I just can't with these press conferences

[adembroski]

Q: You have a position battle at FS between Eric Harris and George Odem. What stat will determine the winner?

Options: PBUs, INTs, Tak, or No Battle.

Kyle Shanahan: "What, are you 12? You've only ever played Madden and Fantasy Football? Let me ask you a question, you ridiculous infant, if nobody throws a single pass one guy's way, but the other gets 1 PBU while allowing 10 catches for 300 yards and 3 touchdowns, and I give the second guy the starting job, what do you think my locker room "moral penalty" will be then? Who designed this goddamn game? Has he ever seen a down of NFL football in his life? Stats are for losers, and you, sir, are a loser. No, that's not fair, you can't help it. You're a line of dialogue written by an Assistant Producer who happened to be the one who could navigate the ridiculous mind-map looking tool that this stupid feature uses. Actually, let me correct that again, it's not a stupid feature, but the people who actually use the damn thing to add content to this game don't know jack **** about football and need to go find another job. Next question."

[TarHeelPhenom]

"The guy that wins the battle has to at least have 10 PBU's. Otherwise, cannot play with em', cannot win with em', cannot coach with em'...can't do it!"

- Coach Singletary

[toodles2you90]

Like a lot of EA sports gaming features, solid idea with terrible execution.

[Therebelyell626]

My favorite ones are the ones where the player threatens you if you don’t give him what he wants.

Coach: “oh yeah, and what happens if I don’t give you 10 Carry’s and 5 catches”?

Player3 “well coach, your not going to want to find out”

What is this guy going to do? Send some goons to the team facility and break the coaches legs if he doesn’t comply lol

[oneamongthefence]

I had a "position battle" for Tight End between Tucker Kraft and Luke Musgrave. I said there wasn't a position battle. Entire team lost 20 morale including Musgrave who I declared was the starter before the preseason ever began. I named you the starter and you're still upset.

There should be a way to pick our own position battles and based on our judgement, players can be happy, upset, determined leading to a branching narrative. For example, I have a QB position battle. Based on personality traits it would affect both the winner and loser differently. An entertainer would like to be traded or released. A team leader would accept the results. An intense player would continue to fight for the number one spot and could receive either a temporary boost or gets increased XP when in the game etc...

Or use more advanced metrics and analytics to make determinations who won the battle, for defense especially. Pass rush win rate, missed tackles, catches allowed/catch%, etc. The binary stat based ones are too restrictive. Things like PBUs, or sacks, tackles, etc aren't real indicators of success or they're too situational.

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[TurboTitan]

This was a great idea but it seems like they devoted roughly 10 seconds into making sure it was implemented correctly and didn’t sound stupid 99.99% of the time. 😂😂

[kehlis]

I feel like I’m down to the last 10 seconds to pick my answer on “so you want to be a millionaire” and I have no idea which answer is right because they all suck.


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[therizing02]

Quote: Originally Posted by adembroski

Q: You have a position battle at FS between Eric Harris and George Odem. What stat will determine the winner? Options: PBUs, INTs, Tak, or No Battle. Kyle Shanahan: "What, are you 12? You've only ever played Madden and Fantasy Football? Let me ask you a question, you ridiculous infant, if nobody throws a single pass one guy's way, but the other gets 1 PBU while allowing 10 catches for 300 yards and 3 touchdowns, and I give the second guy the starting job, what do you think my locker room "moral penalty" will be then? Who designed this goddamn game? Has he ever seen a down of NFL football in his life? Stats are for losers, and you, sir, are a loser. No, that's not fair, you can't help it. You're a line of dialogue written by an Assistant Producer who happened to be the one who could navigate the ridiculous mind-map looking tool that this stupid feature uses. Actually, let me correct that again, it's not a stupid feature, but the people who actually use the damn thing to add content to this game don't know jack **** about football and need to go find another job. Next question."

Fantastic Adem! Your 5800th post needs to be archived and entered into the OS HOF. Steve/Mods, give this man the Yellow HOF Jacket.