Hello all.

For 1st down I have selected an offensive play mix of 25% outside run, 25% in. run, 25% short pass & 25% med. pass. I'm never close to this mix in spite of situation unless I blow an opponent out and run seems to get called more. I'm generally around 2 to 1 pass vs run. What is happening here? I never see (hot read) or anything but is the QB making a call based on the defense? Also does the game conform to situation i.e. become more conservative when ahead and run more?

Gamplan under the misc settings there is hurry up, slow down, and the GP Distance Adjustment Speed. They are simple ways to control things you describe

I'm aware of those but not really what I'm asking but maybe I'm not clear here?

Hurry up and slow down will make you pass heavy or run heavy respectivelt depending on if you're ahead or not later into the game. While your sliders will show completely even if your team has been trailing in games recently that will skew your play selection pass heavy since once you're in hurry up you don't try to run the ball(outside of a few scenarios I believe.)

You might not be looking at enough games to get a proper sample size because even with a everything being equal you could still organically call passes at a 2:1 ratio without enough time to "even out" your play calling

Thanks for the info. It's definitely not sample size. I'm talking multiple teams over multiple seasons, downs and formations. I will look more into GP but I thought that just modified short / medium / distance not play selection.

To clarify my run pass mix on 1st down for all distances is the same. 25 / 25 / 25 / 25.

Re: The Playcalling Matrix Randomizer
By jdavidbakr - Site Admin
9/17/2016 9:45 am

The main place to look is 'view plays' on your matrix to see the weight of each play. I've seen times where users spend a lot of time setting their personnel and play call values but don't have plays in their active gameplan that match what they're trying to do. (Not saying this is the case with what you did, but checking the 'view plays' gives you the logic the AI uses).

The AI chooses a play thusly:

1. Choose inside run/outside run/short pass/medium pass/long pass
2. Assembles the plays that match this play type and assigns the weights you see on the 'view plays' screen.
3. Chooses a play based on weights (larger weights = higher probability)
4. If no play was available (i.e. you don't have any inside running plays with non-zero personnel and the selection was an inside running play), a play is randomly selected.

Looking at a log from Victory league the I see #4 coming into play.

Randomly? That's a shame. I figured it would just roll the dice to see play type again. Do you know if it's randomly from the other plays listed under View Plays for that scenario or random from all your offensive plays?