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One piece I forgot to add that is a fun twist for my dynasties - and that is my own system for NCAA violations. I do this mostly as a fun twist to randomly punish the top 25 but it also has some fun twists in that a bad roll can really gut a top team if it takes out a key player. I can't describe the feeling I had when it cost me my starting QB in a year when I was expecting to make a push for my first national championship (and failed). I only do this for the top 25 as I get the best bang for the buck that way. So here is how it works:

• I have an excel spreadsheet setup to use random to make rolls for each of the top 25 teams (RND column).

• Based on this RND, it determines if a team is impacted, and if so, how many players.

• I have easily changeable tiers for players 1-5 so I can tweak if I want more or less teams to be impacted – and more or less players.

• My current setup is 70% (1-70) are not impacted; 10% lose 1 player (71-80); 10% lose 2 players (81-90); 3% lose 3 players (91-93); 3% lose 4 players (93-96); 4% lose 5 players (97-100).

• There is then a roll for each player to see what position is affected (WR & CB are in 2x, K&P are combined).

• Next is a roll on depth (1-3) with 1 being the starter. If a 3 is rolled and a team only has 2 at a position I impact the 2nd stringer. If the same position gets hit for the same depth slot – I’ll take the next best equivalent (see below example).

• If it is a player on my team – I just cut them at the appropriate stage in the offseason. For other teams, since we can’t cut I essentially replace them with a walk-on. This means editing down key ratings to make them 60ish overall. The key here is to edit them across the board, not just cutting speed / THP/THA, etc. I did this one year and team ended up playing a RB with 20 speed. Oops…it was ugly.


Below is what this looks like for a given year. Here are some observations from this particular roll:

• 2nd team is gutted. They lose their starting QB, LE, & RE. Then they lose their backup RE and their 2nd best kicker or punter. Ouch!!!

• 4th team loses their 3rd QB (oh well unless he’s a stud freshman). Then there is the dilemma of what to do at LT. They lose their 2nd LT (easy) and need to lose one more. If they had 3 LTs, I’d take their 3rd LT as well. If not – I’d take their 2nd RT (next closest equivalent).

• 9 of 25 teams are impacted losing a total of 22 players are impacted



Edit and update:
Thanks to MRE and a few others questions and great feedback, I have added a few new tabs which include:
- A calculator for you to change the number of teams used and thresholds to get an idea of on average how many teams and players will be impacted.
- A new tab showing all 126 teams for those who want to have the potential to impact those outside the top 25
- A new 1-70 OVR roll to determine which players is impacted. Instead of rolling QB #2, this rolls player number 19. Just sort the team by OVR and nuke the 19th player down. This helps make it more fair what positions are impacted.