College playbook project

[nmleague]

The Wisconsin HB gets outside on an option to pick up a first down!!

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Hey nm, is the latest version on FBMax or are you still refining?

[nmleague]

I just uploaded the latest version, not sure when Shaggy will have it available.

Deltadog, did you go into the PDS, open a new playbook and then import the college playbook, I thought that is how you got the playbook in?

[nmleague]

The defensive audibles dont seem to work in the game, or I cant figure out how to call them. But the offensive work great, these are the 4 audibles I used for offense.

1. ProIRFBdivW
2. ProIRBdiv
3. TwinRFBdivW
4. TwinRFB div

I mainly used them to get out of poor play calls vs a defense. Example if I called a sweep/option to one side then saw that the defense was strong that way I call the audible for the formation ProI or Twin, that had the FB div to the opposite side. Simple for now.

[nmleague]

Tried a CPU vs CPU quick game for some more testing, below are the stats.

[Deft]

ORIGINAL: nmleague

I just uploaded the latest version, not sure when Shaggy will have it available.

Deltadog, did you go into the PDS, open a new playbook and then import the college playbook, I thought that is how you got the playbook in?

nmleague, take your playbook from the plays directory and add it to your zip file. It will then carryover your profiles and audibles.

[Shaggyra]

Version 2 now available on FBMAX.COM

[nmleague]

Deft thanks for the information that should help greatly. Sorry didnt do it for the second version, but will for the next.

[nmleague]

Ran another CPU vs CPU quick game stats below. Again it worked very well, but also as the game went on the QBs started scrambling more often.

[nmleague]

Shaggy thanks for putting the new version on your site so quickly!! In the future I will include the playbook file in the zip as well.

[nmleague]

I just uploaded the college phonebook file from my plays folder to FBmax, and asked Shaggy to add it to the zipped college playbook folder. Hopefully that will take care of things.

[nmleague]

Any suggestions for offensive formations to add to the college playbook or more base defenses to add. Better yet is anyone willing to do either an offense or defense that can be added to the playbook.

Long term I would like to have 3-4 different types of offense and defense so that by using different combinations we could have 12-16 completely different playbooks for teams.

[Shaggyra]

I added the pbk file to the College playbook file. I created a seperate folder in the zip called plays which contains the pbk file. The pbk file must be in the plays directory under maximum-football.

I think this is all true. Unfortunately I won't have time this afternoon to give it a complete test. If anyone can test this or can tell me I need to do this in a different way I or nmleague can make sure that the zipped filed gets formated properly.

[nmleague]

Let the the computer play another quick game, stats below.

[nmleague]

From the game mentioned in the last thread I have this sequence of screen shots. The California HB (#31) is breaking through the line in the upper pic, the bottom shows him in the clear, the defenders caught him after a 37 yard run.

[Deltadog]

I watched a cpu vs cpu game using version 2 of the plays. The change in the defensive plays is a vast improvement. It is better to have the DB in the middle moving to either side as they get there quicker and do not end up running into each other. I noted that on virtually all the sweep plays the outside linebackers just stood there and watched the ball carrier shoot by. Once he was past then they and the DB all took off after him. This happened on the sweeps by the RB not the QB scrambling.

As you will see by the stats below, the QB in this game still scrambled. No passes were thrown after the early part of the second quarter. Someone posted a message in another thread stating that he had used the slider utility to reduced certain numbers for the QB. Have you made any adjustments to the QB that you used in your test games? It would seem that the best plays in the world are not going to stop the scrambling unless some adjustmnt is made or unless there is some alteration in the next patch.

[Deltadog]

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[nmleague]

I saw the post about moving the slider to reduce the chance of the QBs scrambling, Im going to wait until I see how it is with the next patch before I resort to doing that. In the 5-6 games that I have either coached or had the CPU vs CPU I found that the QBs passed almost everytime a pass was called in the first quarter. After that the rate of scrambling goes up dramatically. Usually it seems that they scramble on 70-80% of the pass plays in the second half. And this is usually with recievers open. One change that might help is to give the DL a pass rush command, at the present they are giving much pressure.

The change in the defense, moving the DB to the middle of the formation when they have an align on player and m2m coverage command is workig better. But I saw a number of pass plays where the outside reciever ran an out or corner type patern and the DB couldnt get outside fast enough to cover them.

I also noticed the lack of reaction by the LB and DB, many times RB are running by them and they just stand still. I think I will add a key on command to the LB, I added the key on HB command to the MLB on some defenses and they seem to attack the run better. But this may have to be address by David or by adjusting the sliders.

[nmleague]

Deltadog, after seeing the extremly low number of passes thrown in your game I checked the PAC10 league that I used to run the game mentioned above. That game had alot of passes thrown. Turns out that league is using proffessional level players. But the games I reported on with Big 10 teams were using college level players, and also had more passes put still probably 10 or less per team.