FACC (PS3): 2011 - Week 4 - Deadline Wednesday (3/23) Midnight EST

[DaddyTorgo]

Gettin my shit in right now

[DaddyTorgo]

Didn't realize it had gotten so late tonight.

[DaddyTorgo]

3 instant-commits for Maryland

1) #17 overall CB Marcus Ray from Rumford, Maine
2) #38 overall DT Anthony Walker from Frederick, MD
3) 4-star, #12 overall TE Matt Royal from West Gate, VA

[johnnyshaka]

Our first win is in the books as we shutdown the Tarheels and hardly broke a sweat doing so. Washington had 3 TD passes, all to Hill, and Jones ran for a TD on his way to his first 100+ yard game of the season.

[DaddyTorgo]

Big shakeups potentially in the works for the Terps, as word has it that Danny O'Brien may not be guarenteed his starting job this year as Jamarr Robinson has returned to form. Also...hot news...has pass-catching TE stud Matt Fustenberg lost his starting spot???

Stay tuned to find out!

[Sun Tzu]

Nice to see you all figured out that I advanced . Sorry, I've been insanely busy over the last week. I have an update regarding my availability and the league advances over the next two weeks.

My company is sending me to Florida for a couple weeks starting this Sunday. That means all of my games will be set to auto-pilot during those dates (2/20 - 3/5). We will still be advancing on a normal schedule, but if you were set to play me during either of those weeks, you'll be playing the CPU instead. Don't worry, I don't mind. My wife will be advancing us via my instructions over the phone. With that said...

Welcome to Week 2!

Several teams had multiple hard commits during the first week, and I have a gut feeling that trend will continue through this week. The hard deadline is set for Wednesday evening at midnight eastern.

[DaddyTorgo]

Florida Sun Tzu? I'm sorry. Crazy Teahadist craphole that state is turning into...

[johnnyshaka]

We need to speed things up...Week 7 is so far away!!

[DaddyTorgo]

Easy 24-14 win for Maryland over Clemson. Was 17-0 at halftime when I brought my backups in. Clemson scored once late in the third and then once again with under 1:30 to go to make it look SLIGHTLY more respectable (I also kind of lost my focus on the game and let their offense get into a bit of a groove).

So yeah. Very good start to the season. No commits from recruiting unfortunately.

[EddieK]

Nice way to start the season by the Wolfpack. Gave up a junk TD but we ended up winning 35-23. TJ Graham had a great game as he just seemed to run past anyone and everyone in the Commodore secondary en route to a 6 catch 210 yard day with 2 TD's. Russell Wilson threw for 300+ yards for 4 TD's and ran for one and had 38 yards rushing to go along with Mustafa Greene's 60 yards on the ground. Great start!

[bighouserulez]

One of the greatest games in Virginia Bighouserulez' ownership.

It was an awesome back and forth game with an almost sack that was returned for pick 6 that gave them the lead and we had to drive 81 yards with 4 minutes left in order to take the lead.

We changed the offense and i truly hope it works out as the offense felt a little more my style.

It is not like the Houston dynasty Johnnny

[johnnyshaka]

Originally Posted by bighouserulez

It is not like the Houston dynasty Johnnny

Lucky for us!!!

[Sun Tzu]

Well, I ran out of time while packing for my 2 week trip and wasn't able to get in my game. Very disappointing that my first three or four games will all be either simmed v. the CPU, or the CPU will be playing for me against one of you guys. Oh well...can't win 'em all right?

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by Sun Tzu

Well, I ran out of time while packing for my 2 week trip and wasn't able to get in my game. Very disappointing that my first three or four games will all be either simmed v. the CPU, or the CPU will be playing for me against one of you guys. Oh well...can't win 'em all right?

Or maybe you can...

haha

[johnnyshaka]

What happened to Eddie?

[bighouserulez]

Yeah saw that last night.

I see we are down to 4 as it sits.

[EddieK]

I just lost interest in NCAA and with the Show coming out and Tiger Woods in March I know I'd be devoting time towards that. It wasn't fair for me to put half the effort in although when NCAA12 comes 'll be ready to join again!

[johnnyshaka]

That's too bad, Eddie...hope to see you back again.

[bighouserulez]

I must have an issue. I still play NCAA way too much i think.

I am in 3 online dynasties and i have another offline i play at least every other night lol.

I understand Eddie it sucks but i understand

[johnnyshaka]

Originally Posted by bighouserulez

I must have an issue. I still play NCAA way too much i think.

I am in 3 online dynasties and i have another offline i play at least every other night lol.

lol...I think I probably play it a little too much, too!! Odd that both this league and the league you are running hit the offseason at the same time so I was ripping through my offline dynasty and finally won my first BCS Championship in a nailbiter against OU!!! I believe it took me until our 4th season at GT to do it so we were nearly comprised of all of my recruited players so it was pretty rewarding.

Started the new season last night with two Freshmen QBs vying for the starting job...one was the top ranked QB in the country who is crazy fast but not as accomplished as a passer just yet and the other was ranked 5th with pretty good speed and better passing skills. Being an option team I chose to give the speedster the keys to start the season but he ended going down in the first quarter and will miss the next 4 weeks...BOOOOOO! Anyways, the other kid did just fine and may end up being the starter rest of the way.

[bighouserulez]

Mine i did SMU. I have no true "player" on the team. The QB is so terrible and i struggle to beat other teams in my division.

It is fun because i struggle to get to 500 and seem to have decent recruiting classes. I am in year 4 and i bet we are 2 games over 500 but this is week 2 and i am 2-0 and look good.

BTW you will be happy to see your schedule buddy we are head to head to start week 1.

[Sun Tzu]

I'll have the Wife advance us to next week tonight. She was out of town too, which made it impossible for her to move us forward last night.

Definitely a bummer to see you go Eddie. I can understand though. I'd much rather you go this route, rather than not getting your games in and just disappearing off the face of the earth. Thanks for giving me a heads up in PM and on here. Maybe I'll see ya around for 2012

[DaddyTorgo]

Woo

[johnnyshaka]

After losing to bighouserulez in another league (great game that went right down to the wire...argh!!) I decided I needed to find a way to channel the anger and disappointment and focus it on something productive.

Well, the wife was already fast asleep, so "that" was out of the question, so my next thought was laying the beat down on VT with a bunch of recruits in town to watch. And we did exactly that to the tune of 35-7. Washington was efficient passing the ball and Jones was a machine running it.

I should hope that we get a few commits after that showing with several prospects roaming the sidelines.

[bighouserulez]

Johnny my 2 cents on recruiting bring in recruits for visits against rivals or ranked division opponents as it is worth more just FYI.

Our game was awesome btw Johnny.

The Cavaliers head over to Indiana to take on the Hoosiers in a battle fo the unbeaten (lol both 1-0).

We get down 10-0 and they are breaking 2 or 3 tackles on every play. Then the offense starts rolling.

I think we found a back as Jones(i thinkis his name) stumbled into the endzone for 5 tds and one was a beautiful 48 yard td run that put us up 14 to 13.

We put the pressure up on defense and force 6 total turnovers and win by over 20 points.

It feels good to beat two medium to large teams to start the season and our guys have alot of confidence gettign close to division time.

[johnnyshaka]

Originally Posted by bighouserulez

Johnny my 2 cents on recruiting bring in recruits for visits against rivals or ranked division opponents as it is worth more just FYI.

Precisely why we had a bunch of them show up this past week...Virginia Tech is a rival.

[DaddyTorgo]

Will get my stuff in tonight. Been taking a little (self-imposed this time) vacation from the board (which is still ongoing I think).

[DaddyTorgo]

UGH. I probably should have followed my usual pattern and spent some time in practice before my game against #16 Miami. Took me a long time to get my rhythm going offensively (to whit - I forced an early turnover on special teams and threw a red zone INT), which (combined with a spectacular blown coverage) caused me to lose 20-17.

Ugh ugh ugh.

[Sun Tzu]

Major bummer on the loss DT. Any loss is tough, but at least yours came early in the season. Plenty of time to re-climb the charts.

I'm in still in Florida, and my wife is out of town on business too. She'll be back tomorrow evening, which means it may be as late as Thursday morning before we advance. Sorry again boys, but at least we have some kind of way to advance despite me being gone for two weeks.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by Sun Tzu

Major bummer on the loss DT. Any loss is tough, but at least yours came early in the season. Plenty of time to re-climb the charts.

I'm in still in Florida, and my wife is out of town on business too. She'll be back tomorrow evening, which means it may be as late as Thursday morning before we advance. Sorry again boys, but at least we have some kind of way to advance despite me being gone for two weeks.

Worst part to me is that had I not been in a hurry to get the game in last night I probably would have spent my usual time in practice to get warmed up (since I hadn't touched the game since my last game), and the game was totally there for the taking. I don't throw red zone INT's...I just don't. That alone would have been the margin of victory. let alone actually being able to move the ball at all in the first half.

[Sun Tzu]

I waited until after you lost on purpose :P

[bighouserulez]

ug DT that loss sucks man

[Sun Tzu]

We have advanced! Sorry again for the delay, I wound up having to move us forward myself this morning. We are now in week 4! I'm back home now, which is nice, so I'll be able to post an overview of the previous week as soon as I get in to work.

[Sun Tzu]

Ugh...alright guys. I'm not sure what to do about this. We've hit a bump in the EA tech issues road. I thought it advanced last time, but apparently it snagged. I read up on the bug, and it sounds like it could be a Dynasty killer.

Every once in a while, when you attempt to advance an OD forward, it gives an error saying "Online Dynasty is Currently Unavailable" and prompts you to either exit or retry. I sat here for an hour yesterday hitting retry over and over, probably 20 times, and every time it bounced back with the same problem. EA hasn't commented on the error, at least that I can find, which means we're stuck. I can try again today, but short of one of you taking the dynasty offline, and then re-taking it online (thus making you the commish), we're F'ed in the A.

[bighouserulez]

I will offer to do it but i am not sure if it will let me as i have 3 other dynasties now that i run.

Do you want to send it over to me?

I had this happen in another dynasty and i just retired for a few days until it took.

[EddieK]

Originally Posted by Sun Tzu

Ugh...alright guys. I'm not sure what to do about this. We've hit a bump in the EA tech issues road. I thought it advanced last time, but apparently it snagged. I read up on the bug, and it sounds like it could be a Dynasty killer.

Every once in a while, when you attempt to advance an OD forward, it gives an error saying "Online Dynasty is Currently Unavailable" and prompts you to either exit or retry. I sat here for an hour yesterday hitting retry over and over, probably 20 times, and every time it bounced back with the same problem. EA hasn't commented on the error, at least that I can find, which means we're stuck. I can try again today, but short of one of you taking the dynasty offline, and then re-taking it online (thus making you the commish), we're F'ed in the A.

Just to chime in this has been reported on several websites Operation Sports and EA....

Transfer Failed in OD - Operation Sports Forums

It says it has the work around on the site but I do know that my buddies league that did it to him he couldn't get it to work and had to restart...Let me know if you need anymore help guys.

[EddieK]

Here is what I found out for you guys

UTVOL54


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OK, here is what you need to do...step by step to get your dynasty back working. You may have to try this with several members one by one before it works. It worked for us on the 2nd member attempt.

I am the commissioner of our league, and was able to do the successful attempt all on my PS3 thanks the other user being my brother (his PSN username is on my pS3). If you're the commish, you can either trust other members of your dynasty to try this on their own PS3s, or get them to send you their PSN ID and password. Also keep in mind that the person who tried this must have a free commissioner spot open on his user ID, meaning that unless he's paid for the extra commissioner spots, he can't already be the commish of another dynasty.

Here are the steps:

1. I logged in as the other PSN user name
2. Log into the Online Dynasty
3. After it uploads, select YES when promoted to save the OD file
4. proceed to log into the dynasty
5. Log back out of the dynasty
6. On the NCAA 11 menu, scroll to SETTINGS, then all the way over to the right and select File Management
7. Select Load and Delete (i think that's what it's called)
8. Select Online Dynasty - and click to LOAD the dynasty that you just saved
----- this will upload a copy of the dynasty back onto the EA servers under the new commissioner's name-----

9. Name the dynasty, select your team, etc...
10. Invite all users back into the dynasty if they aren't already there (some may already be in the dynasty)

and if all of these steps work, you should be good to go. Everything in your dynasty should be exactly the same...recruits, rosters, a player's equipment, etc...The only thing I noticed that had changed was some of my formation subs. Other guy's formations subs were fine though.

In our case, after step 10, because we were in Week 14 and none of us had games that week, we tried to advance right away and it worked. However, should some of your teams have to play that week, they will have to replay that week's games before you can advance...unless they want you to sim the results.

Once you try to advance, and if it works, you should then have everyone, or at least the commissioner RETIRE out of the old dynasty so that you can transfer the commissioner name back the original commish in the new dynasty. Does that make sense? That was a little confusing.....in order for you to reassign the original commish, you must first retire out of the old dynasty so that the commish has an open commish slot available.

We've already advanced 3 weeks since last night in our new "copy" dynasty with no issues at all. The old dynasty file still will not advance, so we're going to trash it and transfer commish rights back to me.

I think that covers it. Again...this may not work for everybody or may not work on the first try. But, I bet if you just go down the line and try this with each user in your dynasty one at a time, eventually it will work and you'll be back up and running.

It's a small hassle to pay to get the dynasties up and running again! GOOD LUCK, and let me know if you have any other questions. I will try to be more responsive than the EA folks.

[Sun Tzu]

Yeah, that step by step is the same thing I was talking about. We had to do it here @ FOFC for either the RFL or NOFL a few years back, I forget which one it was. It also resets your coach prestige, which really only gets looked at during recruiting.

I tried a few more times this morning and still got the same error. If any of you guys want to do this, please feel free, just keep in mind that you will be responsible for advancing us from here on out.

[bighouserulez]

Couldn't i just throw it back to you after we get it working?

[johnnyshaka]

Hey, I was MIA for the weekend...let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

[Sun Tzu]

Originally Posted by bighouserulez

Couldn't i just throw it back to you after we get it working?

Oh yeah . Sorry, Monday morning, 3,500 miles of flying over the weekend, zero sleep and no coffee yet will do that.

Ok so, who wants to be the one to do the work?

[bighouserulez]

I do not think i have saved the game this year since the trainging camp fiasco.

I am sure it matters but if not i will do it or try it.

If not i am sure Johnny can get the walkthrough.

[DaddyTorgo]

I haven't saved the game at all on my HD, so I'm afraid I'm not any help.

[bighouserulez]

OK i will ask the questions-

1) Johnny do you ave the latest saved game or at least close on your ps3?

2) Does it matter if the saved game is in there?

3) Are we still working on this or are we done with FACC?

[johnnyshaka]

I think I might as I usually do download and save the file every week.

[bighouserulez]

K so SUn can you send the admin over to Johnny to try to get it working?

If not should we all quit?

Do we do a restart?

[johnnyshaka]

I'll gladly give it a go to see if we can salvage things. I should have some time later tonight.

[DaddyTorgo]

Cool. Salvaging things would be very good.

[bighouserulez]

Yeah i do not wanna quit and hope we can get things resolved. I hate idle it usually leads to bad things when multiplayer comes into play.

[Sun Tzu]

I don't know that I have to make anyone an admin...actually I don't even know if that's possible. I think it's simply a matter of him saving the league file offline, turning it into a solo dynasty, and then moving that solo dynasty to an online dynasty.