Offensive Run Plays on Various Downs

[Dean-Atlanta]

I call bull$hit on that Jerry. If we go 6-6-6, I also favor that we require all three of RL, RM,and RR must be used. That means you will need to have EIGHTEEN rushing plays. Current rules allow you to not use RL, not use RR, and therefore have ONLY 10 total rushing plays. 6-6-6 raises that to 18.

When I studied math in first grade, I learned that 18 is higher than 10.

[Steve-LA Chargers]

I do have an idea worth considering. Maybe we try it out in the PCFL first.

Require 5 RL, 5 RM and 5 RR in offensive game plans. Allow them to be used on any down. Only 1 QB keeper allowed per category. Let's see what happens. Test it out.

Also increase PLR requirement to 5 as well and PRD requirement to 5 if used. Basically require 5 plays for any category used on offense except GLR & GLP.

If we still get great results, we can expand the test further to see what happens when we allow PML & PMM and PSL & PSM on 1st and 2nd.

My reasoning is all of these categories are all flips and dupes galore so I'm betting that loosening up the running category requirements and 1st/2nd requirements for pass categories won't impact the game anymore.

Defense is already there. It only requires PS on 3rd 2-5, PM on 3rd 6-10, PL on 3rd 10+ and prohibits the use of PL and PRD on 1st/2nd 0-10. We need to face reality and similarly loosen up the offense with less restrictions considering the proliferation of dupes/flips has made it moot to be restrictive.

[Steve-LA Chargers]

What makes us different from the old leagues and will always make us different is that we use a play pool and have specific restrictions on play design. It's not the categories nor when categories can be called anymore because of the proliferation of dupes and flips. I could submit exact flips of the best PML and PSL plays as PMM and PSM plays and they likely get approved. This means I could basically run those plays either on 1st or 2nd. If that is the case, why restrict us to PML on 1st and PMM on 2nd? It's stupid at this point.

Same goes for runs. There are dupes and flips across the three categories now. The categorization is kind of stupid at this point. In fact, I think it makes it more important that we at least reduce the RM requirement to 8 and increase the RL and RR requirement to 5 if used. Simply to drive more of the randomization Jerry likes.

[Dean-Atlanta]

I do have an idea worth considering. Maybe we try it out in the PCFL first.

Require 5 RL, 5 RM and 5 RR in offensive game plans. Allow them to be used on any down. Only 1 QB keeper allowed per category. Let's see what happens. Test it out.

Also increase PLR requirement to 5 as well and PRD requirement to 5 if used. Basically require 5 plays for any category used on offense except GLR & GLP.

If we still get great results, we can expand the test further to see what happens when we allow PML & PMM and PSL & PSM on 1st and 2nd.

My reasoning is all of these categories are all flips and dupes galore so I'm betting that loosening up the running category requirements and 1st/2nd requirements for pass categories won't impact the game anymore.

Defense is already there. It only requires PS on 3rd 2-5, PM on 3rd 6-10, PL on 3rd 10+ and prohibits the use of PL and PRD on 1st/2nd 0-10. We need to face reality and similarly loosen up the offense with less restrictions considering the proliferation of dupes/flips has made it moot to be restrictive.

If we did this, this is what the minimums would be:

RL 5
RM 5
RR 5
PSL 5
PSM 5
PSR 5
PML 5
PMM 5
PMR 5
PLR 5
PRD 5
GLR 3
GLP 3

61 plays total. Could even have 8 RM and 64 btotal.