Create a coach - What skills do you get?

[kcarr]

I ussually go with ambition first, it save you in the long run as has been pointed out. Next I take the first couple OLine special skills because that helps a lot with both the run and pass game. I take a couple level of preformance because that helps overall play of all players, and then the game film special skill because it is cheap. After that, when I get more points, I work on getting a little bit of skill in the intangeble improvement for all players. I go with the early cheap ones that I can get quickly so I can get at least some in every position. I feel intangebles are the most important of these regardless of what most people say. The Prima guide suggests physical abilities first and learning second. I go with intangebles first, learning second, and physical last. I dont really ever do the physical at all. Most physical abilities are pretty close to their max when you draft players but the intangibles ussually have room to improve.

[sammage]

Here's something I discovered too...hire ex-Head Coaches as coordinators if you want them to use Specials. I hired a couple and they already had Ambition so their specials were cheaper.

[kcarr]

Quote: Originally Posted by sammage

Here's something I discovered too...hire ex-Head Coaches as coordinators if you want them to use Specials. I hired a couple and they already had Ambition so their specials were cheaper.

same works hiring coordinators as position coaches sometimes. With them you cant buy ambition but some of them have it anyway. Also found a kinda strange one. An OC with the 3rd level WR special skill, the one that increases percent chance of catching and like a 12000 point skill or thereabouts but had none of the prereqs.

[sammage]

Quote: Originally Posted by kcarr

same works hiring coordinators as position coaches sometimes. With them you cant buy ambition but some of them have it anyway. Also found a kinda strange one. An OC with the 3rd level WR special skill, the one that increases percent chance of catching and like a 12000 point skill or thereabouts but had none of the prereqs.

Yeah, I have that guy too!

[sixtydashone]

Well I've restarted my 49ers career about five or six times now, and so far this is the best run I've had by far. All my previous seasons were absolutely dismal (with a typical record of around 5-11) and so far in year 1 I'm 9-4. I still can't run the ball to save my life but the passing game and the defense is keeping the team afloat.

But anyway I left the systems in place that were already in place (Nolan 3-4 and Martz Air Attack) and if I'm remembering right, I went with Ambition, the first two QB-related ones (sorry I cant remember the names, QB Read I think and whatever the next one is), Pass Block Discipline, and I may have gotten the Receiver Discipline one as well if there's enough starting points to get that. Not sure on that one though.

[pnoty]

I knowi am late what how do youguys feel about team chemistry?

[Mike3207]

Ambition, Off-Season Seminar, Regular Season Seminar, and Playbook Training. I put the rest in Performance. It really helps if you're starting with a new playbook; you learn the plays twice as fast as normal. I can learn a play with 4 or 5 reps, master it in 8 or 9. It probably stacks if your OC and DC learn all these skills as well.

[Mike3207]

I changed my mind on this-Performance 5, Playcalling 4, Strategy 3. I think it gives you the best chance to win games right away.