Systematically over/underpowered teams

[mjavon]

If you've played dynasty long enough, you've probably noticed that some schools (consistently) much better or worse than they typically would in real life (I really mean in simmed games). To me, it seems the sim engine favors some playbooks (especially triple option) over others which leads to these differences. Below I'll list some teams that I've noticed to be over/underpowered in my dynasties:

Overpowered:
Army
Georgia Tech
Navy
(Triple Option teams in general)

Underpowered:
Oklahoma
LSU

The way I fixed this in my dynasty is to edit coaches' playbooks. I completely got rid of triple option playbooks because every team that ran triple option was consistently winning 10+ games every year. Oklahoma always did poorly under Bob Stoops with the standard Oklahoma playbook for some reason, so I changed it to a different multiple-style playbook. I did a similar thing with Les Miles after I saw LSU go 9-17 in two years.

Please suggest other teams that are over/underpowered in your guys' dynasties or refute the ones that I've nominated.

[DesertFox]

Re: Systematically over/underpowered teams

I can't say anything specifically as to the teams you've mentioned as being over- or under-powered, but I do have an important question: do you use custom conferences? I always use customs conference alignment, and I will always move Army and Navy away from being independent. As I prefer geographic conference alignments, this means they tend to end up in facing stronger schedules. I'm curious as to whether the triple-option teams become overpowered because of the way Independents organize their schedules.

[Mck23tyler]

Re: Systematically over/underpowered teams

I too have noticed that the triple option teams seem to do really well. For example I have 2 dynasties going right now and in both Georgia Tech and Navy are top 10 teams.

[Peacefrog]

Re: Systematically over/underpowered teams

NCAA 14 has Oklahoma being a constant letdown, year in and year out. This seems very realistic to me ~.^

[SpartyParty11]

Re: Systematically over/underpowered teams

In one of my dynasties, Ga Tech is 4-3, but he uses custom conferences. But in another one of my dynasties, Army is 2-3, however Ga Tech and Navy both have 1 loss. I guess I just proved your point haha

[canesfins]

Re: Systematically over/underpowered teams

Basically every SEC team has been a let down for me.

[coyotedelmar]

Re: Systematically over/underpowered teams

In mine Alabama, LSU, Oklahoma, and Oregon have been pretty bad for the most part.

[brent3419]

Re: Systematically over/underpowered teams

in mine, i put navy in a pretty competitive AAC and in my yr 2020 dyn, them, army(finished 2), and air force( finished 10) are pretty powerful. GT has been as well even having two rushers in the heisman voting.


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[riggs6taters]

Re: Systematically over/underpowered teams

FSU is always terrible, literally every season they are 5-7 or 6-6 yet they are a 97-99 OVR team

[canesfins]

Re: Systematically over/underpowered teams

FSU is always terrible, literally every season they are 5-7 or 6-6 yet they are a 97-99 OVR team

I noticed this too since I made Miami into a powerhouse I was hoping it would create some of the match ups with Florida State in the past where both teams were in the top 10. In 5 years they have barely made bowl games. Which makes no sense considering Winston was a 99 overall and the rest of their team was solid too.

[XXstormmXX]

Re: Systematically over/underpowered teams

In my dynasties, GT always either wins the national championship or finishes in the top 5, and Alabama and all the other teams you would expect to win the championship get upset in the championship game and lose to teams like GT and Texas A & M.