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TO's

By Morbid
5/27/2015 12:45 pm
They have gone from bad to worst

Re: TO's

By jdavidbakr - Site Admin
5/27/2015 12:48 pm
Morbid wrote:
They have gone from bad to worst


Details, please - I can only fix specific logic holes I'm aware of.

Re: TO's

By WarEagle
5/27/2015 12:55 pm
One example:

The Defense seems to be calling timeouts any time they are behind in the 2nd half. I had an opponent call a timeout on 3 consecutive plays in the 3rd quarter.

Another:

It seems that the "have D call timeout in order to get the ball back before half" logic does not take into consideration field position. I was calling timeouts when the opponent was at their 40. This ended up giving them enough time to score a TD before half.

Last edited at 5/27/2015 12:55 pm

Re: TO's

By jdavidbakr - Site Admin
5/27/2015 1:04 pm
WarEagle wrote:
One example:

The Defense seems to be calling timeouts any time they are behind in the 2nd half. I had an opponent call a timeout on 3 consecutive plays in the 3rd quarter.

Another:

It seems that the "have D call timeout in order to get the ball back before half" logic does not take into consideration field position. I was calling timeouts when the opponent was at their 40. This ended up giving them enough time to score a TD before half.



Ah, I had a sign error ... thanks for the report. I'm pushing up a patch now.

Re: TO's

By WarEagle
5/28/2015 6:05 am
This does not seem to have been corrected.

Here is an example:

http://mfn7.myfootballnow.com/watch/1138#256535

For some reason, STL started calling TOs on Defense in the 3rd quarter. They weren't even losing.

Re: TO's

By jdavidbakr - Site Admin
5/28/2015 8:37 am
More tweaks made after watching these -

Re: TO's

By Morbid
5/28/2015 1:17 pm
Plus seems to be that teams are calling TO now when other team has the ball in 2 minute drill, plus I saw an opponent call 3 TO's to start the 3rd Q on plays where the clock was supposed to continue. I havnt seen them used properly at all in games today

Re: TO's

By jdavidbakr - Site Admin
5/28/2015 1:54 pm
Morbid wrote:
Plus seems to be that teams are calling TO now when other team has the ball in 2 minute drill, plus I saw an opponent call 3 TO's to start the 3rd Q on plays where the clock was supposed to continue. I havnt seen them used properly at all in games today


I think I figured out why the defense was calling TO's early in the second half - they are supposed to be calling timeouts now when the other team is trying to drain the clock in preparation for the go-ahead field goal, but I had an error in the logic that was causing them to call timeouts too early.

Re: TO's

By Morbid
5/29/2015 5:44 pm
jdavidbakr wrote:
Morbid wrote:
Plus seems to be that teams are calling TO now when other team has the ball in 2 minute drill, plus I saw an opponent call 3 TO's to start the 3rd Q on plays where the clock was supposed to continue. I havnt seen them used properly at all in games today


I think I figured out why the defense was calling TO's early in the second half - they are supposed to be calling timeouts now when the other team is trying to drain the clock in preparation for the go-ahead field goal, but I had an error in the logic that was causing them to call timeouts too early.


They were still happening in todays games, even Offensively teams are burning TO's before 2 minute warning if behind

Re: TO's

By Morbid
6/02/2015 8:49 pm
I really think all leagues should be reset back to where TO's were originally and have teams just trying to score in the last 2 minutes and use MFN-1 to keep trying to tweak them until they are right but right now thats becoming a main issue on the game and it may be starting to discourage new players that are joining.

TO's are so unpredictable now. Some are being used in the 3rd quarter or start of 4th. Some are not being used in the last 2 minutes at all and the clock is just winding down. Lots of times they are just not used and instead of a team trying to go for a TD in the first half they only call 1 TO and burn the clock to 2 seconds and kick a FG whether ahead or trailing.

I could show links but I am sure any game you watch right now there is a problem. I play a lot of leagues and I havnt seen a game in a few seasons were its been close to be used properly.

I would rather see a scoring frenzy in the last 2 minutes then wasted opportunities.

I am not saying this because I am losing games as I win a lot more then I lose but I see how other owners could be just watching and wonder what is going on when trying to make a comeback