Game of The Week/Nationally Broadcasted Game Logic

[Dj2360]

Quote: Originally Posted by jwilphl

Part of me thinks team prestige may have something to do with the way TV scheduling works out. I'm coaching a two-star prestige Colorado team and I've only gotten one nationally televised game all season, and that was Week 1 against Colorado State (Rocky Mountain Showdown). Even my games against ranked opponents were "blacked out" nationally. Meanwhile, a 4-8 Washington team - with six-star prestige - had almost all of their games broadcast nationally this season. I'm sure it isn't based solely on prestige ratings, of course, but I really do think that has something to do with it. Though since that ties into TV exposure, it all kind of makes sense. It is unfortunate there isn't more contextual application, though. If a team has low prestige but starts playing out of their mind, you'd think they'd start getting more exposure mid-season. Sadly it only appears to correct itself if you improve those ratings over the offseason.

This could be partially true. However, I am still convinced that the majority of broadcasting is dependent on television exposure. I took Alabama out of the SEC, and made them independent. Along with this, I changed their prestige to 3-stars. I scheduled, I kid you not, 5 FCS games on their schedule, and all sun-belt and bottom tier opponents... Catch this, even with that, they still managed to have EVERY SINGLE GAME Nationally broadcasted.... SMH... I don't believe you can actually "change" a teams television exposure using the DB editor... I tried, multiple times, with multiple schools. Every time you change it, it does change, for 1 week... But when you advance the week, it reverts back to it's previous state.. Hence, if you wanted to change a schools rating, you'd have to keep going in week in and week out and manually change it... I also don't think the week to week change affects broadcasting.

[Landeye]

Quote: Originally Posted by Dj2360

This could be partially true. However, I am still convinced that the majority of broadcasting is dependent on television exposure. I took Alabama out of the SEC, and made them independent. Along with this, I changed their prestige to 3-stars. I scheduled, I kid you not, 5 FCS games on their schedule, and all sun-belt and bottom tier opponents... Catch this, even with that, they still managed to have EVERY SINGLE GAME Nationally broadcasted.... SMH... I don't believe you can actually "change" a teams television exposure using the DB editor... I tried, multiple times, with multiple schools. Every time you change it, it does change, for 1 week... But when you advance the week, it reverts back to it's previous state.. Hence, if you wanted to change a schools rating, you'd have to keep going in week in and week out and manually change it... I also don't think the week to week change affects broadcasting.

I've noticed from messing with the editor that certain fields seem to be calculated weekly or yearly based on other fields. For instance if I set every team to have 0 national championship wins and start a new dynasty Alabama would still show all their wins. It felt like it had to do with the game still keeping the record books or something and then recalculating when the year started because draft pick records would reset back from 0 as well as school tradition. I think your right and television exposure is probably one of the fields that is resetting weekly based on the other fields. Whatever decides the NBG, whether it be just TV exposure or a combination of things, feels like it weighs past success a lot more heavily than current success.

[souljahbill]

Nope. You get your mid-major team to 6-stars and you'll still be on local tv more times than not while 2 teams with losing records will get national tv or GotW.


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[kc_brigade88]

From the quick research on my dynasty tracker I have, the game has very specific places it goes to for me.

Week 1: Alabama Neutral site or Clemson/Georgia
Week 2: N/A (Toss up between multiple teams)
Week 3: Notre Dame/Purdue or Michigan State
Week 4: Tennessee/Florida
Week 5: Alabama/Ole Miss or Texas A&M/Arkansas
Week 6: N/A (Toss up between multiple teams)
Week 7: Oklahoma/Texas
Week 8: USC or Stanford/Notre Dame
Week 9/10: Florida/Georgia
Week 11: LSU/Alabama
Week 12: Georgia/Auburn or LSU/Ole Miss
Week 13: Auburn/LSU
Week 14: Auburn/Alabama
Week 15: Oklahoma/Oklahoma State

Again, this is my own dynasty and I haven't used the editor. If it's an SEC division rival, chances are you're playing GOTW. I also use teambuilder in the C-USA, so things could change if my coach goes to a bigger school.