What are the pros and cons behind changing someone's position? How does it affect them, if at all? EX. I recruited a PG whos BH will never be good enough to be a starter but his ATH SPEED and PER are high enough that he could be a good SG.

The listed positions are purely cosmetic, they mean nothing in terms of performance or development.

You can play your players wherever you wish. They'll perform purely to their ratings at the position you play them at.

Unleeeess... you are using the Player Roles feature to rate players and teams instead of Ratings.

It won’t change how they perform but it will change how you see them rated at each different position.

Only impact is Player Roles and Conference/National Awards for the All American teams. No in game impact since you can literally play any player at any position on the depth chart regardless of their listed position.

I change mine every season. And I do it just to simplify things for myself. I usually set my depth chart to what I consider to be my optimal setup. And then I change my positions so it reads PG PG, SG SG, etc at all 5 positions, for at least the first two lines on the depth chart. Having a bunch of teams, it just makes it easier for me to look at.

I have seen coaches set basically every guard/wing to SG and every big to C. I guess that way the opponent has to take 2 seconds to look deeper at the roster to see what's really going on. And I've seen coaches never change them at all

Just cosmetic, and whatever you wanna do with it.

Excellent. Thank you guys!

Years and years ago, you could only play a player one position away from his listed position without incurring a "position penalty" that was supposed to have affected their in game performance a bit. That's been gone for awhile now and as stated above, the positions listed now are purely cosmetic. It's all about the ratings.....

Posted by topdogggbm on 2/3/2021 12:35:00 PM (view original):
I change mine every season. And I do it just to simplify things for myself. I usually set my depth chart to what I consider to be my optimal setup. And then I change my positions so it reads PG PG, SG SG, etc at all 5 positions, for at least the first two lines on the depth chart. Having a bunch of teams, it just makes it easier for me to look at.

I have seen coaches set basically every guard/wing to SG and every big to C. I guess that way the opponent has to take 2 seconds to look deeper at the roster to see what's really going on. And I've seen coaches never change them at all

Just cosmetic, and whatever you wanna do with it.

Were you around when the coach in D3 recruited nothing but 12 centers for his roster? That was an interesting team. He did well too, made a pretty deep run in the NT. Ultimately, the lack of BH and Passing killed him but boy did he ever win the Reb battle every night!

I've also seen a couple of times that were comprised of nothing but SF's (small forwards, not Special Forces to you former military guys like myself). Very versatile teams, tough to plan against.

Posted by emy1013 on 2/3/2021 11:52:00 PM (view original):

Posted by topdogggbm on 2/3/2021 12:35:00 PM (view original):
I change mine every season. And I do it just to simplify things for myself. I usually set my depth chart to what I consider to be my optimal setup. And then I change my positions so it reads PG PG, SG SG, etc at all 5 positions, for at least the first two lines on the depth chart. Having a bunch of teams, it just makes it easier for me to look at.

I have seen coaches set basically every guard/wing to SG and every big to C. I guess that way the opponent has to take 2 seconds to look deeper at the roster to see what's really going on. And I've seen coaches never change them at all

Just cosmetic, and whatever you wanna do with it.

Were you around when the coach in D3 recruited nothing but 12 centers for his roster? That was an interesting team. He did well too, made a pretty deep run in the NT. Ultimately, the lack of BH and Passing killed him but boy did he ever win the Reb battle every night!

I've also seen a couple of times that were comprised of nothing but SF's (small forwards, not Special Forces to you former military guys like myself). Very versatile teams, tough to plan against.

The experiment that interested me (way back and few other ID's ago) was the all SG team

Posted by emy1013 on 2/3/2021 11:52:00 PM (view original):

Posted by topdogggbm on 2/3/2021 12:35:00 PM (view original):
I change mine every season. And I do it just to simplify things for myself. I usually set my depth chart to what I consider to be my optimal setup. And then I change my positions so it reads PG PG, SG SG, etc at all 5 positions, for at least the first two lines on the depth chart. Having a bunch of teams, it just makes it easier for me to look at.

I have seen coaches set basically every guard/wing to SG and every big to C. I guess that way the opponent has to take 2 seconds to look deeper at the roster to see what's really going on. And I've seen coaches never change them at all

Just cosmetic, and whatever you wanna do with it.

Were you around when the coach in D3 recruited nothing but 12 centers for his roster? That was an interesting team. He did well too, made a pretty deep run in the NT. Ultimately, the lack of BH and Passing killed him but boy did he ever win the Reb battle every night!

I've also seen a couple of times that were comprised of nothing but SF's (small forwards, not Special Forces to you former military guys like myself). Very versatile teams, tough to plan against.

I don't think so. But I like experiments like that. And eventually I'll do one just to do it.

one thing I like is that a lot of these situations end up with a similar answer...... "a sweet 16 was about the best that happened". It makes me feel like the game has it all right for the most part.

I have seen some coaches put players out of position for purpose of fooling the draft board. Does that actually work?

Posted by brianxavier on 2/4/2021 6:17:00 PM (view original):
I have seen some coaches put players out of position for purpose of fooling the draft board. Does that actually work?

I don't think so.

The only advantage is if you like to use PLAYER ROLES to look at players and make decisions. But as others have said, Position does not actually impact game calculations.

In all sports games that I play, I usually define what attributes make a good player at that position and do a weighted average of the important attributes ina spreadsheet to find other players like that. Exactly what they do in Player Roles. So I am used to looking at and making decisions on players roles. So changing positions to match where i recruited a guy for is good for me.

In some games, like baseball .. I create player roles based on older players .. some for power, some for average, some for defense, etc .. rather than overall. For this game, I just do 5, one for each position.

Just switched one of my SFs to be a SG. One of our better perimeter guys and are guards are not as strong as our big men. Didn't want out opponents ganging up on our guards. Still move said player between those two starting spots depending on our opponent.

Posted by brianxavier on 2/4/2021 6:17:00 PM (view original):
I have seen some coaches put players out of position for purpose of fooling the draft board. Does that actually work?

nope. Usually when people do that on purpose its to confuse people when gameplanning against them