To Start or Not Start a Dynasty

[boxtrevor]

I am kind of a on the fence about beginning a dynasty, especially with all the problems that I have heard about upsets and poll logic. On the one hand, I want to go ahead and get a "sample dynasty" going before the season. On the other hand, if it is bad as people are saying, I might just continue to try different, "Play Now" matches until the inevitable Week 0 patch drops.

Any thoughts from the OS community?

[Locke888]

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The upsets, G5 teams winning national championships and scheduling issues in dynasty are ruining it for me.

It might be 3 more patches before I can hold my nose and start a dynasty if ever. Maybe CFB32 will be the game we are all looking for.

[Ghost Of The Year]

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I've had plenty entertainment in my test dynasty with Ball St. and I learned something or a few somethings along the way about recruiting and my playbook.

[Locke888]

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I've had plenty entertainment in my test dynasty with Ball St. and I learned something or a few somethings along the way about recruiting and my playbook.

Ball State just beat Ohio State (sim) in year 3 of my test dynasty. Awesome, if you can convince yourself Ball state=Alabama or something

[WeArePSU40]

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Ball State just beat Ohio State (sim) in year 3 of my test dynasty. Awesome, if you can convince yourself Ball state=Alabama or something

I solve this by forcing wins. Yeah, we shouldn’t have to do this, but this also takes about 2-3 minutes per week, so it’s not a lot of time.

I go to schedule, then I filter by ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, and SEC. I force wins for games where it is obvious what will happen (OSU beating Ball State). I’ll also do it for games like Vandy at Bama since Bama wins that 98/100x. If the teams are more evenly matched (say Kansas State at Kansas or Utah at Texas Tech or Bama vs. Texas or whatever), I just don’t touch it.

If I’m playing as a team in a smaller conference, then I also do that conference each week. I leave the rest of the G5 alone to play out as the game intends.

It’s not perfect and a bit annoying we have to do this, but it makes dynasty mode playable with realistic results. And it only takes seriously 2 minutes each week, which isn’t much. Probably costs me 30-40 minutes in an entire season, which I’m willing to spend for this to be more accurate.

[ShadowsAndDust]

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I'd say maybe wait until the 8/29 patch drops that will fix the issue with being unable to do position changes with newly acquired players (freshmen and transfers). On the other hand, I'm having a total blast playing as Minnesota in Dynasty, so if you can't wait, just go ahead and pull the trigger. BTW, I haven't done custom conferences or schedules, which do cause problems down the line in Dynasty.

[jello1717]

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I solve this by forcing wins. Yeah, we shouldn’t have to do this, but this also takes about 2-3 minutes per week, so it’s not a lot of time.



I go to schedule, then I filter by ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, and SEC. I force wins for games where it is obvious what will happen (OSU beating Ball State). I’ll also do it for games like Vandy at Bama since Bama wins that 98/100x. If the teams are more evenly matched (say Kansas State at Kansas or Utah at Texas Tech or Bama vs. Texas or whatever), I just don’t touch it.



If I’m playing as a team in a smaller conference, then I also do that conference each week. I leave the rest of the G5 alone to play out as the game intends.



It’s not perfect and a bit annoying we have to do this, but it makes dynasty mode playable with realistic results. And it only takes seriously 2 minutes each week, which isn’t much. Probably costs me 30-40 minutes in an entire season, which I’m willing to spend for this to be more accurate.

I agree with this 100% and do the same (except I don’t force any G5 games, even for my crappy little Sun Belt Conference). It takes very little time and produces good results.

I don’t just force any game I think needs it as I use their OVRs to determine the % chance of the favorite winning and then use an RNG to determine the winner. That way there are still upsets.

TLDR: By forcing wins you can get solid win/loss results so that should absolutely not be a reason that prevents you from starting a dynasty.

[Locke888]

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I solve this by forcing wins. Yeah, we shouldn’t have to do this, but this also takes about 2-3 minutes per week, so it’s not a lot of time.

I go to schedule, then I filter by ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, and SEC. I force wins for games where it is obvious what will happen (OSU beating Ball State). I’ll also do it for games like Vandy at Bama since Bama wins that 98/100x. If the teams are more evenly matched (say Kansas State at Kansas or Utah at Texas Tech or Bama vs. Texas or whatever), I just don’t touch it.

If I’m playing as a team in a smaller conference, then I also do that conference each week. I leave the rest of the G5 alone to play out as the game intends.

It’s not perfect and a bit annoying we have to do this, but it makes dynasty mode playable with realistic results. And it only takes seriously 2 minutes each week, which isn’t much. Probably costs me 30-40 minutes in an entire season, which I’m willing to spend for this to be more accurate.

Thanks, I’m going to start doing this. I’ve been resisting but it is futile

[jello1717]

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Thanks, I’m going to start doing this. I’ve been resisting but it is futile

By doing it you can get results like this (even with there still being chances for upsets), which I think look awfully good.

NOTE: I don’t force anything in the playoffs, but if I had some lowly rated G5 school making a run, I prolly would.

[ncaa98]

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The upsets, G5 teams winning national championships and scheduling issues in dynasty are ruining it for me.

It might be 3 more patches before I can hold my nose and start a dynasty if ever. Maybe CFB32 will be the game we are all looking for.

I agree this is frustrating, but this can be fixed by the force win/lose option.

[KingTD]

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Probably should start a test dynasty to get a feel for recruiting, the transfer portal, wear and tear, etc.

[_-King-_]

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There likely isn’t going to be any major overhauls coming to Dynasty. They might tweak some minor bugs but most of the big complaints probably aren’t changing. IMO they’re also not nearly as bad as people have made them out to be.

5 seasons into my dynasty the sim engine has been mostly totally fine.

If you’re waiting, you’re waiting for next years game at this point.

[letsgopens66]

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Definitely some wonky upsets still but the W/L totals were much better in my test sims post patch. If I see a crazy one come across my bottom line I’ll go fix it after the game but other than that I leave it be

[Collegefbfan]

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Hold on there for a minute. So, you all are telling me we can go into other games that aren't our controlled teams and force wins and losses. The game is set up where we can't play the other games in which we don't control either team. But we can force the outcome? I did not know this.

[jello1717]

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Hold on there for a minute. So, you all are telling me we can go into other games that aren't our controlled teams and force wins and losses. The game is set up where we can't play the other games in which we don't control either team. But we can force the outcome? I did not know this.

CFB -> scores/schedule -> action button (A on Xbox) on the desired game -> force home or away win