New Sticky Note

The new user interface is in preview!

Want to check it out? Click here! (If you don't like it, you can still switch back)

League Forums

Main - League News/General Discussion

47 Season Thread

By GrandadB
12/17/2018 4:23 pm
Best of luck everyone, first season in 4.4.

Re: 47 Season Thread

By Smirt211
12/24/2018 8:32 am
LOL at 1st week's scores.

*singing that classic 80s jam* WAKE ME UP before you go-go.....

Wait, I think I'm coming to....enough to say that you can't have it both ways. Knock down the passing game sure but put the needle way down on injuring RBs, ok???

BTW, Good game amalric7.

:)
Last edited at 12/24/2018 9:45 am

Re: 47 Season Thread

By Smirt211
12/24/2018 9:50 am
Sorry, just blowing steam. First game I opened up this morning was literally my Greatest Offensive Team Ever (not hyperbole) not even making it a game (for a title) against King Bryson.


Re: 47 Season Thread

By Smirt211
12/26/2018 7:20 am
Eh, I got into the 2nd quarter of viewing and hit stop.

Fair warning: I got a few title games coming up in the next sim and there's a very good chance I'll be hitting abandon across the board and dropping the game. :(

...and honestly, if not for that ^ based on this game I'd be mashing abandon right now.



Last edited at 12/26/2018 7:23 am

Re: 47 Season Thread

By PrivateSnowflake
12/26/2018 7:36 am
I'm going to go ahead and jinx myself and say I'm getting the game planning down for 4.4. I do have hope for some fixes which will let receivers be a part of the game again, so I've held off on adding more plays until I see the fix.

I figured these would all be throw-away seasons while the players gained familiarity, but I'm happy to report my teams have remained competitive. I'm likely just beating more casual players, but it helps the psyche.

My last hurdle and I'm asking for some help here, has been the GDP speed. I had it at 35 for 4.3, but that didn't seem to work so I've settled for 10. I tried 5 but that was awful. 10 isn't much better, but I am moving the ball now. Anyone playing with anything higher?

Re: 47 Season Thread

By Smirt211
12/26/2018 7:39 am
I've never even touched GDP speed (ever) and I've consistently always had the top rushing and receiving offenses (or at least top 5 in each category) through my strategies and over-rides.

I know it's big in the sWo and I guess now since the game has been turned over to the Beta Boys it matters much more with over-rides taken away.....

but I can't help you with GDP, man. I've never adjusted that thing in my life.

Re: 47 Season Thread

By Smirt211
12/26/2018 8:14 am
...and here's the thing. I refuse to play the game, offensively, as Setherick/Ray/JDB is forcing us into. I still know ways around it but I can say over the last few sim cycles I've noticed they've chipped away at another angle of moving the ball so it's whatever at this point.

sWo can have their game.


Re: 47 Season Thread

By billstein
12/27/2018 4:06 am
You need to do what you feel, but think about this.

Scores in 4.3 and previous versions were not realistic. Hitting 90% of your 40yd + passes is not realistic.

My teams have taken hits as much as anybody by 4.4, but I'm actually excited at the chance to play in games that are more realistic.

We're all on the same field, playing by the same rules. Sure, it sucks to have teams that were great under one version suddenly become cellar dwellers. A good coach will adapt and overcome, others will retire.

I think you're too good to just fade away. I think you can overcome.

Personally, I'm dropping some teams so I can spend more time on the ones I are about, until I can learn more about 4.4. I hope you'll consider the same, as I've always looked forward to facing your team.

Re: 47 Season Thread

By Smirt211
12/28/2018 6:38 am
Thank you and oh, I'll overcome. I've already dropped some teams so I can hone in on teams as they flip to new seasons and thus enter this next generation of shoving the current code up the sWo's ***. LOL

I understand what you're saying and there's a balance between what we have now in v4.4. and what we've had previously in v4.3 and v4.2.

Here's my walking away point: if it goes back to the two CB3 blitzes scorching earth (destroying all runs and passes) and "savvy" GMs streaming them and hitting the board to get all the adulation....I just can't.

I need more data collection but what I'm not finding good is I'm not seeing much consequences out there in the sim. What do I mean? Blitz overuse or catching a deadly blitz in a run key resulting in a streak style touchdown. Consequences.

If you remove them, the fun is gone because where is the strategy offensively then?




Re: 47 Season Thread

By Smirt211
12/28/2018 6:45 am
Addendum:

GDB, I know you've been an advocate for those two particular blitzes and was not happy when they got neutralized, however, you're not the one GM I clearly had in mind when mentioning the strategy or involved in the past experiences I had under that archaic code. :)