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Thanks for that input! Can I ask a few questions to clarify?
1) What was your method? Did you sim the first season as just one team, then switch to all 32 teams, change their drafting strategies, and switch back to just one team?
2) What priorities did you do? The ones I suggest in the first post, or some other set? I ask because Miami taking a LT over Andrew Luck doesn't make sense, unless one of several things is happening. A) Miami already has a good QB. That's never happened in my franchise...they release everyone and don't pick up a QB in FA, but certainly possible. B) The LT is listed above Luck, which I've seen happen. In that case, I understand why Miami chooses the T over QB. C) You've got the sliders different than mine. No problem with that of course, but if you let us know what your sliders were, we may learn new information.
3) A punter was taken seventh overall? To me, this suggests that once you stop controlling a team, they revert to their original draft strategies...meaning you have to control all 32 teams forever and ever...or at least the first five years. Can you verify I'm understanding your setup correctly?
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1. No, I started the franchise controlling all 32 teams. Fixed the sliders like you informed us to. Then switched to one team in the first off-season.
2. I pretty much used the same priorites you told us to, only slightly tweaking the QB slider for a team with a veteran/franchise QB who may need a back up. Chiefs, Packers, Falcons, ect. I wanted to test and see if the teams in that category would eventually fill the role of needing a backup QB either through the draft or FA or both.
Using that method I found a very interesting situation. The Chiefs wound up getting Matt Flynn in FA *Cassel sucks*. They had two shots at Luck, three at Foles and two at Keenum and they passed on them every single time even know their slider was set a little higher. It makes it appear that there is something to the priority slider. We've all seen it in previous Maddens when a CPU team will take a position of need in FA then immediately sign another player at the same position in the draft. That didn't happen here. The Chiefs went and filled a different need. Meanwhile the Packers waited until the last possible chance to fill the QB need in the draft. It still baffles me that Foles had a higher potential rating but was passed on. So it does seem the CPU will draft a player with a high overall rating regardless. But using your sliders it helps prevent that from happening right away. I think you're on the right track to fixing it altogether, there really are something to these sliders.
Miami taking a tackle over Luck didn't make sense at first, but after looking at the overalls once Pre-Season started the Tackle was one overall point higher than luck. And the QB they finally took in the second was only 4 points lower than Luck. All three of them had A potential ratings. Again, the CPU took the player with the higher overall rating over a position of need. The thing is, they moved the LT they took to RT since they already have Long at LT. Long had a higher overall rating than the drafted player so, but the drafted player had a higher overall rating than their starting RT. Again, the higher overall comes into play. But, they still wound up with their franchise QB, so I guess you could argue the pick made sense.
As far as the punter thing goes, the Punter wound up having a 75 overall with a B potential. Nic Harris only has a 73 and is 35 years old.
I believe the overall rating is where most of these problems are coming into play. I also believe that the CPU releasing veterans for fake players has something to do with all of these. After looking at Miami's roster a second time they had both Hasselbeck and Carson Palmer as their QB's they got from FA. Which might explain why they passed on Luck off the bat.