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Is there such a thing as formation experience, or any other advantages to staying with a few select formations, or is it better to just pluck in plays from all formations.??

No real advantage to sticking with a formation, but you should have some variety or a good d coordinator will eat you alive so I would select plays from all formations, and then remove the ones you don't like after you see them in action, and add a new play.

Keep your eye on the forums, and look at replays people post. Some will even go to the bug forum and look at what people are complaining about and use those plays.

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Few. Then DC can't pick up on formation tendencies, i.e., most rushing plays are out of pro-set so DC goes heavy run defense vs. pro-set. If you run the majority of your plays out of two or three formations there's a greater chance you are going to catch the D in a run defense when you've got a long pass called.

Originally posted by mfaldon1
Few. Then DC can't pick up on formation tendencies, i.e., most rushing plays are out of pro-set so DC goes heavy run defense vs. pro-set. If you run the majority of your plays out of two or three formations there's a greater chance you are going to catch the D in a run defense when you've got a long pass called.

This. We run a full on I formation set serveral times a year. Pass out of it, rush out of it, screen out of it.... almost assured to get a TE or WR one on one while the defense expects a run.

Ok,
that is pretty much what I figured. I have a basic playbook now that uses I, SI, and shotgun formation.
Why a completely I formation set? Isn't there a problem with same play penalties?