Rushing is obviously a little high right now.  I'll take a look at that and try to figure out where to adjust it.  If you have any observations from looking at the pbp, post them here.  Any help is appreciated.

What type of observations are you looking for? 

To me it just seems like theres a large number of plays being ran and theres atleast 1 broken tackle on almost every play (which is making the YPA fairly high). 

Average 6 YPA on 50-60 rushing attempts.. getting around 250-350 on average.. highest I've tested so far was Augustana (IL) against Merchant Marine and they ended up with 421 total yards.

yeah the highest i have gotten is 644 rushing yards for a player

Im assuming that was a D1A against D3..

Rushing in general and especially for QB, in all the sims I have done so far my QB has rushed for over 100 yds and double digit YPA

Is any of the high rushing directly related to the 3-4 default defense?  Not the D1 versus D3 results, but within the sD3 versus D3.  Quality of LB's not great from what I am seeing, and this may up totals some.  I have also noticed higher totals versus higher level schools...how odd.

also noted that with a 90/10 split in carries or substitution pattern that the #1 RB even with exceedingly low stamina can get over 50 carries and still rack up over 5 ypc . should not SOMETHING give in that scenario ?

I lost to a team that ran me over and did it with 6 OL with avg stamina and skills. While I had 9 DL and a strong LB group. That was in Div 1aa Bryant Georgia southern.
Reminded me of how the old engine worked. I also saw how they seem to master a ton of formations very well. You would think that would not be the case in real life and in this game.  

I will be working on this next week.  What I will look for is to see if we are getting too many long runs or just too many 5+ runs and things like that. Are we seeing on outside runs more than inside?  Then look at what is causing this.  Too many broken tackles in certain zones or even too few tackle attempts?  I can adjust rushing, receiving YAC and scrambles all separately, but so far it looks like rushes and scrambles are in the same boat.

I think fatigue needs to be adjusted as well and I'll work on adding that display into the Test Game page, but I might hold off on adjusting that until I can work on the rushing numbers.

BTW - those numbers on the bottom right of the Test Game page are the average ratings for the top X players at each position for each team.  The rating is the default position role rating.  I used this to quickly compare the team in different aspects of the game.  Not as thorough as looking at each player, but will give a good idea of how they stack up.

I've accumulated some stats playing my team against itself a couple games and looking at my primary RB, so there's about 4 games worth of rushing stats here.  I've broken them out by rushing inside vs outside and rush defense vs pass defense.  I also looked at blitzing but won't complicate the stats with that breakdown.

Breakdown	YDS	ATT	YPA	STF%	TFL-0	1-2	3-6	7-10	11-15	16-20	20+
In-Rush Def	132	46	2.9	0.20	9	21	11	2	3	0	0
In-Pass Def	117	26	4.5	0.12	3	9	6	5	2	1	0
In-TOTAL	249	72	3.5	0.17	12	30	17	7	5	1	0
Out-Rush Def	157	37	4.2	0.16	6	10	10	7	4	0	0
Out-Pass Def	457	45	10.2	0.16	7	4	7	13	7	1	6
Out-TOTAL	614	82	7.5	0.16	13	14	17	20	11	1	6

The team match up just looking at the averages for the positions as displayed on the test page are as follows: OL 47.8, TE 29.0, RB 42.5, DL 47.8, and LB 39.5.

So the teams are fairly even at the line with the LBs actually being quite a bit lower rated than the OL.  So I would expect outside rushing to be better than inside, even though the TE is rated quite a bit lower, so maybe those even out on the outside.

Just looking at this, it seems like the majority of the rush yardage comes from the outside rushing which might be what needs to be adjusted.  I also want to adjust the fatigue for players and its effects before I adjust the rush numbers, but it definitely looks like the wide rushing is where the problem lies.

Ultimately, it appears that there are too many plays. Probably could run more clock time on inbounds, non first down plays.

Posted by surfboar on 2/15/2013 5:44:00 PM (view original):
Ultimately, it appears that there are too many plays. Probably could run more clock time on inbounds, non first down plays.

I agree, here are some stats from games I ran. I compared them to my current teams stats/numbers.

Current Engine (left)                                                                                                    Beta (right)

Plays by My team	Plays by Opp	Total			Plays by My team	Plays by Opp	Total
54	87	141	V Humans		89	68	157	V Humans
68	62	130			103	77	180
73	65	138			103	80	183
70	60	130			79	75	154
68	67	135			82	85	167
64	70	134			94	88	182
73	64	137	V Sims
67	63	130
66	81	147
62	70	132
63	73	136
78	69	147

yeah. looks like real life PPG seem to be around 65-85 with average being about 75.  I'll check clock management in the new engine to see why we are getting so many plays off in some games.

www.teamrankings.com/college-football/stat/plays-per-game

I have noticed that QB's are rushing at a crazy average...  generally averaging 10-15 per carry if you only have them carry four to eight times a game.  

This is the norm  for my Greenville team

RUSHING	POS	Att	Yds	YPA	TDs	20+	Lng	Stf%	Sck	F-FL
Ramirez	QB	9	117	13.0	1	2	47	0.00	2	1-1

RUSHING	POS	Att	Yds	YPA	TDs	20+	Lng	Stf%	Sck	F-FL
Ramirez	QB	92	666	7.2	7	8	39	0.14	0	1-0

Against a DII Bentley team

RUSHING	POS	Att	Yds	YPA	TDs	20+	Lng	Stf%	Sck	F-FL
Ramirez	QB	103	758	7.4	9	2	70	0.11	0	0-0

Posted by norbert on 2/15/2013 6:20:00 PM (view original):
yeah. looks like real life PPG seem to be around 65-85 with average being about 75.  I'll check clock management in the new engine to see why we are getting so many plays off in some games.

www.teamrankings.com/college-football/stat/plays-per-game

The clock issue may be because of an inordinate number of first downs, which stop the clock.