Game Engine Beta Discussion: Gameplay Updates for 4.7

How many weeks of games since the last update to the proposed 4.7?

We've a number of weeks of pre-season but I generally discount those in terms of meaningful data.,

The latest changes were done starting 2078 week 11 - so we have the end of last season and the playoffs to look at.

So 8 x 16 regular season games, 134 games + 13 playoff games from last season, plus 64 regular season games this season.

So 12 weeks + playoffs; is that enough to highlight anomalies? Probably yes, but I always veer on the side of caution - but then wait too long, nothing would get released.

I'd not be unhappy if 4.7 were released after week 4, assuming no deal breaking thing crops up; can't speak for others.

The other thing I was thinking was that this engine is only being tried in a "human" league; too late now, but for 4.8 would it be an idea to have a MFN-TEST-ROSTER-ONLY league?

My thought process is that having that would also exercise proposed game engine against AI decisions, which might highlight some issues?

As long as that and MFN-TEST ran in step, might be useful?

This is probably unecessary as Im sure JDB has the data and stats to ensure as relativity as possible between MFN and NFL season stats.

There are more stat categories in RL NFL, Yards per catch allowed by DBs and LBs being a big one, that we dont have. I dont care about interception return yardage/average as compared. Tackles for loss is another stat that would be helpfull for evaluating defensive player performance.

So, here are some quick comparisons btw MFN Test league stats and RL NFL last season. I just looked at the leaders that came up on each page.

Passing: Yardage as lead factor.
MFN 7,Joshua Pursel (QB) DEN 620 392 63.2% 5,076yds 8.19 31sacks/250 34td 80 20int 93.72

NFL Matthew Stafford 597 388 65% 4,706yds, 46td 8 109.2 7.9 8 int

I would say that the two QBs stats were not far apart. comp % almost the same. Big difference was interception rate, 20/MFN vs 8/NFL.

QB sacks, the high range in the NFL was 50 times, MFN high range was 60 with one being 72. So the sack amount was around 10% higher in MFN. MIght be worth comparing total number of sacks instead of smaller sample. I would guess that the overall total is higher in MFN. Dont know about the pressures, that would also be a good stat comparison.

Rushing: MFN had 12 RBs with 1000 yd rushing seasons, with the high amount being 1426 and 15 tds.
NFL had 11 RBs over 1000 with the high being 1621, 18 tds being the high in that category.
So looks like rushing stats were very similar.

Im going to cut it here, am visiting family this month so not much time to play. will look at some other stats when I can.