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Why is it whenever a change is mentioned that it's instantly met with the "well if you don't like it, join a league that offers it"? First, I've been in the league for almost 20 seasons now, it's not so easy to just pack up and go. Secondly, putting it to the polls and seeing how the majority feels about a proposed change is democracy at work.
After 7+ real life years for a good chunk of the league, it's not a bad idea to test the waters on a faster sim schedule or fixing a meaningless preseason. Obviously the sim schedule was shot down, and I'm fine with that, but to paraphrase Iverson.. preseason? We're talking about preseason? preseason? Come on, man? preseason?
I'm no expert at FoF, but I do know the benefits of the current preseason format are minimal compared to a changed preseason with no injuries. What am I going to learn putting random players in against random players at random times all while having almost 0 control? Oh sweet, my rookie RB picked up 100 yards against a possible combination of backups and starters all while using a combo of backup and starting offensive linemen. Oh wait, now he's injured for the season, well it's a good thing he showed me what he could do in the meaningless game.
I know injuries happen in the NFL during preseason, but this isn't the NFL. They have plenty of other opportunities we don't to practice gameplans in safe, controlled environments. Tom Brady doesn't play 50% of the preseason otherwise he'll come out in week 1 with some random 'rusty' label and have a 50 passer rating. Coaches also get to see what Brady has for accuracy and rust by his play against certain opponents. We don't have any of those luxuries... and even with those advantages, they still wanted to chop off 2 games from the preseason because it sucks so bad.
As far as the sim going too fast, again, refer to my Iverson paraphrase. Nobody cares about preseason in real life, and it's even worse in a computer game. Since we have an opportunity to make it useful, I don't see why it shouldn't be considered. (and yes, an injury-free preseason is a useful one whether it's simmed in 5 different games or 1 batch)
* I know Iverson was talking about practice and not preseason, which is why I paraphrased and didn't quote.
After 7+ real life years for a good chunk of the league, it's not a bad idea to test the waters on a faster sim schedule or fixing a meaningless preseason. Obviously the sim schedule was shot down, and I'm fine with that, but to paraphrase Iverson.. preseason? We're talking about preseason? preseason? Come on, man? preseason?
I'm no expert at FoF, but I do know the benefits of the current preseason format are minimal compared to a changed preseason with no injuries. What am I going to learn putting random players in against random players at random times all while having almost 0 control? Oh sweet, my rookie RB picked up 100 yards against a possible combination of backups and starters all while using a combo of backup and starting offensive linemen. Oh wait, now he's injured for the season, well it's a good thing he showed me what he could do in the meaningless game.
I know injuries happen in the NFL during preseason, but this isn't the NFL. They have plenty of other opportunities we don't to practice gameplans in safe, controlled environments. Tom Brady doesn't play 50% of the preseason otherwise he'll come out in week 1 with some random 'rusty' label and have a 50 passer rating. Coaches also get to see what Brady has for accuracy and rust by his play against certain opponents. We don't have any of those luxuries... and even with those advantages, they still wanted to chop off 2 games from the preseason because it sucks so bad.
As far as the sim going too fast, again, refer to my Iverson paraphrase. Nobody cares about preseason in real life, and it's even worse in a computer game. Since we have an opportunity to make it useful, I don't see why it shouldn't be considered. (and yes, an injury-free preseason is a useful one whether it's simmed in 5 different games or 1 batch)
* I know Iverson was talking about practice and not preseason, which is why I paraphrased and didn't quote.
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