Does the play calling matrix even work? I spent several hours last night building a new game plan. Only to watch the matrix NOT CALL A SINGLE PLAY THAT SHOULD HAVE HAD PRIORITY.
Here's the setup for first down:
Personnel
221 - 60%
122 - 20%
212 - 16%
113, 104, 203, 014 - 1% each
Play Call
Inside/Outside Run - 35%
Short pass - 24%
Med pass - 5%
Long pass - 1%
And here are the personnel sets that were actually run on first down.
221 Pass - 4 (3 short, 1 med)
212 I Formation - 3
203 - 3
113 - 6
122 - 1
That means that my team didn't call a single run out of the 221 on 1-10 even though the personnel set is supposed to be called 60% of the time and run is supposed to be called 70% of the time. I should not have had any rules take over the game plan except in the fourth quarter when I was losing, but I'll have to check. Regardless, early in the game, my team still didn't follow my game plan as it only ran a play out of the 221 four times in the first half and all of those were passes.
Oh, I know, the randomizer just rolled poorly.
I don't mind losing this game. But when the game messes up my data collection on a new game plan, I have a hard time justifying spending any time playing around with the game planning function when it obviously will just call what it wants anyway. Do I just have to put rules in place?
I mean that's what Infinity did - one rule to select from 3 plays on first down only and another rule to select from 3 plays on second down and one rule for defending the 113 and pass rush the rest of the time. He dominated league after league with that simplified approach. I guess that's the only way to do it. Stupid.
