NCAA Football 11 Dynasty Blog 2 of 3 - Prospects

[Potatoes002]

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Good to see JUCO's are actually rated higher than normal players. I found it quite annoying that Junior College players never seemed to have any impact in the game because they were always rated the same.

[Ziza9Noles94]

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My only complaint is that it is only May and I can't play this yet. Solid read/addition to dynasty.

[tbach]

I really like the additions to recruiting this year but it would be awesome to have the coaching carousel.

[J-Unit40]

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It's about time potential was factored in the game. Very excited to recruit in this years game.

Definitely! Looking good boys. Looking reallllll goooood!!

[Lava]

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I'm guessing Blog 3 will stick to recruiting - possibly coaching/staffs & we wont get bigger Dynasty news til E3.

Agreed, I just hope we're right.

Solid blog, I'm happy with the changes they're making to recruiting thus far.

[kkman187]

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Blog three will continue the trend of recruiting and how the cpu will recruit based on their style of play (hopefully) and their coaches (hopefully). This could either mean 120 ways to win applies to recruitng logic and coaching carosel. Hopefully both!:wink:

[Lynx34]

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This sounds fantastic. I'm ecstatic about this. I want to get excited about recruiting for my team so bad, but NCAA10 always left me hanging. Like I'd have really great ideas about how to recruit, like as far as what kind of players I want. But then they don't pan out because the recruit generation is bad. For example, I'll think, "Hey! Wouldn't it be cool if I could get a sick raw 'athlete' that has a world of potential but doesn't fit anywhere on the field right now" sort of like a Russell Sheppard type. But that didn't exist before. The "potential" rating is fantastic. They didn't say anything, or maybe I missed it, but is this potential rating invisible to the user both during and after recruiting? I hope so. I want to have to see it just by how he progresses year to year. What I mean by this is that if a highly rated guy comes in but has a relatively low OVR, I'll redshirt him. Then in his second year, his OVR spikes. I want THAT to be the indicator of potential. Not a number.

[PantherBeast_OS]

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Nice read. Can't wait to get my hands on ncaa 11 in a few months. Games this year is looking up for us. It's going to be a good year.

[cowboy_kmoney]

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Blog three will continue the trend of recruiting and how the cpu will recruit based on their style of play (hopefully) and their coaches (hopefully). This could either mean 120 ways to win applies to recruitng logic and coaching carosel. Hopefully both!:wink:

Well lets hope its something that makes us all fall back in love with this game. I like this info and it does alot for the game, So come on EA keep bringing the heat

[tyler289]

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Great read. Pumped for the game. I think blog 3 will be about play styles (tying into the "120 ways to win") and recruiting (teams will recruit for play style, for example). Hopefully, they announce something like coaching carousel or similar, but I'm real excited to get my hands on the game.

[jolson88]

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Wow, this is sounding fantastic. The possibility for more realistic recruiting and progression is definitely looking up. Every announcement that goes by though I expect to see AD-like additions less and less though . Still, if coaching carousel were added as well, I could live without it .

Man, is the game out yet? I can't wait any longer :P.

[I Peench]

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We took another look at player progression this year and really pushed Potential to be the major force in driving how much better players on your team get. This choice came from gathering lots of feedback from you guys in the community from the forums and the Live Chat we had on the subject a while back. Basically, potential felt like the best equalizer to measure a players worth in conjunction with his overall rating. The balancing factor to keep this more realistic is not every player uses his potential rating to determine his value, so there is still some surprise when you get any Prospect on your roster.

One of the MAJOR complaints about Madden is how much potential impacts progression. Why are they doing the same for NCAA? It should be a factor, but the major driving force? Negative. Progression should be coupled with how the player fits into the SCHEME and the coaches that surround that player and develop him.

Other than that, things look good. This is very frustrating news for me, however.

[Vaporub83]

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One of the MAJOR complaints about Madden is how much potential impacts progression. Why are they doing the same for NCAA? It should be a factor, but the major driving force? Negative. Progression should be coupled with how the player fits into the SCHEME and the coaches that surround that player and develop him.

Other than that, things look good. This is very frustrating news for me, however.

I don't think it hurts NCAA as much just due to the fact that the prospects won't last long. 5 years at the most then they move on. Plus I think college is driven more by potential than professional. In college a coach is likely to change his scheme to fit in a high potenial guy. Look at Mack Brown and Texas they have altered their system to utilize his QB's strengths. I can't really think of an NFL team changing an entire scheme to fit in one player.

[DorianDonP]

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I like the sound of it....but I would LOVE the sound of it if the roster sizes were upped. Sometimes, highly rated freshman would be a saving grace because of roster limitations. If we have to wait for potential in this game, then it kind of sucks having to cut your depth...or decide between a solid player with no potential and a lower rated player with good potential....who do you cut? Grrr.

Looking forward to blog 3 though. I'm hoping it will tie up some of the loose ends.

[fcboiler87]

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This is definitely awesome news. I wonder, though, will we be able to see something about a player's potential when we are recruiting them? That would be great so that Player A just goes and signs for stars but Player B goes and works and finds the guys with skill but really high potential and it pays out for them in the end.

Hopefully coaching carousel is next!