but if this one is going to happen I'll pull it as I am looking for that one 'bread and butter' league to be in.

No disrespect taken hah.

[Daywalker86]

Also are you planning on doing dynasty reporting similar to what we see here on the forums?
Or leaving it strictly on dynasty wire?

[Colossal28]

We'll discuss starting as an OC/DC/HC as we start to fill up more, there's pro's/con's of both sides. Either way, starting as a low caliber coach at a low caliber school has always been our credo.

We usually do most of our discussion on our dynasty site, to help keep everything organized and easy to find, on the site we usually have forums devoted to reporting games/recruiting/rivalries or anything else you want to discuss. Thecheat and I are both really good at checking our site for any questions/comments.

I don't typically do in depth reporting as I have a full time job and a wife, and if I took the time to do that I'd probably end up with neither haha. Although I used to spend hours updating stats etc on the site, it seemed that nobody was even looking after a couple weeks, and for that much work it's got to be involved. I have no problem with anyone else taking the initiative to help keep the dynasty up to date and informed on other users though, that's a great thing for user involvement.

[Daywalker86]

Haha I read you man.
I will check out the site sometime today.
We will see if we can't make this happen.

[Colossal28]

Also, we typically try to get referrals to the OD as much as possible, if you have another guy that you know would fit and stay for the long haul, try to get him interested.

[Daywalker86]

I can do that. I have one in particular in mind. I'll run it by him and see if he wants to join as well.

[TheCheat22]

Excited to have you daywalker. Hopefully we fill up soon. We are a very competitive bunch, but we focus on long term and realism.

[Daywalker86]

That's what I'm looking for guys. Is everyone in this dynasty but me a OU fan? haha

[Colossal28]

haha could end up that way, Cheat and I are both alumni at OU, our other member who is on the list but hasn't fully confirmed his spot is an FSU fan, needless to say we've had great banter with him over the last/upcoming games between OU/FSU

[Daywalker86]

HAHA that would be great to have in the dynasty!

Speaking of which....do you guys require a certain number of user/user games? Set out home and home series? Or just kind of go with the flow?

[Colossal28]

We do, we generally try to fit at least 3, no less than 2 user games a season. It all comes down to conference schedules, basically we do this

1) Evaluate how many user games we can fit based on conferences
2) Randomly select opponents
3) Randomly select who will be home/away, we always do a Home/Away series
4) After the 2 year series, we reevaluate how many games we can have and then the whole process again

[Daywalker86]

That's good enough for me. Everyone rolling with low caliber teams to start makes me feel better about those first few years with the Herd haha

[Justin66]

I would like to join this my gt is JCASH66 my work schedue is 4 pm to 1 am idk if that will be a problem but as far as a team if you could move south alabama into a confrence ill take them if not then uab.

[mounds]

this sounds ideal. i'm nowhere near the best player around, but i dont mind losses. i love to build bad teams into decent teams. i'd love a spot if you've got one. i'll take SJSU if available.

[Colossal28]

JCASH, unfortunately with user games, it would seem you're work schedule would not fit in, you were actually in our dynasty last year and had some deadline issues, I hope you find a dynasty that fits your tough schedule, I don't dont think it's this one, sorry man.

[Colossal28]

Remember to tell us a little about yourself guys, we are trying to find the best group possible with like minded guys.

Mounds, we randomly select an order and then use that to select our teams, so you'll have to wait till then to pick a team. Could you tell us a little about yourself?