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AnythingPLZ69
Seasoned Traveler
20 days ago

Dealbreakers & certain recruiting grades need to be scaled for short quarters

Honestly I like the concept. Maybe not a fan of this change in college football generally but I think EA was on the right track with this one. 

However, some of these player specific dealbreakers need to be reworked or else some of the recruiting grades' calculations need to be scaled properly or rewritten altogether. 

The biggest one I'm thinking of is playing style. I like to play every game on my schedule, but that gets cumbersome if you set the quarters to give you realistic stats. So I set my quarters to 4 minutes, and the default is 5 minutes.

However, I'm not going to get 400 offensive yards a game, let alone average that (which is roughly what a A-/B+ grade for offensive play styles sits at). I usually get on the low end of 200-300 and that's fine for me but it does generally result in F-D+ grades in the playing style recruiting grade. This means that even though I might get starting interest from 4* offensive players, I'm functionally locked out from recruiting these players because of a play setting. This isn't something I can just overcome by improving my school or recruiting better over time.

Conversely, I can get insane defensive players and never lose them because I end up with an A+ grade for playing style for many archetypes simply because there's less time for opposing offenses to be on the field. I probably shouldn't be rewarded for this gameplay setting either. 

Similarly, others have noted that playing time is affected by minutes on the field, and again, the other teams simulate full 15 minutes quarters, putting users at a heavy disadvantage. This needs to be scaled properly to not disadvantage users if these recruiting grades are going to factor this heavily into dynasty gameplay. 

Personally I don't think that a recruiting grade should be so heavily affected by a gameplay setting. I don't have an answer, but I don't think that the current state is an appropriate representation of the sport, particularly with such a hyperactive transfer portal.

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  • Sizzle708's avatar
    Sizzle708
    Seasoned Newcomer
    20 days ago

    100% agree with this. I love the idea of the playing style dealbreaker and the transfer portal this year, but it needs to accurately reflect the quarter length AND it should be the same for all of the CPU teams as well allowing parity. Hopefully the can get this updated with a patch

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