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Tom, I can tell you just by looking at a couple of games. Your team's main problems are tactics, tactics, tactics...I would offer to give you advice but I only know offense. I can tell you that your defense looks poorly setup to stop the screen and the pitch which are 2 plays right now that are killing in GLB. I'm not saying put everything into stopping them but you need to put some resources into limiting those. Like I said, I am an OC not a DC so I can't give you much help with plays but try checking out MEM's defense, So Cal BDC, Santiago, Cincinatti and those type teams and look what they are doing vs. the screen and pitch. It will likely help. You have to pick your poison and it's sometimes worth giving some runs up the middle up if you shutdown the screens and pitches now don't go too extreme or you'll just trade being killed by the outside to being killed up the middle.

The Woodys are a great squad, Tom, good luck.


EDIT: As for your offense, I am not going to say anything here. If you are interested in more advice, send me a PM and we can talk. I can't OC you guys right now as I'm tied up ATM but I might be able to offer valuable advice as I'm doing pretty decent this season as an OC.

I love your Mario Kart analogy, Tom.

Originally posted by Track6Track7
Are you doing it all yourself right now? If you are, ask if anyone of your agents or anyone else you trust is willing to try and learn, and teach them what you know. You don't have to go out and get a mercenary coordinator, and with you guys sitting at 0-5, I'd just relax and take this as an opportunity to relax, have fun, try some stuff out, and learn. I went through this when Ketchikan went 6-10 in the season of the slam. I drove myself crazy trying to figure out why I couldn't stop the run, trying any godawful scheme I could think of and it never worked, and it got to the point where I resigned at the end of the season (my wife was having a baby too, which is really why I quit, but I'm telling a story here) where it just wasn't fun. I came back recharged later, and things were much better. So yeah, I'd second Luzod, get somebody from your team or something to help you out and maybe you'll be able to see the forest instead of having to deal with so many trees. Good luck man.

P.S. - The only L on our schedule has Columbus Woodys on it, so I think the pieces are there.

Right now, primeosu does most of the tactics. He has done most of the work since Season 3, and done a damn good job. He got married a few months back, and we tried getting help, but it was tough to get people up to speed. That led to our awful season in Season 9. We had a great blessing last season when MoJames joined us and picked up a lot of the recruiting work for us and did some of the tactics. I think prime is getting burned out, and I don't blame him. My team is extremely inactive in the forums. There are maybe 4-5 guys who ever post in there, so that's a problem. I've tried to get help, and I think it's not going to happen. We tried to bring in some outside people in the offseason to help with GM type stuff, which hasn't been that helpful. A lot of our burnout has come from having to herd cats. I guess the other teams don't have those problems.

Originally posted by WiSeIVIaN
To the people saying tactics, I perhaps disagree. There is a certain talent level, where if you have it things become much easier, and if you don't they become much harder. If the woody's are below that talent level then the best tactics on earth won't get them into the playoffs.

I have not watched any tape on the woody's (nor do I intend to) but Tom, the only solution is for the rest of the season you do have is to mess with and try to fix your tactics to put yourself in as good of a situation as possible. If that doesn't work, it's major roster overhaul time in the off-season.

Or of course you can always gut?

Decisions decisions. I hope I was helpful Tom.

We are a tad underleveled compared to other teams, but its not that severe. We have ALWAYS been underleveled, and that didn't stop us in the past. Levels should make less of a difference at the top, or at least I thought.

I would LOVE to overhaul in the offseason. Unfortunately, even being a 9-7 team in the offseason is not good enough for recruiting. You need to be a contender to get anyone it seems. Even if you are a contender for Minor Uncapped #2. It's all about the trophy. Even if I tried to recruit every position on the team (which takes far too much time), I'm not sure we could actually upgrade the team. If there is no way to recover, what is the point? The death spiral in games is even worse in recruiting.

I appreciate all the advice from everyone. I think we'll learn a lot from our next game. I won't gut midseason to screw things up for everyone else in the league. However, I'm very uncertain about next season. Only time will tell.

Originally posted by jrry32
Tom, I can tell you just by looking at a couple of games. Your team's main problems are tactics, tactics, tactics...I would offer to give you advice but I only know offense. I can tell you that your defense looks poorly setup to stop the screen and the pitch which are 2 plays right now that are killing in GLB. I'm not saying put everything into stopping them but you need to put some resources into limiting those. Like I said, I am an OC not a DC so I can't give you much help with plays but try checking out MEM's defense, So Cal BDC, Santiago, Cincinatti and those type teams and look what they are doing vs. the screen and pitch. It will likely help. You have to pick your poison and it's sometimes worth giving some runs up the middle up if you shutdown the screens and pitches now don't go too extreme or you'll just trade being killed by the outside to being killed up the middle.

The Woodys are a great squad, Tom, good luck.


EDIT: As for your offense, I am not going to say anything here. If you are interested in more advice, send me a PM and we can talk. I can't OC you guys right now as I'm tied up ATM but I might be able to offer valuable advice as I'm doing pretty decent this season as an OC.

Thanks a lot for the advice. I appreciate it.

Originally posted by WiSeIVIaN
To the people saying tactics, I perhaps disagree. There is a certain talent level, where if you have it things become much easier, and if you don't they become much harder. If the woody's are below that talent level then the best tactics on earth won't get them into the playoffs.



I agree here.

I can say that with recruiting the best thing to do is to do your best to build yourself a network. Find an "alliance" or something with a bunch of other pro teams from various regions and build e-friendships. They can help you with recruiting and sometimes throwing you a decent player and advice. If your forums aren't active whatsoever, you probably need some new agents. While you don't need everyone to be posting all the time, you at least want guys paying attention, offering feedback, helping you bring in a friend or two to fill some roster spots, etc....


Also, jrry is right when he said look at other successful teams and see how they stop certain plays and certain formations. You will probably have to bust out the Dplay creator but you can try to follow the leader a bit until things start clicking and you can make your own adjustments. Offense is a bit trickier balancing the right builds for the right plays, the right tactics for QB/HB/WRs, and other variables


Also, remember that with recruiting the best recruiting takes part between days 26-38 rather than after that. Scour those forums and hope to get lucky and have connections. You gotta go out and form those connections, networks, and friendships though. Recruiting doesn't work like normal pro sports

Originally posted by chronoaug
I can say that with recruiting the best thing to do is to do your best to build yourself a network. Find an "alliance" or something with a bunch of other pro teams from various regions and build e-friendships. They can help you with recruiting and sometimes throwing you a decent player and advice. If your forums aren't active whatsoever, you probably need some new agents. While you don't need everyone to be posting all the time, you at least want guys paying attention, offering feedback, helping you bring in a friend or two to fill some roster spots, etc....


Also, remember that with recruiting the best recruiting takes part between days 26-38 rather than after that. Scour those forums and hope to get lucky and have connections. You gotta go out and form those connections, networks, and friendships though. Recruiting doesn't work like normal pro sports

I agree with what you said about recruiting but I should also add that for most teams you don't want to go after the Superstar FA unless your team will be fine even without adding an MVP-caliber player. Instead of going after the players everyone else is going for, fill your team out with agents who are team-first guys that also happen to have solid builds.

A lot of those players often end up finding a team in their "network" rather than truly hitting the free agent market. Too many recruiters have the mentality of going after the "Best player available" rather than trying to find the best player (and agent) for their team. So if you are looking on the FA market try and avoid that and be more selective about the players you go after.

Originally posted by Mercaptopropyl
I agree with what you said about recruiting but I should also add that for most teams you don't want to go after the Superstar FA unless your team will be fine even without adding an MVP-caliber player. Instead of going after the players everyone else is going for, fill your team out with agents who are team-first guys that also happen to have solid builds.

A lot of those players often end up finding a team in their "network" rather than truly hitting the free agent market. Too many recruiters have the mentality of going after the "Best player available" rather than trying to find the best player (and agent) for their team.

when i was doing a lot of recruiting...i let the big name free agents go to big times team and snuck around looking for the gut jobs...its a great way to build up a team...some teams disband as a network...but many disband and their players are just looking around like well now what? offering them a place to go quickly makes them happy as not everyone likes to be that guy on the PLFT's forum and having 9000 PM's sent his way. Once you have a solid foundation and are doing well...then partake in the glory hounds of recruiting...its far easier to not spend several days getting jerked around for no reason.

Also agreed with building friendships and getting into a network. Quickest and easiest way to build your team back up.

As far as players versus tactics...a good mix of both goes a long way...certainly a team outleveled can only do so much...but this is not the case. jrry was right on his assessment here.

Good Luck Tom.

Well if you're going to gut, the Lesbians need a DT..hit me up!

Originally posted by DrunkenCowboy
Well if you're going to gut, the Lesbians need a DT..hit me up!



Pretty sure the Woody's do too..

I know what could make the Woodys much much better...

Join the Nighthawks.

imo.

::Sigh::

Too busy believing bullshit theories to be able to put a decent side together.

Originally posted by Huss
Too busy believing bullshit theories to be able to put a decent side together.

Do what?

Originally posted by Huss
Too busy believing bullshit theories to be able to put a decent side together.

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