{"id":629,"date":"2006-08-12T21:35:30","date_gmt":"2006-08-12T21:35:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-08-12T21:35:30","modified_gmt":"2006-08-12T21:35:30","slug":"dynasties-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/08\/12\/dynasties-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Dynasties Away&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally decided to start a NCAA Football 2007 dynasty, but I am going to do things different this year.  I doubt I will do any sort of major chronicle of my exploits.  Not that the chronicle reports are no longer fun, but I am always pressed for time, so better to spend it playing and writing about an assortment of stuff, instead of spending detailing the statistics.  Besides I am tackling three teams this year ? Georgia, North Texas, and Texas.<\/p>\n<p>I still have to work out all the odds and ends, but after playing several random games (mostly of the rivalry sort), I think week one of my schedule shed some light on a need to switch things up.  This well be addressed in short order.<\/p>\n<p>I only have a few \u201chouse\u201d rules.  I have been playing on varsity, 5-minute quarters, and some adjustments for the CPU to drop passing completion percentage.  I have not determined what I am going to do about recruiting, but I have kicked around the idea of only letting UGA and Texas recruit 3-star players, which should up the ante, and balance things out due to reported escalating rating statistics as the game progresses.  On defense I try to play out of the base formation as much as possible, and one office I rotate through each formation (i.e. play one is called from formation one, play two is called from formation two).  I am allowed to make exceptions on fourth down; assuming I am trailing or it actually makes sense to try something other than a punt.  I think this will expose more of the playbooks then I might normally uncover.  This strategy also may put me in a strange position where I may have to run a shotgun formation on 2nd and goal, at the two yard line, while trailing by six, instead of being able to resort to a power formation.  I will tweak as necessary.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>(1AA) Western Kentucky 0 ? (#16) Georgia 49<\/li>\n<li>(#110) North Texas 21 ? (#2) Texas 14<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is not much to say about the Georgia game; the damage should have been much worse, but I made a couple of blunders in the red zone.  Thomas Brown (HB #20) went well over the 100 yard mark in his bid for this year\u2019s Heisman trophy.  All in all I was happy to gain my first shutout with this year\u2019s game.  Next up are the cocks from USC.<\/p>\n<p>I debated what to do with the North Texas\/Texas game, finally opting to go with the Mean Green because I figured it would offer up a nice challenge.  This one was never in doubt; I went up 7-0 before Texas equaled the score and then I went up 21-7 to start the 4th quarter.  I should have put this one away, but I just missed a 38-yard field goal, and I had an attempt inside the 5-yardline blocked after I had a brain fart and forgot what to do with the damn right analog stick.<\/p>\n<p>I did wonders with my impact WR, #81 (Johnny Quinn), racking up several receptions for 250+ yards and 2 TDs.  Impact HB, #20 (Jamario Thomas) put up 100 yards on the ground, but that is typical for me with a good HB.  Last year I would have struggled against a team like Texas, but this year it was never in doubt except for worrying about the momentum feature.<\/p>\n<p>North Texas gets SMU, while Texas looks to avoid going 0-2, while hosting Ohio State.  I should have a major worry spot with Ohio State; realistically I do not, so I think I am going to have to bump the game to All American before proceeding with week two.<\/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 finally decided to start a NCAA Football 2007 dynasty, but I am going to do things different this year. I doubt I will do any sort of major chronicle of my exploits. Not that the chronicle reports are no longer fun, but I am always pressed for time, so better to spend it playing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/08\/12\/dynasties-away\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dynasties Away&#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-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","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=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}