NCAA Football 10 Blog: Dynasty Details

[moylan1234]

Quote: Originally Posted by jsquigg

I think I read somewhere that it has to do with academics and to prevent party incidents, but it still doesn't make sense to me. Especially isolated to just one month.

that's interesting i just assumed it was for weather. never thought of that

[the onizzle]

Quote: Originally Posted by DookieMowf

While you're at it, what's the QB #10 for Baylor speed? lol Great blog. This was the kind of information I was looking for.

Robert Griffin is probably a 86-89 SPD.


As a general response to the blog I think they have done some very robust tuning to Dynasty mode this year, but very little in the way of NEW content.

Lots of my friends keep saying if you want to study a content rich dynasty/franchise mode, look at all of the content in the old College Hoops series. We are still missing things like:

1. Coaching staffs that affect your players' progression, and focus during games, as well as your school's recruiting ability.

2. The ability to have any level of impact on what individual ratings improve either in season or out of season, as well as which players receive the most attention from coaches. At least give us a functional rating category called "potential" so we know what to expect.

3. Recruiting high school Juniors and maybe even Sophomores. Why you decided to "hold back" high profile senior recruits until off season for NCAA '10 is beyond me. There is no such thing as hidden recruits IRL, so I don't know what you're trying to simulate. Just make them less receptive in season.

4. Recruiting decommits/switches (this may be incorporated with competitive recruiting, it's yet to be seen). Nothing is official until those letters get faxed in to coaches offices in February.

5. Recruiting busts and gems.



I could go on and on, but the point is these are the types of goals you should be setting for yourselves EA. I WILL commend you on custom conferences, and the great amounts of tuning that were discussed in this weeks blog.

[the onizzle]

Also to praise this week's blog update... this is one of the most badass standstill screens I've ever seen in NCAA. That grass is sick looking.

[jello1717]

Quote: Originally Posted by countryboy

I have a question. Will non-conference yearly rival games automatically be locked into the schedule or will we still have to schedule them ourselves? Ex: Georgia/Georgia Tech, Louisville/Kentucky...etc..

In '09, Michigan always had ND on their schedule as did MSU that I noticed. I'd guess this wouldn't be changed for '10.

[michiganboy2412]

I like that the Big Ten no-night games in November rule was added in. Could you do the same for Michigan no matter what time of year it is? They never have scheduled a game later than 4:30 kickoff, yet I still have primetime and 6 p.m. games at Michigan.

[PlayaHataSupreme]

Quote: Originally Posted by kgx2thez

I like the tuning of ratings but please make fast CBs available this year. Last year there were an abundance of speed WRs with no CBs that could cover them.

I second this.......... most of the CBs with high speeds had ACC 7-10 pts lower....... and the WRs ACC at least matched the SPD # most times.........

Let me add to your list of player types we need to see more of in Dynasty.....

Sultan McCullough/Anthony Davis type running backs........ smallish backs with a lot of speed and acceleration but not as good laterally.......... NCAA 06 had a healthy amount of these players...........

True Receiving TEs........ this has been somewhat of a problem for years...... the fastest generated TEs are not fast enough, I only see 84 speed as the max for most......... assuming the NCAA ratings scale is unchanged, we can have some blue chip TEs have 88,89 speed a la Vernon Davis......... I have seen some TEs with 89 speed but 75 acceleration and not good enough catching to be considered a true threat at TE..........

Big, Strong O-Linemen........ seems like every O-Linemen with a weight above 330 has a strength below 90, and the stronger ones are relative lightweights.......

True Two-Gap DTs........ like some 330-340 lb B.J. Raji-Ron Brace-type players with high strength ratings......... seems like all the strongest DTs are under 275.........

Sean Taylor/Roy Williams type Safeties...... there don't seem to be enough 225-235 lb Safeties with a lot of hitting power.......... the 5 star Safeties of this mold could have a good size-speed combo and the 3 stars like this would be either 80 speed (based on PY scale) or really low PRC/PUR/AWR.

A few more 3* and 4* kickers and punters would be nice........... NCAA 08 had a lot of low rated Ks out of the box and the dynasty-generated players reflected that, but NCAA 09 rated the Ks a little higher out of the box than 08 but the dynasty still had mostly 2* and 1* Ks.

[Speedy]

Quote: Originally Posted by PlayaHataSupreme

This could be somewhat of a problem for mid-majors finding their own Ben Roethlisberger, Byron Leftwich, or DeMarcus Ware. Should be the fairly rare player that comes along and progress a little faster than the other players on his team to let the occasional star player have his presence on a mid-major squad, such as a Jarett Dillard........... hopefully this policy doesn't disallow the better non-BCS teams having a player or two get in the 90s overall........

Good point, PHS.

Quote: Originally Posted by countryboy

I have a question. Will non-conference yearly rival games automatically be locked into the schedule or will we still have to schedule them ourselves? Ex: Georgia/Georgia Tech, Louisville/Kentucky...etc..

Last year didn't have this problem - I hope this year doesn't as well.

[BigDuke]

Quote: Originally Posted by michiganboy2412

I like that the Big Ten no-night games in November rule was added in. Could you do the same for Michigan no matter what time of year it is? They never have scheduled a game later than 4:30 kickoff, yet I still have primetime and 6 p.m. games at Michigan.

Hopefully, during their fixing of the schedules, they made it so the Michigan/Ohio State game is always the last game of the season for each school.