2033 FA 2.4&5 SIM Complete - Next SIM Thursday 04/10

[Guest]

And his ability to keep all the players he drafted, which was tied to smart money management, tobacco withdrawal and an insane cap couple with incredibly low offers.

hahahaha i was trying to get that whole team addicted (begrudgingly) he did know how to massage that cap, i think the greatest trick the devil (err utah) ever pulled was making the world think he didnt exist.

and by that i mean everyone thought he was this nice guy, but he was extremely shrewd. refused to make trades with me, even engineered a trade to "fix" a misunderstanding that boston and i had that benefited utah in the end, almost never signed most of his rookies to save cap space, i could go on but he did it all with a smile and a pat on the back.

[Matt]

Loved the guy and miss him. He was always a class act in the NCFA and OSFL. He helped me every draft (thanks for Sage buddy) and always answered my questions via PM. I would have quit this game long ago without him.

He played within the rules and did nothing no one else could have done. He's a thousand times a better person than the last dominant OSFL coach.

[Guest]

Not awesome.

The computer f'ed up the cap on this team and with all the rollbacks I have no clue how to fix anything. So after trading all my picks because I have no cap room I now lose my 3rd? This is dumb.

Same thing happened to me when I took over a team in another league.

AI sure does a number on a team with the cap.

[Guest]

Loved the guy and miss him. He was always a class act in the NCFA and OSFL. He helped me every draft (thanks for Sage buddy) and always answered my questions via PM. I would have quit this game long ago without him.

He played within the rules and did nothing no one else could have done. He's a thousand times a better person than the last dominant OSFL coach.

Word. THE MAN IS A SAINT. Also, I didn't regret any trade I ever made with him, except for Britt Peters for like a 3rd and a 4th. I doubt that one hindered me much anyway. Besides, he ended up being my receivers group leader for like a decade. For a while it seemed like I made a trade with Utah almost every year. If anything he gave ME a sweetheart deal when I traded up for Malcolm Rowland. Good God.... AM I EVIL? I'd say he's about the easiest and fairest person I ever made trades with in the league.

The problem was people trading him 1st round picks when they're probably going to have a high pick the next year. I traded 2-3 1sts to Nutah and they ended up being bottom of the round picks. The years I had a weak team? I didn't trade future 1sts. Can't blame Nutah for others' bad decisions.

Nutah was never anything but open and fair, and he shared a great wealth of knowledge with the other players in the league, me included. I became much better at FOF for having known and spoke with him, especially during drafts.

[Sharkn20]

Uh I love you boys!!

Sorry if I hurt somebody... Like Garion said I was excited due the new feature of the game and the penalty... No way I could be happy to see one manager loosing something without had the fault

[Aston]

Don't make me blush

We did play balls to the wall with the financials and draft assets in Utah. Even the trades I 'lost' on tended to benefit us in various ways, since even losing value on a pick or dumping a player sheds the opportunity cost of using/keeping them -- which might have been worse.

Pulling all the cap strings I could was probably my favorite part of the game...but I probably wouldn't have the stomach to play with real fire. You guys are brave. Careful with those vet extensions, boys — those grandfathered 2k7 contracts won't be around forever. P.S. We all love you, Shark!

[Sharkn20]

[Guest]

...How does the AI run 40+m in dead cap money?...

The AI cap management in the previous version of the game was non-existent. The AI would continually resign players who still had multiple years left on their contracts. This would cause the bonus money (what you must pay even if you cut a player) to increase each remaining year. As part of overall roster building this strategy makes no sense.

[Guest]

And, thankfully, that seems to have been fixed in FOF7.

Also, Nutah sucks. Damn hippie love fest.

[Guest]

Don't make me blush

We did play balls to the wall with the financials and draft assets in Utah. Even the trades I 'lost' on tended to benefit us in various ways, since even losing value on a pick or dumping a player sheds the opportunity cost of using/keeping them -- which might have been worse.

Pulling all the cap strings I could was probably my favorite part of the game...but I probably wouldn't have the stomach to play with real fire. You guys are brave. Careful with those vet extensions, boys — those grandfathered 2k7 contracts won't be around forever. P.S. We all love you, Shark!

And I think my Rowland pick ended up packaged in the deal to get an even better receiver the next year. :)

And man, I paid a huge amount to a low endurance high PRT pass rusher in FOFL who normally would have had his "cheap" RFA deal, but didn't get that luxury in FOF7. He had something like 5.8% pass rush this season. OUCH. Meanwhile, an undrafted FA DE I had at RDE and some LDE either led or was second in sacks in the league with a respectable pass rush %.