12/01/2011

• Redesigned tournament bracket pages, most importantly the conference tournament to make it easier to follow.
• Fixed game dropdown menus to work in iOS 5.
• Reorganized recruit signings page to allow viewing the top 200 for each division or viewing signings for any conference.
• Slightly reduced the expected minutes of sophomores and juniors related to complaining about lack of playing time.
• You'll now be prevented from recruiting a player if your team already is at the max for that player's class. This will save coaches from accidentally wasting money on a player they can't sign.
• Reorganized a few menu items and added a separate Postseason menu. Also added a new Projection Report page, which shows all teams and how they currently rank for the postseason.
• Improved logic for player awards, both conference and national.
• Reduced the amount of variance on player grades, so study hall minutes will have more impact on the resulting grades.
• Improved logic for tournament selection/seeding. The new logic will go through each game and score it based on outcome (win/loss), opponent rank, opponent RPI, margin, and location (home/away/neutral).
• Color-coded player potentials (like what you see in recruiting) are now displayed on the practice plan page.
• Players deciding on early entry to the draft will now decide to stay if their team has already lost 5 or more players to graduation and early entry. Does not count walk-ons leaving.
• Improved the logic for determining loyalty hit for changing jobs, most notably there will be less of a hit for a lateral type move.
• Improved logic to calculate coach success to include more of a coach's history

so quick upon the heels of dev chat!

not bad

Note that it wont let you recruit a player if you already have max in that class - what if you plan to cut one of them?  guess you have to cut him before you can recruit a replacement in that class...not a likely situation......

like the color coding on practice page - wonder whether we will still get player thoughts email....

whooooooooa all the colors

You know what's really cool?  It updates their potential, so I have guys that were high during the assistant e-mail that are now normal after their gains.

like the projection report!

need a joe lunardi to discuss it

did we not get / forget the color coding for Free Throws?  Liked what I saw, the color coding thing will help everyone, sort of reminds me of the change in sorts for recruiting, big time saver, nice job!

This is going to let everyone know the exact caps of their players maybe a season or two in advance.  And just in general take some of the strategy out of setting a practice plan.

I wonder whether the projection page takes into account the new algorithm for tourny seeding and selection - you would assume it does, eh?

the new potential thing is pretty sweet. 

Posted by fd343ny on 12/1/2011 12:48:00 PM (view original):
so quick upon the heels of dev chat!

not bad

Note that it wont let you recruit a player if you already have max in that class - what if you plan to cut one of them?  guess you have to cut him before you can recruit a replacement in that class...not a likely situation......

like the color coding on practice page - wonder whether we will still get player thoughts email....

I sent a ticket, fd, and you should, too.

Posted by cornfused on 12/1/2011 12:55:00 PM (view original):
This is going to let everyone know the exact caps of their players maybe a season or two in advance.  And just in general take some of the strategy out of setting a practice plan.

yeah, im not sure how i feel about that. knowing the exact caps. you have to watch though. but that is pretty big.

Redesigned tournament bracket pages, most importantly the conference tournament to make it easier to follow.

That's not the conference champion, though, it's the CT champion.  Those are different!

I think the Postseason stuff is pretty sweet.

#1-25 of the postseason projection is just ranked teams #1-25 in order.

how does the player potential being on the practice plan give you the exact caps of your players??? We got all the same info before other than now it is much more easily accessible. Am I missing something here?