My SS I created a little over a week ago got an award (3rd in FF). This is pretty good considering he had 2 FF in 4 games.

Our only chance is to put in LeCharles Darwin at QB. The guy is the pinnacle of football evolution!

I'm ready to anchor the D-line today. We've been stellar against the run the past few games.

Our *cough* starter might not agree with you. ;)


Yes. The defense has been fantastic. We haven't been scoring that much more more than usual, but we've been keeping the opposing offense under control. Everything will need to fall in place for us to pull out a win.

DMB, I my CB is a lvl 4 CB right now

I couldn't wait to get home from work today to see how the playoffs went:

To paraphrase the HNIC:

I noticed that I have a new DT along side me the last couple of games. Just curious why the change, it doesnt seem to have hurt us any but I also thought we had started doing well before the change too though.

The DT asked to be released.

Ahh bummer... thought things were meshing well there. Regardless, the defense has been rather dominant lately, lets keep it going!

For a while there I thought this thread was going to be nothing but spoiler tags.

Any FOFC'ers going to be free agents that aren't already on a FOFC team. I really depth on both lines and a good fullback.

Once again, my MLB for the Silverbacks, Robert DeMinas, is underperforming. What am I missing, and what should I be focusing training on? Here's his stats -- could someone more savvy in the game tell me what I'm screwing up on?

Physical Attributes			Football Skills
Strength:	25.82		Blocking:	12
Speed:	19		Tackling:	31.05
Agility:	18.65		Throwing:	10
Jumping:	12		Catching:	12
Stamina:	26		Carrying:	7
Vision:	23.65		Kicking:	9
Confidence:	16.65		Punting:	7

Hard Hitter
Snarl - 3
Aura of Int - 3
Diving Tackle - 3
Monster Hit - 2
Defense General - 3

Pass Rusher
Trash Talk -1
The Glare -1
Shed Block -2

Look at one of the best LBs in the game:

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/3...resultsos7.jpg

As you can see it's all about physical ratings, mainly speed and agility with some vision and tackling. As in real life, physical attributes are the most important ones at every position besides QB and some specialized ones.

I've focused a lot on speed. I'm level nine and have an enhanced speed of 30. I played all three LB slots over ten games and had 74 tackles and 4 ffum. In watching PbP I'm convinced my most important attribute is speed.

I'm convinced that there is potentially one single attribute in each position group that is king. OLine appears to be strength, LB appears to be speed.

Tim Harper said that he chose speed because he knew he couldn't out muscle the linemen, but that he recognized a LB needs more strength and tackling than his has. He did make the leaderboard for his conference in missed tackles.

I think one problem a MLB can face is a great blocking FB gets on you and you can't get past him. For that you either need better strength to fight through the block, or be so much faster and more agile that he can't catch up to you.

I think the MLBs priority should be figuring out how to neutralize a great FB and still make the tackle. That could mean pumping the strength up a bit, but not at the expense of everything else that's important. Because it's true you can't really get the strength to overpower anyone on the OL and still be an effective LB. (But that's why the NT needs to demand a double team.) Going the speed route could make sense, but for those of us who are already balanced, maybe going strength would be the faster alternative.

I think vision goes a long way as well.

It looks like we match up well against Fresno. They're better than us running the ball, but our run defense is better than theirs. Everywhere else (aside from kicking...where they have a significant advantage over us) we're even. Should be a fun game.

I hear that the Cowboys are going to win 13 games this season.

I've built a decent MLB that just made lvl 8. My key stats are:
tackling 31
strength 24
vision 24
speed 24

and he seems to be doing well with those, had 4 tackles in the first playoff game and he's only missed 1 tackle in the 9 games he's played. LB seems to be a hard one to balance though because I think each of those skills are needed to make a good all around LB.

I had ownership aspirations and needed to retire my guys to reach that goal, but I did. No no more Balhaire.

Congrats to the former team, though, you guys looks great.

I just noticed that my DE won an award for most sacks for the season. That's pretty funny considering I only had 7 and 4 of them were in one game.

AHah... well grats I guess! :)

Sacks are so hard to get in the current engine, so 7 is a good amount, congrats!

Special teams (DeMarcus Lott) getting it done.

http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?pbp_id=1140165

Wait...is the Fresno QB an FOFCer? Charles U Farley? Chuck U Farley?!?!?

Yup, nice strip, it was nice to carry the rock fer a bit... 35 yards!

What a series by Richard Southwell:

Nice to see someone made Dean Houston.

Hey, that's me! Thanks for the acknowledgement.

FWIW this was the first game that I had noticed the diving tackle part of the PBP - probably because it was the first time I had pulled some off.

Awesome, they have added team chemistry now:

Here's how it works, and this is to reward teams who stay together for a while:

- For every day that you don't add or remove somebody from your offense, defense, or team in general, your chemistry in the appropriate bar goes up by 1. This will process at day change. This means you can gain up to 40 chemistry if you stay together for a whole season and don't make any changes.

- For every player that you drop or trade away, you lose 3 chemistry from the appropriate bars (1 if it's a CPU).

- For every player that you add to your team, you lose 2 chemistry from the appropriate bars.

- This means: if you make a trade of a player for a player, you lose 3-5 chemistry. If you make a trade of a player for cash, you lose 1-3 chemistry.

- Chemistry will work similar to morale and energy in that affects your team's performance on the field. It won't affect it nearly as much as energy or morale, but it will have an effect. A team with good chemistry will play better than a team with poor chemistry.

- The minimum chemistry you can have is 10. The max is 100.

- A player leaving due to an expiring contract does not affect chemistry.

- Chemistry will not affect teams during this season in the playoffs. It will start on day 1 of season 2. We will reset every team's chemistry to 70 before the first games of season 2 run. You will be able to make moves during the off season to prepare for the upcoming changes.

This might suck for me : I've got a QB who isn't progressing because he is the backup (no playing time at all) and still on the CPU team salary (relaxed training). I asked for a trade but it didn't happen because of the playoffs, with this new rules I might have to wait for the end of my contract...

For what it's worth, it appears chemistry may not currently be in effect.


Chemistry didn't increase last night.

It will be in effect with the start of the new season.

Still won't help him though. Can't make moves right now except to cut people. This won't stop me in the slightest way from cutting a pain in the ass or signing either a good player, or another FOFC'r that wants on a team.

I have a SS, Clint Flicker, who will be level 6 tomorrow and I will flex 3 more levels next week. Looking for a FOFC team willing to trade for him. He had 2 PD and 2 FF in 4 games last season.

Strength: 19.6
Speed: 22.94
Agility: 17.02
Jumping: 10.67
Stamina: 23.26
Vision: 19.6
Confidence: 12.67
Blocking: 10.67
Tackling: 21.28
Throwing: 9
Catching: 10.67
Carrying: 10.67
Kicking: 8
Punting: 8

Wow, huge game by my TE today in the playoffs game:

TE Big Hands Carrillo 6 catches 71.5 yards 11.9 ypc 2.4 yac 2 TD

He is a backup in that team but this performance should boost him as we won 14-10 with my 2 TD's. I'm boosting only his receiving abilities so he is more of a receiver than blocker.

Here is the final game winning TD in the 4th Q, huge mistake by the LB who left him alone.

http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?pbp_id=1146989

Now is going to play in the championship game.

My FS is level 5, and I wouldn't mind a starting spot somewhere? :)

I just created SE Quicksilver Supersnatcher last night. I leveld him up to 4 and will do it again when the season turns over. If anyone is buying a team and needs a starting wr, let me know.

It says it begins Day 1, Season 2. So offseason moves after the playoffs don't have any effect.

SS, level 6, still looking for a team.

Strength: 20
Speed: 26.65
Agility: 18.19
Jumping: 10.84
Stamina: 23.66
Vision: 21
Confidence: 12.84
Blocking: 10.84
Tackling: 21.68
Throwing: 9
Catching: 10.84
Carrying: 10.84
Kicking: 8
Punting: 8

RA, I'm not sure if owners can sign players during this period of time or not. I think there might be a freeze until after the playoffs are over.