building on this, it'd be cool if some recruits werent able to make the grades required to be able to get into your school. not every top recruit in the country has the grades in order to play at stanford. hell, it was the reason why vontaze burflict played at arizona state and not at USC----he didnt have the grades.Quote:
Originally Posted by souljahbill
plus, this would make academic prestige mean something in the game.
I agree. I posted this a month or so ago:Quote:
Originally Posted by baseballplyrmvp
I mentioned in a previous thread that "Gameplan Adjustments" needs an overhaul. Well, not necessarily overhauled, just enhanced. I'm a big believer in taking what EA has already delivered, and expounding on it. First, "Coach Philosophy" should establish your coach's identity not just for simulating games, but in-game when you utilize the "Ask Coach" option under the playcall menu. How your run/pass ratio and playcall aggressive style are set, combined with your coach rating, should dictate the "Ask Coach" play selection.
In the diagram below, you'll notice the existing "Coach Philosophy" menu in the game with two additional options (in bold).
COACH PHILOSOPHY
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Maybe some of you could care less, but having to trigger the no-huddle button after every play can be a nuisance. Simply put, it should be automatic except for 4th down situations. Anyway, with your "Coach Philosophy" set, you're ready to load up your game. Next, what I'd like for EA to add is a "Scout Opponent" option at the controller select menu. The option could be toggled just like the "Uniform Option" allows us. So, you select "Scout Opponent" and the option gives you a look at your opponent's "Coach Philosophy" and the opportunity to set your "Gameplan Adjustments" going into the game. NOTE: This does not supercede your ability to set adjustments in-game. You can still do that if need be. This simply gives you an opportunity to see your opponent's coach philosophy, and make your adjustments accordingly.
SCOUT OPPONENT
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Although I'm not a huge fan of the existing "Gameplan Adjustments" since I think they're more applicable to player tendencies and awareness, I don't think they should be removed because many people do like and use them. However, I added a few tweaks to some of the existing adjustments, and came up with several entirely new adjustments that seem more applicable to a gameplan. For an in-depth look at the new ones, click on the following spoiler tab.
GAMEPLAN ADJUSTMENTS
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Rather than explaining all of the new adjustments here in this post, I'm open to questions and debate on each to further elaborate on them in the thread. Although there are specific (+) and (-) for each adjustment, some of them serve multiple purposes not listed - just lay term descriptions.
As you can see, there may be a lot to read in this post, but I'm not requesting a whole scale change; just enhancements to give coaches an identity when utilizing the "Ask Coach" option, and an extensive gameplan adjustment set to be implemented pre-game. I'd even take it a step further by also including the "Gameplan Adjustments" selection under "Coach Philosophy" where your opponent's adjustments will appear under "Scout Opponent" as well. However, I'd integrate your coach's rating in this respect. Your opponent's adjustments would be hidden, but with your coach rating, you could unlock a certain number of their adjustments; the higher the coach rating (grade), the more adjustments you can unlock and view.
Go easy on me, as this took hours to post using the table formatting. I'm not a programmer, but I think this "wish" shouldn't be difficult to implement. In an upcoming post, I'd also like to share with you my ideas for additional position audibles on the field. Anyway, please reply. I hope this thread doesn't get buried.
The Dynasty Wire scoring summary has a few issues. Most often, a safety is awarded to the offensive team, not the defensive team. So a 20-19 game, with a safety scored by the losing team, becomes 22-17 in the Scoring Summary. Also, a 2-pt conversion attempt shows as a kick attempt by the QB/HB/WR.
I can't decide if this is a "need", or even a "want" ... but I at least wouldn't mind if Scouting Time was available in the non-recruiting weeks (like CCG and bowl weeks).
Bug(?): In bowl season, the "Award Winners" tab goes to dynasty/awardsemifinalists, and displays the award semi-finalists just like they were during the season. There's nothing to denote the order or who won the award. The Heisman is properly updated though.
i want the recruiting/scouting time changed to 13 hours total, instead of 10/3. this would really come in handy, as you enter into the later parts of the season, having lost out on some other recruits, so that if you dont spend all of your phone time, you could put the extra time into scouting.
:+1: Make it 15, just 'cause 13 hours seems like a strange numeric choice.
i think with 15 hours and the current model though, you'd reach a point later on in the season where you'd still have a bunch of time left. the 2 less hours drags everything out at least a couple of weeks and keeps some mystery to some of the lesser rated players on your board.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
however, if they got rid of the randomness of scouting, and made it to where you could pick which items you wanted to scout (possibly multiple times?), then i'd be in favor of having 15 combined hours.
I agree that you'd end up with too much time, I just thought "You have 13 hours!" sounded strange, simply from a number perspective. :)
:D ya, it does.
they need dynamic rivalries, where if u are competitive with the same team for multiple years, you became rivals with them
In the players leaving portion of offseason, there needs to be a way to view the depth chart. I can't promise a kid he'll play if I don't have the ability to see where he is on the depth chart.
Not only have the ability to add teambuilder teams without having to replace another team, but have this ability each off season. This may be in the "too hard to do" box due to scheduling.
:easy:Quote:
Originally Posted by WildBucFan13
It could be done if they create an entire division of generic FCS teams. You'd have to have a minimum of 124 teams to match the FBS teams, in case every team scheduled an FCS team the same week. And to go along with it, generic conferences. They could actually take the current generic FCS team names, and use those as conferences for the FCS schools: FCS West (Conference), FCS Southwest (Conf.), FCS East (Conf.), etc. Then, have the FCS conferences swap/add/reducible with teams like we currently can with the FBS ones. So, if you wanted to have an entire Teambuilder conference, you swap/add/reduce until you have the desired number of teams in that conference without affecting any FBS conferences. Or, like with South Alabama being left out, you could replace a generic FCS team, then move USA to their FBS conference. Also, Teambuilder could add a "create a conference logo" that could be swapped with these generic FCS conferences as well.
The idea may be :easy: but the execution/programming may not be as :easy: as we think it should be.Quote:
Originally Posted by TIMB0B
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Originally Posted by souljahbill
If am not logged in, I can browse a dynasty that I'm not a member of, and check stats, standings, rosters, etc.
If I am logged in, perhaps because I'm not a member of any dynasty, any of those links send me back to the home page. Though I think I wouldn't be able to do that if I was a member of a dynasty either.
Probably a related issue (and definitely the fact that I'm not logged in), but when I was browsing the Powerhouse OD and I clicked on "Stats", I got some random other OD's statistics. Every other tab gives me the Powerhouse OD data.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
Dynasty
* Scouting Report
o Top Ten Plays Offensive/Defensive to Practice Against (With Hot Route if Ran That Way)
o Top 10 Pass Plays/Run Plays (With Hot Routes)
o Top Ten Plays in each Situation Offensive/Defensive (e.g. 1st, 1st and Short, 2nd and Long/ Medium/Short etc.)
o Run/Pass Ratio
o Completion Percentage Short/Medium/Long, Left/Right/Center
o Blitz Ratio (Down and Distance)
o Man/Zone Coverage Ratio (Down and Distance)
o Man/Zone Blitz Ratio (Down and Distance)
* Transferable Dynasty - This HAS to happen. And this feature needs to be able to handle dynasties for this generation or have an online converter.
* Coaches Having Ratings Which Affects the Play on the Field
o Such as Physical and Skill Training Ratings
o A scouting rating that allows for more/less attributes to be uncovered based on the rating
o Gives each coach a specialty e.g. QB, HB, TE, OLB, CB, etc.
* Duplicate Numbers Please
o Also the ability to have more collegiate number and less pro numbering
* Medical Redshirt
* Customizable Offseason Training Program Based on Position
o Give Exercises that Work only on Certain Groups of Attributes
o Put in Order of Importance and Only Allowed to Pick a Certain Amount
* Fix Ranking System
o Too Much Dependence on Conference Prestige and Not Enough on SoS
* Conference Prestige for Indy Need to be Tweak
* Ability to tell a recruit they are being recruited for a different position
o Helps with Playing Time Pitch
* Dynamic Player Progression
o = Potential + Playing Time + Production(Evokes Confidence) + Coaching + Playing Style + Training
* Program Builder
o Earn Points for 10 Win Seasons, Rivalry Wins, Bowl Wins, Bowl Invites, BCS Invites, BCS Bowl Wins
o NCs, Finishing the season Ranked, Beating Ranked Teams, Post Season Award Winners/All-Americans
o Points can be used to Purchased Uniforms, Stadium Upgrades, Campus Upgrades
* Ability to Watch Other Users OD Games
* Keep Historical Data for 10 Seasons
o Recruiting Ranking, Final Ranking, Schedule with W-L-T, Score and Stats of Each Game
*More soft verbals that don't fully commit until signing day
o 2 Presentations for these commits 1) The hat picking ceremony 2) showing the letter of intent coming off the printer with name of the school printing off last
if we arent given the ability, next year, to pick which ratings we want to scout, i'd like the ability to set a top 5 priorities list for ratings for each position (even top 3 would work). these top 3/5 would be the first ones to unlock when a recruit gets scouted; after they've been unlocked, the randomness factor comes back.
I agree, MVP. Especially late in the year, I found myself frustrated that there were only one or two ratings I REALLY needed to know (especially when I was comparing 3-5 different recruits), but it would take weeks to get the time to scout those players.
For me, the most disappointing thing about scouting is how wrong the ratings can be. In the past, you knew that a QB had B THA, for example. That could be anywhere between 83 and 87, if memory serves, but you knew basically where it was. Now a QB with B in THA can practically be anything between A and D. D guys are obviously rare, but I'm sure it's possible.
I had an idea a few years ago about a new rating that could have been added, but wouldn't be "known". It would have a chance to be wrong. And, if I'm remembering my idea correctly, it would be more likely to be right for top-end players than for lesser players. I think that's what I'm missing from scouting. There's no more likelihood, it feels, for a :5star:'s ratings to be accurate than a :1star:'s. So now we've gotten to the point that I can't trust any rating.
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Yes!!! This needs to happen next year.Quote:
Originally Posted by baseballplyrmvp
need to add the option to sort the recruits by if they're a juco or not.
I would love to have an additional option in the Search screen; JUCO: Included, None, or Only. Sometimes I'm only interested in seeing JUCOs, but that requires a line by line look through the prospects.Quote:
Originally Posted by baseballplyrmvp
pretty much exactly what i'm thinking.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
Fuck, I think I've been awake and working for too long today. I opened this thread and immediately my brain read and thought you were saying that they need to add an option to sort the recruits by if they're on the juice or not. :D :sf:Quote:
Originally Posted by baseballplyrmvp
that could be an option too :D
The Top 25 formulas need re-worked to not be so reliant on W-L record. At the very least, some added aspect of strength-of-schedule calculation would be very welcome. Too many times has a X-0 team from a lesser conference jumped deserving teams with more difficult schedules. Even when the team with the more difficult schedule was also X-0.
On a related note, I see no reason that there is no computer polls depicted in the BCS in-game.
For discussion/examples of this, from our OD.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
Below are each of the teams that finished the Top 6 in the BCS poll before bowl games and their opponents. Rank is where that opponent finished in the BCS and the result (Win/Loss).
#1 Pitt 12-0 #2 FL St. 12-0 #3 'zona 12-0 #4 Mich 11-1 #5 Texas 11-1 #6 ND 11-1 Opponent W/L Opponent W/L Opponent W/L Opponent W/L Opponent W/L Opponent W/L #14
UConnW #9
ArkansasW #14
UConnW #13
WisconsinW #6
NDW #5
TexasL #14
UConnW #15
AlabamaW #24
CalW #6
NDL #12
LSUW #25
Ohio St.W #21
TAMUW #10
HoustonW #4
MichiganL #4
MichiganW #23
MiamiW #5
TexasW #25
Ohio St.W #16
NavyW #12 LSU W #25
Ohio St.W #20
OregonW #20
OregonW
:+1:, again, though with a twist. I have a ridiculous number of ATHs on my board, and for all of them I already have a position in mind that I'm interested in. Instead of letting me pick 3 to 5 attributes to see first, why not let me say "Scout as QB" or "Scout as HB". There'd be backend logic to add there, but if the QB-related or HB-related attributes opened first, I'd be a lot happier about scouting ATHs.Quote:
Originally Posted by baseballplyrmvp
ATHs are particularly a nightmare because it takes three full hours to fully scout a single one. If you have 10 ATHs to scout, and you scout no one but them, that's 9 weeks of the season (plus pre-season) before they're fully scouted.
it'd be nice to see a list of who made the different bowl games on the dynasty wire site.
Ohio State added a linebacker to their 2013 class today. One of the items about him is that he set a record at the SPARQ Combine, something like 157.30. I don't immediately recall SPARQ scores in game being anywhere close to that.
107.9 is the highest i've ever seen in the game. the scores in real life really taken off though in the last couple of years.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
Damn. I'll have to pay more attention to SPARQ scores. I don't really look at everyone to see the highest. I just look at people who are interested in playing at Tulsa, which the highest I've ever seen for an interested recruit for Tulsa was 76.00.
It does seem like they have. I find it hard to believe that 11 kids from Ohio were all better than Reggie Bush and Tim Tebow.Quote:
Originally Posted by baseballplyrmvp
I don't pay any attention to them in-game, Smooth. Not when I'm recruiting, at least. I think they're based on the original pre-scouting ratings, which makes them not all that useful now.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
But I saw that Mitchell had a ridiculously high score, and thought NCAA might need to up their scores to reflect the trend in real SPARQ scores.
Oh no, I don't really pay attention to them either. About the only time I really look at SPARQ scores in-game is when comparing multiple recruits in the same position on my board, if their stats are pretty close and OVR is similar, I sometimes tend to favor the player with the higher SPARQ than one with a lower score.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
I was just mentioning paying attention to them just out of curiosity to see what's the highest SPARQ score I ever come across during all my years in my dynasty.
With Toughest Places to Play now being much more dynamic, and directly impacting the Stadium Atmosphere recruiting pitch, I think it's important that the Average Attendance fluctuate much more dramatically. I didn't pay attention to what FSU's attendance was at the beginning of the dynasty, and I know the team suffered two 5-7 seasons while they were not under my control, but I'm in the midst of a 21 game winning streak, and the defending national champion, and I'm still averaging only 66,000, out of an 82,000 capacity. There's no reason that FSU shouldn't be the hottest ticket in town under those conditions.
Is Stadium Atmosphere the same as Fanbase?Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
Stadium Atmosphere is the name of the recruiting pitch. I don't immediately recall what Fan Base is.