NCAA Football 12: Custom Playbooks

[gschwendt]

Kwizzy,

You said something t the extent that offense and defense have the same play limitations 40 formations and 377 plays. How many defensive formations are there total? And you can add and subtract plays out a formation? I figure we would just pick our 11 formations. Does it make you have a dime and a nickel? Just elaborate on defensive playbooks as much as possible.

You have full control over your defensive playbook just like you do your offensive playbook. If you want only 4-3 & 3-4 formations, you can do that. I'm not sure a total formation count for the defense (I don't even think there are 40 total), however, the obvious big difference is that most defensive formations have many more plays than the offensive side so you might have 50 available 4-3 plays to pick from (just a random number i threw out). So while you might have every defensive formation included in your playbook, it will be harder to flesh out any one of them.

[Kwizzy]

Kwizzy,

You said something t the extent that offense and defense have the same play limitations 40 formations and 377 plays. How many defensive formations are there total? And you can add and subtract plays out a formation? I figure we would just pick our 11 formations. Does it make you have a dime and a nickel? Just elaborate on defensive playbooks as much as possible.

Yeah I don't remember saying that the limits were the same, I honestly don't remember what the limit was for defense (dunno how many plays/formations there even are on defense). Like G said, you have complete customization available. I am actually looking forward to cutting the fat out of a lot of the defensive formations to allow me to get to the plays I prefer more quickly. Re-ordering plays within the book helps with this significantly because you can put the plays you call most often all together.

[xMrHitStickx904]

This is dope. I already know how I'm going to attack this. Go to practice mode, and spend a day looking at all of the playbooks, write down the specific formations that look interesting, potential deadly individual plays, and just build an overall strong offense, talk about a great feature here.

[cdj]

MadScientist from MaddenMatrix has posted his thoughts on info regarding Custom Playbooks.

[oweb26]

LOL I wasn't that excited for it but he kinda made me excited because he was so excited. The entire article read like someone excited. That was a good article non the less.

[CLW]

LOL I wasn't that excited for it but he kinda made me excited because he was so excited. The entire article read like someone excited. That was a good article non the less.

That's allot of excitement.

[psusnoop]

LOL I wasn't that excited for it but he kinda made me excited because he was so excited. The entire article read like someone excited. That was a good article non the less.

That's allot of excitement.

[psusnoop]

I can't wait to get my hands on this to be honest. The ability to create playbooks to matchup against other teams is so huge and so intriguing to me that I'm starting slobber slightly.

Can't wait to name my first defense, Kill PSUEXV. Oh the joys this could bring me in my own little world. hahaha

[oweb26]

That's allot of excitement.

LOL, I had to share my excitement on his level.

[gschwendt]

Can't wait to name my first defense, Kill PSUEXV. Oh the joys this could bring me in my own little world. hahaha

I honestly don't know if it will but what will be funny is if it will display the playbook name to your opponent (similar to how it does now).

[steelerfan]

I can't wait to get my hands on this to be honest. The ability to create playbooks to matchup against other teams is so huge and so intriguing to me that I'm starting slobber slightly.

Can't wait to name my first defense, Kill PSUEXV. Oh the joys this could bring me in my own little world. hahaha

[psusnoop]

I honestly don't know if it will but what will be funny is if it will display the playbook name to your opponent (similar to how it does now).

Man I really hope it does, I'll have some good ones for everyone that I'm playing. Might be a good year for a super conference. The chance to create a book for each team that you play is amazing and really adds a ton of depth too.

[gamergamer]

For edification purposes ... (although I think I can figure this out).

This does not include the ability to edit / create an actual play with routes, blocking styles, etc. ala the old Madden feature?

[morsdraconis]

For edification purposes ... (although I think I can figure this out).

This does not include the ability to edit / create an actual play with routes, blocking styles, etc. ala the old Madden feature?

Nope. Just customizing what plays you have available to you.

[oweb26]

Custom playbooks not custom plays. Would be nice though.

[Jayrah]

One thing that i would like to see at some point is having to set a playbook in the preseason. This allows for every play in that book to be implemented up to a potential 100% effectiveness.
All other playbooks and plays can be used but with less effectiveness. practice would need to be done every week to either learn new formations and plays or maintain a high level of effectiveness in current ones.

A spread option team is not gonna be able to flip playbooks and run an Air Raid with an kind of precision to be affective without work in practice.

And the same concept could be applied to defense and scouting. Yes similar to the vip system. This would add more of the chess match.

This is something that when I was younger I would not have been interested in but now I think I would. I love the concept of having to gameplan. Obviously your opponent wouldn't know what you were practicing but a scouting report like you mentioned for in game during the season and during the entire dynasty would be huge. I think 85% is too high as low-end effectiveness, even for pre-season base formations. If you don't keep up on a formation throughout the season you should get docked for that. I think a low end of 65% if you don't practice a play OR use it in 6 weeks or so. However I think 85% is a good high-end for non preseason formations. And maybe like 45% low-end. In my opinion with this it would be important to note that the effectiveness should directly effect the chances of everyone running the play correctly, and not taking away ratings from any players, as ratings hits during certain plays are unrealistic in theory, except awareness which is impossible to implement on an individual level during in-game play. That's why this would be a TEAM AWARENESS rating, which basically would be that percentage with a name attached.

*By the way I'm still holding out hope for some sort of scouting tendency and/or report for 12 in dynasty news*

Another thing that need be noted is that you should not necessarily HAVE to do anything but set your plays for the cpu to practice, that way anyone who doesn't want to doesn't have to go in and practice the plays. Also those that want to go in and take a look at the play once or twice should be allowed to do that and sim the rest of that part without penalty of having only practiced it one time. Setting hrs allocation as described for this feature would be good. So you only would have to practice one day, but it acts like that's how you approached the entire week of practice in hrs spent.

The CPU would be held responsible in the same way (especially hopefully once coaches are implemented) in that they would randomly set a "gameplan" with their playbook for the week. This is where the current base coaching styles come into play with the percentage of run vs pass and aggressive vs conservative etc. Each "coach" would have a personality attached as well for whether they stay manilla or are innovative in practicing and calling plays each week. This would add EVEN MORE DEPTH to each team's pb in the way teams approach you in dynasty.

Boy oh boy! This CP feature has opened up a whole can of worms and ideas for future dynasty implementations. I didn't realize how much it could effect until now. This is awesome. I LOVE that we can change cpu pb's and set them the way they should be as well. I know it's a set # but it gives an OD Commish the ability to set at least the premier teams in each user conference to play more like real life.

Here's another question for the guys. I know you can't comment on the dynasty end of it, but in relation to custom pb's, could you potentially set more custom pb's for the cpu if you were to transfer commish duties to another user within the OD? So the commish can change 15, and then transfer it to another "commish" who could also change 15?

[gamergamer]

Nope. Just customizing what plays you have available to you.

A shame. That was a pretty awesome feature of the old Madden games, if a little underdeveloped.

Would be pretty cool to add a true single wing or any experimental formation. Meh.

[Jayrah]

Custom playbooks not custom plays. Would be nice though.

It is set now though so that maybe in the future custom plays could be fully utilized. Especially on defense, custom plays and "formations" by virtue of where you put different players could be really set to your liking because of the amount of available formations to add. There's a wishlist item for next year.

[blkkrptnt819]

This is dope. I already know how I'm going to attack this. Go to practice mode, and spend a day looking at all of the playbooks, write down the specific formations that look interesting, potential deadly individual plays, and just build an overall strong offense, talk about a great feature here.

Didn't go as far as looking for plays. Like but I spent the past year looking at formations that fit my style and made a playbook out of them.

[smace767]

How many locked formations are there? Special Teams, Hail Mary goaline formations are required. The word is there are 10 to 13 locked formation per playbook. can someone verify.