As some of you may already know, I recently launched a website called Stat Box Stories where I'm using NCAA Football 12, Madden NFL 12, NHL 12, and FIFA 12 to play games, record statistics, post video highlights, and tell the stories of games I play every week. With Bowl Season beginning next Saturday, December 17th, I am trying to rally some interested guest writers to the cause of trying to create statistical write-ups of all of the Bowl Games for this 2011-2012 season.
If you have yet to read a write-up over at the blog site, here is the most recent example of work done using NCAA Football 12: the Army-Navy Game. Here also is the link to the guide for guest writers--Write a Guest Story--to give you some idea of what is looked for from guest contributors. Our own psuexv here at The Gaming Tailgate actually contributed the first guest story for the site this week, which you can read here: New York Islanders at Pittsburgh Penguins in NHL 12.
If you think you might be interested in contributing a Bowl Game write-up for publication at Stat Box Stories, consider the following guidelines below and then comment on this post with the game you would like to play:
And here is the list of Bowl Games:
- Bowl Games in NCAA Football 12 can be played on whichever difficulty you like, so long as you specify it.
- Bowl match-ups should be played in the designated bowl (obviously), and try to replicate the time of day for the bowl game.
- Quarter lengths on the blog so far have been 7 minutes, but as long as you're playing at least 5 minute quarters you'll be fine.
- Even if you use named rosters, the write-ups and statistical tracking should reference the player's position and number as though you were playing the game right out of the box. It takes a little bit of extra work when you're collecting the information--trust me, I do it every week--but it's not difficult.
- If you sign up to do one of the Bowl Games, it must be completed and submitted before the game is played in real life so that it can be posted before the game.
- The statistic spreadsheet template file is now available as a Google Doc here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...zQzQTJQcmtvelE If you choose to do a write-up for one of the games, please download the file to your computer and fill in the statistics, then email it to me along with the write-up and highlights.
- Submissions will be emailed to paakaa10@gmail.com.
Date of Bowl Game Name of Bowl Game Away Home Time Claimed by: NCAA 12 Score Actual Game Score Total Score Differential December 17th 2:00PM ET Stat Box Stories December 17th
(Famous Idaho Potato Bowl)5:30PM ET psuexv December 17th 9:00PM ET psuexv December 20th 8:00PM ET psusnoop December 21st 8:00PM ET psuexv December 22nd 8:00PM ET Stat Box Stories December 24th 8:00PM ET souljahbill December 26th 5:00PM ET psusnoop December 27th 4:30PM ET Stat Box Stories December 27th 8:00PM ET Owen Good (Kotaku) December 28th 4:30PM ET Stat Box Stories December 28th 8:00PM ET psuexv December 29th 5:30PM ET Stat Box Stories December 29th 9:00PM ET JBHuskers December 30th 12:00PM ET Stat Box Stories December 30th
(Bowl not in NCAA 12)3:20PM ET RedZoneD25 December 30th 6:40PM ET psuevx December 30th 10:00PM ET SGdirtyburt December 31st
(Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas)12:00PM ET cdj December 31st 2:00PM ET gschwendt December 31st 3:30PM ET Stat Box Stories December 31st 3:30PM ET Stat Box Stories December 31st 7:30PM ET psusnoop January 2nd 12:00PM ET psuexv January 2nd 1:00PM ET cdj January 2nd 1:00PM ET SGdirtyburt January 2nd 1:00PM ET psuexv January 2nd 5:00PM ET Stat Box Stories January 2nd 8:30PM ET Stat Box Stories January 3rd 8:30PM ET Stat Box Stories January 4th 8:30PM ET Stat Box Stories January 6th 8:00PM ET steelerfan January 7th 1:00PM ET JBHuskers January 8th 9:00PM ET gschwendt January 9th 8:30PM ET Stat Box Stories
If we can get a write-up and statistics for every single Bowl Game, I will consider awarding a prize for the guest contributor whose game result (final score) most closely matched the actual result of the game in real life. In the event of a tie, the tie-breaker would be whichever game had the closest offensive yards for each team in the game compared to the real-life statistics.
If there are any questions, please comment and I will try to answer them; otherwise, sign up for the game you're interested in playing, and good luck!
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Originally Posted by cdj
I just was double checking to make sure I got it right 
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