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Re: Coaches

By Cjfred68
5/14/2020 9:33 pm
Coaching has minimal impact. I won the title in the NFFL league and my Head Coach retired.....I hired the best available coach to replace him but he had a different playbook.....My team struggled all through preseason to score.....I finally decided to find another Head Coach with the same playback but at that point only sub 60 Head coaches were available so I hired one....I went on to finish 15-1 but did lose in the Conference Championship game.....After that when I lost a coach in any league I just hired the youngest unemployed coach available who usually rated in the 60s....I've continued to win in all my leagues.....coaching is a novelty and simply not important....the money earmarked for coaching is separate from the player salary cap so its all pointless.

Re: Coaches

By Mcarovil
5/14/2020 9:58 pm
A HC is most important for their playbook. Also coaches impact the progress of players. It was broken down to like 15/10/5 percent from HC/Coord/Position to how much progress your players make in reaching potential. That said, if you have a good roster and GP you can still have success regardless of coaches as mentioned by CJ.

Re: Coaches

By Phareux
5/14/2020 10:11 pm
how do you know what plays are in the HC playbook

Re: Coaches

By Cjfred68
5/14/2020 10:17 pm
Phareux wrote:
how do you know what plays are in the HC playbook


By his offensive and defensive style and using trail and error to figure out which has what.

Re: Coaches

By tribewriter
5/14/2020 10:21 pm
JDB has said the playbooks only vary about 10 percent between coaching styles.

Re: Coaches

By Lamba
5/15/2020 12:24 am
tribewriter wrote:
JDB has said the playbooks only vary about 10 percent between coaching styles.

Yes. But those 10%... I've never had a HC with Hard Slants.

Re: Coaches

By CrazySexyBeast
5/15/2020 11:09 pm
JasperFrost wrote:
Coaching seems pretty aids, yeah

It's random but the way the system works with financials of coaches and contracts and top 4 salaries, it's all extremely obtuse and makes very little sense. Coaching does matter so if you get screwed out of a great coach (likely) then you're just left to dry. It's kind of an active detriment to my enjoyment of the system at this point, meaning it's not serving its purpose. I don't know of anyone that actually enjoys the way coaching works right now. Being able to build your own playbook based on all available plays, maybe giving you experience towards unlocking new plays as you try out new plays in games, all of that is a more rewarding and logical system than "pick the best coach, poach"

Preach.
Just preach.
Obtuse is so perfect when used perfectly.
R'amen, brother.
Last edited at 5/15/2020 11:11 pm