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BTW... Great job in decimating us MM.. GG. I honestly don't think we have a chance this year in the playoffs against you, but that won't stop us from trying... Good luck rest of the Season.

(Although doesn't look like you'll need luck)

Originally posted by Warwynd
BTW... Great job in decimating us MM.. GG. I honestly don't think we have a chance this year in the playoffs against you, but that won't stop us from trying... Good luck rest of the Season.

(Although doesn't look like you'll need luck)

While it all looks pretty now, its a whole new ballgame in the playoffs. New VAs come into play, and some teams completely rework their AI's. I would be lying if I say I don't expect to win it all, hell I made a post about it during the preseason, but I do expect a good fight from LBK, Alpine, and ATKM. APP possibly too, but they are now sliding hard because of decline imo. But these few teams are all great teams in the East that you can't ever overlook.

I will open up my LB's build for you all, then you can tell me how bad the build is.

Just so you know, most all of our LB's builds are just as good as this. Some are slightly different than this, but they are all built well.

http://goallineblitz.com/game/player.pl?player_id=766209

Maybe our builds aren't all Pro builds, and I may have learned that this season. I have a hard time believing that Spitzer is not a Pro build.

Either way, we won't be going away. We have had down seasons and rebounded. Not quite a season like this one.

You all are right. I will shut up and put up in the upcoming seasons. Like I said in the pre-season, I am not one to ramble or bitch.....something has just triggered me this season.

TBH...every time I post a bitch session, I kind of feel like a little kid that doesn't get any candy at the candy store.

The sim is actually a lot better than it has been in the past tbh. You can't just run season 12/13 AI and expect to be dominant but still. It never is a perfect sim. Every season things change and while there are always a few little lumps, overall the sim moves forward as better overall. Tbh, you guys need overall better builds, better dpc plays and better tactics. Sometimes it's small things too. For awhile the columbus woodys in usapl had active owner/coordinators, some pretty good builds, and experience but just couldn't get out of the usapl basement (and this was when usapl had a lot of depth compared to how sad it is now). It's not always a slap you in the face kinda thing. While that one LB's build and i'm guessing a couple other builds are solid enough, gotta think about all the starters and backups not to mention the oline/dline. I think the Pierre Thomas opened up some of his oline builds that were on the Blaze and they're sick and the whole oline are just absolute monsters.

The only thing i can suggest is to take some time watching film on offense, defense of some other good teams with good AIs in the WL. Also scout them to get some breakdowns of how they mix it up, try to guess some builds from bars and speed scouter, take a look at some of the elite builds in free agency you see the top teams going after, etc...

Originally posted by chronoaug
The sim is actually a lot better than it has been in the past tbh. You can't just run season 12/13 AI and expect to be dominant but still. It never is a perfect sim. Every season things change and while there are always a few little lumps, overall the sim moves forward as better overall. Tbh, you guys need overall better builds, better dpc plays and better tactics. Sometimes it's small things too. For awhile the columbus woodys in usapl had active owner/coordinators, some pretty good builds, and experience but just couldn't get out of the usapl basement (and this was when usapl had a lot of depth compared to how sad it is now). It's not always a slap you in the face kinda thing. While that one LB's build and i'm guessing a couple other builds are solid enough, gotta think about all the starters and backups not to mention the oline/dline. I think the Pierre Thomas opened up some of his oline builds that were on the Blaze and they're sick and the whole oline are just absolute monsters.

The only thing i can suggest is to take some time watching film on offense, defense of some other good teams with good AIs in the WL. Also scout them to get some breakdowns of how they mix it up, try to guess some builds from bars and speed scouter, take a look at some of the elite builds in free agency you see the top teams going after, etc...

I've done the things you are saying. I haven't done much of it this season however. I guess a 1 man organization is really hurting my time to get things working according to the sim this season. I usually go through good and bad seasons when it comes to scouting and taking the time to adjust. This just isn't one of those seasons. BTW, I haven't run any legit strategy for a couple of games now. We have a great general strategy setup. I just haven't been able to invest the time this season. Maybe it's not that I don't have the time, but more that I don't feel like wasting the time with the new sim and knowing we were only 8th seed at best.

Next season will have to be a rebound season. I don't think the sim is completely jacked by any means. I just think the interaction on Defense has really been sad. Our man 2 man coverage was worse than ever. I really think something is wrong with LB's still.

If you haven't really done those studies and figuring stuff out this season or changing the AI game to game then no wonder you're not doing that well. It's not AAA anymore. Not changing the AI and just using the same one only works for truly elite teams where their builds are just completely dominant like mm, valhalla, blaze, mod, lincoln, mphd, etc... Even then, they work hard figuring out a stellar base AI that they just leave in there with the exception of the tougher games. Not to mention that their base AI is probably much better than everyone else's adjusted one. If you're an underdog you have to gameplan every time to try and go after a team's weakness or see if they have any holes in their playcalling or are predictable enough to where you can hedge against certain sides of the field out of certain formations

Originally posted by chronoaug
If you haven't really done those studies and figuring stuff out this season or changing the AI game to game then no wonder you're not doing that well. It's not AAA anymore. Not changing the AI and just using the same one only works for truly elite teams where their builds are just completely dominant like mm, valhalla, blaze, mod, lincoln, mphd, etc... Even then, they work hard figuring out a stellar base AI that they just leave in there with the exception of the tougher games. Not to mention that their base AI is probably much better than everyone else's adjusted one. If you're an underdog you have to gameplan every time to try and go after a team's weakness or see if they have any holes in their playcalling or are predictable enough to where you can hedge against certain sides of the field out of certain formations

This guy speaks the truth

Oh, and don't start changing things around and exploiting other teams' weaknesses when you play alpine, as we're trying to stay in the lead for the "don't play mm till conf champ game" sweepstakes. Thanks

Originally posted by chronoaug
Oh, and don't start changing things around and exploiting other teams' weaknesses when you play alpine, as we're trying to stay in the lead for the "don't play mm till conf champ game" sweepstakes. Thanks

I was just going to say that we could put our real AI in for the Alpine game. It's much better than the stuff we have been running as of late.

I haven't scouted hardly at all this season. I pretty much knew how the season was going after game 1 vs. them MEM scrubs.

Believe it or not, I scouted and tagged the hell out of that game. I probably did too much.

Originally posted by smittdog101
I was just going to say that we could put our real AI in for the Alpine game. It's much better than the stuff we have been running as of late.

I haven't scouted hardly at all this season. I pretty much knew how the season was going after game 1 vs. them MEM scrubs.

Believe it or not, I scouted and tagged the hell out of that game. I probably did too much.

Or MEM is just that much better than your team.

Originally posted by SSlayton10
While it all looks pretty now, its a whole new ballgame in the playoffs. New VAs come into play, and some teams completely rework their AI's. I would be lying if I say I don't expect to win it all, hell I made a post about it during the preseason, but I do expect a good fight from LBK, Alpine, and ATKM. APP possibly too, but they are now sliding hard because of decline imo. But these few teams are all great teams in the East that you can't ever overlook.

All very true. APP's owner, Knightman has great builds and GPs very well. He has gone on record as saying that decline is whooping up on him and that he is just trying to ride out one or two more good seasons. Hell I would not be terribly surprised to see APP gut/restart within the next season or two (although, I sincerely hope that does NOT happen, we have two much history to see them go out like that). I think that you are very likely to win it all this year.

That doesn't mean we are gonna let you take it. We are certainly gonna do all we can to bring you down. It will be fun

P.S. Good luck in WL next year.... . You guys are certainly a WL caliber team. And pretty much a class act as well...

Originally posted by Warwynd
All very true. APP's owner, Knightman has great builds and GPs very well. He has gone on record as saying that decline is whooping up on him and that he is just trying to ride out one or two more good seasons. Hell I would not be terribly surprised to see APP gut/restart within the next season or two (although, I sincerely hope that does NOT happen, we have two much history to see them go out like that). I think that you are very likely to win it all this year.

That doesn't mean we are gonna let you take it. We are certainly gonna do all we can to bring you down. It will be fun

P.S. Good luck in WL next year.... . You guys are certainly a WL caliber team. And pretty much a class act as well...

class act, except for that idiot who challenged KKAR to a scrim O_o

LOL.... well.....

GG, Lions.

Hard to believe we pulled off the win with only 3 completions by our starting QB, but that's the way things go sometimes. I'm just glad we "shut down" your HB in the passing game (if you count 9 catches for 87 yards as being shut down).

GG CCIA! Always fun to match up against you guys