[TCrouch]

Gotta say, I don't usually mess with sliders in a game because they can be so subjective...what works for one player may completely wreck another player's game. But since Millennium and I had played in so many leagues for years, these perked my ears up. I decided to try a game to see, and these were the stats, for what it's worth. 15 minute quarters, 13 sec runoff, normal speed, All-Pro. I just called the default play each time on both offense and defense and controlled a single player each snap without switching on D.

Score by Quarter (Final)
WAS 3 10 3 10 (26)
HOU 0 3 3 7 (13)

Redskins (Me) @ Houston (CPU)
Offensive Yards 348 - 235
Rushing Yards 108-112
Passing Yards 240 - 123
First Downs 17 - 11

PASSING:
Griffin - 25 of 36 (69%) for 240 yards, 2 TD, 0 INT - No sacks taken
Fitzpatrick - 19 of 32 (59%) for 161 yards, 0 TD, 0 INT - 8 sacks taken

RUSHING:
Skins:
Morris 14 for 46 (3.3 Avg), then an ACL tear
Royster 18 for 62 (3.4 avg), no TD's.

Texans:
Foster 14 for 108 (7.7 avg) 1 TD. He had 57 yards after first contact and broke off two long runs to account for most of his output. 24 yards on the first carry of the game, and another 30 yarder later. Was fun trying to stop him.

RECEIVING:
Skins:
Reed - 8 for 95, 0 TD
Garcon - 7 for 57, 1 TD
Jackson 4 for 47, 1 TD

Texans:
Foster 4 for 24
Hopkins 3 for 12
Ryan Griffin 3 for 64
Johnson with just 2 for 19

Watt was an absolute BEAST on defense, racking up 13 tackles and 3 TFL. Clowney had 7 tackles and a deflection, and Cushing had another 7 tackles. Their top 3 on D were tough to account for, as they blew up most runs when I'd hit the gap.

MLB Akeem Jordan led the way for the Skins with 10 tackles, 1 TFL, 1 sack.

The pressure was constant on Fitzpatrick though, with Geathers having 2 sacks, Bowen having 2 sacks, and then Jordan, Hatcher, Kerrigan, and Murphy all notching 1.

All in all, I was EXTREMELY impressed. Each time I'd played Houston on default sliders, Fitzpatrick would complete 80% of his passes and look like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady's love child.

I will definitely play a few more games with these--other than the facemask penalties at the worst possible times and a hilarious roughing the passer that should have won an Oscar for the flop job by Fitzpatrick, it was a tense and believable game.