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Even with Auto Save on (which means this shouldn't ever be a problem), you should be able to manually save your profile inside the game. I don't think you can do it from within Online Dynasty (which is one thing that should be added), but you should able to manually save your profile from the main menu.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bohica1010
The recruiting needs to be a little more balanced & there should be an east-west shrine game or the under armour game where you can play the games with the top recruits.
A couple other things:
They should have the "NCAA game records" in online dynasty like they do in the solo dynasty. If you break a 93 yard run for the NCAA record, there isn't any where you see it like in solo dynasty.
They should have a coaches card for plays where you can have your own name to a row and then pick the plays that apply for you next to it. A left to right grid. Similar to what the pros use now. Since they have "by formation" and "by play type" the could have "Coaches Card" Then you could put the plays you use on it regularly. 3rd and less than 4, and then list the plays I like to run next to it with the pics. It would be a good middle ground for people that only want 30 plays in their playbook, they could just put those on the card. I can create a screenshot if it makes it easier to understand.
More complete stats on the online dynasty page. Or at least be able to download instead of the just the individual leaders, be able to pull and save the team data too.
I would like to see something like they did with Madden (this might be a few years back when Farve was on the cover since I never play it anymore) where they did a hall of fame for you. Where you could see you records like your longest run, FG and etc. Also have it break it down by level. a 97 yard run on Heisman is more impressive than on Varsity and it would be nice to see the difference. Also be able to compare it to your friends.
I would like to see the walk-on process at the very end so that when a good school cuts a good player, you pick them up. Wisconsin's 4th back may get cut as a 85, but if he were to walk-on at Eastern Michigan he would be the starter.
I would like to see through the season what schools are interested in you for positions. If you choose to talk to them it builds their desire for you, however if you are in year 1 or 2 of a 3 year contract, it will take away from your prestige. I would also like to see more than two jobs on the Carousel. If you just won the National Championship, there will be a lot of schools wanting you from where you should have your pick.
I know it shouldn't have been a problem, but I lost my player awards for a whole season and my coach of the year (which is the one I really cared about).Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
That was actually the problem, I exited out of the league as you normally would, and when I went to my profile they were gone. I hadn't even turned of my PS3.
While in my online dynasty, I had already gone in to my Trophy Room under My NCAA and viewed in under the Award tab. On that screen there is no option to save. None of the options under My NCAA or Commish Tools give you an option to save, it is all auto-saved by the computer. That was when I was when I tried to exit the league to the Main Screen.
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Originally Posted by Dukie98
I still see this all the time. I am not sure if it is taking out words it thinks are inappropriate or one thing I found was the length maybe of what I was typing. I know I tried to use the word killed, as in, "SMU got killed by Wisconsin" and killed was just ******
how bout a weekly recruiting show from erin andrews, highlighting like the top ranked recruits who commit during the season? they could use almost the exact same lines from rtg. it'd be a nice little thing that would let you know what else is going on in your dynasty.
I would like to see the Commish have the option to "sim for a loss". For those OD's that don't allow game restarts, instead of just the option to "sim" where they could still win, make sure that they lose.
Be able to watch other player vs player games on the OD like you would a game on TV.
It'd be nice to have it either way, either sim a sure-win or a sure-loss. As it stands right now, the commish has no control over the sim result.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bohica1010
I would like to see after the "Players Leaving" week in the off season that it show a NFL draft to see where your players went in the draft. I know you can import them in to Madden, however since I don't enjoying playing Madden, I would still like to see where they went. Since the year to year in the NFL would be random anyway, the system picking the order and whatever for the draft would just be fun.
I feel like they had that back on the Playstation. Probably was removed when they added the ability to import players into Madden.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bohica1010
This one is for online and offline dynasty:
I'm a person that loves to play dynasty but take a one star school and build them up to become a power house. Only issue I'm having with building them up is nothing changes when you get your school to become a six star school. I want to see "Dynasty Points"! What if each thing you did during your season made you gain dynasty points i.e. Pass yards in a season, pass TDs in a season, same with running, receiving, defensive tackles, sacks, ints, things like that but also you gain them when your team has win streaks, bowl bids, rivalry wins, players that make the list for awards, All Americans, etc. You get dynasty points to put towards your school growth. Put those points towards things that help with recruiting like Academic Prestige, Campus Lifestyle, Athletic Facilities, etc. Then instead of just seeing how well your team developed in the off-season even though you have no idea what they did to improve or where they're going to improve, make it to where you pick specifically what they train on each off-season (Man Cov, Zone Cov, Tackle, etc.) for each type of player (QB, RB, WR, TE, LB, CD, etc.), but not individual player. The way to determine how great stat gain your players get should be based upon how good your coaches are for that position. You don't ever see just one coach on the sideline or in practices. You see DB coaches, OL coaches, WR coaches, etc making up the coaching staff and each coach focuses on their type of players. Make the coaches have abilities such as skill improvement in specific areas (jumping, catching, acceleration, man coverage).
Summary:
Give us more coaches that actually do something for our team
"Dynasty Points" to make your school better in various areas
Give us the opportunity to make our players improve in specific skills
As a Commish of an OD give us the option to see other schools transfer requests. It makes it easier to advance past that week if you can see no one wants to transfer to the other human controlled teams.
Also, would like to see user history on the website.
StoryBuilder censors some weird words. The other day it censored "Championship." There were a couple others that also got ******, but that was the most startling one. I can't figure out what letter combo in there would set it off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bohica1010
I've seen a couple that were completely bizarre. Typed "took a 14-0 lead" and it read "took *****4-0 lead"Quote:
Originally Posted by cdj
Ok this is kinda big for me actually. A couple connected requests from EA asap in OD.
1: I don't know what happens from the first to ninth year of a dynasty that 4-8 and 5-7 teams make Bowls, but there's gotta be an absolute "no 6 wins = no bowls" code somewhere that must be implimented for the DURATION OF ALL DYNASTIES.
2: I would like the "Bowl status" to update which bowls they think you're going to based not only on current standings, but rediction of win/loss throughout the regular season. If the cpu has you losing a conference championship it should reflect that in the prediction.
In past years, you only saw this happen when there weren't enough 6-6 teams to qualify for all the bowls. Strange that it's gotten worse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jayrah
I'm 99% sure that there's actually no predicting going on, and it solely uses current standings. So "if the season ended today".Quote:
Originally Posted by Jayrah
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Originally Posted by Jayrah
In my most recent season in my FIU dynasty, I had a 5-7 Florida team get into a bowl game over a 7-5 Idaho, 7-5 San Jose State and 6-6 Hawaii.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
I'd like for there to be an option of "in-depth recruiting." I say option because some people think there's too much already. So, this is how I'd break the recruiting modes down...
A) - The CPU recruits for you like old school College Football USA 96. At the end of the season, the CPU randomly selects commits based on how your team performed and their prestige in the given year.
B) - The standard user-controlled 5 week post-season recruiting only, which was introduced in NCAA Football 98 (I believe).
C) - The existing setup: In-season recruiting + 5 week post-season recruiting.
D) - In-season recruiting + 5 week post-season recruiting + off-season recruiting.
In real life, there are 4 types of recruiting periods set by the NCAA: Quiet, Evaluation, Contact, and Dead periods. For the purposes of this post, I'll only be using the Quiet and Evaluation periods as it pertains to off-season recruiting.
Quiet Period = Coaches are allowed to call recruits (and offer scholarships). Recruits can visit coaches, but can only do so at the coaches' respective colleges (i.e. unofficial visit).
Evaluation Period = Assistant Coaches are permitted to visit recruits off-campus (as well as make calls and scholarship offers).
The real off-season recruiting calendar set by the NCAA is as follows...
1st week of February (the day after Signing Day) - April 14th = Quiet Period
April 15th - May 31st = Evaluation Period
June 1st - July 31st = Quiet Period
Here's what I'm suggesting with the "D" mode (off-season) recruiting...
Off-season Tasks
1st week of February
- Signing Day
- Next season's Top 100 Recruits 'Watch' List released
- Recruiting: Notification of any prospects that will attend your school's Junior Day Event
- Recruiting: Select Prospects for Recruit Board
(Advance to next period)
February (day after NSD) - April 14th (Quiet Period)
- Spring Position Changes (including early enrollees)
- Spring Depth Chart (Divvy up reps to each position group by percentage points totaling 100%)
- Recruiting: Notification of any prospects that will attend your school's Spring Game
- Recruiting: Calls / Scholarship Offers permitted
- Spring Game (option to play or sim)
(Advance to next period)
April 15th - May 31st (Evaluation Period)
- Training Results (including early enrollees)
- Recruiting: Notification of any prospects that will attend your school's Summer Football Camp
- Recruiting: Calls / Scholarship Offers; Off-Campus Coach Visits permitted (this period only)
(Advance to next period)
June 1st - July 31st (Quiet Period)
- Official Top 100 Recruits List released
- Recruiting: Calls / Scholarship Offers
- Summer Position Changes (including non-early enrollees who have now arrived on campus as well as walk-ons)
(Advance to next period)
August (Pre-season Tasks)
- Pre-season Depth Chart
- Redshirts
- Cut Players
- Schedule Changes
- Recruiting: Calls / Scholarship Offers; Official Visits now permitted (beginning of Contact Period)
- Begin Season
(Advance to regular season)
NOTES:
Junior Day, Spring Game, and Summer Camps are all unofficial visits i.e. prospects randomly attend based on interest level and/or location. The spring game DOES NOT determine off-season training. Practice does. And practice is simulated by setting the rep percentage of your players in spring depth chart.
Spring depth chart is essentially spring practice. Each specific position group in your offense/defense scheme (based on playbooks) has a cumulative total of 100% reps. Example of a pro-form offense's position groups: QB, RB, FB, TE, SE, FL, LT, LG, C, RG, RT. Each one of those groups totals to 100% reps.
Then, you divvy up that 100% within each position group. Say you have 3 QBs. You give your starter 50% reps, back-up 30%, and 3rd string 20%.
1 - QB = 50%
2 - QB = 30%
3 - QB = 20%
And you do this for each position...
1 - RB = 40%
2 - RB = 30%
3 - RB = 20%
4 - RB = 10%
The amount of reps, coupled with a player's potential (which is hidden), will determine the offseason training results. It's also a risk/reward scenario. You could give one player all 100% of the reps at his position, leaving the others with 0%, where your reward is maximum progression for that player depending on his potential rating, however you risk injury. Conversely, if a player gets a small percentage of reps, you risk that player transferring or minimal to no training results. This would also play a huge role for CPU A.I. when they oversign too many players at one position, like having 5 QBs on a roster. The 4th and/or 5th string QBs would be getting screwed in the rep department and may transfer.
The game should have a default percentage already set up, then you could manipulate it from there.
This would give you some control over the development of your players. But just as coaching in real life, there are risk/rewards to these decisions. Hidden potential ratings, though, are the key in keeping offseason progression from being cheesed.
The current off-season tasks as of NCAA 2012 features 5 advancements (Signing Day / Position Changes / Training Results / Cut Players / Pre-season Tasks). The example I have given of an in-depth off-season recruiting also has 5 advancements. However, there are now 4 additional recruiting opportunities, a Spring Game, and 2 opportunities for Position Changes (Spring and Summer).
I think the aggressive/conservative "gameplan adjustments" needs an overhaul. This is a long write up, but I just want to make sure I explain it thoroughly. It's not an overwhelming whole-scale change, but a reworking of gameplan.
First, almost all of the adjustments currently aren't applicable to a gameplan. These adjustments (Big Run, Hold Block, Jump Snap, Strip Ball, Swat/INT, etc.) should strictly fall under a player's specific attributes such as awareness, skill, and discipline (a Discipline attribute should be created regarding a player's penalty propensity - based on their GPA); but there are some of these adjustments that do pertain to coaching philosophy: Zone depth, Option defense (more on this in a moment).
The existing gameplan adjustments don't have to be scrapped in a sense, but merely embedded into the player's attributes giving them more unique identities of whether they're a playmaker or simply a role player - actually bringing the player tendencies to fruition. For example, why should a run stopping tendency DL-man have the same Jump Snap advantage as a pass rushing tendency DL-man? And what does jumping a snap have to do with a gameplan? Coaches ideally would like their DL-men to get off the ball quickly all the time.
And for coaches specifically, playcall aggressiveness should determine the zone depths and option defense (noted above) from the current gameplan adjustments. This is such an important slider because it would give coaches a unique identity as well. Zone blocking, man-to-man blocking, or a balance of both; this could go a long way with offensive playcall aggressiveness. For example, if your coach is aggressive, he'd run a zone blocking scheme. Man-to-man would be conservative. Balanced would include both.
Okay, let's move on to my "gameplan" suggestion...
To make gameplan more authentic, think about what a gameplan is. A gameplan involves at least 2 factors: Your scheme vs your opponent's scheme. So, an ideal way to overhaul gameplan is to base it off of those 2 factors and go from there.
Not much needs to be added to do this. Here's why...
The game currently already has a pseudo gameplan option in the "coach philosophy" menu with the playbook selections, run/pass ratio slider, aggressive playcall slider, and the substitution slider. However, this is for when simulating your games, and does not affect your playcall menu in-game when you actually play.
So, this is what I suggest...
Step 1: Load your game to the "controller select" menu. At this point, your specific offensive & defensive playbooks lock in place as well as your "Aggressive Playcall" slider setting, so if you want to change these you need to back out and do it under coach philosophy.
Step 2: Scout opponent. Like the current "uniform option" at the bottom of the screen, a "scout opponent" option is available where you toggle and see your opponent's playbooks and their run/pass slider settings compared to yours.
Step 3: Create a gameplan. Under the scout opponent option, you can adjust your run/pass sliders for both offense and defense to counter your opponent's. Keep in mind, they may be adjusting theirs to yours.
Step 4: Start game.
Now, here's what your adjustment does. Once you're in-game at the playcall screen, there are three options: "Ask Coach," "By Formation," and "Play Type," Your "gameplan" will be toggled under the "Ask Coach" option. Your pre-game slider adjustments will have sorted/eliminated plays from your playbook and consolidated it into the "Ask Coach" option. However, it doesn't stop there. Your playbook is condensed even further by your "Aggressive Playcall" slider setting. Again, the aggressive playcall slider is unique because it gives your head coach and coordinators a coaching style identity. This slider setting, for a D-coordinator, would determine the aggressive/balanced/conservative zone depth from the existing "gameplan adjustments" the game has.
An example: you're playing an Air Raid offense, so you adjust your sliders to a heavy pass defense ratio. Your base defense may be a 4-3, but your gameplan would remove any formations that don't have at least 5 defensive backs. So all 4-3 formations, 5-2, 4-4, etc. would be removed. Then, with your playcall aggressiveness slider setting (say it's set to very conservative), it would remove all plays with blitzes as well, condensing your playbook to a specific gameplan. With this example, it's a very conservative pass defense gameplan.
On top of all this, coach prestige could be factored in. When you select the "ask coach" option (i.e. your gameplan), if your coordinator is an A+, he would suggest a play that would most effectively work given the situation (1st down, 2nd down, 3rd and long, 3rd and short, etc.). Conversely, if he's a D, he will suggest a poor play given the situation. How the play works, though, ultimately depends on the user (at least offensively).
Even with all this, you could still abandoned your gameplan by simply selecting plays from the "By Formation" or "Play Type" options.
Side note: "No-Huddle" should be added to coach philosophy. There needs to be an actual option to toggle whether you're a huddle/no-huddle offensive team. And in the game, if you're a no-huddle team, you shouldn't have to ever hit the no-huddle button, it automatically goes no-huddle. And if you change formations, it should make the applicable adjustments. A WR shouldn't line up at TE. (Substitutions are still allowed. If you notice in a real game, the ref will stand over the ball. That's because if the offense makes a substitution, the defense is allowed to as well, therefore they stop play until the defense makes their substitutions. Other than that, the offense can snap it as quick as possible if they don't make substitutions. I'd like to see an illegal sub penalty.)
Nice stuff, TIM. The hard part I see with your idea of the different levels is A) Effectively communicating that to a non-community (i.e. doesn't read the blogs) user; B) Giving us those options while not putting users that use Freshman/Varsity at a sizable disadvantage. This is assuming that, within an OD, users would be able to choose which method they want to use (rather than it being a set difficulty level across the board). Otherwise, if you can't mix and match options, then I can't see how it's really an "option" -- OD users would be forced to use the more in depth recruiting if their commish wanted to. Since you seem to be taking away recruiting assistance from the CPU (unless I'm simply misreading), then that would be a loss of feature for the guys that don't want to spend the time.
But, like I said, otherwise that's a great idea. Great write-ups too.
Agreed!!!! Though the only way to make this really effective is to bring back the presentation from NCAA 2000 (or PS1-era in general) where your players actually left the huddle and went to the sideline. While they wouldn't be leaving the huddle in this case, there'd have to be some way they were shown leaving the field, otherwise the defensive coach may not know he was able to make changes (again, the problem being how to communicate this effectively to the user).Quote:
Originally Posted by TIMB0B
I really loved the presentation of taking guys off the field, because that added risk/reward to changing formations if you were late in the play clock. If you made a really late change, you may not even break the huddle before the play clock ran out. That was a huge to me.
I also love your idea because I wouldn't have to constantly mash the No Huddle button. There are way too many times that I'm trying to no huddle and it doesn't trigger, for whatever reason. I'd love to see it added to the Gameplan menu as a toggle too -- that would make the two minute offense considerably easier. Keep the button for the "I need to take advantage of this defense!" moments, but make it easier to do sustained No Huddling.
I don't think you'd need to actually do anything like actually making players leave the field and others coming on. You could do something as simple as just have a constant message above the play call screen indicating whether or not subs are allowed and have a fairly big (on the screen) countdown of 5 seconds or so showing when that's applicable based on the offense changing their formation and making subs themselves.
It's VERY doable in a way that makes sense without having to go through the hoops of of cutscene or something showing players coming in and out.
More than that though, I think there should be a logical amount of subs allowed at all times. How many times do you see teams rush subs out there at the last possible second trying to get a sub in before the team hikes the ball again? I've seen it done numerous times in college and pro football and not only when the offense makes changes as well.
Oh, I know. I'd just love any excuse for that to come back. It was awesome, to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by morsdraconis
It wasn't a cutscene. They'd just leave the field while you were changing formations (i.e. if you changed personnel), and if you called your play before they'd gotten back the huddle, you'd be able to see them come back. No jarring cutscene or anything like that involved.Quote:
Originally Posted by morsdraconis
Agreed. When the offense is running no huddle, the defense should be able to take the risk of subs.Quote:
Originally Posted by morsdraconis
But, Jeff, I'd venture to guess, 99 times out of 100, the casual users don't change their difficulties levels any anyway. They play on the default levels that the game comes on and that's it. Anyone that changes anything along those lines is going to be someone that actually pays attention to what the game adds and subtracts by changing those difficulties.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
Again, playing to the lowest common denominator is not how you make a football game that's great and while you said in another thread that by not doing so, they wouldn't be able to stay afloat, I think that's incorrect. You make a game that diehard football fans can get into because of how incredibly well done the more intricate parts of it are, and you'll bring back those people that haven't played NCAA since the PS2 days.
True. Which means that the default will be All-American, since that's the existing system. Which may look weird to someone playing on Varsity. I agree that most casual users don't change their difficulty levels, but since it's presented rather obviously on the main Dynasty screen, you can't avoid having to effectively communicate it. There are plenty of hardcore users that aren't community members and/or don't read the blogs. Plenty. Effective communication is not catering the lowest common denominator. You think gamers in general don't mess around with difficulty settings without absolutely knowing what they do? Bull. We see "difficulty" and we turn it down or up, almost naturally.Quote:
Originally Posted by morsdraconis
Catering the casual fan is not how you make a great game, I agree. But the sports genre has unique hurdles to overcome. Diehard football fans are going to be overwhelmed by the current game. There are ways to fix that while not dumbing it down so much that people like you are turned off by the game. It's not a 0 or 1 choice. And, besides, effective communication is not dumbing it down.
His four levels were so drastically different, that you'd have to effectively communicate it, even for people like us that read every word of the blog. Otherwise there are going to be tons of ODs out there that can't figure out why they'd suddenly lost In-Season Recruiting.
I'm not saying don't do it -- I'm just saying that how it will be communicated has to be considered. Programming something is only half (or not even) of the problem.
What's funny is these different levels are simply the different recruiting levels the game started out with after Bill Walsh 95 and has evolved into over the years.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
I didn't mean to make it sound like I'd do away with CPU assistance. All I'm trying to get across is the added recruitment periods during the off-season. How you recruit doesn't change. What I proposed is merely taking the current off-season, and adding features to enhance the dynasty.
Yeah, I know :D After putting NCAA 2000 in a couple times in the last few weeks, I'm reminded of how the series has changed. It's interesting to look back.Quote:
Originally Posted by TIMB0B
Yeah, I misread your "Freshman" level. Forgot how it used to be way back when (though, actually, I don't think I played the game back then, which would explain the lack of recognition).Quote:
Originally Posted by TIMB0B
Oh, yeah, when Bill Walsh came out on Sega Genesis (showing my age :cool:) I was ecstatic. It was the first college football game that I recall. I had no idea what depths they could/would take this franchise.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
I just want to be clear here, and make sure we're on the same page. I'm not suggesting the different depths of recruiting coincide with the different A.I. difficulty on the field or the Recruiting difficulty. Think of when you start a new dynasty, and the options you have before it loads: A.I. Difficulty, Quarter Length, Recruiting Difficulty, Injuries on/off, Rosters, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
I'm suggesting they add one more option: Recruiting Depth [1) CPU only, 2) 5-week post-season, 3) In-season + 5-week post-season, and 4) In-season + 5-week post-season + off-season]
I don't recall which was first, but on the Genesis I first owned Sega's College Football's National Championship. I remember seeing Bill Walsh at Blockbuster, but never got it. It wasn't until my Playstation, IIRC, that I played EA's series. Though my first games in every other sport were EA :DQuote:
Originally Posted by TIMB0B
Ah. No, that was not clear (at least to me!). If you want, I'd suggest going back to your first post and removing the Freshman/Varsity/etc denotations. I'm probably not the only one that didn't see the difference. Just call 'em A), B), C) or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by TIMB0B
Will do.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
What about the "gameplan adjustments" post. Any clarity needed there?
:smh: i dont think those stages should ever be an option to turn off. i think the current model is done pretty well; there just needs to be a little more depth to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by TIMB0B
Nice work, TIMBOB.
I like your ideas and certainly agree that the current gameplanning is not done well/not realistic. The added depth to recruiting, along with the variable levels of depth would be a great addition too, imo.
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Thanks. I think incorporating coach philosophy as the gameplan would make the game a lot more strategic with less redundancy game-to-game. And adding year-round recruiting would really bring authenticity to the dynasty.Quote:
Originally Posted by steelerfan
I personally wouldn't care if there were different modes with less recruiting, but it's good to have the options for the casual gamer.Quote:
Originally Posted by baseballplyrmvp
Completely agree here and it has been debated at length here on the boards as well. Most have wanted to get rid of the gameplanning all together and have this tied into the attributes instead (which is really really should be). Like you said you should have to tell your DL to jump the snap it should be based of his awareness and acceleration among other things.Quote:
Originally Posted by TIMB0B
Also very nice breakdown of the recruiting. Nice write ups all together and welcome to the site as well.
Yeah I think the casual gamer would appreciate the differing modes with less recruiting thus giving them more time to play the actual games while the hardcore guys like us would like the more in-depth modes to satisfy us.Quote:
Originally Posted by TIMB0B
Couple of things on the gameplan adjustments. I definitely think some of these should be built into a players attributes and I would like to think that they are. I don't think that setting jump the snap to aggressive means that every DL gets off the snap at the same time, I think it has to do with their ACC and AWR, but I could be wrong. I also think you definitely still need these adjustments.
I remember a couple of years ago a game between the Cardinals and the Bears. Cards were winning big and the Bears defense took over late causing a ridiculous amount of fumbles and the Bears pulled out the game. You could actually see the Bears defense wrapping up runners and then someone else going for the strip. Not something they really doing early in the game. To me this would be the same as setting the Strip to aggressive. Or how many times late in games you will see a team that is losing to start going for the strip or a RB wrapping up the ball more if his team is winning or a defensive secondary that is winning is going to play off of the WRs and not take aggressive chances on going for a pick. These are adjustments that are made mid-game.
Yes all coaches want their DL to get off of the ball quickly, but say you have DL who is trying to get off quickly and constantly getting himself out of position. A coach is going to pull him aside and "coach" him on the sidelines to probably be a little more conservative to not get pulled out of the play. Same goes for someone who is missing tackles a lot, a WR that dropping a bunch of balls, a RB that is fumbling. He'll get told about it on the sideline and his gameplay will definitely change.Quote:
For example, why should a run stopping tendency DL-man have the same Jump Snap advantage as a pass rushing tendency DL-man? And what does jumping a snap have to do with a gameplan? Coaches ideally would like their DL-men to get off the ball quickly all the time.
The main issue to me is the adjustments are basically for your whole team. Some are obviously for different positional groups but you actually need individual and groups to make it work. I don't think simply adding it to attributes is the key for individuals, as I should be able to "coach" them on the sideline. Then you also have a group adjustment for those instances when you want your whole team aggressive/conservative, etc. The other issue is that these adjustments at times are overpowering and I think that's what most people have problems with. The whole if you set strip to aggressive and tackling to aggressive you always get a strip or whatever it is. If they are toned down and actually done right they would add a lot to the game.
Why not? It goes to the "let people run their dynasty how they want" opinion. It also acknowledges that while many of us here want more in-depth recruiting, others don't.Quote:
Originally Posted by baseballplyrmvp
Those examples are simply coaching a player up after they make mistakes, not a gameplan. This is why I brought up the creation of a discipline attribute. Penalties are a discipline issue i.e. holding blocks, clipping, jumping snap, late hits, etc. Awareness would play a factor in the case of a player going for the INT/swatting it away, or a receiver continuing deep or coming back to the QB after he completes the route and a RB protecting the football upon contact (to prevent fumbles). Again, ideally coaches would love for their players to always go for the pick. You wouldn't gameplan to just swat every pass away and never attempt an INT. It's an instinctual decision on the player given the situation. Turnovers are an integral part of the game, and every coach welcomes them 99% of the time (that 1% when they don't is during 4th down or a hail mary when a swat is more beneficial).Quote:
Originally Posted by psuexv
You make a valid point with the Bears/Cards game. I can see the validation for the strip ball adjustment staying in the game, but the reward currently outweighs the risk. However, there are some players out there that go for the strip even when their team is blowing out the opponent. It's their play style.
I think there's a difference between an actual "gameplan" and play style. A gameplan focuses on the Xs and Os strategy going into the game. Play style is instinctual. Now, I could see the in-game "adjustments" not being removed, but they need to be just that: adjustments. Tempo and Strip Ball would be applicable, but also these...
- Making a defensive adjustment to double cover the star receiver. Two DBs go man-to-man, or a safety rolls his coverage to that receiver's side.
- Or on offense, making an adjustment to double-team block the star pass rusher. Two OL double-team, or a TE or HB stay home to help the OT.
This also makes me think of additional or reworked audibles offensively and defensively. I'll post ideas on those later.