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IronBuckI;2262305; said:
I thought you were getting rid of the game.
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I am. I have this year of an OD with 8 friends to finish. We've been at the championship week for 6 days. I'm #1 and projected to play my dearest friend for the title. Can't quite give it up until I tea bag him virtually and continue to remind him every time I see him.
 
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I don't know who's still playing this game, or how many of you do a lot of experimenting with custom playbooks, but this site; playbooks.ncaaplaybook.com is an excellent resource for the guys that like to mess around with this kind of stuff. The site was originally started by a couple guys that frequent the gaming tailgate and an NCAA Strategies site on Utopia. They handed that off to Oneback, and he's done a really nice job with the site.
 
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Cool site, thanks for sharing. I was reading through an offensive strategy and what this guy recruits to fit his offense.

I guess one of my biggest gripes is that skill players and traits don't matter as much as they should. One example, scat backs or players that should be good in the open field aren't truly impact players. I have a guy that's 85+ ELU, 91 AGI, 99 ACC and 94 SPD. He should be a terror in space, but he is not. Unless he outruns his guy or gets a broken tackle animation-which rarely happens-he is tackled.

SPD is still a difference maker, as it should be. Route running is much more important now but could still be better.

Physical attributes are mostly for looks, especially weight. 240 LB DT are just as impactful as 300 LB with the same attributes. Physics state otherwise, if each guy is running at a 70 SPD, one guys force will be slightly higher. Same thing with RB's.

This is a long winded way of saying, my recruiting tactics - other than QB - are to recruit the highest rated guys regardless of the specific attributes.

I wish the specific style of players were much more impactful and added to the level of "chess" within the strategy. The play calling is the chess in this game, the players (if they're OVR rated similarly) are still largely checkers.
 
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Hmm. Is it because they run the.... Spread ??

edit: In no way is this a user created coach. This was the CPU all the way.



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Buckeneye;2317825; said:
Hmm. Is it because they run the.... Spread ??

edit: In no way is this a user created coach. This was the CPU all the way.



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There is so much humor in this. Alma Mater LSU, Clemson Spread playbook, Oregon back to 6-7 football, and of course the re-hire of Jerry Sandusky.
 
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So some guys over at Operation Sports overhauled the rosters and modified them to replicate what we should see in the 2013-2014 NCAA Football season. They admittedly made somewhat generic rosters as you can see

How did you rate recruits?

This is the chart we used (24/7 Composite rankings)

5 Stars (#1) - 83
5 Stars (#2-#17) - 82
5 Stars (#18-#34) - 81
4 Stars (Higher end 98/97) (#35-#51) - 80
4 Stars (Lower End 97) (#52-#66) - 79
4 Stars (96) (#67-#82) - 78
4 Stars (95) (#83-#102) - 77
4 Stars (94/93) (#103-#155) - 76
4 Stars (92/91) (#156-#226) - 75
4 Stars (90) (#227-#277) - 74
4 Stars (89) (#278-#330) - 73
3 Stars (88) (#331-#374) - 72
3 Stars (87) (#375-#479) - 71
3 Stars (86) (#480-#627) - 70
3 Stars (85) (#628-#797) - 69
3 Stars (84) (#798-#962) - 68
3 Stars (83) (#963-#1141) - 67
3 Stars (82) (#1142-#1368) - 66
3 Stars (81) (#1369-#1573) - 65

What about JUCOs?

#1: 82
#2: 81
#3-#5: 80
#6-#10: 79
#11-#14: 78
#15-#18: 77
#19-#27: 76
#28-#36: 75
#37-#46: 74
#47-#59: 73
#60-#72: 72
#73-#86: 71
#87-#100: 70

How did you come up with that Top 25?

Using ESPN's early top 25 predictions
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With that being said, after looking at the roster file, what are some adjustments you'd make to tOSU's roster and/or any other changes to other rosters?
 
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ImFrigginFly;2323811; said:
So some guys over at Operation Sports overhauled the rosters and modified them to replicate what we should see in the 2013-2014 NCAA Football season. They admittedly made somewhat generic rosters as you can see



With that being said, after looking at the roster file, what are some adjustments you'd make to tOSU's roster and/or any other changes to other rosters?
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link?
 
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They had a PS3 updated roster (As of season's end) and were working on planting new recruits as well. I know it was up to date as of end of season, but I'm not sure how far they got after signing day. I've played a few seasons with it, and while I haven't downloaded an updated version yet, the ones that were done at the time were good. You can find it here:

http://www.operationsports.com/foru...ed-luvs-roster-updated-season-progresses.html
 
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Been having a lot of fun lately, just started up a new dynasty with the UTSA Roadrunners. I basically looked for one of the worst possible team I could find, sign myself as the Offensive coordinator and work my way up from the bottom. Kinda funny to see their stadium situation/attendance because they're young and they start off as 0-0 in the Alamodome. Not a bad venue though, it's all enclosed and seats 65k, pretty good for WAC.

It's been a few years since I've taken a poor team and tried this, I forgot how fun yet challenging it can be. In addition to the fact your players are relatively horrible, you can't offer a damn thing to new recruits besides playing time and proximity to home (If you're recruiting in state of course). It gets so easy to do recruiting when you're playing as a powerhouse like OSU that excels at everything, any recruit you focus on pretty much is yours. Totally different story when you're playing as the crap school, sometimes you just have to gamble just to get an average player. The worst part is that I find most decent recruits don't care about playing time, and they sure as hell don't care about proximity to home.

Anyway, I'm about 1 1/2 seasons in. I moved the Roadrunners to an Air Raid offense because all they really had was a semi decent QB and one WR to work with on offense. Ended up going 10-2 in the regular season and somehow blew out an underachieving Oklahoma team in a bowl (I blame their weak secondary), then promptly got my ass handed to me by Arizona at the start of the next season. Couldn't pass on Arizona for crap, it was crazy.

I was a bit surprised, saw that someone has been streaming a UTSA dynasty and doing his own commentary over the game, not a bad job imo

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYSiwMgtS8Y"]NCAA Football 13 Dynasty (UTSA) - BEEF O'BRADY'S BOWL! - vs Pittsburgh (Season 4) - YouTube[/ame]
 
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