Player progression after the pre-season?

[Badgun]

Finally started my franchise and I was wondering if the player ratings go up after the 4 exhibition games? Seeing how ESPN doesn't auto sub your second string players I was wondering if it was worth it to do it manually.

[Dregur]

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Badgun said:
Finally started my franchise and I was wondering if the player ratings go up after the 4 exhibition games? Seeing how ESPN doesn't auto sub your second string players I was wondering if it was worth it to do it manually.

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Yes, but a tad weirdly. And only after the preseason of the SECOND season.

-The Grinman

[sportsgeist]

My players progress/regress all the time. You must adjust your gameplan sliders before every game to help match up with what you think you'll go up against. I find if you don't adjust them your players don't do squat.

[Badgun]

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sportsgeist said:
My players progress/regress all the time. You must adjust your gameplan sliders before every game to help match up with what you think you'll go up against. I find if you don't adjust them your players don't do squat.

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Gameplan sliders? I thought they were for if you simmed your games? It doesn't make sense to set a slider for how much you're going to run or pass when you are the one calling the plays.

[PSUmtj112]

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sportsgeist said:
My players progress/regress all the time. You must adjust your gameplan sliders before every game to help match up with what you think you'll go up against. I find if you don't adjust them your players don't do squat.

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Gameplan sliders? I thought they were for if you simmed your games? It doesn't make sense to set a slider for how much you're going to run or pass when you are the one calling the plays.

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The Sliders are for how much time you spend practicing a certain aspect of your offense/defense.

For example, if you have great CB's you want to bump up the man coverage slider. If your CB's suck, you want to hide that and play a lot of zone (therefor bumping up the zone coverage slider).

And to be honest, they do have a huge affect on your team.

[NEW_ORLEANS]

where did you get that info from psu it sounds logical though

[ryudo]

I've tested this progression thing with game plan when I first got the game. I sim all my games using the Bucs. This is what I noticed, my players progressed after the 4 preseason games and it showed under the player progression options. It continued to show the same progression for about 4 games then the option just disappear. The stats never move for me till after week 17. I did this several times, sometimes with gameplan full for running and other times full for passing and I get almost exactly the same progress for all my players. It seems the progress is predetermined unless a player get heavily injured, because Mike A-Train one time got injured and after recovery from injury, his stats dropped 12 points.

[NoleFan]

This is interesting. I was almost certain that the Gameplan sliders had no affect on games that you manually played.