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Re: About this game

Postby PointGuard » Wed Mar 07, 2018 3:57 am

You can use Tournament Maker to create your own 64-team tourney and play it out. The stats/results do not apply WITHIN your association, though, but it's a lot of fun to do.
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Re: About this game

Postby slybelle1 » Wed Mar 07, 2018 7:10 am

alternativestats wrote:A hopefully quick fix for version 1.1. I decided to start my career at the absolute bottom so I choose the only 0 prestige option, North Alabama. This school is listed as being in Florence, North Carolina instead of it's actual home of Florence, Alabama. It's not a huge issue except that the game treats Alabama players as being out of state and North Carolina players as in-state for recruiting purposes.


for at least the temporary bloomington light mod, i made the update last night and re uploaded. you could use that if you desire until bloomington does his full release.
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Re: About this game

Postby Brode » Wed Mar 07, 2018 9:01 am

The tournament mode where you pick teams and do a tournament just for the sake of doing it doesn't interest me. I'd like to pick the tournament field within the career mode. That would be really awesome if somehow they were able to make it an option, or an unlockable thing like football manager has.
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Re: About this game

Postby Gary Gorski » Wed Mar 07, 2018 9:55 am

It would take a fair amount of changing to allow you to select the field yourself but I will add it to the wishlist items for a future version
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Re: About this game

Postby Brode » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:57 pm

Awesome!! I'll keep posting my thoughts as i keep playing. Gary, it is really cool that you are active on these forums. Thanks again
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Re: About this game

Postby ZorbaGarp » Thu Mar 08, 2018 2:29 pm

Would be great to be able to adjust the defensive pressure on individual players. Press tight on good shooters, less on poor shooters or good drivers.
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Re: About this game

Postby Brode » Thu Mar 08, 2018 4:48 pm

This game is really hard. I simulate most of the regular season, and I like to take control and coach the conference tournament games and the post season, but I rarely get past the conference tournament. My team usually goes like 8-20. Is it my strategy? I usually do a mix of motion and some other offense at 50-50 and usually man defense with a zone set at 50-50 also. I have full court press set at about 20-30 percent and I've tried 2-2-1 and 1-2-1-1 zone press. I recruit only interested players in my region and state if possible. I find it really hard to recruit on normal difficulty, and the recruits I do get are not rated very high and don't seem to improve very much.
This is very refreshing for this type of game. I usually find them way too easy, and I'm really enjoying the challenge. This game is so well made, there are so many things that the developer's have gotten exactly right and captured what makes this type of game fun while retaining authentic realism. I'm just wondering if anyone has had success, especially with a small school and a young, low rated head coach.
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Re: About this game

Postby Wayne23 » Thu Mar 08, 2018 6:30 pm

Experiment. That's how all of the "veteran's" here came up with successful strategies. Also, I start on Easy for recruiting. After a couple of years I go to Normal. I pack my pre-conference schedule with the easiest teams I can find 1/2 star and 1 star only. Wins help! I use Princeton and Triangle on O, some combination of man and 3-2 on D, but try lots of different things.

Yes, local recruits will be more likely to come to you. BUT, if you have a high academic standing then recruit the high academic kids...

Yep, the game is hard. That's what's so great about it. Keep calling recruits, and Visit and Invite them to campus. If they say no to the Invitation, ask again next week. If they eventually Visit, that helps. BUT, if you have low recruiting and Reputation ratings you may only have success with that in region, maybe only in state.

I could go on, but ask your questions. A few of us, especially PointGuard and me, are here all the time, and we are happy to help!
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Re: About this game

Postby PointGuard » Fri Mar 09, 2018 4:27 am

I'm glad you're finding that the game is "hard" and that success doesn't come too easily. That's as it should be.

Obviously, if you wanted quicker success, you could use an easier level of recruiting, create a coach with higher rep and skills, coach at a school with a bigger budget (that would allow you to hire better asst coaches and buy gold reports and attend more summer camps), coach at a high prestige school so that you'd be able to land top-quality recruits more easily. For some that's a good way to learn the game without getting frustrated.

But it sounds like you want your DDSCB experience to more closely replicate what a new head coach would encounter in real life...starting at a low prestige school, having a limited budget that hampers your hiring and recruiting efforts, having good recruits be reluctant to consider joining your program, and having to experiment with game strategies to determine what is more successful.

I think you will find that the more you play the game, it will become easier to build a winner even at a low prestige school. So hang in there and keep chipping away and learning as you go.

When I first started playing DDSCB several years ago, I enjoyed building a winner, doing well in the NCAA Tourney, and winning National Championships. But now I prefer taking on the tough challenges of low prestige programs and having the AI give me as much competition as possible so that it's difficult to build a highly successful program. So I use the Brutal recruiting level, create a coach with limited skills and reputation, and select a team with low prestige and budget. Typically I can achieve some success early on but not all that much and then it's a matter of grinding things out to create a strong program.
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Re: About this game

Postby Seazyceaz » Fri Mar 09, 2018 1:42 pm

Brode, I am only entering my second season as a head coach so maybe I’ve had a little beginners luck but I just came off of 18-11 season, placing 3rd in my conference and earning a bid to the CBI. I recruit on hard and landed 3 starters with 2.5-3.0 ratings, and another project player with 3.5 potential. I also go for all the interested guys, then if I’m still in need I’ll go for a certain position’s in state guys later in recruiting if I don’t hit my needs. I’m at Kennessaw state and I’ll admit I had a pretty dang senior heavy relatively talented roster so this next season will be a much bigger test with my own players in there.

Nonetheless, I think at these lower level school it’s all about adjusting to your teams strengths. I ran a motion and shuffle because that’s what my starters had experience in. I also ran a complete man to man defense since none of my players are good defenders I didn’t want to throw much at them and instead to focus on 1 defense. I ran on offensive pace 9 which I will be slowing down this season since we aren’t deep at all, I won’t have more than a 8 man rotation.

Where I’m struggling is with my in game coaching. Still trying to get my rotations down (any vets have suggestions on when they sub out guys energy wise, etc). Also haven’t found an effective way to use plays or motivation, although calling a time out when the other team is on a run has stopped runs several times.
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