Collection of House Rules

[NoleFan]

Re: Collection of House Rules

CPU vs CPU is pretty much my only "house rule" and it removes the need for many others


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[booker21]

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Booker I have to thank you. If I remember right you were the ohne who discovered how to get away from the dynamic drive goals last year.
It worked like a beauty. This year ist seems like we didn't need that workaround.


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Yeah I played several games already and it seems the drive while still exist and make no sense sometimes they don't affect the confidence as much so yeah I'm glad we
Don't have to do that [emoji4]


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[booker21]

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If you let the CPU call your plays (quick play call in the settings) they will call random plays from community to the strategic calls (don't know the exact description in the game).
I don't know if this answers your question?! If not let me know.


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Yeah about that.

It work bad. EA was very lazy on this and the community several times at just some "money" playa the community run on the online.

On defense the strategy plays are always the same 3. Since the CPU think that the opponent will run inside zone on 1 and 2 so just show same 3 plays.

Hopefully next year EA can put some focus and we can go back to the game plan were the play calling would use the playbook game plan instead of this community nonsense plays. Example fb dive on 3-8.




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[ajra21]

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My scouting house rule for M16 was that I could only scout every 4 weeks. Since you lost half of your unused scouting points each week, I wouldn't be able to scout a ton of players like I could by doing it every weeks. Made the draft more of a guess since there were way less players who I had fully scouted. Forced me into taking a couple guesses in the draft, and usually I only ended up with one or two studs. Instead of drafting a team full of sure thing quick/superstar progression players, which happened everytime I scouted and drafted without house rules. I will likely do the same for 17

I'm a fan of this method. I feel if you scout every week with the given points (175 or 200) you can pretty much scout everything you need and get studs etc. Limiting it seems to be the only way to go for draft duds.

saw a video before getting the game saying you couldn't really scout enough of the players but you really can - especially when you get the scout XP bonus thing.

[Rollo]

Re: Collection of House Rules

Hello everybody,

I'm a longtime follower here at OS and read a lot of threads and posts. Over the years I collected a lot of house rules to assure some sort of balance with the CPU actions.

I just thougt that's a good idea to gather my and your rules. Maybe it helps some user here at OS to improve their franchise experience.

1. I negotiate the expiring contracts of my players only at the end of the season.
With this house rule you have only one try to expand these contracts.

2. I use some formulas for the contract terms of my expiring players.
Every player has specific terms for his new contract.
For example 4 years 18 millions base salary and 8 millions as a signing bonus. To match this you have to offer 4,5 million base salary and 0,8 million bonus per year. We know that you can lowball these offers but in my opinion that's not the way I want it.
Because of this I pay them what they wantfor the base salary and a specific percentage of the base salary (in line with the length of the contract) for the bonus according to the following chart:

Age
> 33 yrs: 5 % Bonus
32-33 yrs: 7 % Bonus
30-31 yrs: 10 % Bonus
27-29 yrs: 15 % Bonus
< 27 yrs: 20 % Bonus

OVR
80-84 = + 5 % Bonus
85-89 = + 10 % Bonus
90-95 = + 15 % Bonus
> 95 = + 20 % Bonus

Contract length
90+ = 6 year deal
85-89 = 5 year deal
75-84 = 4 year deal
65-74 = 3 year deal
61-64 = 2 year deal
60-0 = 1 year deal

Quick question for you. I'm still playing M16, so I don't know if M17 is any different in the contract offers or not, but when I go to the sign or resign screen, ill get a player saying they want say $3m / 2 years. Say they're 25 and 77 overall. Under your rules, that player would get $6m/4yrs and 20% bonus. Now, is that bonus inside the $6m, or outside? Would my final offer to this player be 1.35m + 0.15m per year, or 1.5m + 0.15m per year?

[NoleFan]

Re: Collection of House Rules

Hello everybody,



I'm a longtime follower here at OS and read a lot of threads and posts. Over the years I collected a lot of house rules to assure some sort of balance with the CPU actions.



I just thougt that's a good idea to gather my and your rules. Maybe it helps some user here at OS to improve their franchise experience.



1. I negotiate the expiring contracts of my players only at the end of the season.

With this house rule you have only one try to expand these contracts.



2. I use some formulas for the contract terms of my expiring players.

Every player has specific terms for his new contract.

For example 4 years 18 millions base salary and 8 millions as a signing bonus. To match this you have to offer 4,5 million base salary and 0,8 million bonus per year. We know that you can lowball these offers but in my opinion that's not the way I want it.

Because of this I pay them what they wantfor the base salary and a specific percentage of the base salary (in line with the length of the contract) for the bonus according to the following chart:



Age

> 33 yrs: 5 % Bonus

32-33 yrs: 7 % Bonus

30-31 yrs: 10 % Bonus

27-29 yrs: 15 % Bonus

< 27 yrs: 20 % Bonus



OVR

80-84 = + 5 % Bonus

85-89 = + 10 % Bonus

90-95 = + 15 % Bonus

> 95 = + 20 % Bonus



Contract length

90+ = 6 year deal

85-89 = 5 year deal

75-84 = 4 year deal

65-74 = 3 year deal

61-64 = 2 year deal

60-0 = 1 year deal



If our player is 28 years old and has an OVR of 86 and want the abovementioned contract I will offer him 4,5 million base salary and 1,125 (4,5 * (15%+10%)) million as bonus per year over a duration of 5 years.

In comparison the player originally wanted a 4 year 4,5 million base with 0,8 million bonus salary and I offer him a 5 year 4,5 million base with 1,125 million bonus salary.

With these formulas you give the top players a little more than they demand and you have to decide whether you sign you 33 year old 89 OVR player who maybe only wants a 2 year contract a new 5 year deal.

It sounds more complicating than it is.

I use this method only for my starting caliber players.

So I had a guy rated 68 OVR and I think he was 27 years old.

I'd assume anybody below 80 OVR doesn't get the ratings portion of the signing bonus.

He wanted 1M for 1 yr and I offered him 150K due to his age. He didn't take it. In that case do you just not re-sign the guy?


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[zackebarsch10]

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Quick question for you. I'm still playing M16, so I don't know if M17 is any different in the contract offers or not, but when I go to the sign or resign screen, ill get a player saying they want say $3m / 2 years. Say they're 25 and 77 overall. Under your rules, that player would get $6m/4yrs and 20% bonus. Now, is that bonus inside the $6m, or outside? Would my final offer to this player be 1.35m + 0.15m per year, or 1.5m + 0.15m per year?

The offer you see in the negotiation screen always shows the Nase money and the bonus per year.
That means you have to pay 20% of the 6m = 1.2m over 4 years. In your screen you have to choose 1.5m as a base and 0.3m bonus.


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[zackebarsch10]

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So I had a guy rated 68 OVR and I think he was 27 years old.

I'd assume anybody below 80 OVR doesn't get the ratings portion of the signing bonus.

He wanted 1M for 1 yr and I offered him 150K due to his age. He didn't take it. In that case do you just not re-sign the guy?


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I use this rule only for starting caliber player. But when I use it I have only one try. Either the take it or he will test free agency.


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[NoleFan]

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I use this rule only for starting caliber player. But when I use it I have only one try. Either the take it or he will test free agency.


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Gotcha! Thanks for the feedback.


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[timhere1970]

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I usually try to sign my low rated players to long contracts with no bonuses. I can then cut them without penalty in preseason or any other time without taking a hit.

[booker21]

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Quick question how do you get to that number? Do you get some situation were you have to cut players to leave space cap? What I don't like is that with game space cap we almost can sign every player we want. Way to much space. Most teams irl are battling to free space.


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[cal7_11]

Franchise House Rules

Alright guys

So I was just wondering what your favourite personal house rules were to keep your franchise fresh and realistic. Here are mine;

Player Progression - in order to not have an OP team I enforce the following rules.
No upgrading strength for O-line or D-line. Makes the combine results really matter!
No upgrading speed, acceleration or agility for anyone
No upgrading development trait for anyone - makes trading up into the top 10 for a 'normal' really heartbreaking.
Only progress players after games on week 4, 8, 12 and 16 with all end of season XP being spent on week 1 of the next year - stops you having too strong a team in the playoffs

End of season awards - I think this system best replicates a breakout year
Now that we have the ability for full editing, I like to give the players who win awards a boost.
MVP - if somehow the winner of this award is rated under 90 I will boost his overall up and give him superstar dev
OPOY and DPOY - winners boosted up to superstar dev and 88 overall, 2-5 boosted up to quick dev and 85 overall
OROY and DROY - winners boosted to superstar dev, 2-5 boosted to quick dev

[Rollo]

Re: Franchise House Rules

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...e-rules-2.html

It was buried on page 10, but here's a collection.

[bigsteve15]

Re: Franchise House Rules

Alright guys

So I was just wondering what your favourite personal house rules were to keep your franchise fresh and realistic. Here are mine;

Player Progression - in order to not have an OP team I enforce the following rules.
No upgrading strength for O-line or D-line. Makes the combine results really matter!
No upgrading speed, acceleration or agility for anyone
No upgrading development trait for anyone - makes trading up into the top 10 for a 'normal' really heartbreaking.
Only progress players after games on week 4, 8, 12 and 16 with all end of season XP being spent on week 1 of the next year - stops you having too strong a team in the playoffs

End of season awards - I think this system best replicates a breakout year
Now that we have the ability for full editing, I like to give the players who win awards a boost.
MVP - if somehow the winner of this award is rated under 90 I will boost his overall up and give him superstar dev
OPOY and DPOY - winners boosted up to superstar dev and 88 overall, 2-5 boosted up to quick dev and 85 overall
OROY and DROY - winners boosted to superstar dev, 2-5 boosted to quick dev

I really like the rule where you can't increase the speed, agility, acceleration, never thought about it until now. It makes sense because grown men in the nfl are very unlikely to develop those attributes because you are born being fast or slow or in between, with training you can make a slight difference but not much...where as you can improve catching, route running, intelligence much more so.

[ripcandlestickpark]

Re: Franchise House Rules

For my franchises, I must always keep one dedicated long-snapper on the roster at all times and the punter, not the backup quarterback, is the holder on all field goal/extra point attempts.