Oraeons Coaching sliders and Team stats

[WoOkiE FTW]

Quote: Originally Posted by plexxx

im confused about the defensive aggression. do i just subtract by 20 or do i need to set it to 20-25?

Just move the slider to the left 20 points. Some teams are more aggressive than others IRL, so wouldn't be right to just set them all the same.

[Oraeon1224]

Def Aggression:

Aggression 15/ 25/ 50/ 85:
4 or less sent: 70%/60%/50%/40%
5 or more sent: 30%/40%/50%/60%
6 sent: 10%/22%/25%/50%

I still found this too be too many 6 man blitzes. I suspected EA only has the slider trigger a blitz which is randomly selected from the playbook with no differentiation of 5,6, or 7 man blitzs. Real world 6 man blitz occurs about 5% of plays (NFL aggressive teams may use it 11%) and 5 man blitz 40% or so. This means 6 man should be 10% of all blitzes. However in the playbook they are about 30-50% of each formation. So I tried editing the 4-3 playbook to only have 1 6 or more man blitz per formation, setting at team at 50 and then testing in 2 games to see the type of blitzing that occured:
Test 1 / Test 2 / Default playbook
4 or less: 50% / 55% / 50%
5 man blitz: 35% / 30% / 25%
6+ blitz 15% / 15% / 25%
Any blitz 50% / 45% / 50%

As you can see with Defensive aggression set to 50 there was a marked difference with an adjusted playbook. The total number of blitzes remained the same but the 6-7 man blitz dropped significantly. This is still too many 6 man blitzes. I plan on editing the playbook even more harshly and seeing if I can reduce it to real world percentages. If so then I am recommending leaving defensive aggression sliders at default and creating new playbooks for the base formations you play against (it only takes 10 minutes to edit out 6 man blitzes in a playbook). Once I finish editing and get the desired effect I will post how many 6 man blitzes can remain.

[drai123]

If I've started my dynasty can I still do these edits?

[Oraeon1224]

Quote: Originally Posted by drai123

If I've started my dynasty can I still do these edits?

Yes I think it is under coaching profiles or one of those screens.

[Oraeon1224]

Quote: Originally Posted by Oraeon1224

Def Aggression: Aggression 15/ 25/ 50/ 85: 4 or less sent: 70%/60%/50%/40% 5 or more sent: 30%/40%/50%/60% 6 sent: 10%/22%/25%/50% I still found this too be too many 6 man blitzes. I suspected EA only has the slider trigger a blitz which is randomly selected from the playbook with no differentiation of 5,6, or 7 man blitzs. Real world 6 man blitz occurs about 5% of plays (NFL aggressive teams may use it 11%) and 5 man blitz 40% or so. This means 6 man should be 10% of all blitzes. However in the playbook they are about 30-50% of each formation. So I tried editing the 4-3 playbook to only have 1 6 or more man blitz per formation, setting at team at 50 and then testing in 2 games to see the type of blitzing that occured: Test 1 / Test 2 / Default playbook 4 or less: 50% / 55% / 50% 5 man blitz: 35% / 30% / 25% 6+ blitz 15% / 15% / 25% Any blitz 50% / 45% / 50% As you can see with Defensive aggression set to 50 there was a marked difference with an adjusted playbook. The total number of blitzes remained the same but the 6-7 man blitz dropped significantly. This is still too many 6 man blitzes. I plan on editing the playbook even more harshly and seeing if I can reduce it to real world percentages. If so then I am recommending leaving defensive aggression sliders at default and creating new playbooks for the base formations you play against (it only takes 10 minutes to edit out 6 man blitzes in a playbook). Once I finish editing and get the desired effect I will post how many 6 man blitzes can remain.

This idea is dead. I deleted all 6 man blitzes and still occured. Then I evaluated by switching sides and checking start screens. There is no way in this game to assign the CPU opponent a playbook. I listed the playbook under the coaching profiles for that team for all 3 and tried to manually switch. It never once loads the playbook for the CPU and if you switch none of the edits are there. Defensive aggression slider is the only option.

[21SEC]

Quote: Originally Posted by Oraeon1224

This idea is dead. I deleted all 6 man blitzes and still occured. Then I evaluated by switching sides and checking start screens. There is no way in this game to assign the CPU opponent a playbook. I listed the playbook under the coaching profiles for that team for all 3 and tried to manually switch. It never once loads the playbook for the CPU and if you switch none of the edits are there. Defensive aggression slider is the only option.

So you are saying that even if you reassign a defensive playbooks, in game the CPU team reverts back to its default defensive playbook?

[john1842msu]

Quote: Originally Posted by Oraeon1224

This idea is dead. I deleted all 6 man blitzes and still occured. Then I evaluated by switching sides and checking start screens. There is no way in this game to assign the CPU opponent a playbook. I listed the playbook under the coaching profiles for that team for all 3 and tried to manually switch. It never once loads the playbook for the CPU and if you switch none of the edits are there. Defensive aggression slider is the only option.

The best option at this point is for EA Sports to call you and bring you on as a programmer and game tester for the next gen games. You obviously really know your stuff and would be a solid addition.

[21SEC]

OK so it's only midly frausterating, but you can select the playbook for the CPU team(s), you just have to move the controller back once the game loads. It will definitely load custom playbooks though.