Has anyone figured out what the reason for game settings suddenly changing is? More important, has anyone figured out how to avoid it happening? Tonight was my night and it couldn't have come at a worse time/game since I was playing for a spot in my first league championship game.

Logging in before the game, I noticed my defense had secondary options with percentages that I never use. My linebackers were set heavily to zone with next to no blitzing and my run/pass/neutral ratios were skewed toward the run in levels that I never, ever attempt. I hastily tried to reconstruct the game plan that I'd made, but in the rush I totally forgot to check the offense. As a result, instead of a 65-35 pass to run ratio, I got to watch my 15-1 team attempt to run the football at 60+ percent and execute an offense that looked like it belonged in a Roster-only league.

Is it my fault for not thinking to check the offense after discovering that my defensive settings were FUBAR? Absolutely I should have thought to glance there and didn't since I rarely adapt that side of the ball once personnel and equilibrium have been established early in the season.

I'll live and learn from it but I'd much rather have lost in the persona that got me there rather than some shade of the team we'd been all year.

More important though, I don't want it to happen to me again. So if anyone has a clue on why/how this happens and how to avoid it, I'm all ears and beers right now.

i've seen this happen when you pick too many plays or too little of plays in your playbook. I'm not sure if it happens if you scout too many plays as well but i'm not sure. I had it happen in a playoff game where i accidentally had one too many plays selected and it reset my gameplan to coach's advice. Not sure if that's what happened to you but that's what i bet happened. bummer

The primary method for avoiding this is to write rules and leave no room for error by the AI. At least they don't disappear.

They won’t but if your playbook gets reset the plays that get called will be a problem. In my case my team ran a ton of draws and goaline plays and on 4,2 it was a bad day lol. I think this can be fixed if the game gave you a big warning. This issue has proven to cause many rage posts in the three years I’ve been here.

In my case the playbook seemed fine. It was just the formations, tendencies, offensive play type ratios that shifted. Probably should ha e put this rant in community help instead, but late night and not happy so threw it here.

You’ll get the same response. There’s never been no official response on the subject. Jdb can look into your game plan but I doubt you’ll get anything divinitiive. At least when it happened to me I didn’t

If something is illegal in your game plan or depth chart, the AI does reset all of it. That's something I'd like to change (so it only resets the one element that is bad) but there is some fundamental structure changes in the AI code that need to happen (and are being worked on) to make that more feasible.