Room413
08-11-2014, 04:55 AM
I'm not sure if I ever posted here before or not, but I just want to chime in with a few comments. Yesterday I completed my first season as head coach of the Lions, we finished 7-9 after a 2-0 start. This is using fictional players, and, I kid you not, Seattle and Denver made it to the title game. The Seahawks scored twice in the final five minutes for a 31-28 win. This is using the older version, I may get the new version at some point.
I have played another very popular football simulation for close to a decade now but have pretty much abandoned it. I will not make any disparaging comments about it, its creator, or its players. But where earlier versions allowed for creation of fictional players, as well as aging them and random retirements, those features are long gone. It's still a fun game for replaying historical contests, which is all I use it for these days. But for fictional leagues, there is way too much work involved to set up and maintain them. The fun factor gets weighed down by having to manually change hundreds of names, ages, and such. I had more enjoyment from this first FOF season than anything I've done with the other game in a long time.
But this game rocks at fictional leagues. I mean, you get date of birth, place of birth, and college attended for every single player. That makes it so much more "real" for me.
Do I miss having replay review? A little, but not as much as I expected to. I love the details of the game logs and box scores. Is the HTML output of my version a little outdated? Sure, it is, but it works for me.
Speaking of the HTML output, can those be uploaded and used for web sites?
In closing, I just want to congratulate and thank Jim for giving us a fun game.
I have played another very popular football simulation for close to a decade now but have pretty much abandoned it. I will not make any disparaging comments about it, its creator, or its players. But where earlier versions allowed for creation of fictional players, as well as aging them and random retirements, those features are long gone. It's still a fun game for replaying historical contests, which is all I use it for these days. But for fictional leagues, there is way too much work involved to set up and maintain them. The fun factor gets weighed down by having to manually change hundreds of names, ages, and such. I had more enjoyment from this first FOF season than anything I've done with the other game in a long time.
But this game rocks at fictional leagues. I mean, you get date of birth, place of birth, and college attended for every single player. That makes it so much more "real" for me.
Do I miss having replay review? A little, but not as much as I expected to. I love the details of the game logs and box scores. Is the HTML output of my version a little outdated? Sure, it is, but it works for me.
Speaking of the HTML output, can those be uploaded and used for web sites?
In closing, I just want to congratulate and thank Jim for giving us a fun game.