Coach Suggestions

[Tonka3013]

I've been messing around with the idea of using playcall sheets. But looking at a paper or at my phone or whatever is annoying.

So I used the gameplan thing in the custom playbook to rate plays for certain situations. I figured the "coach suggestion" would then show me the plays that I selected for those situations.

And it does, but sometimes it shows me only a couple, sometimes only 1, despite having maybe a dozen plays selected for that situation. And I have my settings such that I can't run the same play more than 2x in a game. So sometimes it just a list of bank plays that I can't run.

Am I doing something wrong or is the game just too dumb for this?

I recently watched a video online about using favorite plays to build a playsheet. But it doesn't automatically call up my 3rd and short plays--I have to dig. And if I want to make a change, I basically have to redo the whole thing because adding new plays messes up the order.

[SonOfEd]

Do you have 30 plays selected for each game plan category?

[Tonka3013]

No, definitely not. But I do have far more plays than are showing up on the suggestions.

I was trying to implement what I read in Brian Billick’s book about offensive game plans. The gist of it is that you figure out how many times you’re in each scenario and base the number of plays on that. So you might see 3rd&1 1-2 times in a game and put 2 runs and 2 passes in your game plan for that.

Maybe this feature just won’t work the way I’m trying to use it.

[TX.Leaguer]

You have to completely fill the gameplan with plays or it’ll do what you’re seeing. Add plays to each situation until it’s full and you’ll get better results. Been an issue for years on Madden.

[Tonka3013]

That’s too bad. Thanks.

[John_Elway]

Where do you setup these gameplans for certain situations? I would love to try it. "Coach Suggestion" plays sometimes don't really make sense at default.

[adembroski]

Quote: Originally Posted by John_Elway

Where do you setup these gameplans for certain situations? I would love to try it. "Coach Suggestion" plays sometimes don't really make sense at default.

Main Menu/NFL Shield logo/Playbooks

Select a base playbook, RB over to My Gameplan. Edit to your heart's content.

Each category will acknowledge 30 plays. The stars don't mean anything unless you're Super Simming, in which case the percentage chance a play will be called in a situation is (number of stars assigned to play)/(number of total stars in situation).

Beware, it can be a bit buggy and it takes time and patience to build. The order of your formations will be weird, and you'll get 4 minute offense when you need 2 minute offense soetimes.

[DaGambino]

Quote: Originally Posted by adembroski

Each category will acknowledge 30 plays. The stars don't mean anything unless you're Super Simming, in which case the percentage chance a play will be called in a situation is (number of stars assigned to play)/(number of total stars in situation).

Where you hear about the stars?