Uh, why do people do this?

It's not an awful plan if the SIM is going to win a few games. If the SIM can end up with a double digit RPI it's a good idea. With that being said, that doesn't happen very often.

Posted by Trentonjoe on 4/29/2016 7:54:00 PM (view original):
It's not an awful plan if the SIM is going to win a few games. If the SIM can end up with a double digit RPI it's a good idea. With that being said, that doesn't happen very often.

but there in big 6 conferences that are all full mainly off good coaches with sim recruits and then like 8+ people schedule them and they always go between like 4-8 wins so it seems weird that it keeps happening. idk lol

Yeah, it's hard scheduling at that level though. Projecting top 100 RPI teams ain't easy without a lot energy.

A fresh corpse with plenty of upperclassman can get you a nice top 100 win

Sometimes a Big 6 SIM team can look like this one did in season 81 ... it was definitely worth scheduling ... sure SIM teams like this are few and far between ... but when they do it makes perfect sense,

https://www.whatifsports.com/hd/TeamProfile/History.aspx?tid=7861

Posted by possumfiend on 4/29/2016 10:47:00 PM (view original):
Sometimes a Big 6 SIM team can look like this one did in season 81 ... it was definitely worth scheduling ... sure SIM teams like this are few and far between ... but when they do it makes perfect sense,

https://www.whatifsports.com/hd/TeamProfile/History.aspx?tid=7861

yeh those make sense, but I'm talking about the teams with all sim recruited players or all shittily human recruited players that aren't A+ prestige. It's pretty easy to differentiate the two. Everyone knows that Clemson is going to be good, and you aren't going to get lucky with the other sims.

i do it trying to anticipate a human coach taking over....quit doing it a while back beacuse that didnt happen very often

I imagine that it is because people are constructing a schedule filled with names of teams it would be cool to play and beat, as opposed to strictly strategy-driven scheduling. What puzzles me more is when people schedule SIM's as home games when the could play the same team on the road on a near-neutral court with more reward for the win. I suppose if you need your home court advantage to beat the SIM, then that is an explanation, but I see teams with no home court advantage playing SIM's at home.

Once a junior-laden Sim team gets 4 humans on their next non-conf schedule, i don't schedule them.