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I'm out of commission for right now. Big storm hit Northeast Ohio. Largest power outages since 2003 or something. Looking like I wont have power until next week sometime.
 

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I'm out of commission for right now. Big storm hit Northeast Ohio. Largest power outages since 2003 or something. Looking like I wont have power until next week sometime.
My parents are going through the same stuff in Seven Hills, OH. So sorry brother and hope the power comes back soon for ya.
 

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Thanks fellas.

Also threw out my back moving in our generator. Safe to say I'm very over this lol.
 

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I think I'd probably vote for this one. Just need to move one more team to the Sun Belt. Maybe UMass or UConn?

I haven't played an online dynasty in ages. Do users control their own schedules or does the commissioner do it all?
 

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Works for me.

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I think I'd probably vote for this one. Just need to move one more team to the Sun Belt. Maybe UMass or UConn?

I haven't played an online dynasty in ages. Do users control their own schedules or does the commissioner do it all?
Here you go. Liberty to the Sun Belt, Memphis to CUSA, UConn to the American. I think those are pretty decently balancedIE CFB25 - 4 Conf Option 2.png
 

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So I worked up a scheduling model that I think makes sense. Just did a dry run on the Xbox and I'm at least 60% this will work. Here's the gist:
  • 3 user OOC games (vs 1 user from each of the 3 other conferences - see table below)
  • 2 user conference games (vs the other 2 users in your conference)
  • 5 CPU conference games (SoS flexibility)
  • 2 CPU OOC games (SoS flexibility)
That gives everyone 7 conference games (including 2 users) and 5 OOC games (including 3 users)

Because we would almost definitely run into scheduling conflicts with the OOC user games, I put together a schedule that has everyone play everyone else over the course of 3 seasons. The two tables are identical, with the first one by team (should work for Season 1) and the second one by user (assuming ppl will switch teams within the first few seasons).

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If everyone is cool with that general model, here are the other things I can think of that we need to get ironed out. Is there a way to embed a poll to have everyone vote on their preference? Maybe people can just quote this and add their "vote"?

  • When to progress each game week?
    • Once a week (e.g. each Monday) or
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    • Twice a week (e.g. each Wednesday and Sunday)?
  • Quarter Length?
    • 6 min
    • 7 min
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  • Difficulty?
    • Varsity
    • All-American
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  • Starting as HC or Coordinator?
    • I assume we will all make a new coach so that everyone starts at zero on coaching abilities
    • HC
    • Coordinator
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  • How will we handle new jobs for coaches?
    • First HC job must be for Tier 4 program
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    • First HC job must be for G5 program
    • No rules
    • No taking new offers. Lead that 1-star team you have to glory.
  • Notre Dame rule?
    • Do we want to make a rule that no one can coach at ND? Since I assume we would all want to do that, maybe it is best to make it off limits?
    • Notre Dame is fair game - first one to get the job wins
    • Notre Dame is off-limits
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I prefer All-American because I think these things are more fun as a grind (and more realistic). I'd rather it take a season or two before we're challenging for conference championships, and several seasons before we're leading P4 teams deep into the playoffs, but that's just my opinion. If people would have more fun with immediate success I get that too.

Everyone feel free to add questions and/or responses to this. Sorry @GATTACA! if I'm stepping on any toes here, just trying to help keep this moving during a relatively slow work week for me!
 
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ADVANCE: I would say Monday nights as a rule and we can always advance early if everyone is ready.

QUARTER LENGTH: 7

DIFFICULTY: I would vote varsity just because the rosters we have are so bad. But if everyone is cool with the struggle idc.

HC/COORDINATOR: Coordinators might be a fun way to start.

NEW JOBS: I would say no rules. Realistically this should be pretty difficult so I can't imagine people getting giant offers early. Especially if we start as coordinators.

NOTRE DAME: I'd say fair game.
 

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gonna sound like a newb here... but how exactly do we do this? Is someone creating a "league" that we join or something?
 

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ADVANCE: I would say Monday nights as a rule and we can always advance early if everyone is ready.

QUARTER LENGTH: 7

DIFFICULTY: I would vote varsity just because the rosters we have are so bad. But if everyone is cool with the struggle idc.

HC/COORDINATOR: Coordinators might be a fun way to start.

NEW JOBS: I would say no rules. Realistically this should be pretty difficult so I can't imagine people getting giant offers early. Especially if we start as coordinators.

NOTRE DAME: I'd say fair game.

I’m cool with all this, but I’m gonna start as a head coach, I don’t want to only control offense or defense with these rosters haha
 

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FWIW, you can still control the whole team (both on the field and in recruiting) as a coordinator. I believe the only difference is the job offers you'll get. For example, an OC at ND might get a job offer for say... HC of Troy 👀... whereas the HC at ND is probably only getting offered to be the HC of other big programs

Edit: You also control hiring/firing other coaches as the HC. You're basically along for the ride as a coordinator
 

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gonna sound like a newb here... but how exactly do we do this? Is someone creating a "league" that we join or something?
Kinda learning all of this for the first time myself. But yeah, the commish will create the dynasty and then invite us.
 

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It has to be an even number of conference games. I'm gonna go 4. So....

2 user conference games
2 computer conference games
3 user OOC games
5 computer OOC games
 

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ADVANCE: Good with monday nights

QUARTER LENGTH: 7 (sure)

DIFFICULTY: I'm on the varsity train otherwise with these crap rosters, it would be frustrating I think.

HC/COORDINATOR: I'm indifferent here.

NEW JOBS: This is new for me. I've played some dynasty. I imagine the job part and the recruiting part are going to be a learning curve. But is the point to get hired to bigger jobs, getting better teams, so you have a better roster?

NOTRE DAME: Fair game
 

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Looks like it locks in your conference schedule.
Yeah, sorry for not mentioning that when I tested it earlier. The way around it is to split the conference into 2 divisions, put all of the user teams into the same division, then schedule 6 conference games so that you will definitely have all users within the same conference play each other. (You can then add a 7th “conference” game to the schedule if you want)

You can also make it so the two teams with the best conference record play for the conference title so we could still get user v user conference title games even though they come from the same “division”
 

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Maybe we just let it ride this way and see how it works. 8 OOC games seems like it should be enough for us to schedule however many human matchups we need.
 

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In! Does the commish set our schedules or does that come after this first “preseason” week?
 

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I'm not entirely sure. Reading online that the commissioner can edit. Idk at what point in the process that happens though.
 

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I think I joined. UN is MONKEMAN9944 (it’s my kids)

Are we supposed to do the preseason setup with recruiting?
 
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