Comments on: Xbox 360 vs Xbox

By: kevinpars

kevinpars — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:13:00 +0000

At some point I will do the 60 year sim and post results and highlights. A major gripe I have about the 360 version is that EA now has the capability to track a lot more stats than they do - for example how about a page listing National Champions or tracking the bowl game results. It would be cool to play in the Orange Bowl in year 14 and see the stats and game results for the previous games.

Like Bill said, there are too many blowouts in the game this year - even in the bowl games. Too many 48-14 games between teams that probably should be 28-14 games.

By: Joel Hulsey

Joel Hulsey — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:28:00 +0000

Yes, I don’t recall seeing a team with 4 losses or more in the top 25 at year’s end. But it seems that coding the win/loss ratio into bowl games really wouldn’t have been that hard. Makes you wonder how much they really know about college ball.

if team * has 6+ loss, then they stay home.

Yup, seems simple to me. But then again, what do I know? I don’t have the sense to get out of the way of hurricanes?

By: bill

bill — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:02:00 +0000

Yep I am seeing just what Todd is seeing. Several undefeated teams a year, and the rest of the top 25 is mainly filled with 11-1 and 10-2 teams with maybe 1 or 2 9-3 team squeezing in. If you lose 4 games you are not in the top 25. Period.

I am not the biggest fan of the simulation engine mainly because I think there are too many blowouts (I see WAY too many 44-7, 48-10 type games for my taste) and there are not enough upsets. There’s a reason that so many teams finish the year with 1 loss and I think it’s that the auto schedules make it too easy for good teams and that ranked teams beat unranked teams about 90% of the time. You DO see upsets, but the sims just seem a bit too much ‘by the numbers’ to me.

By: Todd

Todd — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:50:00 +0000

You definitely won’t see a 5-6 team in the top 25. It’s rare that you’ll see a 8-4 team in the top 25. In some seasons you might see just one 3-loss team in the top 25. At least, based on my 5-season sim. Joel, does this trend continue deeper into a dynasty?

By: J.R.

J.R. — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 07:07:00 +0000

I’ll probably play 12-15 season between my BMOC and Dynasty in ‘07, and I can live with an occasional team having a sub-.500 season and making a bowl game. The thing I don’t want to see ever, and which I saw in the ‘06 game once, is Oregon going 5-6, not making a bowl game and finishing in the Top 25 in the final season standings.

By: Joel Hulsey

Joel Hulsey — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 01:56:00 +0000

I just finished simming 60 seasons ( to test the AI and get my 100 points of course) and Rice won a total of 5 times. Other notables was Indiana winning once, Vanderbilt once, Kansas twice, Troy once (!), and UL Monroe making to the title game once. Unreal. Oregon State had the most title wins by far with 12 out of 60. ND never won despite having the top recruiting class 10 times. USC did win 3 times though so that’s a little bit realistic.

By: bill

bill — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 01:06:00 +0000

I did see the 4-8 bug once Joel but the notion that Rice and teams of its ilk will win “many times” is not necessarily true at all. Todd and I ghave simemd about 15 seasons between us and the most unlikely winner one year was Utah and that was a one time thing. Plus, Utah is a 4 star program in the game.

By: Joel Hulsey

Joel Hulsey — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 00:09:00 +0000

Dan, try this. Sim a bunch of seasons and see what happens. You’ll see tons of teams going to bowl games with losing records (I had Maryland go with a 4-8 record!) and teams like Rice and Utah State will win the national title many times, but Notre Dame will not ever win it. Rice could go undefeated for a decade and not even get tickets to the big game, much less play in it. Simming games is bad, but playing them is pretty fun.