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The Race to 60
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NCAA 2014: Current Dynasty Last edited by PocketScout; 10-18-2021 at 10:03 AM. |
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10-11-2021, 12:59 AM
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Re: The Race to 60
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NCAA 2014: Current Dynasty Last edited by PocketScout; 10-11-2021 at 12:05 PM. |
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10-11-2021, 01:03 AM
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Re: The Race to 60
DYNASTY GOALS: The goal of this dynasty and the restrictions I impose on myself are to try and provide a more realistic outcome to program building. I enjoy the year to year play more than I do the minute to minute on field action. I like taking a down and out program and returning them to glory. If you have ever played NCAA 2014 you know, without house rules, the game if fairly easy to dominate and once you get a successful team it is easy to win championship and championship. I hope the rules below will keep that from happening. I will continue to tweak the rules so know they will always be changing. I've had multiple dynasties make it over 20 years but I have never made it to 60. My goal is to play this one all the way to the end. RECRUITING RULES: LIMITS Three Visits I can only schedule three visits all year long. This will be a very tough decision on which recruits get to come on campus. This makes late season recruiting get very interesting when battling with a couple schools for a kid as they might jump +700 points in a single week and I do not have a good way to make up the difference. No Scouting I can not scout any of the prospects that are on my board. Recruiting is to easy because I can easily find the best of what I can get to sign with my program without any issue and get those guys on campus. To combat this I will not scout any prospects. Once a kid commits to my program I can then scout him to see what I've got, those Gems and Busts titles are now going to carry a lot more meaning and impact since I will be stuck with these kids. This does add a "kid at Christmas morning" feel to when I get the message that a kid has signed with my program because then I get to go and find out what I really just signed. No Kitchen Sink No upgrading the kitchen sink skill. I have a max of 500 points per week that I can spend on a recruit. Once you get above that 500 level you can really just cherry pick who you want, this keeps that from becoming such an issue. Class Size Limits I have decided to change to a tiered system determine how many recruits I can sign. 1* can sign 14 players 2* can sign 13 players 3* can sign 12 players 4* can sign 11 players 5* and 6* can sign 10 Once I have signed my limit of players each season I turn my teams recruiting over to the computer and let it go after players. This makes the game harder by only recruiting the limits listed above myself and then the rest of the class will comprise of the players the computer picks up for my team. It is very rare to see teams ranked in the top 5 year in and year out in real life but easy to accomplish in this game. I am hoping this will make it much harder to sustain major success. Also this is not just how many I can sign, but how many I can have on my board at and given time. In my previous dynasty my class average was 36th over the previous 5 years. Even with knocking back my players AWR to 73 every year I had the sixth most talented team in my dynasty at 95ovr. With out restrictions we could easily be the top team in probably just 3 seasons and be so loaded it would be easy to maintain. Right now we we are talented but with the restrictions we are going to drop next seasons as it is much harder to build depth like I could without restrictions. REGIONAL RESTRICTIONS Pipelines I have noticed the recruiting setup for NCAA 2014 gives you the ability to recruit Nationally very easy. In real life your pipelines and home state are very important to recruiting and few programs easily recruit nationally. To bring this game back in line with real life I am implementing the following. I only get to have two pipeline states a year were I can recruit any player from pipeline states. The player can't be higher than my team prestige unless we start out as their top school. Note: Coastal/Border school defined as any school within 170 miles of the border or coast line. Local (1*) Can only recruit from our home state. Close to Home (2*) I can only recruit my home state, pipelines and states that are within a 65 miles of my campus. 110 miles if coastal\US border school. Regional (3*) I can only recruit my home state, pipelines and states that are within a 135 miles of my campus. 220 miles if coastal\US border school. Regional (4*) I can only recruit my home state, pipelines and states that are within a 265 miles of my campus. 440 miles if coastal\US border school. National (5*) I can only recruit my home state, pipelines and states that are within a 530 miles of my campus. 880 miles if coastal\US border school. National (6*) I can only recruit my home state, pipelines and states that are within a 630 miles of my campus. 1050 miles if coastal\US border school. INTEREST RESTRICTIONS In State I can recruit any players in my schools home state. Pipeline, Regional & National States I can recruit any player that is rated THREE STAR and below, FOUR STAR if we start in their Top 10, FIVE STAR if we start in their Top 3. Three Wildcards (2019 +) I can recruit 1 Wildcard who's player rating can be team prestige + 1. The other 2 players can't be higher than my team prestige. This will allow me to go after a few big players each year or try and build new pipelines but with it only being three players a year it will take multiple years to establish those pipelines. (2013-2018) I can recruit 2 Wildcards who's player rating can be team prestige + 1. The other player can't be higher than my team prestige. This will allow me to go after a few big players each year or try and build new pipelines but with it only being three players a year it will take multiple years to establish those pipelines. Tools for figuring out distances School List Radius Tool IN GAME & SLIDERS: These sliders are not designed to provide the most realistic stats, they are to provide me with a tough game. I only play a few games a year and I would rather have them be hard to win. Personally they provide me with what I'm looking for but might be a little extreme compared to many of the slider sets posted on the site. The computer will blow up multiple runs in the back field every game, I have passes dropped like crazy when contact is made, blocks missed, my defense misses tackles, my d-backs will get trucked etc. When I am coaching a great team these provide a good challenge, when I am playing with a bad team I want to throw the controller through the tv sometimes, but I know as I build the program up they start playing easier and easier. Heisman Offense Human/Computer 10/60 Quarterback 30/55 Pass Block 10/55 Catch 45/70 RB Ability 0/85 Run Block Heisman Defense Human/Computer 40/100 Pass Coverage 25/40 Interception 50/100 Rush Defense 45/55 Tackling Penalty Sliders DPI to 0 - This will cause tighter coverage and more battles for the ball but human Int needs to be lowered as you will get a lot more due to the much more aggressive DB play. Offsides-100 False Start- 54 Holding- 70 Facemask- 58 O-Pass Interference-100 D-Pass Interference-100 KR/PR Interference-100 Clipping-56 INT-Grounding-100 Roughing the passer-52 Roughing the kicking-100 In Game Adjustments Big Run = Aggressive, with Rush Defense at 100 this causes more fumbles. Holding Blocks = Conservative, increase difficulty of run game. Catching = Aggressive, more dropped passes. OTHER RESTRICTIONS: Players Leaving Early I can only try and convince one player a year to not leave early or transfer to another school. Yearly AWR Adjustments I am currently using BleedingTheRed's progression tool. It brings up AWR ratings for the computer among many other things. If I start to see issues after getting multiple years into my dynasty I will go back to my old system of dropping my players AWR down before the season. *OLD WAY - Another problem with this game is that human player progression is far quicker than the computer. It is not uncommon to see a human player progress +15 AWR points in the course of a season. This makes the game very easy if you do a sim/play setup like I do. To fix this I reset all returning players, who's AWR is greater than 73, back to 73 before I start the season. Coaching Contracts I must complete a minimum of 50% of the length of any Head Coaching contract I sign. SOS Strength of Schedule must be an A difficulty. This makes things much harder than picking up four wins against cup cakes every year in non conference play. If playing in a weak conference I will schedule two games where I am seen as a rent a win for the computer and two manageable games as it is impossible to get A difficulty level sometimes. Coaching Progression Speed This needs to be set to the slowest speed. You must do this when you set up the dynasty, you will not be able to change this once you have started the dynasty! Offensive Playbook I can not use Triple Option playbook while simming as it is very over powered and will lead to to many easy victories. GAMES: I can only play five games each year (max of three regular season games), I use a random number generator to randomly pick three regular season games for me to play. If I have a chance at making the playoffs I may need to skip playing a regular season game or two so I can stay within my five game limit. I also supersim the first half of my games. I can not be up by more than one score or down by more than three scores. If so I will exit and supersim again until I get the game into the correct range. If after three tries I am not in those point limits I will just go ahead and play. RELEGATION SETUP:  POST SEASON SETUP: We use an 8 team playoff. The Power 4 Conference Champions get automatic bids. The Big 12 champion is eligible if their resume qualifies them but none of the other Relegation Conferences can make the playoffs, they must work their way through league relegation to get to the top tier (Big 12) before they can go to the playoffs. The Citrus Bowl and Las Vegas Bowl will host the top four non playoff matchups each year.
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10-11-2021, 01:03 AM
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10-11-2021, 01:04 AM
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NCAA 2014: Current Dynasty Last edited by PocketScout; 10-11-2021 at 01:27 AM. |
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NCAA 2014: Current Dynasty Last edited by PocketScout; 10-11-2021 at 01:28 AM. |
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