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Steve_OS · 03-06-2015, 02:32 PM

In this week's OS Fact or Fiction, a few staff writers get together and discuss quite a few interesting topics. Make sure you read their responses and post your own!

MLB 15 The Show will get online play right this year
NHL 16 will recover from NHL 15's abysmal bottom and return the series to its old glory
Joe Montana Football is a console football game which is going to compete with Madden
It is time for the NBA to quit doing the playoffs by East/West due to the divisional imbalance and instead take the top 16 teams regardless of division
Adrian Peterson will be a Dallas Cowboy next season

Read More - OS Fact or Fiction: Sports Gaming Doldrums Edition (Written by Matthew Coe, Chase Becotte and Ben Vollmer)

MossMan84 · 03-06-2015, 02:54 PM

Im with you guys on jm16; this a complete sham if you ask me! Its one of the saddest things to happen to sports gaming not having a bevy of NFL football games to play! But I guess if I was as rich as the NFL n EA I wouldnt really care about making people happy either or I would be too busy spending money to worry about a bunch of sim gamers! Actually that wouldnt be me but I can understand why they all dont care!

rman · 03-06-2015, 10:35 PM

I think that Joe Montana Football coming out and competing with Madden will happen before MLB no show has a playable online game....FACT!

Guapo516 · 03-07-2015, 06:01 PM

As much as I don't want the playoff format to change, Imbalance in the NBA comes from the way the playoffs are set up in a way.

The west teams that are good already go into the lottery as opposed to the eastern teams that are bad, so the west only gets stronger. Bad picks from the 7 eastern conference teams help also but the western teams benefit greatly from being able to add a lottery pick to a team that is already in the cusp of the playoffs.

I want to see how it shifts after some guys retire, and some guys from the west maybe move east before I definitively say it should change, but the gap between the east and the west is far too wide.

braves_94 · 03-09-2015, 12:56 AM

I'm a bit of a purist too. Lets get rid of the three point line, shot clock, and zone defenses!

03-06-2015, 02:32 PM	#1
Steve_OS Editor-in-Chief OVR: 77 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: OS Eastern Office Posts: 31,727 Blog Entries: 556	OS Fact or Fiction: Sports Gaming Doldrums Edition In this week's OS Fact or Fiction, a few staff writers get together and discuss quite a few interesting topics. Make sure you read their responses and post your own! MLB 15 The Show will get online play right this year NHL 16 will recover from NHL 15's abysmal bottom and return the series to its old glory Joe Montana Football is a console football game which is going to compete with Madden It is time for the NBA to quit doing the playoffs by East/West due to the divisional imbalance and instead take the top 16 teams regardless of division Adrian Peterson will be a Dallas Cowboy next season Read More - OS Fact or Fiction: Sports Gaming Doldrums Edition (Written by Matthew Coe, Chase Becotte and Ben Vollmer) Platform: PC / PS3 / PS4 / Sports / Xbox 360 / Xbox One

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03-06-2015, 02:54 PM	#2
MossMan84 Banned OVR: 0 Join Date: Nov 2013	Im with you guys on jm16; this a complete sham if you ask me! Its one of the saddest things to happen to sports gaming not having a bevy of NFL football games to play! But I guess if I was as rich as the NFL n EA I wouldnt really care about making people happy either or I would be too busy spending money to worry about a bunch of sim gamers! Actually that wouldnt be me but I can understand why they all dont care!

03-06-2015, 10:35 PM	#3
rman Banned OVR: 4 Join Date: Jul 2002	I think that Joe Montana Football coming out and competing with Madden will happen before MLB no show has a playable online game....FACT!

03-07-2015, 06:01 PM	#4
Guapo516 Rookie OVR: 0 Join Date: Apr 2013	As much as I don't want the playoff format to change, Imbalance in the NBA comes from the way the playoffs are set up in a way. The west teams that are good already go into the lottery as opposed to the eastern teams that are bad, so the west only gets stronger. Bad picks from the 7 eastern conference teams help also but the western teams benefit greatly from being able to add a lottery pick to a team that is already in the cusp of the playoffs. I want to see how it shifts after some guys retire, and some guys from the west maybe move east before I definitively say it should change, but the gap between the east and the west is far too wide.

03-09-2015, 12:56 AM	#5
braves_94 Rookie OVR: 1 Join Date: Jul 2013	I'm a bit of a purist too. Lets get rid of the three point line, shot clock, and zone defenses!