Using game prep/ Install scheme for custom playbook

[Fixxer]

If you are using a custom playbook in your CFM should you use your game prep to install scheme so your players know the plays you put in your playbook? I know this is thinking outside the box but people are saying that players are saying they don't know the playbook so would that fix that issue?

[madball]

Not knowing the playbook is to do with the scheme you are running, so if you draft a west coast qb but you run a vertical offence then his confidence will take a hit. Installing the scheme won't entirely offset the confidence lost. I can't imagine ea would put that much effort in to it. But in saying that it could be worth a try

[Fixxer]

Thanks for the reply. So if EA specifically put something in saying " I don't know the playbook" there has to be a game prep activity to counter that, or is it just a confidence issue? Are all the game prep activities the same result with a different title, or do they actually do what they say and you see different results on the field? I may be over thinking this but someone in my cfm has there cbs intercepting anything that is thrown at them and he says just be smart with game prep choice.

[madball]

It's a confidence issue. They all do the same thing which is boost confidence by small increments. It would be good if it was a bit more in depth as I personally think the confidence system is poorly designed. As for his cb's it might just be a high awareness and or play recognition attribute

[Dr Death]

Quote: Originally Posted by madball

Not knowing the playbook is to do with the scheme you are running, so if you draft a west coast qb but you run a vertical offence then his confidence will take a hit. Installing the scheme won't entirely offset the confidence lost. I can't imagine ea would put that much effort in to it. But in saying that it could be worth a try

And this is where EA completely dropped the ball. They give us a wide variety of offenses, yet only a small set of "schemes." Example... I run the Run & Shoot, but there's no scheme for that. And if EA thinks that the R&S is just a Spread offense, then they are really missing a huge chunk of what makes the R&S up.

I picked up WR Keyshawn Martin from the waiver wire at the start of my current Oilers CFM. He says that line: 'I don't know the playbook.' I went in to work on his confidence in game prep, then played him for an entire half in the pre-season game after I acquired him and he caught 7 passes and was fine after that.

But why they give us so many different choices of offenses, but so few schemes is just beyond me. How I would love it if you could list the R&S as your scheme and any player not used to that system would, obviously, need time to get it down, but the way it is now just makes me shake my head.

[niftyjets]

Quick question where does it tell you that he doesn't know the playbook?

[madball]

Quote: Originally Posted by niftyjets

Quick question where does it tell you that he doesn't know the playbook?

In game prep when you select your players to gain confidence/ xp