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Steve0wn
Seasoned Scout
1 month ago

Draft tutorial

I guess this will work itself out in the coming days/weeks, but the SOTS Draft setup (now that it's finally live a day late) is pretty non-intuitive and there's zero explanation for what's going on -- which is made worse because you're immediately on the clock to make a pick.

Obviously it's too much to ask of EA and its devs to give users any help on figuring out how to go about dealing with a brand-new element of the game added on the fly, since they can't even get it up and running on time.... Meantime we have to either waste our time figuring it out or wait for YouTubers to eventually explain it.

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    Steve0wn
    Seasoned Scout
    1 month ago

    Things I've learned so far:
    * If you back out from the draft after players have been picked, when you resume later the draft will resume at whatever point it was at when you left, so leaving/restarting does no good in terms of erasing mistakes.
    * The default setup will replace your starters -- every time you re-select a position on the chart it will start with your starter. This is a bad idea when there's less than 5 seconds on the clock.
    * It is possible to change these back via the Depth Chart once the game starts -- drafting a player doesn't replace your existing roster, just changes who initially slots into each position.

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    Steve0wn
    Seasoned Scout
    1 month ago

    A couple more notes, since I only play this mode 1x per day for the daily objective:
    * The draft sets your team for good, at least for the overall win/lose scenario (6 wins or 2 losses), so it's even more annoying that EA has left us hanging to be stuck with a setup with zero guidance from the start.
    * Since the draft already happened, any cards you pick up after the draft happens aren't available until another draft happens.
    * Any/all the depth chart changes from the first game don't carry over, so you have to redo them every single game.

  • I think I got a good grasp on this mode but I’m not understanding why it’s trying to take out my TE for a tackle. EA really trying to put a tackle in as my TE I avoided a tackle in my first draft. 

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    Steve0wn
    Seasoned Scout
    1 month ago

    Yeah, I ended up with a similar replacement for my starting TE; it's one of the changes I have to make to the depth chart at the start of every game now.