Starting a New Dynasty for when I run into a bottleneck with not having research complete for the Astronaut High dynasty. As has been stated before, Corch B. Mack will have offspring and nephews, and potentially grandchildren who will be introduced as variables in the dynasty. This dynasty will eventually bring them into the college game.
Setup:
I will start with 1983. The first of corch Mack’s sons will be recruited in the 1984 season so, starting with 1983 will allow me to build some momentum before we are ready for that. I still have not decided how I will bring the Mack’s into the recruiting world. My two thoughts are:
1-Create prospects so that hometown is correct, and ramp the ratings down from their senior year high school rating to an appropriate college freshman level.
2-Use the NFL draft round for the player from the high school dynasty and correlate that to a Start ranking, then find an existing recruit in the database which closely resembles the player and use that player, changing the name later. I.e. a 1[sup]st[/sup] rounder would be a 5 star recruit, 2[sup]nd[/sup] rounder = 4 star and so on.
Also not sure how I am going to handle recruiting in general. More on that in the future.
I have identified 12 teams from the teambuilder website that are the 1983 replicas. The schools chosen are southern and eastern schools (also some old big 8), which a player from Florida would likely go to. I picked schools that had already pretty well built named and rated rosters, so that my upfront work was minimized. The goal of this is to begin getting into gameplay quickly.
I will customize the conferences to match the conferences as they have changed over time. Bowl alignments will similarly be changed, to the extent possible. There is still the pesky BCS champ game in there so its gonna be a variant from actual history.
The Teams:
Miami
Alabama
Auburn
Clemson
Michigan
Nebraska
Notre Dame
Oklahoma
Oklahoma st.
Illinois
Pitt
Iowa
Team Progression:
I will create custom playbooks that mimmick the style of play of the teams during this era, and will adjust as time progresses.
Coaches will be built with the coaches of 1983, with their age. Unsure of how to exactly handle coach progression, hires, fires. Could be a fun part of the variables. We’ll see. I am editing in even non-user controlled coaches as I play those teams with the 1983 user controlled teams.
Preseason Tasks:
Custom Schedules---this seems to be an SOB. When you have 12 user teams changes to one or regenerating a schedule seems to screw up the other. Had some trial and error here. Only team I really couldn’t get all games for in 1983 was Oklahoma.
Depth Charts—Using http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb to mainly set offensive depth charts.
I will add more to this as time goes on. Just want to get it rolling now.
Setup:
I will start with 1983. The first of corch Mack’s sons will be recruited in the 1984 season so, starting with 1983 will allow me to build some momentum before we are ready for that. I still have not decided how I will bring the Mack’s into the recruiting world. My two thoughts are:
1-Create prospects so that hometown is correct, and ramp the ratings down from their senior year high school rating to an appropriate college freshman level.
2-Use the NFL draft round for the player from the high school dynasty and correlate that to a Start ranking, then find an existing recruit in the database which closely resembles the player and use that player, changing the name later. I.e. a 1[sup]st[/sup] rounder would be a 5 star recruit, 2[sup]nd[/sup] rounder = 4 star and so on.
Also not sure how I am going to handle recruiting in general. More on that in the future.
I have identified 12 teams from the teambuilder website that are the 1983 replicas. The schools chosen are southern and eastern schools (also some old big 8), which a player from Florida would likely go to. I picked schools that had already pretty well built named and rated rosters, so that my upfront work was minimized. The goal of this is to begin getting into gameplay quickly.
I will customize the conferences to match the conferences as they have changed over time. Bowl alignments will similarly be changed, to the extent possible. There is still the pesky BCS champ game in there so its gonna be a variant from actual history.
The Teams:
Miami
Alabama
Auburn
Clemson
Michigan
Nebraska
Notre Dame
Oklahoma
Oklahoma st.
Illinois
Pitt
Iowa
Team Progression:
I will create custom playbooks that mimmick the style of play of the teams during this era, and will adjust as time progresses.
Coaches will be built with the coaches of 1983, with their age. Unsure of how to exactly handle coach progression, hires, fires. Could be a fun part of the variables. We’ll see. I am editing in even non-user controlled coaches as I play those teams with the 1983 user controlled teams.
Preseason Tasks:
Custom Schedules---this seems to be an SOB. When you have 12 user teams changes to one or regenerating a schedule seems to screw up the other. Had some trial and error here. Only team I really couldn’t get all games for in 1983 was Oklahoma.
Depth Charts—Using http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb to mainly set offensive depth charts.
I will add more to this as time goes on. Just want to get it rolling now.