Playbook Questions

[Cipher 8]

The thing is, let's say you do have it written what their formations are, can you really gameplan around that? I mean, what does it matter if we know if they have Ace Big or not? It's not like we can put in the "Ace Big killer" formation or whatnot. You're still gonna look at the personnel and then pick defenses according to that, not the formation.

This. That's what I'm getting at. The benefit to knowing the formations would simply be to know the general theme of the offense, which is what you already know now in NCAA 11 when you see what playbook the guy is loading up for your game. So, at its simplest, this is just a way of knowing the same information you know in '11, but in the context of custom playbooks. You're going to prepare a little differently when most of a guy's playbook is taken up with flexbone and wishbone, or primarily ace and I-form, or a guy with lots of gun and spread, but again it's just a general theme of what you may be going up against, nothing more (as you say, there are no "Ace Big Killer" plays, lol).

The only problem with that is someone can pick a spread as their base and then fill it with Ace and I-formations and pro style, just saying what it says isn't always what you get with custom playbooks. I'm picking Multiple for that reason alone because I'm assuming most custom playbooks will have a little bit of everything so why not pick Multiple?

I don't want to hijack the thread anymore than has already occurred, so if anyone wants to chime in further on the "playbook disclosure" concept, send me a PM so that we don't bog down this thread anymore.

sorry...