What's wrong with Franchise Stats

[Marlus1]

All,

Is it just me or are the franchise stats for the teams and players rediculous. Average football game each team will run from 60 to 70 plays. In ESPN2K5 the teams run almost a 100 plays per game and the scores are astrinomical. What am I missing???? I don't want this to kill an otherwise good and potentially great game.

[AirLobo23]

reduce the simmed quarter minutes...default is 5...don't bump it up to 15...i think 8 min works just about perfectly.

[Gagnon39]

I had the same concern actually. It took me a while but I figured out that 5 minute simmed quarters are the best. Reason being that I took 3 NFL games from last year and averaged the number of plays and compared them to a simmed 2K5 game until it came out realistically. In the NFL a real game usually has anywhere between 135 and 150 total plays (both teams). With 5 minute simmed quarters you can expect the computer to average about 140-145 total plays, which falls right into the realistic average.