CPU accepted a penalty that gave me the ball back

[utahman19]

Quote: Originally Posted by Aolian_Am

I don't think you guys are getting me, you literally cannot accept/decline an illegal forward pass. In madden, in the NFL, in flagfootball, can't do it. In madden though, when the cpu or the human does it, the little grey box will pop up, but there is no option to choose. Illegal touching is the same way, as well as false start.

Wrong. Any penalty can be declined - high school, NCAA, NFL, any penalty can be declined. It says so right in the rulebook. Read it yourself. In the NCAA rules, it is 10-1-1-b.

Other than the example from the game in the OP, I'll give you at least one more. Say Team A has the ball, 4th and long on their opponent's 35. Team A has no confidence that their kicker can make the 52-yard field goal, so they line up to punt. They attempt to take a delay of game penalty to give their punter more room. Team B coach declines the penalty. OK, so Team A tries to get those yards anyway by having someone false start on purpose. Team B head coach tells the officials he wants to decline the penalty. BY RULE, Team B can decline the false start.

[kehlis]

Quote: Originally Posted by utahman19

Wrong. Any penalty can be declined - high school, NCAA, NFL, any penalty can be declined. It says so right in the rulebook. Read it yourself. In the NCAA rules, it is 10-1-1-b.

You can decline the illegal forward pass if you want but it would be dumb because anything that happened after he crossed the line is nullified....

[FedExPope]

As Texas proved, you can even choose to give the opponent the ball at the beginning of each half...

[utahman19]

Quote: Originally Posted by kehlis

You can decline the illegal forward pass if you want but it would be dumb because anything that happened after he crossed the line is nullified....

No, that is not the way it works, there are no live-ball penalties that cause the ball to be dead. For any live-ball foul (which any illegal forward pass is) committed by Team A, Team B has the option to accept the penalty OR decline the penalty and accept the result of the play.

Granted, in most cases it is best to accept the penalty, but there are circumstances where Team B would prefer to decline the penalty and accept the result of the play.

I really wish more "fans" would take advantage of the resources available and read the rulebook for themselves. The NCAA rulebook is free to download.

[bfindeisen]

Quote: Originally Posted by utahman19

No, that is not the way it works, there are no live-ball penalties that cause the ball to be dead. For any live-ball foul (which any illegal forward pass is) committed by Team A, Team B has the option to accept the penalty OR decline the penalty and accept the result of the play. Granted, in most cases it is best to accept the penalty, but there are circumstances where Team B would prefer to decline the penalty and accept the result of the play. I really wish more "fans" would take advantage of the resources available and read the rulebook for themselves. The NCAA rulebook is free to download.

This happened to me last night, and clarifies your point:

CPU team committed an illegal forward pass penalty, but on the pass I intercepted the ball and ran it back for a TD. I declined the the penalty to keep the TD (the result of the play).

[Dr Death]

Quote: Originally Posted by darkknightrises

I had something similar to this happen today. I was playing the falcons and they where kicking a FG on 4 and 3 at there 27 yard line they made the FG and I got called for RTK and the CPU instead of taking the penalty and seeing if they could turn the drive into a touchdown instead of a FG they just decleind the penalty and took the FG instead.

Okay, let me get this straight... the Falcons were at their 27, which means they were 73 yards from your end zone, and yet they line up for a FG that would be 90 yards... the 10 yards that the goal post is back from the goal line plus the 7 yards behind the line of scrimmage that a team places their holder...

And you're telling us the Falcons made a 90-yard FG??? Or were they at your 27, making a 44-yard FG???

[Sturzinator]

Sad to see this is happening on next gen as well. I am still on old gen, and it seems the CPU is incapable of taking the result of the play as an alternative to accepting the penalty.

I had OPI called on my team and the CPU intercepted the ball on the play. They took the penalty and lost a posession opportunity.

There was another scenario where I had a penalty on my defense and the CPU gained 9 yards on a run. They took the penalty for a second and five versus declining it for a second and one.

Add it to the ever growing list of issues.....