What a back!

[Tasan]

Well, during my vacation this past week I got to run several seasons of TCY to use as draft files for my FOF career I'm running. My team I was quick simming with had a horrible time of things til I started doing the recruiting, and I finally turned them around. The catylyst of this turnaround was HB Ben Rivera, the best running back I've ever seen in my TCY playing.

http://users3.ev1.net/~davidpr/rivera.jpg

Nearly maxxed out in every important running category, he was an absolute stud for me. He redshirted his freshman year, and took off after that. After his redshirt, he was only about 35-40% developed, but he still ran for over 2300 yards, and won the Heisman. He topped his yardage the next year but was the third place finisher for Heisman, and we won our first national championship. 2020 was probably his best season, and he won the Heisman again and we won the national championship again. Remarkably he came back for his senior season and again had over 2000 yards, but got dinged up in a couple of games, and in the national championship, which we won. He finished 4th in the Heisman voting in his last season. All along, he was constantly running in the statistics and Heisman races with a running back from Alabama who was in his same class, and also stayed for his senior season. Rivera's yards, rushing touchdowns, and total touchdowns are all Division I records, but he was edged out in total rushes and all purpose yards by the Alabama back. He holds all the Big 12 rushing and all purpose yards records. I'm very interested to see how well he turns out in FOF2004.

One little side note was that he almost failed out his second year in school, and was overall not a good student, rated poor in both academics and asperation.

Eat your heart out Skydog ;- )

[Pumpy Tudors]

Am I the only one who was expecting to see a link to some booty in this thread?

[the_meanstrosity]

Tasan,

What kind of offense are you running and in what conference?

[INDalltheway]

It looks like the Big 12 because he is Texas A&M, but that is just mere speculation... It also looks like he runs the piss out of the ball... Man what a back!

[the_meanstrosity]

Doh! Thanks INDall...I was too busy looking at the red bars, lol. I've always wanted to try a running offense, but could never produce a national championship caliber team with it.

[Ben E Lou]

Almost 32 carries per game for four years. That brings a tear to my eye.

[MrBug708]

Just wondering how often some of you guys play FOF games? All these players are good, but not outstanding.

Then again, I power sim through my seasons and play and unusual amount of games

[Tasan]

I was in the Big 12, as someone figured out ;- ) and ran the Wing T for 20+ years. I had an excellent QB to compliment him as well and a pretty stout defense to keep giving him the ball. He had a few games where he got 40+ carries in a game, and had a Big 12 record 393 yards in a game. It was a Division I record for 2 weeks, then that Alabama kid topped it by 3 yards.

[the_meanstrosity]

Thanks Tasan. What are your percentages...if you don't mind sharing. Any other tweaks? Have you been able to get good yardage with other backs?

[Tasan]

99 93 77 59
95 86 62 54
96 41 30 35
97 40 24 38

Thats my running matrix, for the 2021 season. I have end of season files saved for every season so far, for my draft purposes, so its easy to go back and check things like that. I also ran outside more than inside, and had a pretty decent line.

[Celeval]

I like big backs and I cannot lie...

[Fido]

"Dat boy run so good..."

[Cringer]

HURRY UP AND GET THAT KID INTO FOF!! I want to know how he does! Are you going to try to trade up to get him on your team?

[Tasan]

Originally posted by Cringer
HURRY UP AND GET THAT KID INTO FOF!! I want to know how he does! Are you going to try to trade up to get him on your team? Most definately. I'm doing a little FOF house rules thing where I can only keep players 6 years, can trade off all the vets after 6 years, and any Aggies I get can stay on my team as long as I want. So, when the 2022 draft rolls by, I'm going to do all that I can, if he looks good, to grab him and watch him run my team to glory again.

[Pumpy Tudors]

I guess I AM the only one who was expecting booty.

[tucker342]

Almost 32 carries per game???? That's it?!?!?! You should be ashamed!;)

[vex]

Originally posted by Pumpy Tudors
I guess I AM the only one who was expecting booty.


I'm with ya.

[mckerney]

Originally posted by tucker342
Almost 32 carries per game???? That's it?!?!?! You should be ashamed!;)

I'm expecting he had a back up tailback who ran for about a thousand once the game was well in hand, and the FB and QB combined for about 700-800 yards. And then of course there's those guys who line up wide and run reverses.

[Darkiller]

Please post a screenshot of his Pro sheet.
thx !

[Tasan]

Here's my team breakdown for 2021. My backup HB just ran for 760+, but won the Heisman the next year as a 5th year senior starting his first full season. My QB never ran much, and I didn't do many reverses either. Notice all those 0s for opponent scores....my D was good.


The College Years
2021 Summary for Texas A&M

Record: 13-0
Rank: 1

Texas A&M Team Rank
Rushes 641 1
Rushing Yards 3014 2
Yards Per Carry 4.70 6
Pass Attempts 275 95
Completions 182 44 (T)
Passing Yards 3080 16
Yards Per Attempt 11.20 2
3rd Down Conversions 49.1 3
Points Per Game 40.5 5
Turnovers 20 52 (T)
Turnover Margin +6 31 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes 356 9
Rushing Yards 458 1
Yards Per Carry 1.28 1
Pass Attempts 357 105
Completions 142 7
Passing Yards 1628 4
Yards Per Attempt 4.56 2
3rd Down Conversions 20.2 2
Points Per Game 6.0 1
Turnovers 26 21 (T)

Primary Formation: Wing-T Formation

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 51 AKRN (122) 0
3 48 BROW (24) 0
4 59 PITT (67) 0
5 30 at MIZZ (97) 0
6 38 KANS (82) 10
8 45 TXTC (109) 7
9 52 at COLO (95) 7
10 34 at OKST (85) 16
12 45 OKLA (76) 0
13 42 BAYL (37) 14
14 28 at TEXS (25) 18
15 45 vs KSST (16) 0
20 10 vs FLOR (8) 7

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int
17 Castillo QB 227 151 2676 11.78 21 5
3 Rayburn QB 33 22 293 8.87 3 1
Team --- 275 182 3080 11.20 25 7

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Stff YdLst
1 Rivera RB 344 2052 5.96 20 88 145
22 Rucci RB 179 761 4.25 10 39 65
17 Castillo QB 43 -33 -0.76 0 25 124
Team --- 641 3014 4.70 37 176 393

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc YAC TD
7 Lee WR 54 34 690 20.2 246 7
5 Taylor WR 54 29 643 22.1 310 6
1 Rivera RB 40 32 470 14.6 312 3
32 Healy FB 25 19 252 13.2 158 0
22 Rucci RB 24 15 148 9.8 92 2
89 Starks TE 21 14 249 17.7 122 2
86 Welch WR 20 13 275 21.1 97 1
23 Acker FB 15 12 143 11.9 88 3
Team --- 275 182 3080 16.9 1532 25

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack TFL Ints Defn
49 Marzluf ILB 45 25 1.0 11 1 7
26 Kirkland CB 44 10 1.0 9 4 13
40 Wilcox ILB 42 15 0.0 9 0 4
29 Harrison S 41 13 1.0 9 1 6
97 Musial DE 38 14 16.0 25 0 0
94 Denver DE 35 15 12.5 21 0 0
46 Davison OLB 34 13 0.0 10 0 3
98 Howard OLB 30 13 1.0 5 1 1
96 Hutchins DT 27 9 4.5 11 0 0
34 Carliste S 25 13 0.0 5 7 5
37 Sanyika CB 23 10 0.0 3 0 2
33 Mills CB 19 7 0.0 3 5 3
39 Hitchcock CB 15 5 0.0 3 1 5
20 Rackers S 14 6 0.0 4 1 4
74 Trainor DE 14 4 2.5 3 0 0
27 Fisher CB 13 5 0.0 5 0 0
Team --- 569 206 45.0 151 21 56

[Tasan]

Originally posted by Darkiller
Please post a screenshot of his Pro sheet.
thx !

As soon as I get there I will. It just may take a while as my FOF career is taking a bit longer than my TCY one.