^ this. of all the numbers and grades in the game, home court is the last to worry about. Sure, it's nice to be high? But it'll never be at A+ unless D1 (I think). I think it's capped at levels, so D3 the highest you can get is something like a C.

Schedule to win and win in the most advantageous way.

CoachWard - definitely forget about home court advantage. It's worth very little in D3, and it resets every season. Plus the most important games of the season - the ones that occur AFTER conference play finishes - aren't going to be played at home anyway. Loyalty's not very important either if you're not applying for jobs. I think you're massively overcomplicating this game. The only substantial objectives every season should be making the postseason and winning as many NT games as possible. Everything else will work itself out if you do that on a regular basis.

Plus that's how you get the rewards.

^ and this.

Literally never really did the math or thought on it enough until I joined the Phelan SUNYAC challenge. And now I schedule the majority of my OOC games on the road.

Posted by guyo26 on 3/3/2016 4:04:00 PM (view original):
CoachWard, there is TONS of useful knowledge in here.

For literal years (IRL) I scheduled out of conference as 5 home and 5 away. Why? I don't know, OCD evenness? I read here and figured the *types* of teams I should be scheduling, but literally no reason other than I thought it *should* be even home and away.

Your out of conference schedule should only be driven by your conference schedule. You want more than 14 wins to be NT eligible. Maybe you really need 10 wins OOC for that, maybe you don't. I know some of my teams do.

Home and away - you get a slight advantage for winning on the road. You want to win, home or away, and shouldn't ever schedule a game you know you'll lose, but don't worry about building the home court advantage. Don't game that, game the rpi and proj report as dave and OW and gil say here. HCA will take care of itself if you schedule well.

"Your out of conference schedule should only be driven by your conference schedule. You want more than 14 wins to be NT eligible. Maybe you really need 10 wins OOC for that, maybe you don't. I know some of my teams do. "

So, you're saying I should schedule easier games than 150-280 range? https://www.whatifsports.com/hd/CoachProfile/Default.aspx?uid=833675&wid=6 I have a chance to win 12 games 2 more games than I did last season and a trip to the pit as a 8 seed I might even win some games if I get put up against a guy who played all sims.

Posted by dahsdebater on 3/3/2016 4:14:00 PM (view original):
CoachWard - definitely forget about home court advantage. It's worth very little in D3, and it resets every season. Plus the most important games of the season - the ones that occur AFTER conference play finishes - aren't going to be played at home anyway. Loyalty's not very important either if you're not applying for jobs. I think you're massively overcomplicating this game. The only substantial objectives every season should be making the postseason and winning as many NT games as possible. Everything else will work itself out if you do that on a regular basis.

Plus that's how you get the rewards.

"CoachWard - definitely forget about home court advantage" I want to build Chowan into a winning program before I leave to the next level of sim dynasty. I plan on going to a empty division 2 conference and win conference championships reguraly like Kansas. My goal as some will say is not to win everytime but to build where I can't prove anything with Chowan anymore that is my goal. Also I am going to leave when my record gets too far out of hand as well. Building Chowan in Allen is the least I can do since I got accepted there in real life.

Posted by CoachWard95 on 3/3/2016 4:33:00 PM (view original):

Posted by dahsdebater on 3/3/2016 4:14:00 PM (view original):
CoachWard - definitely forget about home court advantage. It's worth very little in D3, and it resets every season. Plus the most important games of the season - the ones that occur AFTER conference play finishes - aren't going to be played at home anyway. Loyalty's not very important either if you're not applying for jobs. I think you're massively overcomplicating this game. The only substantial objectives every season should be making the postseason and winning as many NT games as possible. Everything else will work itself out if you do that on a regular basis.

Plus that's how you get the rewards.

"CoachWard - definitely forget about home court advantage" I want to build Chowan into a winning program before I leave to the next level of sim dynasty. I plan on going to a empty division 2 conference and win conference championships reguraly like Kansas. My goal as some will say is not to win everytime but to build where I can't prove anything with Chowan anymore that is my goal. Also I am going to leave when my record gets too far out of hand as well. Building Chowan in Allen is the least I can do since I got accepted there in real life.

I'm sure they're going to be very grateful for that.

Please never leave this game.

I'm not in Allen, so I can't see, but looks like you only play 4 SIMS in conference play. But just doing very basic scan it looks tough for you to get to 14 wins.

If I were you in year 3 I would expect improvement, but want wins. I would schedule to go 10-0 in OOC, even it it was the 10 worst rated sims on the road.

By all means, build up Chowan, it's always good when you have a reason for a school, but at D3 HCA isn't something you need to worry about as much. You want to take Chowan to the NT, and get some wins there, starting soon. That's literally the only thing that matters. USA South is almost always a good conference, so conference play will improve your RPI and projection report status. But you gotta get the wins first.

Posted by Benis on 3/3/2016 4:40:00 PM (view original):

Posted by CoachWard95 on 3/3/2016 4:33:00 PM (view original):

Posted by dahsdebater on 3/3/2016 4:14:00 PM (view original):
CoachWard - definitely forget about home court advantage. It's worth very little in D3, and it resets every season. Plus the most important games of the season - the ones that occur AFTER conference play finishes - aren't going to be played at home anyway. Loyalty's not very important either if you're not applying for jobs. I think you're massively overcomplicating this game. The only substantial objectives every season should be making the postseason and winning as many NT games as possible. Everything else will work itself out if you do that on a regular basis.

Plus that's how you get the rewards.

"CoachWard - definitely forget about home court advantage" I want to build Chowan into a winning program before I leave to the next level of sim dynasty. I plan on going to a empty division 2 conference and win conference championships reguraly like Kansas. My goal as some will say is not to win everytime but to build where I can't prove anything with Chowan anymore that is my goal. Also I am going to leave when my record gets too far out of hand as well. Building Chowan in Allen is the least I can do since I got accepted there in real life.

I'm sure they're going to be very grateful for that.

Please never leave this game.

"Please never leave this game." If I don't get ban I won't and there is no reason to cheat this game.