Looking at the impact of training intensity, it appears that the cash expenditure for high training levels isn't worth it. For instance, at level 4, the difference between training my stamina intensely and in a relaxed manner is about .12 points per day. Over the course of a season this means that the intense player will earn about 5 points more spread among his training focuses, but at a total cost of $30,000 more in training fees and earning 1/5 of the stamina regeneration of a relaxed player. Top equipment for the level should end up costing much less than that for a higher bonus.

It seems to me that if FOFC wanted to game the system some, we could lowball contract offers to our own team and not lose too much in terms of training. We could then have a larger budget to fill in any backup positions with the absolute best CPU players available, because we can pay top dollar with 50-70% of our roster on low wages...or even pick up a mercenary or two.

71 plays on defense, 5 tackles, 1 PD...I want to watch the pbp to see if I screwed the pooch on a lot and where I need to make changes.

I sent you an offer. I've got two LBs who appear to have gone AWOL on me.

Good game for my CB, Chris Whizz. 6 tackles, no misses and 4 passes defended. Maybe it's easier to perform well as the nickel back.

Looks like as an easter present, everyone got 100 flex points free

I went ahead and bought a Single-A Canadian team, the Alberta Power. If there's any human players not on Larry or Skydog's team you'd like to try out, send me an offer.

anybody here know what the diff is between the league levels. is it sort of like baseball with A having lvl1 mostly and Pro being upper tier or is it just for cosmetic reasons?

Never mind ...I got my lazy ass over to the site and hit up an A .seems for the most part to have the same averages as higher leagues

My question is if a team has the capacity to move up tiers like a soccer league. That would be nice.

EDIT: I see from the forums on the site they already are doing Promotions throughout all the leagues.

as far as i know, no....
they are also thinking of caps for the different leagues

I had been led to believe, from the complaints of other players on the main board at GLB, that starters and backups would split time essentially. That DID NOT happen on my team. Backups at certain positions got time, but at others they just sat there idly, especially QB. If there are any FOFC players who want to be released or traded to start on another team, let me know and I'll do it without any trouble.

dbd1963: Would I be starting or a backup for you?

Doesn't stamina and play intensity play a big part in it? If the starter has high stamina or low play intensity, they are less likely to tire and come out of the game right?

Yes, but right now everyone has low stamina. It seems to be figured differently for certain players than others. And it makes sense -- it's definitely got to be more tiring playing on either line than playing QB. The linemen come in and out frequently that I've seen, and I can adjust the sub time to make that happen more frequently. But my backup QB was in on 1 play only, so I can see, even rejiggering the subs levels, that backup QBs are going to be frustrated. I doubt a 3rd QB would often see the field. I was surprised tha the 2nd HB didn't see much time either.

I signed my contract with Grand Junction -- turning down another offer with a 10K signing bonus!

Wade Moore is now a LB on the Lowcountry Gators.

We probably should start using the team forums for discussing team-specific strategery and this thread for discussing general game strategery/elements?

I guess it depends how competitive everyone is at the start. :) I know I'm trying to figure out alot of the strategies of the game right now, so people from other teams sharing their thoughts isn't a bad thing for me.

As we get a bit better, and more competitive, I'd agree that using the in-game forums to discuss specific team strategy is a good idea.

Ok, Richmond now needs a G, and I'm removing level restrictions. First come first served!

I just signed up as a shutdown corner. Hammer Lanes services are available
Name is Hammer Lane

Yeah, that's why I tried to word it carefully.

Like I will get confused as hell if everyone is talking about who is a run-stopper, who is a pass-rusher, etc from every team. That's the stuff I'm talking about.

Understanding the best ways to train, etc, etc - that should definitely be here.

Joseph Thorbjorn, a level 5 OT, I was signed a nice contract from a Human owned team, traded another so he could get a friend on his team....so now, if anyone wants him that owns a team from here, trade to get him on, he is a decent OT amd currently on the Toronto Towers now.

Richmond could also use one more CB. Any interest?

I also had to buy a team, but I bought a Canadian Pro League Team, I am the Victoria Admirals, Formerly the Yukon Crush

All right, QB Julio Riddols needs a team. Time to rewrite history, only this time, better.

And just as a quick side question I don't have any CPU offers.. It says I have 3- Just wondering if anyone else signed up recently and had no offers.

I've just read that they've already got 8000 players signed up, and some guys are having to play as 3rd string on a CPU team. With the popularity of QB, it may be that there just aren't any more positions to be offered.

I forsee contract demands going down in the near term..

They said that they are going to add some more leagues, including USA leagues, so those wanting to buy a USA team, keep your eyes peeled..

I was thinking that was probably the case.. Just too many QB's.. I had figured I should be a CB at first, but the name Julio Riddols belongs at QB. If they make new american leagues, I say we bring back the Wyoming Wildfire.

T Maple Syrup says thank you for making him a part of your team. Since you already have two human offensive tackles, I don't mind being listed as a backup in the depth chart.

Awesome, looks like cyberdunk. I'm going to get a player now, which referral code should i use, which team to apply for and which position is needed?

I think you'll see a lot of time and I'm going to try to finagle you a starting job. The lvl 2 OT was there when I bought the team, and I feel like I can't just demote him. But he saw how bad he sucked last game. Man he was rotten!

I'm still not signed by an FOFC team, yet I'm 2/2 in FGs and have good skills... :(

Make what you want and someone will find room for you.

Err, except QB!

Victoria Admirals which is in the Canadian Pro League...I am looking for talent at every position.

Like a Level 4 kicker? Daniel Schoonover at your service.

use this one....

http://goallineblitz.com/game/signup.pl?ref=743302

post in the WOOF forum, your players name, skydog'll sign you.....

I don't know if this is something new, or if I missed seeing it. If you are an offensive lineman, under advanced tactics, you can now set if you want to focus on run blocking, pass blocking, or have no focus.

I just noticed that guys can have players on rival teams. Seems a way for them to spy on your plans in the team forum..

Just signed up, TE Rex Smasher, pretty good hands but also can block a bit. Someone give me an offer to play for a real team please. I don't care who, I just don't want to be stuck on a computer team like I was on cyberdunk.

If you are the owner of one of those teams, you should probably trade or release those players. Are there any rules written anywhere in the forums for how many teams and/or players a user can have in a conference? It seems some of the alpha tester have players scattered all over the place on rival teams.

L2 SS Dixon Payne is available to sign if someone needs secondary help.

Created a CB: Sam Graves.. looking for a team

Anyone want Idjit Kicker? He's available for trade.

:eek:
I think they're being pretty optimistic that somebody would pay $1,000 of real money for something in this game.

SirFozzie, I sent you a contract from the Richmond Razorbacks. You'd be a backup on our team but CB seems to be a spot where the subs play.

The Silverbacks could use some backup OL and higher level secondary. The latter is especially important because Fresno likes to air it out. If you're already ont he secondary, try to level up ASAP if at all possible.

I didn't gain enough XP to level up. I'm at 616/1000.

He means spend some money for Flex points and "boost"..

I haven't gone back to read the thread, but I just created my Level 4 QB. :)

Damn, I just used my flex points on some custom item. Still a level 1 FS.

The custom item helps though. Everyone should have one.

Anyone interested in trying to get together a 20 man beer tent raid this evening?

Had to release two very good players because they are both on a team I'll play later! This is something owners need to keep up with. It may seem like a small thing, but you know there are players who will exploit it.

For those who are on both Richmond and Grand Junction, we won't play each other this year barring a miracle. Richmond is in 14th place and it looks like a tough season for us. But we'll want to watch that in the future.

Richmond may well get relegated, so that would take care of that..

offer sent....i am running the Kazan Golden Horde which is an Eastern Europe team...

But really - what damage can someone really do to your team?

In our team forum we discuss openly what tactics we are going to use.

Also, they could click on every player and see all the strengths and weaknesses (if they have it set so team can view..)

It looks like I'll hit level 2 with the next training update. I'll then use flex points to boost a level.

Sweet, I'm already on your team! :)

(Smacks MacroGuru and takes his best players)

I'm the Oregon Octopi in that league (thanks to a bunch of Octopus Overlords signups)

Right - but aren't the team tactics INCREDIBLY limited right now? Is there really any advantage to be gained from this at this stage of the game?

I know what I could have done with it. YMMV.

Keep in mind that I can't see what the team tactics interface looks like - so I'm partially asking to understand what you're talking about.

OK, here's a fer instance -- just before our last game we discussed how we wanted our DBs to play based on what we were seeing from their QB. What do you think you could do with that information?

The tactics controls are very basic, but you can set how much and where you want to run, The kinds of passes you'll throw, how much zone you'll play, blitzing percentage, how much you run d vs pass d you'll play. If you are openly talking about that and your opponent is hearing it, they have an advantage.

Anybody else thinking that these guys better really beef up their ISP bandwidth and/or server capacity?

It has gotten progressively slower and more difficult to load pages in the last day or so. Much worse than Friday or Saturday, when you might have expected would be high traffic days. Since the site just started recently, it makes me think they might crash this Saturday.

Sorry MacroGuru - first I didn't realize the Admirals were your team. Second, I wanted to be on Wade's team. :)

You're assuming every person that is on another team is for the other team. I don't see any benefit at this present time to being a spy (unless you are the owner of another team)

I think I wasn't assuming anything too much, since it was the owner and starting QB of a team I will play later this season.

I don't want to keep justifying what I did or what I thought. If others would make a different decision that's cool.

Wish I could remove my player from a team where it was purchased by a racist jerkoff.

Why does the owner need to discuss tactics openly? The owner is the only one who can see that the team is going to run to the left 50% of the time, so unless he tells the entire team, how is that going to give the game away? Suggestions from players to the coach are fine, but have to be taken with a grain of salt (like "make sure you're throwing me the ball a lot". Which isn't a bad idea, Larry. I converted nearly 70% of the passes thrown my way with no drops. But I digress.) But the only "strategy" that a spy could take away from that is if the QB told his LT and LG to make sure to have their tactics set to run block in view of everyone. Maybe owners just need to make sure individual tactic settings are set via PM. Or nominate captains for each position group to relay group settings from the owner/coach.

Bottom line is, I don't think the game has evolved to the point where preparing for games is particularly collaborative. It's still dice rolls in the computer, and I think it would take real time weeks of training changes to materially take advantage of advance knowledge of a team's strengths and weaknesses.

FS Stephen Bucc

I've got to finish equiping myself, it's having problems right now.

Methinks thou hast disturbeth mine immersion, thou misbegotten fool!

PM Bort or Digital Daggers at the game forums and see if they'll grant you FA.

If anyone is lookign for a team, here's what my team has in terms of human players. NOTE: the numbers in parenthesis are the levels of the highest human players, not how many. For example, the QB(4), means that I have a Level 4 QB. But I only have one human QB on the roster, so there's room for at least one more. The positions at which I have more than 2 humans have been marked as well.


QB (4)
RB (1)
FB (2)
WR (4) (We have two guys at 4, then no one else above one.)
TE (2)
C (no human players)
OG (no human players)
OT (4, 1)
DT (only one human)
DE (We have three DEs, all are level 2.)
LB (Only two human LBs, both level 4.)
CB (3, 1)
SS (2)
FS (2)
P (no human player)
K (4)

Okay, so it's just 2/3 dice rolls. To clarify, there's little we can do as individuals to direct the flow of the game, as opposed to, say, 16 player deathmatch FPS games. The balance of the attributes and range of training options lead me to believe that the advanced tactics really add much variance to the outcome of the game. I still have to see a larger sample, though.

Ok, I', at Lvl 4 but I am not sure about the attributes mix. I am available.

Oh, and if you register a player and want on my team, shoot me a message in-game. I'm not always reading every post in this thread.

Team: Lowcountry Gators
Owner: Ben E Lou

Thanks was wondering who the main guys were.

Probably have to be some way to put some type of controls on owners especially if you are spending real $. In essence, a team is a type of 'guild' and if I was playing WoW online and was forced to deal with someone like this for 40 days until I could do anything, I wouldn't hang around.

Beholde, thou hath charms to soothe a savage breast.

Don't worry, none of us are sure ;).

Do I set the attributes to Team Owner View or something more?

Do at least Team Owner View. He needs to know your stats.

Richmond is 1 backup TE away from being an all human team!

For some reason, that seems cool.

Thankfully Bort released me from my contract.

FS Swede Genesis (lvl 5) is available

Strength: 11.67 Blocking: 10.67
Speed: 22.6 Tackling: 18.6
Agility: 23.05 Throwing: 9
Jumping: 10.67 Catching: 14.6
Stamina: 18.6 Carrying: 10.67
Vision: 15.6 Kicking: 10
Confidence: 13.67 Punting: 7


Hard Hitter Abilities - 2/1/1/1/0

If you've signed with Lowcountry, please report to the in-game team forum for discussions. It looks like you have to be logged in and own a player on the team to see that forum. Nice little automated feature there.

http://goallineblitz.com/game/forum_...d=0&team_id=87

I posdted an important defensive strategy request for Fresno game:


Also, I like Skydog's idea of getting backups on special teams. I'm going to go ahead and do that.

Swede signed with the Silverbacks. Figured they had some CPU guys at FS already and could use more guys.

Damn. I bought some equipment a couple of days ago but only now just saw an option to Equip (next to the Sell ). I didn't get the skill boost until now.

Today's game between the Silverbacks and Ninjas -- looking at the team ratings, the Ninjas are a yellow 21, which means they are close to a 24. The silverbacks are a red 18, which means closer to 18. Is this a big difference? I guess we're about to see..

Sorry I had an offer made before yours, that also gave a bit more money. Good luck though!

thats cool...dont really know how the money works at this point...

already got guys going to the highest bidder...dang mercenaries...i guess our 6-1 and certain to be a playoff team (wants winner) feature is worth nothing... :( :)

They are 3 points better at :receiving" and 6 better at "kicking." The rest are the same. I think we'll be alright unless the game comes down to a punt pass kick competition.

Ouch!

We just got fucking throttled.

Owowowowowow....it stings. :eek:

Cheers!

I blame our deficit in "kicking"

On the bright side, a lot of us leveled up to 5.

They had a level 6 receiver that made us look really bad, especially on an 80 yard TD where it looks like Southwell fell down.

lol

Looking at the box it doesn't appear so. Oh well....we all just started. I'm not too worried. :)

Edit: Ouch...three dropped passes? Ugh.

Cheers!

Well at least the backup QBs got some PT.

Nice game team. :)

Lowcountry >>>> Grand Junction


:)

No tackles for me, but I'm level 2 now. :P

Rough game for us. I feel somewhat ok with my performance, I think they did run it more than their previous game and we did an ok job of keeping it short gains mostly. I got my stamina past 20 now, but only played 31 plays. I'm wondering if I should back off my play intensity a bit perhaps?

Used my flex points to improve breakthrough (level 6 now) and defensive line general (level 2 now). Going to work on my speed a bit as my other skills look ok for starting out.

I read the important skills for DT are Strength, Tackling, Agility, speed. For me I don't know being a NT that I need a ton of speed, but probably a little improvement there wouldn't hurt for me.

Probably from that Tim Harper guy?

I don't know that you can take what he says as fact. I think it's educated guess.