Week #15 Discussion

[Vic Carucci]

	Monday Night Game: 22 degrees, 0MPH, Fair Vermont ( 9-4, PR 71 ) at Lawrence ( 12-1, PR 85 ) Lawrence favored by 5
	Sunday Night Game: 49 degrees, 4MPH, Fair West Virginia ( 10-3, PR 76 ) at Norfolk ( 9-4, PR 73 ) Norfolk favored by 1
	Thursday Night Game: 55 degrees, 4MPH, Fair Texas ( 9-4, PR 59 ) at Tulsa ( 9-4, PR 62 ) Tulsa favored by 2
	Saturday Late Game: 45 degrees, 0MPH, Fair Louisiana ( 6-7, PR 58 ) at Murfreesboro ( 12-1, PR 89 ) Murfreesboro favored by 8
	Saturday Early Game: 68 degrees, 0MPH, Fair Madison ( 7-6, PR 58 ) at Lansing ( 8-5, PR 60 ) Lansing favored by 2
	Sunday Game: 36 degrees, 15MPH, Rain Orlando ( 6-7, PR 46 ) at Newark ( 9-4, PR 66 ) Newark favored by 6
	Sunday Game: 36 degrees, 3MPH, Fair Montreal ( 6-7, PR 26 ) at Iowa City ( 9-4, PR 70 ) Iowa City favored by 11
	Sunday Game: 36 degrees, 11MPH, Fair Wichita ( 4-9, PR 36 ) at Cleveland ( 9-4, PR 76 ) Cleveland favored by 10
	Sunday Game: 23 degrees, 9MPH, Fair Boston ( 8-5, PR 71 ) at Hartford ( 4-9, PR 37 ) Boston favored by 7
	Sunday Game: 58 degrees, 15MPH, Fair Oakland ( 4-8-1, PR 46 ) at Reno ( 7-6, PR 38 ) Oakland favored by 1
	Sunday Game: 68 degrees, 0MPH, Fair Dakota ( 4-9, PR 32 ) at Pennsylvania ( 7-6, PR 66 ) Pennsylvania favored by 9
	Sunday Game: 57 degrees, 6MPH, Fair California ( 4-9, PR 41 ) at Portland ( 6-7, PR 51 ) Portland favored by 4
	Sunday Game: 68 degrees, 0MPH, Fair Los Angeles ( 3-9-1, PR 21 ) at Anchorage ( 9-4, PR 69 ) Anchorage favored by 12
	Sunday Game: 43 degrees, 2MPH, Fair Houston ( 5-8, PR 45 ) at St. Louis ( 2-11, PR 17 ) Houston favored by 5
	Sunday Game: 22 degrees, 0MPH, Fair Vancouver ( 2-11, PR 26 ) at Salt Lake City ( 4-9, PR 33 ) Salt Lake City favored by 3
	Sunday Game: 31 degrees, 10MPH, Snow Georgia ( 1-12, PR 15 ) at Little Rock ( 3-10, PR 28 ) Little Rock favored by 4

[tarcone]

HUGE games this week. Lots of playoff hopes riding on the outcomes.

We get the condoms at home. Need to beat them to get back in the drivers seat.

GL Tim

[morellomre]

Huge game against Madison.

A win here and we can really take a strong hold of the division crown. A loss and the top of the division gets really crowded.

[CyYoung]

Huge game against Madison.

A win here and we can really take a strong hold of the division crown. A loss and the top of the division gets really crowded.

Go Madison!!

If you win, I would be dead with my crappy division record.

[Matt]

huge game of the week.

If Vermont wins this game, they take a huge step in securing a wildcard whether I win or not.

[Pirates]

huge game of the week.

If Vermont wins this game, they take a huge step in securing a wildcard whether I win or not.

Well I am an idiot. I totally forgot to send in a gameplan. So your win against me will not count.

[Pirates]

I may actually have time after work to get this in and crush Newark. We will see.

[Coder]

least important game of the year.. *yawn*

[r00k]

WV and Norfolk should be a hell of a game too. WV is making a lot of noise about reclaiming a division championship after many drought years.

Great weather in Norfolk for this Sunday night game.

Got to work late and will probably have to tune in later tonight to see how the Vipers made out at home.

[JesterBlaze]

WV and Norfolk should be a hell of a game too. WV is making a lot of noise about reclaiming a division championship after many drought years.

The Beasts double digits in W's caught my eye this week then I look at their schedule and see that they lost their first 2 games. Quite a tear that they're on right now and they could be poised to run past that division championship straight to claiming a conference or IFL championship.


Phantoms on the other hand are sleepwalking right now and probably won't match the effort of the Mountaineers organization tonight. If the IFL gods don't screw Coder via turnovers then I think Vermont will win while making the league's best offense look pedestrian at best.

[Kozure]

I hope we can pull this out. I'll bank on Norfolk not changing his gameplan after me saying this, but I didn't change a thing with my gameplan this week. We are just playing too well overall for me to want to change anything. We are beat up right now (starting QB and MLB are both out again), but that is no excuse. I like to think we are one of the deeper teams in the league and I built this team to win games like this late in the year no matter who we have in at any position.

Head coach Ross Brandon just called Chad Harding into his office and told him that he may earn his starting job back permanently with a win tonight.

[SteveBsFan]

Ugh.. 393 yards to 228 yards and I still lose. When I only get 2 penalties, I give up 2 returns for TD's.. just my luck.

[Jave]

I have no clue what the story is with penalties. We average 10 a game and nothing I do is slowing it down. And it seems the game only enforces the penalties on 3rd downs or scores. I can't stop the losing no matter how many great players I have on my team. I spend 3 hours a day working on my gameplan and that seems to make little to no difference. If anyone has any idea what it takes to have a winning season in this league clue me in. I have no idea.

[Jave]

For instance: Nicky Doyle....7 passes caught, only one defensed? Do what? He's rated a 97/100 and was owned by a receiver rated 33? WTF? This game is seriously slanted to receivers...

[SteveBsFan]

I have no clue what the story is with penalties.

Penalties are a complete joke in this game. I'd go like 3 games in a row with 10+ penalties then get like 2.

It game appears to be something like this..

Every play --
--Offensive team has x % chance of committing a penalty
--Defensive team has y % chance of committing a penalty
(those percentages are loosely based on the amount of NFL penalties over the course of a season divided by how many plays per season)

Each coach has a value of 0-6 or so Poor = 0, Excellent = 6

Then a formula to put it all together

An example would be

Pitt (exc disc) vs Oakland (good disc)

(take the differences of coach discipline values)
6 - 4 = 2

Then you figure out a way to include that difference into a 100% scale w/o making the difference too dramatic.. so for something small like 2, you'd probably see...

On each play, there is a 3% chance to commit a penalty. There is a 55% chance for Oakland to commit the penalty vs 45% for Pittsburgh.

Then, if a penalty is called, it just goes down a list and decides which penalty based on some type of table he has set up.

If offensive penalty --
Holding = 40% chance
Offensive Pass Interference - 5%
and so on

Nothing fancy about it, and little we could actually do as GM's to prevent it.

Of course this is all speculation, but just seems the most logical way to handle it as a single programmer working on a game. No need to make it all complicated by giving individual players penalty ratings and such. He needs to save programming space for other dumb attributes.