NCAA 13 Xbox360 Season III (2-star league) - Week 9 (Spots Available)

BTW, the projection is for another Fresno State-IU Rose Bowl match-up.

Alright guys. I will get my game in tonight after everyone goes to bed. Then we can roll to the bowl games.

I was thinking of splitting everyone up into 3 conferences with everyone playing once during the season and see how it shakes out for the bowls, but I am open to ideas.

shag26 wrote:

Alright guys. I will get my game in tonight after everyone goes to bed. Then we can roll to the bowl games.

I was thinking of splitting everyone up into 3 conferences with everyone playing once during the season and see how it shakes out for the bowls, but I am open to ideas.

I'm open to that. I think the main thing for me would be to bump up the quality of the schools in the conference. Playing MSU, OSU, Michigan, and Wisconsin (which I don't often do) is fun, but playing Illinois and Minnesota is a drag. In my case, even swapping me to the other division in the Big 10 would help. Maybe swapping the lowest-lying teams out of each human conference in favor of some meatier competition would help.

firesloth wrote:
shag26 wrote:

Alright guys. I will get my game in tonight after everyone goes to bed. Then we can roll to the bowl games.

I was thinking of splitting everyone up into 3 conferences with everyone playing once during the season and see how it shakes out for the bowls, but I am open to ideas.

I'm open to that. I think the main thing for me would be to bump up the quality of the schools in the conference. Playing MSU, OSU, Michigan, and Wisconsin (which I don't often do) is fun, but playing Illinois and Minnesota is a drag. In my case, even swapping me to the other division in the Big 10 would help. Maybe swapping the lowest-lying teams out of each human conference in favor of some meatier competition would help.

I am fine with that. I will work on the conferences and you can work on the sliders. We can change them too!

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=============== #4 Indiana Hoosiers (12-1) ===============
Last week, Indiana won 59-7 against Michigan State (11-2).
#6 Indiana will face #17 Fresno State in the Rose Bowl.

=============== #17 Fresno State Bulldogs (10-3) ===============
Last week, Fresno State won 59-38 against USC (9-4).
#22 Fresno State will face #4 Indiana in the Rose Bowl.

=============== #16 Kansas Jayhawks (7-5) ===============
#18 Kansas will face #19 Boise State in the Las Vegas Bowl.

firesloth,

I may be able to play tonight after all of the shows are on. If you see me on and want to play, just shoot me a message.

This would be a good time for that next Gen stream your game for others to watch feature Sony talked about.

Jayhawker wrote:

This would be a good time for that next Gen stream your game for others to watch feature Sony talked about.

No kidding!

So, IU's MLB David Cooper won the best LB of the year. Temple's SS Chris Hutton won both the Bednarick and Nagurski awards for best defensive player!

The 7-man defensive front of 1st team All Americans includes 4 IU players (DT, DT, LE, MLB, ROLB). Fresno State FS Derron Smith and IU SS Ryan Thompson are the safeties for the 2nd team.

Shag, I'll look for you tonight. It may not be until 11 pm that I can hop on.

Shag, tonight might be harder. If I can play, it won't be until 11 pm or so. Wednesday is more likely, with start at 11 pm favored, but I could push it earlier. 10 pm is next easiest. It's harder to get going earlier than that, but I can make it work if you need it to be earlier.

firesloth wrote:

Shag, tonight might be harder. If I can play, it won't be until 11 pm or so. Wednesday is more likely, with start at 11 pm favored, but I could push it earlier. 10 pm is next easiest. It's harder to get going earlier than that, but I can make it work if you need it to be earlier.

Later is preferable for me. It give me time for everyone to get in bed. We will shoot for 11 either tonight or tomorrow.

Shag, should we try tonight sometime?

In whatever configuration we do, can I get K-State and Mizzou in my conference, or maybe get back into the big 12. I had zero rivals this season, which hurt my coaching prestige.

Jayhawker wrote:

In whatever configuration we do, can I get K-State and Mizzou in my conference, or maybe get back into the big 12. I had zero rivals this season, which hurt my coaching prestige.

I have no problem moving you back to the Big 12. I will also take the top 6 teams in your general location and put them in your conference as well. This will help making the conference better and possibly tougher.

firesloth wrote:

Shag, should we try tonight sometime?

Yeah we try tonight. It won't be till after 11. Working my resume as I was laid off from my job today.

Oh man, that sucks. I'm so sorry to hear that. Hopefully you can find something soon.

Yeah, I lost an awesome workmate today. We'll always have the 2004 and 2011 DBR Softball Championships.

I've gotta get to bed. Let's see what we can do over the weekend. Maybe Sat morning.

Good game, Shag. I've dealt with the contract extension stuff, so we're ready to roll again.

That was a tough game. No one scored in the first or last quarters. The difference was the turnovers. The stats were otherwise *very* even. That single pick-6 was probably the biggest play of the game.

Thanks for playing!

Do any of you two have recruiting you are shooting for during the off-season. If you are we will roll ever 3 days. If not then I will roll through the whole process in one shot.

There are two guys I'm still after, but I'll set my status to autopilot, and that should auto-recruit them. So, I say burn through!

Also, I've been trying out a Varsity slider set that feels pretty good in many ways. It doesn't feel any less difficult than the one we've been using, but it has some advantages. Namely the run blocking seems to be more realistic. WRs and FBs actually block (on both sides)! The CPU pass defense seems a bit better. I wonder if there aren't enough turnovers on either side, but maybe that's better. I had to adjust the holding and roughing the passer penalties to 53 from 55 in our normal set (I think...maybe my stuff was old). Yards per carry may be a bit high, but it is in our sliders, too.

Also, I don't know if anyone has heard anything about the speed threshold slider being reversed or not...or they believe it. I tried with both 50 and 90, and didn't really see much difference.

So, if anyone gets a chance to play a game with these, let me know what you think. I'd like to see if we can up the difficulty just a bit.

User

QB Accuracy- 50
Pass Blocking- 20
WR Catching- 25
RB Ability- 40
Run Blocking- 40
Pass Coverage- 75
Pass Rush- 15
Interceptions- 40
Rush Defense- 40
Tackling- 40
FG Power- 50
FG Accuracy- 30
Punt Power- 40
Punt Accuracy- 50
Kickoff Power- 40

CPU

QB Accuracy- 100
Pass Blocking- 50
WR Catching- 75
RB Ability- 95
Run Blocking- 95
Pass Coverage- 25
Pass Rush- 50
Interceptions- 75
Rush Defense- 75
Tackling- 65
FG Power- 50
FG Accuracy- 40
Punt Power- 40
Punt Accuracy- 100
Kickoff Power- 50

Will plug in those sliders and give them a whirl. Some adjustments are welcome.

And yeah, I'm still trying to land some guys in recruiting. I have a roster that could use some churning.

Let us know if you get to the point where everyone is a lock. You should be able to set your status to autopilot to grab them then.

Oh, and the nice thing is that we can now do all of the off-season stuff on the website, including coaching carousel, redshirting, position changes, etc.

Speaking of which, Jayhawker has an offer on the table from Ole Miss...

Waiting on Jayhawker to decide if he is staying or going. You can let me know on here and I can force it through the system.

shag26 wrote:

Waiting on Jayhawker to decide if he is staying or going. You can let me know on here and I can force it through the system.

I set myself to ready last night. I'm staying at KU!

I thought about taking the only job offered to me outside of Indiana – Kansas State – just to be one of your rivals...

We are at players leaving. I did my two guys and they decided to leave. firesloth has one and jayhawker has everybody graduation. There is no need for jayhawker right now. Sorry!

shag26 wrote:

We are at players leaving. I did my two guys and they decided to leave. firesloth has one and jayhawker has everybody graduation. There is no need for jayhawker right now. Sorry!

My guy is expendable. If he wants to go play for a lesser program in Pitt, let him! Good f'in riddance! (In other words, he was a poorly-rated FS who would probably have been cut during the roster trim, anyway.)

Ready to roll!

Wow, I'm losing a lot in the secondary, though. Three senior CBs (the 3 highest rated on the team), a SS, and a FS.