After a couple-threeish years of play, I gave up on offensive rules.
Why?
The likely-hood of any specific play (this play on that down by this yardage) is incredibly slim. That led me to blanket offensive plays (By formation, by set, and eventually a dramatic minimalization of my offensive plays - see the above post) to effort trying to get at least some general results.
Which led to my offense being easily defensed against by blanket D rules by those that use rules in the first place.
Which led me to only using blanket D rules. :)
Always have D rules keyed towards formations that only use pass OR run plays EG: 5wr and other pass only sets; the 2.3.0).
Always use a 4 game data set.
From there, one would have to discuss the run/pass tab as well as how to use the 4 game data to determine sliders in Def rules vs any formation that uses both run and pass, yet has a significant preference towards one of them. I set my DEF tab R/P sliders at neutral. Player created rules always have first priority. I want my created rules to not have any opportunity for potential differentials.
That last paragraph is an entirely different topic worth discussing.
EDIT: additionally, all these things must also be considered within a place/time specific offensive rule. Offensive rules are like throwing darts at a grape. It's possible to hit the mark, but it's often fruitless. HA!
I encourage focusing on D "key" rules - those that focus on run only or pass only plays, if you are not doing so already, and to experiment with rules for your offense to get the results desired. The former is far easier of an approach when learning how to use rules, and will lead to a better understanding about how and when to use offensive rules.
2 cents deposited into the opinion bank, use my money well, hehe!
Last edited at 7/01/2024 10:19 pm