Online Dynasty Tournament Signup

Sun Tzu · 07-21-2008, 11:36 AM

Hey all. There seems to be some problems with Online Dynasties...and not just some peoples...everybody's. Aparently around week 3 or 4 the following errors start occuring. These are just copy/pasted from the OS forums.

- Advance to week 2, the commishes screen shows him as being 2-0 with the dynasty in week 2. (he only played one game). My screen shows us in week 1 with 9 of the 12 members having lost their results, and 6 of the 9 also lost their recruiting.

- I have noticed now that about 10-20% of the games played in the online dynasty I am in are showing up with incorrect scores after the fact. One example even has a user that beat the CPU, showing up as a CPU win.

- I beat FCS Northwest 132-14 (Yeah, I know). However, after we advanced a week it showed that I beat them 54-3, which is janky because it took away my starting QBs 9 TD passes, which really affects Heisman voting.

Aparently even Pasta Padre's much hyped online Dynasty has locked up completely. So...I'm sure EA will put out a patch eventually to correct these errors. In the meantime we're just going to have to keep practicing against eachother. Maybe we can lock in a good set of sliders in the meantime.

Eaglesfan27 · 07-21-2008, 11:39 AM

Very disappointing. Online dynasties were a key to my purchase. I hope they get this straightened out in a timely manner (i.e not in December or even November) or I'll be disappointed with my purchase and will finally hold out next year for a week or two to see if any big problems like this occur.

Galaxy · 07-21-2008, 12:13 PM

Thinking about it, if we are going to delay the dynasty leagues until it is fixed, we should set up some sort of open tournament in the mean time. Perhaps each team is drawn into a group, then the top x teams from each group will advance to the playoffs?

Sun Tzu · 07-21-2008, 12:15 PM

Kodos · 07-21-2008, 01:33 PM

I was going to suggest something like that. In.

PurdueBrad · 07-21-2008, 01:41 PM

I had heard rumblings of this problem coming. Guess my RROD isn't the end of the world. What's worse is that this is not going to be addressed in the first patch supposedly so given the certification process, we may be looking 1 month or more.

Sun Tzu · 07-21-2008, 01:42 PM

Sub 80 schools but free reign to choose any school from any conference?

Eaglesfan27 · 07-21-2008, 01:50 PM

I want in on that.

cartman · 07-21-2008, 01:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PurdueBrad

I had heard rumblings of this problem coming. Guess my RROD isn't the end of the world. What's worse is that this is not going to be addressed in the first patch supposedly so given the certification process, we may be looking 1 month or more.

These might be server side issues, so no certification would be needed since the fixes won't go to the console. That would be the best scenario, otherwise you are right, it might be a while.

Galaxy · 07-21-2008, 02:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sun Tzu

Sub 80 schools but free reign to choose any school from any conference?

Would we do one, all-FOFC tournament (maybe we can keep the "groups" in respect to the leagues)?

KWhit · 07-21-2008, 02:05 PM

Bigsmooth · 07-21-2008, 02:09 PM

Count me in on a Tourny.

Raiders Army · 07-21-2008, 02:25 PM

I want me some tourney action.

wade moore · 07-21-2008, 02:41 PM

JetsIn06 · 07-21-2008, 02:55 PM

In for sure.

Galaxy · 07-21-2008, 03:04 PM

So far, we have:

Galaxy
Sun Tzu
Kodos
Eaglesfan27
KWhit
Bigsmooth
Raiders Army
wade moore
JetsIn06

bhlloy · 07-21-2008, 07:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PurdueBrad

Guess my RROD isn't the end of the world. What's worse is that this is not going to be addressed in the first patch supposedly so given the certification process, we may be looking 1 month or more.

+1. Sucks for everyone else (sorry guys), but in terms of my participation this is very good news.

Mike1409 · 07-21-2008, 08:14 PM

I'm down.

Kodos · 07-21-2008, 09:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sun Tzu

Sub 80 schools but free reign to choose any school from any conference?

Sounds great to me.

kingnebwsu · 07-21-2008, 09:04 PM

Why did I even think that EA could pull off something like online dynasties? I mean, it's not like EA is the largest third-party software company in the world. Oh wait...

Can you imagine Halo 3, Gears of War, or Call of Duty 4 launching with a broken online system? Seriously? No other company that has an online multiplayer element would even imagine having it be unplayable for hours let alone weeks/months.

They better get this fixed soon or else. I guess I have nothing to threaten them with...soooooooo...they better fix it soon OR ELSE we all will be pissed. That's my bitching for today

cartman · 07-21-2008, 09:24 PM

Oh, I'm down with the sickness as well. Sign me up for the tourney.

If we get enough people, we can even go the Euro 2008 route, and have a qualifying round into the final tourney.

Logan · 07-21-2008, 09:26 PM

Fucking A I'm in.

Galaxy · 07-21-2008, 10:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cartman

Oh, I'm down with the sickness as well. Sign me up for the tourney.

If we get enough people, we can even go the Euro 2008 route, and have a qualifying round into the final tourney.

So no Englishmen allowed?

cmp · 07-21-2008, 11:58 PM

I'm in.

BigDPW · 07-22-2008, 07:26 AM

I'm in!

Sun Tzu · 07-22-2008, 10:27 AM

How about the two best teams play in the FOFC bowl for the championship, and the two worst teams play in the MBBF bowl for a stick with a peice of poo on it.

Kodos · 07-22-2008, 12:13 PM

Seconded!

It's too bad they don't have a spectator mode where you could watch other guys play.

Galaxy · 07-22-2008, 06:46 PM

Should we make Thursday 12 P.M. the deadline for those who want in to declare in this thread?

It seems like that the developers are working on the dynasty problem.

bignej · 07-22-2008, 07:00 PM

In please

DeToxRox · 07-22-2008, 08:07 PM

Count it

Sun Tzu · 07-23-2008, 09:17 AM

I'm happy with that deadline.

Galaxy · 07-23-2008, 12:59 PM

So far:

Galaxy
Sun Tzu
Kodos
Eaglesfan27
KWhit
Bigsmooth
Raiders Army
wade moore
JetsIn06
Mike1409
cartman
Logan
Cmp
Bignej
DeToxRox
BigDPW
Grammaticus
kcchief19

We have some people who posted in this thread, but I'm not sure if they are in or not.

BigDPW · 07-23-2008, 03:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigDPW

I'm in!

Again... I am in...

BigDPW · 07-23-2008, 03:38 PM

If we end up with 16 people we could do 4 - 4 team round robin groups and then a knockout phase with the top 2 from each group advancing...?

Galaxy · 07-23-2008, 05:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigDPW

Again... I am in...

Opps...Sorry I missed your previous post. Edited the list.

Grammaticus · 07-23-2008, 09:47 PM

I would like to play.

kcchief19 · 07-24-2008, 11:55 AM

Put me down -- this would be great. Thanks for the heads up, Galaxy.

Sun Tzu · 07-24-2008, 01:40 PM

We've got 18 guys so far...shweet

Raiders Army · 07-24-2008, 07:28 PM

As per my previous post in this forum, my 360 died. I have the three red rings of death, so please remove me from this list. Galaxy was whoopin' on me so bad last night he killed my 360!!!!

Anthony · 07-24-2008, 08:01 PM

i'll be in, depends on the schedule. remember - i'm a nite owl.

Galaxy · 07-24-2008, 08:22 PM

Galaxy
Sun Tzu
Kodos
Eaglesfan27
KWhit
Bigsmooth
wade moore
JetsIn06
Mike1409
cartman
Logan
Cmp
Bignej
DeToxRox
BigDPW
Grammaticus
kcchief19
Anthony

With 18 players, I say we close the sign-up. How should we set-up the tournament? I would like to see a group stage, then a playoff. However, with 18 players, I'm not sure on how we should do it.

Sun Tzu · 07-24-2008, 08:45 PM

I'm not really good at this kind of stuff, so I'll let you brainiacs figure out how to arrange whole thing.

Eaglesfan27 · 07-24-2008, 09:12 PM

With 18, the only even way I see to do it if you want a group type stage would be either 3 groups of 6 or 6 groups of 3. Either way, it is going to create some byes in the 2nd round. If you went with 3 groups of 6, each person could play every other in the group with the top 2 in points advancing. With 6 groups of 3, just the top person from each group would advance. Since, we have some time to kill, I'd argue for 3 groups of 6 with the top 2 in total points (win equal to 3 points) getting a bye in the next round.

Galaxy · 07-24-2008, 09:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eaglesfan27

With 18, the only even way I see to do it if you want a group type stage would be either 3 groups of 6 or 6 groups of 3. Either way, it is going to create some byes in the 2nd round. If you went with 3 groups of 6, each person could play every other in the group with the top 2 in points advancing. With 6 groups of 3, just the top person from each group would advance. Since, we have some time to kill, I'd argue for 3 groups of 6 with the top 2 in total points (win equal to 3 points) getting a bye in the next round.

If we go with the three division, six players each, how many games? Any out-of-division/group games? You really wouldn't need a points system, since we won't have ties. It would have to go by best record or point difference.

KWhit · 07-24-2008, 09:55 PM

No need for out of division games. If we did home and home in each group, that would be 10 games just in the first round. Then the top two from each group advance.

That's a lot of games.

If we did 6 groups of 3 we could do home and homes which would only be 4 games per team in the first round. Then the winner of each group advanced. This way sounds good to me.

Mike1409 · 07-24-2008, 10:16 PM

We all agree 4 groups works he best. How about 2 groups with 4 teams and 2 groups with 5 teams. Top 2 in each group advance.

Eaglesfan27 · 07-24-2008, 10:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike1409

We all agree 4 groups works he best. How about 2 groups with 4 teams and 2 groups with 5 teams. Top 2 in each group advance.

I don't really care, but I'd imagine it would be preferable for some that everyone play the same number of games in the opening rounds.

07-21-2008, 11:39 AM	#2
Eaglesfan27 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: New Jersey	Very disappointing. Online dynasties were a key to my purchase. I hope they get this straightened out in a timely manner (i.e not in December or even November) or I'll be disappointed with my purchase and will finally hold out next year for a week or two to see if any big problems like this occur. __________________ Retired GM of the eNFL 2007 Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles (19-0 record.) GM of the WOOF 2006 Doggie Bowl Champion Atlantic City Gamblers. GM of the IHOF 2019 and 2022 IHOF Bowl Champion Asheville Axemen.

07-21-2008, 12:15 PM	#4
Sun Tzu Pro Starter Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: In the thick of it.	In! __________________ I'm still here. Don't touch my fucking bacon.

07-21-2008, 01:33 PM	#5
Kodos Resident Alien Join Date: Jun 2001	I was going to suggest something like that. In. __________________ Author of The Bill Gates Challenge, as well as other groundbreaking dynasties.

07-21-2008, 01:42 PM	#7
Sun Tzu Pro Starter Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: In the thick of it.	Sub 80 schools but free reign to choose any school from any conference? __________________ I'm still here. Don't touch my fucking bacon.

07-21-2008, 01:50 PM	#8
Eaglesfan27 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: New Jersey	I want in on that. __________________ Retired GM of the eNFL 2007 Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles (19-0 record.) GM of the WOOF 2006 Doggie Bowl Champion Atlantic City Gamblers. GM of the IHOF 2019 and 2022 IHOF Bowl Champion Asheville Axemen.

07-21-2008, 12:13 PM	#3
Galaxy Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2005	Thinking about it, if we are going to delay the dynasty leagues until it is fixed, we should set up some sort of open tournament in the mean time. Perhaps each team is drawn into a group, then the top x teams from each group will advance to the playoffs?

07-21-2008, 01:41 PM	#6
PurdueBrad Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: DeKalb, IL	I had heard rumblings of this problem coming. Guess my RROD isn't the end of the world. What's worse is that this is not going to be addressed in the first patch supposedly so given the certification process, we may be looking 1 month or more.

07-21-2008, 02:05 PM	#11
KWhit Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Conyers GA	In.

07-21-2008, 02:09 PM	#12
Bigsmooth College Prospect Join Date: Dec 2006	Count me in on a Tourny.

07-21-2008, 02:25 PM	#13
Raiders Army Coordinator Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Black Hole	I want me some tourney action.

07-21-2008, 02:55 PM	#15
JetsIn06 Pro Rookie Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Rahway, NJ	In for sure.

07-21-2008, 03:04 PM	#16
Galaxy Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2005	So far, we have: Galaxy Sun Tzu Kodos Eaglesfan27 KWhit Bigsmooth Raiders Army wade moore JetsIn06

07-21-2008, 08:14 PM	#18
Mike1409 High School Varsity Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: St. Pete, FL	I'm down.

07-21-2008, 09:04 PM	#20
kingnebwsu College Benchwarmer Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Ohio	Why did I even think that EA could pull off something like online dynasties? I mean, it's not like EA is the largest third-party software company in the world. Oh wait... Can you imagine Halo 3, Gears of War, or Call of Duty 4 launching with a broken online system? Seriously? No other company that has an online multiplayer element would even imagine having it be unplayable for hours let alone weeks/months. They better get this fixed soon or else. I guess I have nothing to threaten them with...soooooooo...they better fix it soon OR ELSE we all will be pissed. That's my bitching for today

07-21-2008, 09:24 PM	#21
cartman Death Herald Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas	Oh, I'm down with the sickness as well. Sign me up for the tourney. If we get enough people, we can even go the Euro 2008 route, and have a qualifying round into the final tourney. __________________ Thinkin' of a master plan 'Cuz ain't nuthin' but sweat inside my hand So I dig into my pocket, all my money is spent So I dig deeper but still comin' up with lint

07-21-2008, 09:26 PM	#22
Logan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: NYC	Fucking A I'm in.

07-21-2008, 11:58 PM	#24
cmp Pro Rookie Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Grand Rapids, MI	I'm in.

07-22-2008, 07:26 AM	#25
BigDPW College Prospect Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Raleigh, NC	I'm in!

07-22-2008, 10:27 AM	#26
Sun Tzu Pro Starter Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: In the thick of it.	How about the two best teams play in the FOFC bowl for the championship, and the two worst teams play in the MBBF bowl for a stick with a peice of poo on it. __________________ I'm still here. Don't touch my fucking bacon.

07-22-2008, 12:13 PM	#27
Kodos Resident Alien Join Date: Jun 2001	Seconded! It's too bad they don't have a spectator mode where you could watch other guys play. __________________ Author of The Bill Gates Challenge, as well as other groundbreaking dynasties. Last edited by Kodos : 07-22-2008 at 12:14 PM.

07-22-2008, 06:46 PM	#28
Galaxy Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2005	Should we make Thursday 12 P.M. the deadline for those who want in to declare in this thread? It seems like that the developers are working on the dynasty problem.

07-22-2008, 07:00 PM	#29
bignej High School JV Join Date: Oct 2006	In please __________________ XBOX Live Gamertag: bignej

07-22-2008, 08:07 PM	#30
DeToxRox Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Michigan	Count it

07-23-2008, 09:17 AM	#31
Sun Tzu Pro Starter Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: In the thick of it.	I'm happy with that deadline. __________________ I'm still here. Don't touch my fucking bacon.

07-23-2008, 12:59 PM	#32
Galaxy Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2005	So far: Galaxy Sun Tzu Kodos Eaglesfan27 KWhit Bigsmooth Raiders Army wade moore JetsIn06 Mike1409 cartman Logan Cmp Bignej DeToxRox BigDPW Grammaticus kcchief19 We have some people who posted in this thread, but I'm not sure if they are in or not. Last edited by Sun Tzu : 07-24-2008 at 01:40 PM.

07-23-2008, 03:38 PM	#34
BigDPW College Prospect Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Raleigh, NC	If we end up with 16 people we could do 4 - 4 team round robin groups and then a knockout phase with the top 2 from each group advancing...?

07-23-2008, 09:47 PM	#36
Grammaticus Pro Rookie Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Tennessee	I would like to play.

07-24-2008, 11:55 AM	#37
kcchief19 Pro Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Kansas City, MO	Put me down -- this would be great. Thanks for the heads up, Galaxy.

07-24-2008, 01:40 PM	#38
Sun Tzu Pro Starter Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: In the thick of it.	We've got 18 guys so far...shweet __________________ I'm still here. Don't touch my fucking bacon.

07-24-2008, 07:28 PM	#39
Raiders Army Coordinator Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Black Hole	As per my previous post in this forum, my 360 died. I have the three red rings of death, so please remove me from this list. Galaxy was whoopin' on me so bad last night he killed my 360!!!!

07-24-2008, 08:01 PM	#40
Anthony Banned Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Astoria, NY, USA	i'll be in, depends on the schedule. remember - i'm a nite owl.

07-24-2008, 08:22 PM	#41
Galaxy Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2005	Galaxy Sun Tzu Kodos Eaglesfan27 KWhit Bigsmooth wade moore JetsIn06 Mike1409 cartman Logan Cmp Bignej DeToxRox BigDPW Grammaticus kcchief19 Anthony With 18 players, I say we close the sign-up. How should we set-up the tournament? I would like to see a group stage, then a playoff. However, with 18 players, I'm not sure on how we should do it. Last edited by Galaxy : 07-24-2008 at 08:44 PM.

07-24-2008, 08:45 PM	#42
Sun Tzu Pro Starter Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: In the thick of it.	I'm not really good at this kind of stuff, so I'll let you brainiacs figure out how to arrange whole thing. __________________ I'm still here. Don't touch my fucking bacon.

07-24-2008, 09:12 PM	#43
Eaglesfan27 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: New Jersey	With 18, the only even way I see to do it if you want a group type stage would be either 3 groups of 6 or 6 groups of 3. Either way, it is going to create some byes in the 2nd round. If you went with 3 groups of 6, each person could play every other in the group with the top 2 in points advancing. With 6 groups of 3, just the top person from each group would advance. Since, we have some time to kill, I'd argue for 3 groups of 6 with the top 2 in total points (win equal to 3 points) getting a bye in the next round. __________________ Retired GM of the eNFL 2007 Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles (19-0 record.) GM of the WOOF 2006 Doggie Bowl Champion Atlantic City Gamblers. GM of the IHOF 2019 and 2022 IHOF Bowl Champion Asheville Axemen.

07-24-2008, 09:55 PM	#45
KWhit Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Conyers GA	No need for out of division games. If we did home and home in each group, that would be 10 games just in the first round. Then the top two from each group advance. That's a lot of games. If we did 6 groups of 3 we could do home and homes which would only be 4 games per team in the first round. Then the winner of each group advanced. This way sounds good to me.