{"id":1000,"date":"2007-07-22T19:31:55","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T23:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/07\/22\/funny-thing-about-sports-games\/"},"modified":"2007-07-22T19:31:55","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T23:31:55","slug":"funny-thing-about-sports-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/07\/22\/funny-thing-about-sports-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny thing about sports games &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have not had much time to play NCAA Football 08 today (I am only doing quick play and Campus Legend mode right now) , but I did finish out a week.\u00a0 UGA improved to 2-2 with a nice 34-24 win over Alabama.\u00a0 As the number three HB, I saw limited action, which brings me to the point of this post.<\/p>\n<p>After the Bama game, I managed to move up to #2 on the depth charts, and if I had a decent set of practices, I would have been the starting HB for the Ole Miss game.\u00a0 The funny thing about sports games is that this is completely unrealistic, but of course it is fun.\u00a0 I assume most gamers would not want to ride the bench game after game, so EA had to do something (i.e. practices to move up the depth chart) to engage the casual fans.<\/p>\n<p>It is really not that big a deal to me, and I would gladly have the developers implement a more realistic system if they actually used players similar to real life.\u00a0 It is fairly typical for UGA to employ the third-string back more than I have been employed in the first four games.\u00a0 In the end it does not matter, because I am second-string for game number five, and will be starting by game six.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, it is not realistic, but it is fun, which is the reason I continue to play the game.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have not had much time to play NCAA Football 08 today (I am only doing quick play and Campus Legend mode right now) , but I did finish out a week.\u00a0 UGA improved to 2-2 with a nice 34-24 win over Alabama.\u00a0 As the number three HB, I saw limited action, which brings me &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/07\/22\/funny-thing-about-sports-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Funny thing about sports games &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}