FIX: Setting Up A 32 Team OFFLINE CFM Instructions

[Von Dozier]

Re: FIX: Setting Up A 32 Team OFFLINE CFM Instructions

Tried searching the thread but couldn't find it, but why is it so important to turn Coach Firing to OFF? What happens if it's left on?

[CT Pitbull]

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great post. great tutorial. great detail. all us 32 team control "freaks" have been forced to do this or something similar for too many years now.



we shouldnt have to go through this to play how we want to play OFFLINE!

[Brandwin]

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So are cpu teams supposed to have high confidence players if they are playing well? Two weeks left and some teams have quite a few guys with 99 confidence. I am doing the work around.

[Von Dozier]

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I do 32 owners because I like to control the coaching changes. The way it works if you don't control it is pretty dumb, a lot of times coaches will just switch teams, by year 5 you'll have the whole league with different coaches. The good coaches will just go somewhere else after every 3 year contract. It's more work but it helps me simulate the franchise a little better and doesn't kill my immersion as much.

There are a couple things I've learned you have to do, and I'll share them in case anyone else wants to do this:

- you have to keep track of coaches at the end of every team's season. So after the regular season I go through every non playoff team and either resign or fire the coach depending on how they did. Then each week of the playoffs the teams that were eliminated have to be dealt with.

- you hire new coaches during conference championship week. So I go to any team that I fired a coach, or had one retire, and hire a different coach.

- you can't let a team get negative funds. If you get removed as owner due to negative funds you can't create a new owner. I give money to owners with low funds so they can operate normally and sign players.

- after coaching changes you have to change the schemes and playbooks yourself. Otherwise the teams will just keep running the same stuff and going after players that fit the same schemes. The cool part of this is once you do this the teams do a pretty good job going after players that fit whatever scheme you give them, so you can switch teams based on their coach and watch them rebuild a team that fits that coach.

Anyways, probably more work than most people want to do for their franchise but I thought I'd help share some of the pitfalls in case anyone is as much of a football strategy nerd as I am.

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This is exactly what I'm doing now, 32 owners instead of 32 coaches. The 32 coaches thing was giving me way too many fits at the end of the season.

[GrayDawg]

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Hope they patch all these issues in CFM. As an experiment I set up a CFM with 5 teams I like to play with and simmed to the draft and teams were trading but I couldn't simulate ahead. Hopefully this nonsense gets patched soon.

[mdiggitydawg]

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really dumb question, i've set the league up, 32 coaches...I wanted to jump in and play the cardinals at home against the saints...so I pushed R3 and selected bruce arians as my head coach...how do i choose a user vs. user game that the cpu will control the saints so i don't get the drive goals. first time i'm trying the game and in the first few minutes after every tackle i was getting so and so 1/3 on tackles...

HELP !!! just want to play a few games in week one of my offline franchise.

thanks

[mogrod]

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OK, stupid question and I apologize if it's been mentioned somewhere on the boards or in this thread (and I know this thread is dedicated to offline) but....

Is it possible to "fix" the confidence bug in an online CFM by retiring and re-creating/re-picking your coach/GM sometime before your next game? I haven't been able to test it but is there a chance it would reset the confidence since you've retired and given team control to the CPU (even if it's just for a minute)?

[mdiggitydawg]

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I am seeing weekly goals... not drive goals...have I begun this game correctly? am I wrong in my set up ?

any help would be much appreciated

[DLaren]

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I am seeing weekly goals... not drive goals...have I begun this game correctly? am I wrong in my set up ?

any help would be much appreciated

It's still early...but Weekly, Season, & Career goals all seem to be working correctly...the Dynamic Drive goals are the problem.

[kchuskey]

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Is anybody noticing anything odd while doing the hire and fire coach before, and after every game approach? Like for instance the CPU QB not snapping the ball, and getting delay of game, over and over? It's killing my Franchise. Or is this a known bug? O couldn't see it listed.

[RogueHominid]

Re: FIX: Setting Up A 32 Team OFFLINE CFM Instructions

Is anybody noticing anything odd while doing the hire and fire coach before, and after every game approach? Like for instance the CPU QB not snapping the ball, and getting delay of game, over and over? It's killing my Franchise. Or is this a known bug? O couldn't see it listed.

I can't speak to this issue directly, but if it's throwing your experience off, I'll say that the time it takes to set up a 32-team master owner file is super minimal. My sense is that's the best way long-term to deal with CFM issues this year.

I have it down to 25 minutes or so (I've done it twice).

[bkrich83]

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Is anybody noticing anything odd while doing the hire and fire coach before, and after every game approach? Like for instance the CPU QB not snapping the ball, and getting delay of game, over and over? It's killing my Franchise. Or is this a known bug? O couldn't see it listed.

10 games in to mine using the fire/hire method, no, not seen anything like this.

[Brandwin]

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Is anybody noticing anything odd while doing the hire and fire coach before, and after every game approach? Like for instance the CPU QB not snapping the ball, and getting delay of game, over and over? It's killing my Franchise. Or is this a known bug? O couldn't see it listed.

8 games into season two doing this method and no issues at all.

[bagobonez]

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I did an analysis on player attributes to see which ones are the most important. Since i'm a noob I can't post the link yet, but keep an eye out on the forums for the results.

[RV2255]

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I have followed each step in setting up my 32 team control.After doing this I try to play a game and it goes to the screen with the spinning football and it says it's loading.What is up with this? Am I doing something wrong? This is for ps4-Thanks