Ben E Lou
09-22-2011, 08:59 AM
If you're not gaming the system in training camp, then you're not being all you can be in FOF MP. A few pointers.
Training Room--Pretty straightforward. High-injury league? You want to increase this. Low-injury league? You can get away with lowering it a bit. (Never done less than an hour, so I don't know how deep this particular rabbit hole may go.)
Pass Plays, Defense, Run Plays--Again, pretty straightforward. Spend more time on what you need help in.
Special Teams-I'm convinced that this setting only significantly affects "fringe" plays such as blocked punts/kicks and bad holds/snaps. It has little or no impact on returns. I've been using 1 minute for ST for a while, and am consistently in the top half of my leagues in returns, return defense, punt distance, and FG%. In IHOF, where I have studs at P and K, I used one minute this current season. After 13 games...
My kicker is 24 for 25 on FGs, 10 for 11 from 40+, and 4 for 5 from 5+.
My kicker is in the top 4 in the league in touchbacks, TB%, avg. field position, and avg. kickoff distance
My punter is #3 in punt net and pct. inside the 20.In short, as I said above, if it's affecting this stuff, it's only very marginally. I do see an "increase" in miscues, but that merely means I maybe get 2 or 3 punts blocked per year instead of 0 or 1. Bah. (And I'm not even certain there's an increase in that stuff. That comment is mainly anecdotal. It could be that this setting is just broken.)
Film Room--Now THIS is where you can make some serious headway. If your QB is around what you think to be his max in formations, you can drop this all the way down to 1 minute with little/no consequences. In fact, I once had a QB *gain* a formation with only 1 minute spent. Usually, they just stay the same. (Obviously, if you have a young QB who needs to learn formations, you need to keep this where it is or even raise it.)
Team Functions--Increasing time spent on the touchy-feely stuff can help your cohesion significantly. If you've got the extra time, do it. And frankly, I would imagine this is more important than any individual pass/run/defense increase, since cohesion affects all position groups.
Training Room--Pretty straightforward. High-injury league? You want to increase this. Low-injury league? You can get away with lowering it a bit. (Never done less than an hour, so I don't know how deep this particular rabbit hole may go.)
Pass Plays, Defense, Run Plays--Again, pretty straightforward. Spend more time on what you need help in.
Special Teams-I'm convinced that this setting only significantly affects "fringe" plays such as blocked punts/kicks and bad holds/snaps. It has little or no impact on returns. I've been using 1 minute for ST for a while, and am consistently in the top half of my leagues in returns, return defense, punt distance, and FG%. In IHOF, where I have studs at P and K, I used one minute this current season. After 13 games...
My kicker is 24 for 25 on FGs, 10 for 11 from 40+, and 4 for 5 from 5+.
My kicker is in the top 4 in the league in touchbacks, TB%, avg. field position, and avg. kickoff distance
My punter is #3 in punt net and pct. inside the 20.In short, as I said above, if it's affecting this stuff, it's only very marginally. I do see an "increase" in miscues, but that merely means I maybe get 2 or 3 punts blocked per year instead of 0 or 1. Bah. (And I'm not even certain there's an increase in that stuff. That comment is mainly anecdotal. It could be that this setting is just broken.)
Film Room--Now THIS is where you can make some serious headway. If your QB is around what you think to be his max in formations, you can drop this all the way down to 1 minute with little/no consequences. In fact, I once had a QB *gain* a formation with only 1 minute spent. Usually, they just stay the same. (Obviously, if you have a young QB who needs to learn formations, you need to keep this where it is or even raise it.)
Team Functions--Increasing time spent on the touchy-feely stuff can help your cohesion significantly. If you've got the extra time, do it. And frankly, I would imagine this is more important than any individual pass/run/defense increase, since cohesion affects all position groups.