FOF9 Gameplan Questions

[xcoachdx]

Long time FOF8 user, but just now diving into FOF9.

So what is the point of the gameplanning sections in 9 if you are calling your own plays? It used to be that whatever you put into the 1st down/2nd down/etc sections is what plays were going to be called in those situations. But now when you get in game where you are calling your plays, your entire book is available and it is divided up into completely different sections than how it is divided in the gameplanning. Defense is the same way.

Is there a setting that I'm not finding that changes this? (there used to be one in 8 where your entire playbook was always available in play calling). Also, does the CPU use their entire book also? I feel like I would be cheating a bit if they were always in the same defensive look against a certain personnel and I was able to basically take massive advantage of it without them ever switching things up.

Any insight to this would be great.

[Haiku]

The plays you set up in the game plan are called by the "coordinators" in the order they are listed. For example, on 3rd and 3, the AI would call the first play in the list for that situation, and on the next 3rd and 3, it would call the second play, and so on. The same applies to the defensive game plan - it cycles through the coverages in order they are set against the relevant personnel group. When calling plays manually you can either choose the highlighted "recommended play" which suggests the next call in order for that situation (as it would if the game played automatically), or select any play you want instead.

The entire playbook is available during game planning. However, you are allowed to use only 55 plays for any particular game. The same applies to the opposing team - they will choose a different set of 55 plays from the 200 total in their playbook. As for the defensive plays, since they cycle through the list, you can for example write down the three variations used for normal situations against say 113 personnel. Once the defense goes through these three plays you will know that on the fourth play they will return to the first defensive play. But this only applies to the current game, as they will change their defensive game plan for the next game.