NCAA Football 12 Custom Playbooks, 40 Total Formations, 15 Off. and 15 Def. Playbooks

[The JareBear]

Yeah I am with you Sol, the zone defense and custom playbooks are enough to get me to show up at walmart at midnight just to get my hands on it

[blkrptnt819]

Quote: Originally Posted by Solidice

well, If the 40 max formations includes the goal line + special teams + Hail Mary, that means you'll really only have about 27 formations to choose from for offensive plays. remember some formations are "hidden" the "locked" formations, going off how the formations were in NCAA 11: Goal Line(for some playbooks, this would have 1-3 formations because of hidden ones, EX: Florida) Hail Mary - 4WR Hail Mary - 4WR Trey Hail Mary - Spread Hail Mary - Wing Trio Wk Kickoff - NCAA Kickoff - Normal SP Teams - Fakepuntdirectsnap SP Teams - Punt SP Teams - Punt Max Protect SP Teams - Tight Max Protect SP Teams - Tight Max Prot Fake Safety Punt - Normal but still, 370-377 plays for 25-27 formations is a lot.

That's evn better. I only need 24-26 so I can still do what I need to do.

[smace767]

Quote: Originally Posted by Solidice

well, If the 40 max formations includes the goal line + special teams + Hail Mary, that means you'll really only have about 27 formations to choose from for offensive plays. remember some formations are "hidden" the "locked" formations, going off how the formations were in NCAA 11: Goal Line(for some playbooks, this would have 1-3 formations because of hidden ones, EX: Florida) Hail Mary - 4WR Hail Mary - 4WR Trey Hail Mary - Spread Hail Mary - Wing Trio Wk Kickoff - NCAA Kickoff - Normal SP Teams - Fakepuntdirectsnap SP Teams - Punt SP Teams - Punt Max Protect SP Teams - Tight Max Protect SP Teams - Tight Max Prot Fake Safety Punt - Normal but still, 370-377 plays for 25-27 formations is a lot.

Some guys are checking this but the earlier thought was

1 they were consolidating some formations like gator heavy and bulldog heavy into one heavy formation.

Special Teams is one formation type with many different plays like it is now. You pick the special teams formation and in it is fg, punts qb kneel ect so special teams as a whole is one formation.

Same with hail mary. one formation with different alignments in the play.

Same with Florida's goaline. one formation with a power I, wishbone within it.

[georgiafan]

Here is my take on the debate about if its realistic or not.

Something that I think people are over looking is just that 400 plays is a lot. I just looked and on my last game (6 min qtrs i think) I ran 55 plays. Going off that average I could go about 7 games with out calling the same play twice. I think everyone is like me and will not call that many diffrent types of plays.

I also think that alot of times this time of year we over think alot of things. If it's 3rd and 9 then there is 90% chance i'm passing the ball with atleast 3 WR. I'm sure the defense should be aware of this and be in a nickle defense. If it's a 3rd and 1 then there is 90% i'm running the ball with some kinda FB/TE.

I'm a guy that's gonna have a power run playbook, but i'm gonna have some 4&5 WR sets in them.Also just because I have the 4&5 WR sets in my playbook doesn't mean I'm gonna be using them all the time. If i'm in a close game I'm gonna go with my bread and butter which is power football. I'm mainly putting the pass plays in when I need to score quick.

Also they are easy work around for this if it's a offline dynasty then use house rules. If irs a OD then find one that doesnt allow custom playbooks or has limitions on them.

[blkrptnt819]

Quote: Originally Posted by smace767

im in a few dynasties that have been going since ncaa 09. one is a MAC dynasty with low to avg talent teams. 12 users all in the mac. Another one in particular we have 31 seasons completed. Advance everyday(for the most part) with the same core of 8. We all have football minds and its a 6* dynasty. Florida, usc ohio st, texas, ou ect... With these level teams everyone has the talent to play any style and 3 non conf games are user games. just by default we will have multiple type attacks if given the opportunity. We all have backups and different talent type players that we would like to see on the field in different type offensive plays. I remember during the last two seasons i had finnally signed a stud qb with a cannon to go along with good to great wide outs. the problem i had was i also had top 3 hbs three years in a row and had a nice stable. As it should be it was hard for any one playbook to get everyone touches. With this implementation i could get everyone the ball. because no one player will build that great resume it might become easier to keep studs 4 years. At this level of competition we are gonna run plays to be successful and win games and sign recruits.

Now how muc would you LOVE to beable to transfer that dynasty over to 12? Tht's one thing. I want that I don't believe I will get this year but most else EA has come thru.

[smace767]

Ok the community day guys just posted Special teams, Hail Mary and Goaline are all inclusive and 3 separate formations. The variation in plays depends on your default.

If you choose florida as the base, you will have the 3 Florida formations that are locked. Goaline, Special teams, and Hailmary. Those formations will have all of the different alignments and type formations for that team inside. All special teams plays and alignments are in the special teams, same with goaline and hailmary.

So 37 is the max user defined formations.

[The JareBear]

That's awesome.

[rollinphat]

Quote: Originally Posted by smace767

Ok the community day guys just posted Special teams, Hail Mary and Goaline are all inclusive and 3 separate formations. The variation in plays depends on your default. If you choose florida as the base, you will have the 3 Florida formations that are locked. Goaline, Special teams, and Hailmary. Those formations will have all of the different alignments and type formations for that team inside. All special teams plays and alignments are in the special teams, same with goaline and hailmary. So 37 is the max user defined formations.

last i heard was that you didn't have to have the hailmary formation.
the only formations you are forced to have are the goalline and special teams.
so...it's really 38 is the max.