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Good and bad.
You have to know how to use it right. There are limitations.
And keep in mind that there is always the possibility for this scenario, which happened to me once. You will put Play X in an Auto-Adjusted package for your offense. Your opponent scouts you ahead of time and predicts you might call Play X a bit, so they design a defensive custom play that is perfectly suited for stopping it. The sim calls Play X for you twice early on, and in both cases your ball-carrier goes into beast mode, fakes a couple of guys, breaks a couple of tackles, and gets huge gains. Auto-Adjust sees these results and cranks Play X WAY up, resulting in it being called 12 more times over the course of the game -- where it goes for a 3-yard loss every time, because your ball-carrier doesn't get the same lucky fake-rolls and break-rolls he got on the first two calls.
But there's also the possibility that Auto-Adjust will work great for you and expertly steer you out of one play call that's not working at all and into another play call that's working brilliantly. I've had that happen too, certainly more times than the nightmare scenario above.
You just have to keep in mind, Auto-Adjust works best on a game-plan that's already good. Auto-Adjust will not take a bad game-plan and make it good. It's simply no substitute for scouting your opponent, identifying their strengths and weaknesses, and crafting a gameplan designed to attack their weaknesses and nullify their strengths. Auto-Adjust is one more tool in your arsenal, but it can't overcome a bad initial gameplan.
But as part of your balanced breakfast? Works fine.
You have to know how to use it right. There are limitations.
And keep in mind that there is always the possibility for this scenario, which happened to me once. You will put Play X in an Auto-Adjusted package for your offense. Your opponent scouts you ahead of time and predicts you might call Play X a bit, so they design a defensive custom play that is perfectly suited for stopping it. The sim calls Play X for you twice early on, and in both cases your ball-carrier goes into beast mode, fakes a couple of guys, breaks a couple of tackles, and gets huge gains. Auto-Adjust sees these results and cranks Play X WAY up, resulting in it being called 12 more times over the course of the game -- where it goes for a 3-yard loss every time, because your ball-carrier doesn't get the same lucky fake-rolls and break-rolls he got on the first two calls.
But there's also the possibility that Auto-Adjust will work great for you and expertly steer you out of one play call that's not working at all and into another play call that's working brilliantly. I've had that happen too, certainly more times than the nightmare scenario above.
You just have to keep in mind, Auto-Adjust works best on a game-plan that's already good. Auto-Adjust will not take a bad game-plan and make it good. It's simply no substitute for scouting your opponent, identifying their strengths and weaknesses, and crafting a gameplan designed to attack their weaknesses and nullify their strengths. Auto-Adjust is one more tool in your arsenal, but it can't overcome a bad initial gameplan.
But as part of your balanced breakfast? Works fine.
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