Force Win Strategy to get somewhat realistic results

[Hooe]

Maybe it's just me, but I don't see the problem with upsets being somewhat prevalent in a college football video game? We all famously saw FCS Appalachian State take down #5 Michigan in 2007. Heck, just last year, a terrible Virginia team which was 1-5 the day of the game and finished the season 3-9 went to Chapel Hill and took down then #10 North Carolina. Anything can and will happen on Saturday.

I'm admittedly not too far into Dynasty mode yet, but in my mind upsets and chaos are defining features of college football, IMO upsets are only going to happen more as conferences get larger (especially in conference play), and the new static pipeline system in CFB25 mitigates the impacts of too many upsets dragging down blue-blood programs.

But again, I haven't progressed too far yet so I could be off-base; are upsets really happening so frequently in the game as to be that offensive?

[NYBadshah1]

Quote: Originally Posted by CM Hooe

Maybe it's just me, but I don't see the problem with upsets being somewhat prevalent in a college football video game? We all famously saw FCS Appalachian State take down #5 Michigan in 2007. Heck, just last year, a terrible Virginia team which was 1-5 the day of the game and finished the season 3-9 went to Chapel Hill and took down then #10 North Carolina. Anything can and will happen on Saturday. I'm admittedly not too far into Dynasty mode yet, but in my mind upsets and chaos are defining features of college football, IMO upsets are only going to happen more as conferences get larger (especially in conference play), and the new static pipeline system in CFB25 mitigates the impacts of too many upsets dragging down blue-blood programs. But again, I haven't progressed too far yet so I could be off-base; are upsets really happening so frequently in the game as to be that offensive?

Yeah, they are. Teams are little too evenly matched, which is causing some parity. I like the upset, but, Jacksonville State and Charlotte shouldn't be taking 2 of the 4 byes in the playoff.

[iAmMichael]

Quote: Originally Posted by CM Hooe

Maybe it's just me, but I don't see the problem with upsets being somewhat prevalent in a college football video game? We all famously saw FCS Appalachian State take down #5 Michigan in 2007. Heck, just last year, a terrible Virginia team which was 1-5 the day of the game and finished the season 3-9 went to Chapel Hill and took down then #10 North Carolina. Anything can and will happen on Saturday. I'm admittedly not too far into Dynasty mode yet, but in my mind upsets and chaos are defining features of college football, IMO upsets are only going to happen more as conferences get larger (especially in conference play), and the new static pipeline system in CFB25 mitigates the impacts of too many upsets dragging down blue-blood programs. But again, I haven't progressed too far yet so I could be off-base; are upsets really happening so frequently in the game as to be that offensive?

If you remember in NCAA 14 it was the same, it wasn't usually the fact you had upsets, it was the fact you had too many.

[NYBadshah1]

Quote: Originally Posted by thedudedominick

I’m going to use a RNG for all top 25 games. Use a number generator from 1-10000. In a game where a team would be a 30+ point favorite the RNG would have to be below 10 for them to lose, 20+ point favorite below 100, 10+ favorite 1000, and then in games where a team is a slight favorite it would need to be below 4000.

In your RNG, you're giving the favorites a little too much. The right equivalent would be...

For teams favored by:
30+: 99%
26-30: 96-99%
21-25: 93-96%
16-20: 86-93%
11-15: 82-86%
6-10: 65-82%
1-5: 50-65%

These are just approximations.

[DarthRambo]

Quote: Originally Posted by NYBadshah1

In your RNG, you're giving the favorites a little too much. The right equivalent would be... For teams favored by: 30+: 99% 26-30: 96-99% 21-25: 93-96% 16-20: 86-93% 11-15: 82-86% 6-10: 65-82% 1-5: 50-65% These are just approximations.

It doesn't show how much a team is favored by in the game does it? Surely not (although it would be awesome and realistic lol)

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[TGCRequiem]

How are you determining how much of a favorite each team is?

[Momoney168]

Has anyone looked at the stats after a forced win and compared them to regular simmed games?

[kdutch98]

Wondering if anyone has checked on this yet.....

In Madden 24, if you set a "force win" the current week, the score of the game would always show 0-0 in the in game ticker.

However, if you set the force wins at least a week prior (IE set week 2's FWs before playing Week 1's games) when you advanced, the game would generate a score for those games, and they would show in the ticker.

I wonder if this is the same with this game.