The biggest issue I have with this game, other than the freezes, is the fact that the game only half-heartedly offers the option of the 3-4 defense. Here are the problems and suggested solutions:
1. Just as you can see players through the lens of your system with the philosophy rating, you should be able to see all "tweener" type players' position based on your system. This would help the player a lot, but it would help the AI even more. Here's what I mean. In the draft, a certain player may be listed as a DT to a 4-3 team, but he would be listed as a DE to a 3-4 team. It would just depend on his skillset. Whichever of the two positions he has the highest rating in for that system would be the position he would be classified as to that team. So a giant run stopper would be a DT to both, but a smaller DT might be seen as a DE to a 3-4 team. Same thing with DE/OLB. This would allow you to actually be able to scout for the 3-4 in the draft, and it would especially help the AI draft and play players in their proper positions. There should also be a page where you can see all in one place what your player's ratings are for every position and for every philosophy.
2. That leads into problem 2 because the solution to problem 1 would still be useless if we don't fix this one. All DE automatically have 10 coverage skills. There needs to be a system where if you scout a DE to be athletic and fluid enough to play OLB, you can get his coverage skills up. It would all be part of a more in-depth system I was referring to in number 1. It's ridiculous that I'm running a 3-4, but I can't draft any college DE for my OLB spots. No matter how athletic they are, the mere fact that they played DE in college dooms them to a life of 10 coverage skills. Not realistic. I envision a whole revamped system where a guy drafted as a tweener might start as 10 coverage skills, but upon conversion his potential would be generated based on his athletic ability with perhaps a random element to it as well.
3. The 3rd problem currently with the 3-4 is with playbooks, specifically sub defenses. I just noticed this with my Lebeau 3-4 playbook. My nickel package takes out my LOLB for the extra CB. Not only leaves my run stuffer NT in game, but brings another one in to be my two DT. Then it puts my 5 technique DE as the outside rushers, and puts my best pass rusher, my ROLB as an ILB along with my top ILB (don't forget it took my second best pass rusher out of the game completely). I mean, come on. How lazy is this? This is a specific 3-4 playbook and you did the substitutions for the nickel just like a 4-3. Just copy and paste. Obviously my nickel package should be: take out the run stuffer for the CB. Put my DE as the DT. Put my OLB as the DE. And leave my ILB as the ILB. The best solution to this problem is that you should have a depth chart for every formation. For people that don't care, you can have a button that just copies your choices from one formation into all of them or lets the CPU do them.
1. Just as you can see players through the lens of your system with the philosophy rating, you should be able to see all "tweener" type players' position based on your system. This would help the player a lot, but it would help the AI even more. Here's what I mean. In the draft, a certain player may be listed as a DT to a 4-3 team, but he would be listed as a DE to a 3-4 team. It would just depend on his skillset. Whichever of the two positions he has the highest rating in for that system would be the position he would be classified as to that team. So a giant run stopper would be a DT to both, but a smaller DT might be seen as a DE to a 3-4 team. Same thing with DE/OLB. This would allow you to actually be able to scout for the 3-4 in the draft, and it would especially help the AI draft and play players in their proper positions. There should also be a page where you can see all in one place what your player's ratings are for every position and for every philosophy.
2. That leads into problem 2 because the solution to problem 1 would still be useless if we don't fix this one. All DE automatically have 10 coverage skills. There needs to be a system where if you scout a DE to be athletic and fluid enough to play OLB, you can get his coverage skills up. It would all be part of a more in-depth system I was referring to in number 1. It's ridiculous that I'm running a 3-4, but I can't draft any college DE for my OLB spots. No matter how athletic they are, the mere fact that they played DE in college dooms them to a life of 10 coverage skills. Not realistic. I envision a whole revamped system where a guy drafted as a tweener might start as 10 coverage skills, but upon conversion his potential would be generated based on his athletic ability with perhaps a random element to it as well.
3. The 3rd problem currently with the 3-4 is with playbooks, specifically sub defenses. I just noticed this with my Lebeau 3-4 playbook. My nickel package takes out my LOLB for the extra CB. Not only leaves my run stuffer NT in game, but brings another one in to be my two DT. Then it puts my 5 technique DE as the outside rushers, and puts my best pass rusher, my ROLB as an ILB along with my top ILB (don't forget it took my second best pass rusher out of the game completely). I mean, come on. How lazy is this? This is a specific 3-4 playbook and you did the substitutions for the nickel just like a 4-3. Just copy and paste. Obviously my nickel package should be: take out the run stuffer for the CB. Put my DE as the DT. Put my OLB as the DE. And leave my ILB as the ILB. The best solution to this problem is that you should have a depth chart for every formation. For people that don't care, you can have a button that just copies your choices from one formation into all of them or lets the CPU do them.
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