Dynasty Sim Engine is unplayable

SnickerLicker21
Rising Adventurer
1 year ago
When you dig into the sim stats and look at box scores around the country in your dynasty, two major red flags appear.
1) The play counts are very low. Even lower than what the average NFL team runs per game. Almost every single game I click on, both teams are running less than 60 plays per game each, many are in the 40's, few even reach 60, and I've yet to see a team even come close to running 70 plays per game.
For reference, two teams in the entire country last year ran less than 60 plays per game - Miami Ohio at 58.2 and Kentucky at 56.1.
The top 25 teams in real life last year ran between 73.6 and 82.1 plays per game.
The bottom 25 teams ran between 56.1 and 64.7 plays per game.
The average plays per game for all FBS teams was 68.9.
The median was 68.7.
The sim engine essentially has everyone running less plays per game than the two lowest in the nation last year in real life. The sim engine has teams running 10-15 less plays per game each than what you'd see in real life.
2) Yards per carry are ridiculously low in simmed games. It's extremely common to see the yards per carry in simmed games to be below 4 with many games being below even 3 yards per carry.
For reference, only 7 teams in the nation averaged less than 3 yards per carry last year.
The top 25 teams were between 4.8 and 6.2 yards per carry.
The bottom 25 were between 2.3 and 3.5.
The average in the nation was 4.2 and the median was the same.
---
When looking at stats in dynasty mode, you can see that the rushing totals are extremely low compared to real life. From an individual standpoint, most sims I've see have around 5-10 1,000 yard rushers where as real life constantly has 40-50 in a given year.
Simplistically, the sim engine needs games running about 30-40 plays longer on average with the yards per carry averages being tweaked to be closer to 4.2 yards per carry on average when including sacks.
Sim stats impact far too many parts of the game and cannot go unfixed. It impacts awards, player progression, game results, etc. These issues must be ironed out, it is owed to the community.
- SnickerLicker21
  Rising Adventurer
  1 year ago
  To continue the analysis from above, here are the top 6 rushing teams in my current dynasty season.
  
  Umass(USER) 1463
  Michigan 1356
  UCF 1331
  Air Force 1322
  Coast Carolina(USER) 1322
  NCST 1314
  
  The game averages for each team in the same order are 162.5, 150.7, 147.9, 165.3, 165.3, 146.
  
  For reference, 165 yards per game rushing would have been 53rd in the country last year in real life. It's 1st in the nation in this game.
  
  The carries per game in the same order are 36.7, 31.6, 29.6, 37, 37.9, 26.3.
  
  In real life, 37.9 carries would have been 43rd in the nation last year, it's 1st in this game.
  
  The yards per carry in the same order are 4.4, 4.8, 5.0, 4.5, 4.4, 5.5.
  
  Last year, 5.5 would have been 5th, it's 1st in this game. While that is close, looking at the rest of the country, the yards/carry falls off much quicker in the game than it does in real life. Whereas 4.8 yards per carry is 25th in the nation in real life last year, it's 2nd in the nation in my dynasty with 4.4 being the 5th, so you can see how quickly it falls off compared to real life.
  
  Again, like I referenced above, the top 25 teams averaged between 6.2 to 4.8 yards per carry. The top 5 with this sim engine average 5.5 to 4.4.
  
  4.4 cannot be the 5th best yards per carry average in the sim engine when in real life 4.2 is the average and median number for all FBS teams. And these stats I am referencing in real life are filtering out the FCS games while that's not the case in my dynasty stats, so the dynasty stats are even receiving one free FCS game for most teams to inflate their numbers slightly.
  
  Again, simply put, total plays, rush attempts, and yards per carry are way off and all need a significant increase for sim stats to be much closer to real life.
- woodwardm28
  New Hotshot
  1 year ago
  I agree that the sims are not realistic. I also had 5 loss teams in the playoff ranked in the top 6. I can't remember a year a 5 loss team was top 6 in the history of college football.
  Also, logic for awards and recruiting class rankings are bad.
  Disagree with those complaining about no injuries as I lost two players for the season by the end of my 2nd game.
  - jfeev508
    Seasoned Hotshot
    1 year ago
    @woodwardm28 You experiencing injuries in your dynasty is at least a good sign for you. However, you are one person in a see of people that just aren't seeing injuries. People doing a multitude of different things to try to generate more injuries and simply not seeing them. So while I see why your experience would lead you to disagree with those who are saying they aren't seeing injuries; there's simply more of them than there are of you.
- jfeev508
  Seasoned Hotshot
  1 year ago
  @SnickerLicker21 wrote:
  When you dig into the sim stats and look at box scores around the country in your dynasty, two major red flags appear.
  1) The play counts are very low. Even lower than what the average NFL team runs per game. Almost every single game I click on, both teams are running less than 60 plays per game each, many are in the 40's, few even reach 60, and I've yet to see a team even come close to running 70 plays per game.
  For reference, two teams in the entire country last year ran less than 60 plays per game - Miami Ohio at 58.2 and Kentucky at 56.1.
  The top 25 teams in real life last year ran between 73.6 and 82.1 plays per game.
  The bottom 25 teams ran between 56.1 and 64.7 plays per game.
  The average plays per game for all FBS teams was 68.9.
  The median was 68.7.
  The sim engine essentially has everyone running less plays per game than the two lowest in the nation last year in real life. The sim engine has teams running 10-15 less plays per game each than what you'd see in real life.
  2) Yards per carry are ridiculously low in simmed games. It's extremely common to see the yards per carry in simmed games to be below 4 with many games being below even 3 yards per carry.
  For reference, only 7 teams in the nation averaged less than 3 yards per carry last year.
  The top 25 teams were between 4.8 and 6.2 yards per carry.
  The bottom 25 were between 2.3 and 3.5.
  The average in the nation was 4.2 and the median was the same.
  ---
  When looking at stats in dynasty mode, you can see that the rushing totals are extremely low compared to real life. From an individual standpoint, most sims I've see have around 5-10 1,000 yard rushers where as real life constantly has 40-50 in a given year.
  Simplistically, the sim engine needs games running about 30-40 plays longer on average with the yards per carry averages being tweaked to be closer to 4.2 yards per carry on average when including sacks.
  Sim stats impact far too many parts of the game and cannot go unfixed. It impacts awards, player progression, game results, etc. These issues must be ironed out, it is owed to the community.
  I posted in this thread and another thread about the extremely low number of plays and the low rushing production. The low yards per carry for all players but specifically QBs really hurt the sim stats. Good running QBs in CFB are almost always above 5 ypc and the really good ones are typically above 6. The service academies are absolutely crippled by this and the rush attempts effect them most of all.
  No team ever hits 200ypg and the service academies are always above that and other schools are as well. So much work needs to be done to the sim engine.
CoachGunnns
1 year ago
@EA_Shepard I saw the update the EA team is working on, I see nothing about injuries being broken in the game … can we get an update ?
- woodwardm28
  New Hotshot
  1 year ago
  Good lord you really want your players to get injured. I think it's just a you issue. I'm getting injuries
  - slinkyshot
    1 year ago
    Injuries are a very real part of the game, so I would very much like them to be active in my dynasty. It makes things interesting. Just look at FSU last year. When their QB went down it completely altered not only their season but the entire world of college football.
    You telling me you don't want injuries in the game??

Forum Discussion

Featured Places

College Football 25 Dynasty

Recent Discussions

DYNASTY is BROKEN - WIN Does Not Count

Import Draft Classes To Madden 26

Coaching Tree and Carousel Wish List for CFB 26 Dynasty Mode

Loading my Dynasty

Improvements/Ideas for 2026......