Let's take this opportunity to blow past the smoke and mirrors of the punt blocking furor and talk about a real exploit, min/maxing - or more specifically ... tweaking, which is min/maxing on the speed attribute. Tweaking is the practice of creating a team that is recruited or played OOP for almost every position based on speed (max) - but where the player's other attributes (min) are so horrible - that the sim evaluates them as a bad AI team and gives them a boost on every RNG roll. That's right - every injury roll, every fumble roll, every pass completion roll, every block, etc.
Think I just made it up? InfinityonTrial was so focused on harassing me after I originally wrote
STs Matter, that he screwed up. He abandoned his tweaker team in ANARCHY league
intact while creating tweaker teams in leagues where I had a contender.. (At the time, I wasn't in ANARCHY.) With no game-planning, rules, scouting, or other skilled guidance, that team of rejects (average ratings 20 points less than any opposition) tore through the regular season, and shredded several of the super-teams run by super-owners in the playoffs. This team was being run by the AI. I didn't figure this out by myself, the evidence was brought to me. I was
asked to go to JDB with it.
I want to see Punt blocks fixed, but there is at least a football rationale for putting the fastest, best rushers on the line. I want to see punt blocks
fixed for
every league. I originally wrote the punt block & punt block blocking article of
ST Matters because there were half a dozen "elite" owners inflicting punt blocks on the masses as they saw fit. I don't try to be the best punt blocker out there, or personally get upset when someone blocks me. I know that the same owners who are doing that are the ones that are somehow
immune, and I congratulate them and study their methods.
Tweaking has nothing to do with football, RL, or RL football. It is a numbers game designed to take advantage of the engine. It is not visual, it just has an effect on
every play.
Cjfred has ignored it, and would like to see it continually ignored (CJ has supported, enabled, encouraged, and excused the behavior of Infinity "the champion of Champions") His stated agenda is to move the game further into a collection of private invitation-only leagues, a move that will only hasten the demise of MFN as a whole. He doesn't care what happens to the rest of us, ... as long as his pals can surf the "wild-west" leagues for championships, damaging and destroying them as they see fit.
ANARCHY, one of the most storied leagues in MFN, is now in danger of going under. If what I've written here concerns you at all ... whether or not you agree or like me ... I call on you to help fill it again. If ANARCHY goes under, the insiders who have been perpetrating this exploit can say "didn't happen", because the evidence will be
gone.
https://anarchy.myfootballnow.com/@Cj, You are clearly here with an agenda of negativity to cause trouble and you're wrong and I'm being neutral by shutting down this thread to shut you up ... sound familiar? I guess the bully pulpit of league admin isn't enough for you. Come at me again, bro ... or should I say
BUDDY.
EDIT: We've had six owners either join or come back to ANARCHY in the last two days ... but it needs to be
filled, far from any danger of disappearing.
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