Season 1 - Week 1

[Coach Kernzy]

Here's the plan guys.

We'll wait for FAIRDALE KINGS named rosters and then I'll get the OD setup and we'll get started.

Look for updates here. I'll let everyone know when we're ready to go and believe me I'm going to do everything I can to get going asap.

FK already has the game so he's already working on the rosters and that is really the only thing we'd be waiting for at all.

In the meantime I suggest everyone get acquainted with their teams and play some coach mode games to get the jist of it. Also a good time to setup custom playbooks and such while we wait for rosters. I really think the rosters will be ready within days of release though so we shouldn't have to wait long at all to get started.

[natcret]

As a heads up, I will be out of town from July 16-20, and again from July 28-July 31

[Coach Kernzy]

well buy that add on where you can play your games through the website :) or auto-pilot
thanks for the heads up though

[natcret]

I think I would only need the autopilot.

[JBHuskers]

Ready to get this baby rolling.

[HawkFan]

Hey JB have you tried a coach mode game yet? If so what are your impressions?

[JBHuskers]

Hey JB have you tried a coach mode game yet? If so what are your impressions?

Been a busy week so I haven't. Gonna hope to do some tomorrow or Monday.

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[Coach Kernzy]

can you also just make sure we can actually use CM in online games, I can't imagine we wouldn't be able to but if not that'll sure put a damper on things for us

[morsdraconis]

I'm 99% sure that you can.

[HawkFan]

Can't wait to get my copy of the game tonight and fire it up. For the first time ever I will be doing a coach mode game first.

[Coach Kernzy]

hell yeah me to, I won't get to pop mine in till tomorrow afternoon at the earliest and more likely the evening but I'll get right into checking out my W Mich Broncos and then start working on playbooks to best utilize the talent I have

[Underdog]

My son is in a 7 on 7 tournament tomorrow. I will pick up the game in the morning but will not have a chance to play until Wedn. sometime. Although I have no problem not playing since I get to see my son play the "real" thing tomorrow. I am excited.

[Coach Kernzy]

As always man, this is a game and everything else comes first for sure, family, work and whatever.
Can't wait till my son gets old enough for the real thing.
We won't even get started for real until after the FK rosters come out.

[Underdog]

Yeah...Enjoy those days with your son because they grow fast. My son is heading into his Soph. year. He started the first 4 games at LB for varsity (I was suprised...the HC loves him) He is already 6"2 220 and runs a 4.8. He will play H Back and TE this year as well. Fun times ahead!

[Coach Kernzy]

We have advanced to Week 1

Let us all know how your week 1 goes and when you are ready to advance here.

Game on guys...

[morsdraconis]

Awesome!

[SmoothPancakes]

Alright, nevermind what I said in the preseason thread. For whatever reason, the schedule in this OD is completely different then how it should be. In the real life schedule, my FIU single player OD schedule, and my FIU offline dynasty schedule, North Texas and FIU don't play until week 2. In this OD, we play week one.

These schedules are really wack. Just to help me understand the changes here, because I'm trying to look at two different ODs and a offline dynasty, I'm going to make a table here just for my sake so I can compare the differences.

Week|Offline Dynasty|SP OD|Coach Mode OD
Week 1|Bye Week|Bye Week|:North_Texas:
Week 2|:North_Texas:|:North_Texas:|:Louisville:
Week 3|:Louisville:|:Louisville:|:UCF:
Week 4|:UCF:|:UCF:|:Louisiana:
Week 5|:Louisiana:|:Louisiana:|:Duke:
Week 6|Bye Week|Bye Week|:Akron:
Week 7|:Duke:|:Duke:|Bye Week
Week 8|:Akron:|:Akron:|:Arkansas_State:
Week 9|:Arkansas_State:|:Arkansas_State:|:Troy:
Week 10|:Troy:|:Troy:|:Western_Kentucky:
Week 11|:Western_Kentucky:|:Western_Kentucky:|:FAU:
Week 12|:FAU:|:FAU:|:UL_Monroe:
Week 13|:UL_Monroe:|:UL_Monroe:|:MTSU:
Week 14|:MTSU:|:MTSU:|Bye Week
Week 15|Bye Week|Bye Week|Bye Week

I have no clue how the FIU schedule got so thrown off kilter in this OD.

[Archedemius]

I've seen other complaints about the same thing. All you can do is go with what is given to you I guess.

[Archedemius]

Recruiting and game done! EMU starts the season off by blowing out their opponent 62-9. I even brought in the second string. My second string HB had over 200 yds rushing. A 6x yarder and a 5x yarder to boot. Gotta give these guys some momentum before the rough games agains UofM and PSU.

[Coach Kernzy]

Upset alert!!! I'm up 21-3 at half behind 2 first half fumbles by Michigan, one that the dumb ass coach of Michigan should have reviewed but they didn't. Both fumbles were in scoring position on me and if not for those this game could be very different. Interesting, I'll post some stats and such after the game.

[Coach Kernzy]

Well guys, looks like we are all going to win and pretty handily from what I'm seeing.
Time for some slider adjustments in a hurry :)
I beat Michigan by 10, Kent St beats Alabama, E Mich puts up 62.
I'm going to start a slider discussion thread so we can talk about the changes needed there.

[Gnarlymutt]

I'm thinking we should take a look at sliders... While I love the fact that my ball control gameplan worked and I toughed out a 21-12 win over #2 Alabama, I shouldn't have been in that game...

That said, by Golden Flashes stuck to their guns, holding the ball for 26 minutes, riding the legs of J. Terry, who also took a screen pass 77 yards for the games first touchdown. QB Spencer Keith did his part in the limited passing game, throwing 8 of 10 for 3 total TDs.

[JBHuskers]

I'm up 34-10 with 4:36 left to go. But it's against a FCS school, my QB threw FOUR picks :smh: Had company come over so I had to put it on pause....bout to finish the game though.

[SmoothPancakes]

Great, everyone is knocking off top 10 teams and major teams like Michigan, and either me or Austin are guaranteed a loss because we have to play each other week 1. :fp:

[Archedemius]

I don't mind winning 62-9 against FCS, but beating UofM or Penn State seems ridiculous. Get those sliders!

[SmoothPancakes]

I don't mind winning 62-9 against FCS, but beating UofM or Penn State seems ridiculous. Get those sliders!

Agreed. With this crap schools we're playing with, we shouldn't even be within 30 points at Michigan, Penn State, Alabama, etc, MUCH less beating them.

[Archedemius]

Agreed. With this crap schools we're playing with, we shouldn't even be within 30 points at Michigan, Penn State, Alabama, etc, MUCH less beating them.

Well... depends on whose coaching Michigan buwahahahahah!

[Coach Kernzy]

For sure, I'd ask that as many of you that can play some games with steelerfan's full slider set and let us all know how they play, I will do the same.

[natcret]

Question: Don't you have to set up the sliders in the OD or do I set it up under house settings?

[Archedemius]

I think Coach can make it universal.

[natcret]

Was getting prepared for my beat down by Florida and saw the post.

[Coach Kernzy]

When I adjust the sliders in the OD they will carry over to all the OD games. Go ahead and get your game played Natcret, we won't adjust sliders until everyone has their week 1 game played.

[natcret]

ok

[SmoothPancakes]

They need to include an option in the future for the commish to wipe all user games (or individual user games if that user was found to be doing something cheesy or against league rules in their game) and make the games that week be replayed. That way we could set rosters and have people lose to Alabama and the others like they're supposed to. :)

JB, you get on that with the EA developers for NCAA 13. ;)

[Archedemius]

At least we can count out Bama and UofM for the national title this year!

[natcret]

Lost 21-6 Had FLA down 6-0 going into halftime. They came out in the second half and just shut my offense down.

[SmoothPancakes]

Austin, I should be on Xbox a little later on today, so we can get our North Texas-FIU game in if you're free and able to.

[Archedemius]

How likely are we going to advance today? Whose left? Just the user vs user game?

[Coach Kernzy]

I do believe the last game we have is the user v user game and maybe morsdraconis has to still play as well so those should be the last two and hopefully we can get those done today and advance later possibly.

[SmoothPancakes]

Yeah, me and Austin need to play our game, and I'm only half done with my recruiting, so I need to finish up the other half of it, then I'll be ready to advance.

[Coach Kernzy]

Roger that Smooth, you guys and mors' Black Knights is all that is left this week.

[EatEmUp]

Dang. I guess I was supposed to beat Auburn, then? :-)

I did try a test game with the dynasty's sliders about a week ago and hung much tougher with them than I did in the "real" game. I haven't looked at steelerfan's sliders, but, like everyone else I'm assuming, I've been working on my own. Wait. You said you were going to do a thread on sliders. I'll take a look over there in a bit.

[morsdraconis]

Sorry guys, I plan on playing my game here in just a few minutes. Been working all day today (since 8:00am) and I did all day yesterday and then went out with some friends afterwards and didn't have time to play anything before having to hit the sack to get up in the morning to start it all over again.

[SmoothPancakes]

It's all good. Austin hasn't been back on since this morning, so our game still has to be played yet as well.

[SmoothPancakes]

Alright boys, looks like we're on hold until at least tomorrow. Austin hasn't been back online on Live since this morning, and I've got stuff to work on right now, so any time I had to be on the 360 today/tonight has passed. So me and Austin will have to try tomorrow to get our game in.

[Archedemius]

:smh:

[Archedemius]

Have you guys figured out a time to play your game? I'm antsy as usual. MUST RECRUIT! Even if EA screwed me on a recruiting bug.

[AustinWolv]

Alright boys, looks like we're on hold until at least tomorrow. Austin hasn't been back online on Live since this morning, and I've got stuff to work on right now, so any time I had to be on the 360 today/tonight has passed. So me and Austin will have to try tomorrow to get our game in.

I got on at 9:0x last night..........literally 2 mins after you logged off.

Guys, I won't EVER be on during a weekday. I have a job. And then kids until they go to bed. Rarely on a weekend day will I be on unless the family is gone somewhere.
I'm typically on 5-6 nights per week starting at 9pmCST though.

[SmoothPancakes]

I got on at 9:0x last night..........literally 2 mins after you logged off.

Guys, I won't EVER be on during a weekday. I have a job. And then kids until they go to bed. Rarely on a weekend day will I be on unless the family is gone somewhere.
I'm typically on 5-6 nights per week starting at 9pmCST though.

Damn, horrible timing on our parts last night, only two minutes apart. :D

9pmCST will work though if you want to try getting our game in tonight. I'll make sure I stay online tonight so if/when you get on, we can play our game. Just let me know.

[Archedemius]

I also think this is why Coach made the user vs. user thread. So people can make sure times work for each other in those games. I for one, am going to send PM's when I have to play another user.

[Archedemius]

..and I apologize if I come off pushy. I have work and school, no kids, but still hectic. I guess I should find something to do with my little extra time while I wait for others. I guess I just really want to do this dynasty. It's the only one I allotted any time for. Good luck with your guys' game tonight! Hopefully I will be able to wake up in the early morning and be able to do my week 2 stuff before class!

[AustinWolv]

Smooth, I'll be on tonight for sure.

[SmoothPancakes]

Smooth, I'll be on tonight for sure.

Sounds good man! I'll make sure to stick around online tonight, which thankfully I'll be able to do since I don't have anything I have to do tonight. Last night was a different story.

[SmoothPancakes]

Me and Austin are starting our game right now.

[SmoothPancakes]

Man, just had a really cheap play by the CPU that went bad against Austin. I had been running the ball pretty hard on the drive, so I decided to throw in a play action. The defense Austin picked had one of his linebackers coming off the corner unblocked, and would have been a guaranteed sack or incomplete pass if I was playing against the CPU. Instead my QB somehow got off an impossibly accurate pass on a dime to my receiver that was down inside Austin's 10 yard line. My receiver caught it for 1st and goal and I ended up scoring a touchdown after two rushes. That was a really cheap way to end up getting a touchdown. :(

Though things ended up evening out as Austin's QB was able to hit one of his receivers on a 69 yard TD pass on the first play of his ensuing offensive drive.

[SmoothPancakes]

Great game Austin. Man, our offenses, for the most part, sucked, our defenses looked like they traded places with the New York Jets. We were just shutting each other down left and right on defense. Can't believe my defense got burned on those two long TD passes. But, you made a great call on them and my slow DBs just couldn't respond.

Our box scores. My RB Mallary scored on a 4 yard run with 7:15 left in the 2nd quarter. Austin responded with a 69 yard TD pass with 6:39 left to play in the 1st half. We stayed knotted up until 7:23 left to go in the game when Austin burned my secondary for a second time with a 65 yard pass.

A heck of a game all around. I sort of hope me and Austin decided to stay at FIU and North Texas after this season, because I would love to have a rematch after tonight's game. It was a tough defensive duel. A heartbreaker to lose in the end, but fun.

[Archedemius]

Awesome! I'm hoping all user games will be like this! Heartbreakers or All-time greats!

[AustinWolv]

It was a really fun game. I'm rather thrilled with coach mode for user games at the moment, as that was much more fun than regular user vs. user games.

I'm curious why the CPU QBs attack downfield so much. I swear there were a couple throws downfield by Smooth's QB and my QB that would have been better served to have hit a guy underneath. I wonder if it has to do with the setting in the Coaching tab about aggressive/conservative playcalling setting?

Smooth's run D was eating up my OL and even though I think I have a solid RB, he wasn't able to get much going. Actually much more comfortable with my passing game, the CPU QB seems to make some solid decisions most of the time. The CPU RBs? Not so much, they missed some holes. It will be funny to watch a young QB in the future suck though if his AWR is low.

[SmoothPancakes]

It was a really fun game. I'm rather thrilled with coach mode for user games at the moment, as that was much more fun than regular user vs. user games.

I'm curious why the CPU QBs attack downfield so much. I swear there were a couple throws downfield by Smooth's QB and my QB that would have been better served to have hit a guy underneath. I wonder if it has to do with the setting in the Coaching tab about aggressive/conservative playcalling setting?

Smooth's run D was eating up my OL and even though I think I have a solid RB, he wasn't able to get much going. Actually much more comfortable with my passing game, the CPU QB seems to make some solid decisions most of the time. The CPU RBs? Not so much, they missed some holes. It will be funny to watch a young QB in the future suck though if his AWR is low.

Yeah, that was truly a lot of fun. I'm addicted to coach mode after last night. :D That chess match feel kept things on the edge of your seat all game long.

I'm curious about the same. There were definitely some plays that I could have had that underneath completion, and possibly a first down, but instead my QB went for the deep pass that ended up getting knocked down.

Yeah, I was amazed how well my run D did. At least I know now going into the rest of the season that I can rely on my defense to shut down the run game of my opponents. Just wish the same could be said for my secondary and the passing game. I need some faster DBs. Those two TD passes that you burned my secondary on, your receivers just completely blew past my corners. One of my guys tried to shoestring tackle your receiver each time, but both failed.

I was able to get some good plays on the ground, but through the air, ugh. It was like I was playing the NY Jets when I tried to pass. Your defense was everywhere and all over my receivers when I'd try to pass. I was able to get connect on some short and underneath passes, but any deep passes, forget about it. Your defense was all over those deep passes.

[Archedemius]

I'm curious about user run D myself. I can run all day against the computer, but they can't against me(worst rated D in the game). Could either of you run against the other? I also notice vs. the cpu, rushing may be overpowered against teams that closer to our teams ratings.

[AustinWolv]

Hey Smooth, I honestly have only screwed around with UNT a little prior to the game to try to see what players might be depended on. It looks like my early thought that my starting RB is solid and could be the anchor of the offense probably isn't going to work, lol, against teams that can play the run like yours.


I'm curious about the same. There were definitely some plays that I could have had that underneath completion, and possibly a first down, but instead my QB went for the deep pass that ended up getting knocked down.
In the past, I always thought it had to do with recruiting, but now that I think about it, that doesn't seem to fit as well as how it could be defining how players are playing. I wonder if the defensive setting dictates how aggressive a CB tries to play a ball or perhaps a LB tries to shoot a gap but misses a good angle? Might have to pose that question in the General section to see who knows.

It will be interesting to go back and look at the ratings of our players, as well is what class they are in, because much moreso than with regular games, the coach mode is going to really weigh in their AWR, play recognition, pursuit, etc. Regular games, and this is just an opinion after playing a couple coach mode games now plus our coach user game, are about athletic measureables, but the coach mode games weigh in if a guy is a dumbass or not too. :D

[SmoothPancakes]

I'm curious about user run D myself. I can run all day against the computer, but they can't against me(worst rated D in the game). Could either of you run against the other? I also notice vs. the cpu, rushing may be overpowered against teams that closer to our teams ratings.

We were able to gain some yards. I finished with 117 yards rushing, Austin finished with 134 yard rushing. I was able to get a pretty decent mix of rushing gains. I was able to pick up some yards up the middle, off tackle, on sweeps, pitches, etc. It was passing that just slaughtered me. Austin ended with 219 yards passing. I ended with 103. :fp:

[AustinWolv]

I'm curious about user run D myself. I can run all day against the computer, but they can't against me(worst rated D in the game). Could either of you run against the other? I also notice vs. the cpu, rushing may be overpowered against teams that closer to our teams ratings.
My team could run a *little* bit, not consistently at all against Smooth.
Smooth's team seemed to run the ball pretty well at times, much more consistently than mine and he could lean on his run game. Keep in mind that some playcalling aspects are involved in that of course. I don't know his rushing stats for the game, but he was running the ball well enough that it was definitely causing worry and making me adjust.


I finished with 117 yards rushing, Austin finished with 134 yard rushing.
Seriously? I would not have guessed that. Your outside runs were killing me, I was waiting for one to break for a long TD.
Was your average pretty high? Seemed like it.

[SmoothPancakes]

Hey Smooth, I honestly have only screwed around with UNT a little prior to the game to try to see what players might be depended on. It looks like my early thought that my starting RB is solid and could be the anchor of the offense probably isn't going to work, lol, against teams that can play the run like yours.


In the past, I always thought it had to do with recruiting, but now that I think about it, that doesn't seem to fit as well as how it could be defining how players are playing. I wonder if the defensive setting dictates how aggressive a CB tries to play a ball or perhaps a LB tries to shoot a gap but misses a good angle? Might have to pose that question in the General section to see who knows.

It will be interesting to go back and look at the ratings of our players, as well is what class they are in, because much moreso than with regular games, the coach mode is going to really weigh in their AWR, play recognition, pursuit, etc. Regular games, and this is just an opinion after playing a couple coach mode games now plus our coach user game, are about athletic measureables, but the coach mode games weigh in if a guy is a dumbass or not too. :D

Yeah, though granted a lot of times I think I just got lucky with a good play call. All game, I was using the down and distance situation to decide what formation I was going to come out in while you were deciding your offensive play. Then after you made your choice and I saw the personnel numbers, I made my play selection from that formation. So it while it was partly my defense doing the job, it was also part playing the numbers and playing the situation.

And you may be on to something. I'm on the Dynasty Wire website right now. I just looked up the ratings for my QB, he's rated 62 in Awareness. :fp: So I think that might have been my issue with passing, as my QB pretty much falls into that "dumbass" category. :D

[Coach Kernzy]

Yep guys, coach mode is all about your player's ratings and the plays you call and the situations you put them in. Great stuff.

Also I do think that your aggressiveness slider on both offense and defense has at least something to do with the way your guys play. But who knows for sure.

[SmoothPancakes]

My team could run a *little* bit, not consistently at all against Smooth.
Smooth's team seemed to run the ball pretty well at times, much more consistently than mine and he could lean on his run game. Keep in mind that some playcalling aspects are involved in that of course. I don't know his rushing stats for the game, but he was running the ball well enough that it was definitely causing worry and making me adjust.


Seriously? I would not have guessed that. Your outside runs were killing me, I was waiting for one to break for a long TD.
Was your average pretty high? Seemed like it.

Yeah, I'll admit, I was surprised by those numbers, as we were shutting your run game down pretty well. But that's what's showing up for the game details on Dynasty Wire. For the Yards per Rush averages, I averaged 1.36 yards per rush, you averaged 2 yard per rush.

I think why those numbers might seem odd given how our run games were playing in the game, was while I was able to break through now and then for a 7 or 8 or 10 or more yard rush now and then, there were plenty of rush attempts where your defense blew up the play and caught my RB in the backfield for a 1 or 2 yard loss, or tackled him right at the LOS for no gain.

[AustinWolv]

Smooth, probably have to take sacks into account also for the rushing numbers. I think I had more sacks than you did, so maybe look directly at your RB's average. Or I could try to go find it on the dynasty website myself here shortly.....must find food first though. :)

[SmoothPancakes]

I'm going to have to jump online. While the team stats are from our game, the player stats that are showing up are the player stats from the Eastern Michigan-FCS East game. So I'm going to check it out on the console.

And yeah, I keep forgetting about sacks when looking at rushing yards. :fp:

[SmoothPancakes]

Alright, looks like the numbers on the website are WAY off. Looking at the numbers on the console right now, North Texas finished with 54 yards on 27 rushes. FIU finished with 30 yards on 22 rushes.

For individual players. On FIU, HB Perry ran for 46 yards on 15 carries, 3.0 average. HB Mallary for 7 yards on 3 carries, 2.3 average. FB LaPorte for 3 yards on 1 carry, 3.0 average. And my QB Carroll was sacked 3 times for -26 yards, -8.6 average.

For North Texas, HB Dunbar ran for 44 yards on 19 carries, 2.3 average. HB Hamilton ran for 9 yards on 5 carries, 1.8 average. FB Miller ran for 5 yards on 1 carry, 5.0 average. And your QB Dodge, it it doesn't show him having any sacks, he was recorded with 2 carries for -4 yards, -2.0 average.

[AustinWolv]

Ok, that sounds much more inline with how it felt the game went. I think you are right on your HB Perry.....it seemed like he'd pick up 5-10 on a run or two and then get stuffed on one.

I think my dumbass QB tried to run a couple times on his own when stuff wasn't open downfield. "Ahhhhh, no, you suck at running, just throw it away!" :D
I remember the one run with my FB, it was a jumbo package as I was trying to convert a short 3rd down. That dude was kind of a beast. I might have to experiment more with him.

[SmoothPancakes]

Ok, that sounds much more inline with how it felt the game went. I think you are right on your HB Perry.....it seemed like he'd pick up 5-10 on a run or two and then get stuffed on one.

I think my dumbass QB tried to run a couple times on his own when stuff wasn't open downfield. "Ahhhhh, no, you suck at running, just throw it away!" :D
I remember the one run with my FB, it was a jumbo package as I was trying to convert a short 3rd down. That dude was kind of a beast. I might have to experiment more with him.

Yeah, I know a lot of those runs where Perry got stopped was on 3rd and 1 or 3rd and 2, trying to power the ball through for a first down. Your defense rose to the challenge and shut him down. I can't even begin to count how many of my 7 punts took place on 4th and 1 because you had stuffed my 3rd down conversion attempt. Which was another thing I sucked at. :D 1 for 9 on third down conversions. :D You were able to at least manage 9 for 16 on 3rd downs.