FOFC BBCF initial league info
 

Hello all,

edit: The new forum is up. The address is http://www.fofc-bbcf.com/phpbb2

The HTML for site is soon to follow. I'll be doing a lot of design/development, so do be surprised if the HTML is constantly changing over the next couple of weeks.

Here are my plans for the league. Based on how customizeable the game is, these are definitely up for discussion and change. Hopefully we will be able to give good and constructive feedback to Arlie and the guys during their development process.

The league will structurally mirror the current Division 1A setup. 11 Conferences (ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-10, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC), with Notre Dame and Navy as independants. If independants aren't possible, then Notre Dame probably will be in the Big 10 and Navy in Conference USA.

The plan is to have a playoff structure. The idea is to have a 16 team playoff. The entrants will be the 11 conference champions, plus 5 at large teams. If possible, there can also be a secondary 16 or 24 team playoff, or a set of bowl games for the teams that do not make the championship tournament.

You will have to own the game in order to participate. This is due to the export requirements. The participation requirements for human owners will be decided once more details of the game emerge.

Other than these points, this is the initial plan. As Arlie releases more details, the plans will firm up even more. If you are interested in joining, or have any feedback/questions, PM me or reply to this thread. I'll keep this list updated until the new BB is ready.

Here are the all of the teams, including those not yet claimed:

edit: the official list is now at: http://fofc-bbcf.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=103

Just an FYI, but your conference affiliations are most likely going to be different in the game than what you have here. For instance, UTEP will be in CUSA and Louisville will be in the Big East...

Yeah, I was going off of last year's alignments.

Washington State, please. :D

I would be interested in taking NC State in the ACC.

BC in the ACC please.

when the next Pro Football sim from GD comes out, there better be a FOFC league using the draft files from BBCF :D

(hmm.. there's an idea, too bad that we lost the end of year exports for FOFC FBCB, a FBB league would be fun)

I am interested in Temple (not sure if they are still in the big east)

*spews coffee all over his keyboard*




...and before I hear any righteous indignation, my wife graduated from Temple and I attended grad school there. ;)

Say hello to sov the fucking hypocrite.

I'll take Florida, please.
:)

I'll take the Toledo Rockets, just because the city where i live is the "original Toledo" in Spain :)

Wait, the Michigan coach wants to be an alternate for Penn State?!? wtf?

I would love to be Notre Dame if they are available

In the other thread sov was making fun of trying to start a league this far before the game was released...

I don't get it. :confused:

Die, swamp scum.

His first choice, Penn State, was already taken. If the current Penn State claimer decides not to participate, the alternates get right of first refusal, in their listed order.

Put me down for Memphis.

I understand the process...I just dislike the fact that the Michigan coach would rather be coaching at PENN STATE.

My initial reaction on starting a league this early was a negative - one for which I already apologized.


We'll institute a yankee style of play. You can bet you're one of the reasons I went with Florida.

When I think of Yankee style and Florida, all that comes to mind are old people driving Buicks with New York plates at 45 MPH in the fast lane with their left turn signal stuck on.

:D

I'll take Arizona State.

I could have gone anywhere, I choose Temple

Sign me up for LSU

Go PAC-10!

I'll grab Eastern Michigan....

We need more CUSA-ers. Go ahead and sign thealmighty up for SMU, vexroid for Tulsa, and Herd for Marshall, cartman... ;)

If there will be hiring/firing in the game, I'd like to start somewhere small (like the C-USA or wherever) and work my way up..

I'll take Hawaii.

This is one of the areas I am sure will change once we get our hands on the game. It will depend on how the hirings/firings are handled. My thoughts at the moment are to use some methods we have discussed in the FOFC-FBCB league. Maybe give all new coaches a grace period (4 or 5 years) before they can be fired, and have a manual appeal process to fellow coaches if someone feels they were fired unfairly.

I'll take control of NIU.

(Northern Illinois University)

Wisconsin please

I'll take Miami (FL), please.

Unwise move, Mr. McG. Florida is mine like Jennifer Aniston is Brad Pitts.. wait

I'll take California please.

I think we might have to have an independent review of the code before letting you join....

:p

:D

I'll take a team and of course it has to be Nebraska....

Shotgun Arizona

The Pac 10 is filling up. F the Big 10.

I would like to take over the Syracuse Orange if possible.

:mad:

My choice but was too late.

Did anyone else just go *phew*?
:)

Put yourself down as the alternate. Lots of things could change between then and now.

ROLL TIDE = I'll take Bama!

USC Trojans

Gig'em, sign me up for Texas A&M

Put me down as an alternate then.

If QS is so inclined, he could still join up and pick Navy or something.

Don't worry, I will still manage to blow it in big games :).

On a serious note, I don't view any of the game code for any of our games, so I won't have an advantage from that.

No worries, just giving you a hard time. Now if Cal runs off a streak of 6 or 7 national championships, then we might have issues...

:D

I'd like to take the Western Michigan Broncos

Why? Well Michigan was picked, then i see the LionKing's hairy ass nabbed EMU, so I figure i'll take the Broncos and whip him back and forth across I-96

:)

Oh, I know Michigan State is still avalible....but please......

I'll take Iowa if no one's claimed them yet.

BYU here!

So how come Bc is listed in the acc but Louisville is still in cusa and utep in wac.. etc :)

I would of loved to take Ohio State or Notre Dame, but as it is I'll take Florida State. Looks like there will be alot of compitition for the Florida recruits.

I haven't got all of the new conference affiliations quite worked out yet... :)

Put me down for Virginia, please.

Honestly, no matter what conference i end up being stuck in.. i'd rather see the flawed bowl/bcs system :)

maybe i'm in the minority though..

I'm with ya.

Me three.

I guess I'll take Auburn.

He said, shame and regret oozing from his tone.

Sweet! You take west Georgia and I'll take east Georgia.

I will take U. of New Mexico of the MWC.

And I prefer Bowls/BCS system.....

There's a method to my madness in having a playoff system for the league.

First off, since every conference gets at least one representative, I'm hoping that will spur at least a couple of human owners to pick a small conference school. Otherwise, I don't think we will get anybody in the Sun Belt conference... :D Think of it as a reward for taking on one of those jobs.

And secondly, depending on how the game evolves, having the second tourney/other bowl games will keep a large number of teams with a post season appearance. If we can't have a secondary set of post-season games, then the main tourney will be expanded.

Third, we don't have school presidents to deal with that place the roadblock that is currently in place for a real-life playoff system.

And finally, since this is a computer game, there will be no "human" element to the in game BCS equivalent. Everything will be tied to algorithms and metrics. Maybe a coaches poll can be added to the multiplayer part of the game.

So, those are my reasons for having a playoff system in the game. I'm not closing the door on discussions on post-season structure, but it's gonna take a real convincing argument to use the existing bowl system.

In a playoff structure, you have ONE winner - every one else is disappointed.

In a bowl structure, you get one champion - plus 50 (or however many bowl games there are) teams winning their big end of year post season game. I think for multi player this would be a lot more fun, keeping more players involved, etc.

Oooh...I can't wait to kick your sorry Mountain Worst Loblow ass, Cringer! :mad:

That's fine. I'll just build a year-in and year-out National Championship contender with just players from Parkview and Tucker.

My only problem I have ever had with a playoff system, is the player stats get out of whack. If there is a difference between regular season and playoff stats in the game, insted of just adding them on top of each other, then I am fine with it.

I'll take Oregon State ;)

You will try, but you shall no succeed..... (unless I can't gameplan defense for squat in this game either.)

read the comments directed toward Danny earlier in this thread. I think they DEFINITELY apply in this situation...

:D

I just talked Arlie into joining. He says he doesn't know of any developer exploits. Heck, Jim has only won IHOF once in four seasons. Plus, he's playing with freakin' OREGON STATE. Now, if a whole bunch of elite recruits start showing up coming out of the state of Oregon, we'll know something is up. :p

Beaver on board!

...and my most bitter IHOF rival becomes my most bitter FOFC BBCF rival. If Jim releases TCY2 multiplayer, we'll have to be in the same league. You can have the Dawgs, and I'll take Florida.

Okay, for that crack, you have to trim The Hedges for the rest of the year.

Rocky Top!

That's true. I'll make a note to include the "Super Oregon State" easter egg that I can activate at any point in the season :cool:

Agreed. I would have chosen Florida, but they were already taken. I have to say I was a bit bummed that you already had the Dawgs, but that's all right. I can get used to screaming "War Damn Eagle" if I have to.

And who knows, maybe you'll have better luck in this game and actually win the conference once in a while. Lord knows you've never won a division in IHOF.

:p

:)

If anyone "desperately" wants to be Tennessee, I'll pick someone else, because i'd prefer to be a smaller school and "build the program." But, if its gonna be a slow paced league, I'd probably stick with UT, since i know they will be a solid program that has a chance to win any given year.

fixed it for myself.

I hope the scheduling process is very detailed and has different options besides one game sets and H/Hs.

bump

There hasn't been much activity over at the GDS forum for BBCF. Hopefully Arlie and the gang are making good progress on this game. The developer chat from a couple of months back seemed to answer most of the Qs people had on the game.

The league is still in its planning stages, but there isn't much to do until the game gets closer to release. Didn't want anyone to think this was an abandoned league... :)

ARIZONA BABY

DeToxStoops.

Give me Arkansas please.

What's the good word?

I'll take Georgia Tech.

Put me down for South Carolina. SEC looks like it could have some good fun.

No Tar Heels?

Hater.

7 already in the Pac 10. We're gunna fill that mother out if we get Washington, Oregon and Stanford

I went to Ga Tech. In every sport Ga TEch and UNC are my two favorite teams. In most sports my loyalties switched to Tech, but nothing will ever tear me away from UNC basketball, and that comes out much much more often b/c I like College Basketball mroe than I like all other sports combined.

I know you were trying to be funny but OSU has been closer to an NC in recent memory then Georgia has :)

I'm in as Clemson so long as Skydog agrees to renew the Clemson-GA rivalry

I guess you're talking about 2000, when OSU beat a crappy Notre Dame team and finished #4 in the final AP poll and #5 in the USA Today. Sorry, one year doesn't mean squat. And here's some more recent memory for you since that 2000 season:

Using Final AP Polls:

2001: Georgia 22 OSU Not Ranked

2002: Georgia 3 OSU Not Ranked

2003: Georgia 7 OSU Not Ranked

2004: Georgia 7 OSU Not Ranked


I'm glad Oregon State took that good year and built a solid program upon it.

:D

Oh and Georgia's #3 final ranking in both the AP and USA Today polls is actually closer to a NC and is more recent. So what exactly are you saying??

ZIIIIINNG!

Guys, the game is progressing well - I just have preferred to spend more time working on the game than talking about it ;)

But, if you have any questions, feel free to ask me either here or on GDS.

I didn't say program and everyone knows that OSU was screwed in the rankings that year. :D

In all seriousness however, they probably were the best team at the end of the year and they didn't just beat Notre Dame, they had the players too scared to go out on the field. Dennis Erickson football at its finest :D

Hey, I didn't know this league was starting! Well, it's time to start my multiplayer experience. I can't wait for this game, I think Greydog makes great games. I liked TBP 2K5 a lot, I also have Wrestling Spirit. We'll have fun.

Anyway, sign me up, Michigan State Spartans.

BTW Arlie, some new info about the game??? Come on, give us something!!! ;)

Wait, there's a GAME for all this? I thought we were just choosing teams and trash-talking, but playing a game sounds fun, too.

Welcome to the Big Ten, Emiliano! Hopefully I can get Rafini out of the picture, take over in Ann Arbor, and we can get a nice rivalry going! In the meantime, I'll just have to spank you from Champaign.

I'm glad you recognize that you have no chance of beating us, so you have moved on to a rivalry were you might win a few. :p