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    #45 Simulation Updates and SimNFL

    in Dev Diary

    Posted · Edited by subsequent

    Hi everyone!

     

    We hope everybody is having a great start to 2022 so far!

     

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    First, we have a few updates on the simulation's continuous evolution. @Rocketcan has been hard at work squashing bugs, deploying new features, and adding metrics.

     

    Bug fixes

     

    Ton of bugs have been vanquished to make the simulation run smoother.

    • Penalties
      • Penalties no longer reset everything to 1st and 10
      • Penalty yardage now applying correctly
      • Line of scrimmage is set properly after penalties during punts

      [*]Turnover TDs

      • Now working properly!

      [*]INT yardage

      • Now properly displaying!

      [*]QB scrambles

      • Play-by-play should now accurately report QB scrambles

      [*]"xx:00" on the clock

      • The play-by-play now properly shows two digits for the seconds (e.g. 10:00 instead of 10:0)

      [*]Field Goal blocks

      • The system now understands how to output this

      [*]Stamina

      • We have a new system in place for stamina (which I'm sure @Rocketcan will deep dive later on!)
      • The long story short is that you should no longer have low stamina guys gassed after just a handful of plays and players should more easily last most of the game

    New features

    • Box scores now show the coach's name
    • Play-by-play now shows the running score
    • New stats
      • Pancakes
      • Individual sacks allowed
      • D/ST TDs
      • Safeties
      • Passes Defended
      • Drive data
        • How did the drive end? (i.e. turnover, turnover on downs, punt, TD, FG made, FG missed, safety)

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    Next, here is our current to-do list for the simulation.

     

    CFB Simulation buffs/nerfs/tweaks

     

    If you want to better understand some of these buffs/nerfs/tweaks, please refer to numbers crunched here. The tl;dr for this is that I went through and compared our regular season stats and averages to 2017, 2018, and 2019 FBS stats.

    • Buff LB tackling
      • LBs now do a better job tackling in the box

      [*]Nerf DT/DE/OLB (3-4) tackling

      [*]Buff FG kicking by around 10%

      [*]Buff XP kicking by around 4%

      [*]Buff sacks by about 100%

      • We saw roughly half as many sacks as we should have

      [*]Nerf passing

      • Yards
        • We need to decrease this by roughly 500 yards/yr

        [*]Completions

        • We need to decrease this by roughly 20-25 completions/yr
        • We need to decrease completion percentage by roughly 1.5 percentage points

        [*]Yards per completion

        • We need to decrease this by roughly 0.5 yards/completion

      [*]Buff passing

      • INTs thrown
        • We need to decrease the number of INTs thrown by roughly 4-5/yr

    Planned new features

    • Overtime
    • Improved play selection logic based on down and distance to go
    • Improved hurry-up offenses (two minute drill)
    • Gameplan updates
      • HB substitutions
      • Selection to determine when you punt, kick a FG, or go for it on 4th down
      • Pre-fab gameplans for situational football based on scheme

     

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    Hopefully this list of changes and planned changes helps you guys understand why we there is a larger gap between our first and our second seasons. Rocketcan will need to simulate full seasons after making tweaks to check to see if his changes are having the desired impact to the simulation, so we really thank you for your patience and willingness to volunteer and help us with things... ;)

     

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    Let's switch gears to @SimNFL...

     

    So we've had a bit of discussion on how best to order teams for our inaugural draft. While we would love to run a round robin tournament to do an initial seeding of teams for the draft, we just don't have the sim in a state to properly run NFL games yet. So we will be randomly generating an order and then doing a snake draft. This seems to be the most fair way to do the draft right now.

     

    For full transparency, I will do a quick stream on the SimFBA Twitch Channel at 12pm ET THIS Saturday January 22nd using https://100yardrush.com/ to run the randomization. I will do everything completely from scratch so everybody can see that no funny business is to be had. A VOD and link to the 100yardrush replay will be available afterwards.

     

    Next weekend/week, I will also post a list of all players eligible for the draft so everybody can get excited for that! Before the draft occurs, we will also need to do pro-days and the NFL combine, so please stay tuned for more details on those events as well as the draft itself.

     

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    Okay, that's it for today's dev diary. A lot of information in this one, so please take a look, ask questions, and discuss below and in Discord!

     

    Talk soon.

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    Sportskk11

    in Job Applications and Interviews

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    Welcome to SimFBA!

     

    You have been approved for Vanderbilt! Our inaugural season just wrapped up, so we are in a bit of a transitory phase. We have NFL starting up very soon after we make some tweaks and fixes to the game engine.

     

    Read through this thread for important information regarding your depth chart and gameplan:

     

    https://www.simfba.com/index.php?threads/college-football-rules-megathread.2164/

     

     

    This thread will walk you through the interface. You'll want to create an account there using the same username you have here. You will find your roster on there once you request your team and are accepted.

     

    https://www.simfba.com/index.php?threads/38-interface-update.2059/

     

    @Kirby can you please update their avatar?

     

    Welcome to SimFBA! Please let me know if you have any further questions! Feel free to look around. Besides the NFL, we also have college basketball starting up again soon and are almost through our first NBA season. If you are interested in any of those leagues, do let us know!

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    Application - Piercewise1

    in Job Applications and Interviews

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    You have been approved for Indiana! Welcome to the Big Ten! We are currently in the last stages of the post-season (week 3 of 4 is this week).

     

    Find your roster here:

    https://www.simfba.com/index.php?forums/cfb.100/

     

    Read through this thread for important information regarding your depth chart and gameplan:

    https://www.simfba.com/index.php?threads/college-football-rules-megathread.2164/

     

    This thread will walk you through the interface. You'll want to create an account there using the same username you have here.

    https://www.simfba.com/index.php?threads/38-interface-update.2059/

     

    @Kirby can update your avatar.

     

    Welcome to SimFBA! Please let me know if you have any further questions! Feel free to look around. We have college basketball starting up again soon and are halfway through our first NBA season.

    College Football Rules Megathread

    in Information

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    CHANGING YOUR SCHEME (2021 SEASON)

     

    We know that since this is the first season of a completely new sim, people want to try new things out and see what works. I highly encourage that. As this is our first season, we don't have a proper way to adjust performance based on constant scheme changes (if a team went through four different schemes in four different weeks, you would expect that team to have some growing pains).

     

    To that end, we still want to facilitate experimentation, so we are allowing scheme changes as long as you let your opponent know by Monday 11:59PM ET.

     

    Please utilize the following thread:

     

    https://www.simfba.com/index.php?threads/2021-scheme-changes-thread.2703/

     

    Failure to properly notify your opponent will result in your next week's recruiting points being cut from 50 to 25. If you suspect another user has changed schemes without notifying you, please let us know and we will investigate.

     

    Additionally, I would like to apologize for any failures in communicating small rule changes and announcements. We will continue to make sure everything is properly documented in one easy-to-find place.

    Scheme changing

    in Announcements, Site News and Updates

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    Hi all, I know there have been some murmurings about scheme changes and things like that.

     

    We know that since this is the first season of a completely new sim, people want to try new things out and see what works. I highly encourage that. As this is our first season, we don't have a proper way to adjust performance based on constant scheme changes (if a team went through four different schemes in four different weeks, you would expect that team to have some growing pains).

     

    To that end, we still want to facilitate experimentation, so we are allowing scheme changes as long as you let your opponent know by Monday 11:59PM ET.

     

    Please utilize the following thread:

     

    https://www.simfba.com/index.php?threads/2021-scheme-changes-thread.2703/

     

    Failure to properly notify your opponent will result in your next week's recruiting points being cut from 50 to 25. If you suspect another user has changed schemes without notifying you, please let us know and we will investigate.

     

    Additionally, I would like to apologize for any failures in communicating small rule changes and announcements. We will continue to make sure everything is properly documented in one easy-to-find place.

     

    Thanks!

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    Recent user conduct and behavior

    in Announcements, Site News and Updates

    Posted · Edited by subsequent

    Hi everyone,

     

    It's become apparent to everyone that there have been issues with unnecessary and completely irresponsible behavior regarding this site and using this site's name.

     

    I want to be absolutely clear to everyone that this sort of behavior is neither encouraged nor welcome on SimFBA.

     

    We are here to create a fun and engaging community, not one that is at odds with other communities. Never have we claimed to be a replacement for any other website or game. Simply put, this site is here because we want to offer another option in a fantastic world of sports simulation games. I've been a part of many different communities, and I hope that everyone here has the opportunities to do the same as well.

     

    I would like to once again point out our "Mission Statement" and our "About Us" as I think some of us need a refresher on this.

     

    SimFBA Mission Statement

     

    SimFBA is an in-depth football simulation site that seeks to create a unique and challenging football community dedicated to building the site and a tight community. We distinguish ourselves by being a community that is committed to full transparency of both the simulation itself and community decisions that will take place.

     

    “Treat each other like you would in real life; don’t hide behind a keyboard”

     

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    About Us

    SimFBA is a community of people who enjoy football enough to participate in a simulation of it where they are the coach, GM, owner, and/or scout. SimFBA uses a community-built simulation engine called NewSim. All of the Admins and Staff members on this site have directly contributed to the assembly and management of the forum, development of the interface, and from-the-ground-up coding of the simulation engine itself. Currently, the site is in BETA and the simulation is NOT complete. We are, however, working on it nearly every day to bring the best possible simulation to the community. Considering this status, we would appreciate any and all patience, feedback, suggestions, and criticisms that the community could provide us.

     

    You can find the full text here.

     

    In closing, I'm very disappointed. Not just in whichever users have been utilizing the SimFBA name as a means for nefarious reasons or in any toxic discussions or environments that have been created as a result, but in my failure to ensure that this sort of situation would not occur. For that, I will take full responsibility and you can rest assured knowing that I will now allow this to happen again.

     

    I'm not asking anyone to come forward. I'm not asking for anyone to apologize for their behaviors. I'm not going to rehash what has transpired.

     

    All I'm going to implore is for everyone to do better.

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    Wiki Page Incentives

    in Announcements, Site News and Updates

    Posted

    Hi everyone, I want to work with the group to inquire how you guys would feel about incentives for creating and maintaining team Wiki pages. We have a wiki (found here, or via link on the top navigation bar), but right now it is pretty bare. I know a lot of you guys are busy people, and I don't want to create inherent disadvantages because you don't have as much time to spend on the site. You all have lives and I 100% respect that.

     

    In light of that, the wiki pages still need to be created, so I want to ask you guys what you think what would be the best way to get those pages done. Should there be an incentive to create them? If so, would those be in the form of recruiting points? How many? Should you get more if you work on other teams' pages? Should the incentive be just a forum trophy? Or should everyone just be required to work on their own?

     

    Additionally, we would need to create a standard template/format. Should there be an incentive for someone creating that? Please discuss your thoughts here.

     

    EDIT: There's already a template. See here. Thanks @PoopyRhinoPickle!

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    Media Authoring Incentives

    in Announcements, Site News and Updates

    Posted · Edited by subsequent

    Hi everyone,

     

    Happy to announce that anyone who creates media regularly for the site will be rewarded with 5 extra points to spend on recruiting per week!

     

    As a baseline, we require you to post for at least 12 weeks throughout the season and the media should be something more than just a simple list of teams or players. Be creative, create narratives, interview people! Use your imagination!

     

    Note that these rules are subject to change and are at the admins' discretion.

     

    Edit: To clarify - This is making weekly posts THIS season will reward you with 5 extra points NEXT season.

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    RVJRUK

    in Job Applications and Interviews

    Posted

    Hi @rvjruk and welcome to the site! We're glad to have you here. You just (barely) missed the cut off for week 1 games, but you can take over the team starting in week 2. A couple of things that we'll need from you:

     

    Please read this to get familiar with how to set up depth charts and gameplans:

     

    https://www.simfba.com/index.php?threads/college-football-rules-megathread.2164/

     

    And then check this out for how to get started with recruiting:

     

    https://www.simfba.com/index.php?threads/recruiting-tutorial.2353/

     

    Once you have read these, let me know and we will get you all set up. This round of recruiting ends next Wednesday, so the sooner you read the above, the sooner you can start recruiting for this week and gameplanning/creating your depth chart for week 2 games!

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