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 Have you ever tried to put together the perfect team? Or wondered how effective your drafting order was in the game? Want to optimize your player selection in order to better compete online? Then take a look at our Position Draft Importance write up. The write up isn't lengthy, but it's a good guide for putting together a competitive team. We took into account time on the field based on formations available, effectiveness of positions, and problems in the game that must be countered by star player selection in determining the draft importance. Put a team together based on the guide, and then let use know how it works out in the forums!
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| | Strategy | March 09, 2008 |
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 Have you ever taken the time to set all of your audibles for every formation only to realize that they have all been reset? Unfortunately, offensive audibles reset every time you modify a team's Play Book. However there is an easy way around the automatic reset, and it comes in realizing that your offensive audibles for each formation will be the first three plays in each formation. For each formation, simply make the first three plays that appear in the formations play list, the three plays that you want to be your audibles.
This is accomplished by moving the plays up and down in each formation. When you go into Play Book Manager and you open up a formation to where you are looking at all the plays within it, highlight a play and then press Y to move the play up and down within that formation. Once the play is in the location you wish it to be, press Y again to set it in that location. Then press START to save the Play Book.
Fortunately, defensive audibles do not change when you alter your playbook, although for convenience you can move these plays up and down within a formation using Y in the same way you do with offensive play
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| | Strategy | February 18, 2008 |
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 We are in the process of creating a strategy article on the Defensive Line Calls, when to use them and what each one buys the defense.
Think you know football?
Then stop by the forums and take our Defensive Line Calls Pop Quiz. Here's the essence of the quiz. There are 12 Defensive Line Calls in a 4-3, Nickel, and Dime package (see this image). For each Defensive Line Call, list whether it should be used to stop an outside run, an isolation run, an inside run, to pressure/sack the QB, or any combination of the options provided.
Click here to take the Defensive Line calls Pop Quiz!
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| | Strategy | January 10, 2008 |
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 The first step to beating a Signal Stealer on defense is to make sure the sound is turn up. Otherwise you will not be able to hear when your play has been stolen and this can lead to turnovers and broken plays. When your opponent tries to steal your play and is unsuccessful you will hear a dull buzzing sound. When your opponent is successful and steals the play, then you will hear a low-pitched whooshing sound.
The way to beat a Signal Stealer is basically to pick one play then switch to another. This can be accomplished in two ways. The first way is to select the play you want then immediately as you are walking to the line of scrimmage, before your formation is even visible, audible to one of your audible plays. Once at the line of scrimmage, after you hear your opponent try to steal your play, audible back to the original play (for the XBox 360 press Y to audible then Left Bumper to return to the original play).
The other way to disguise your play is if the play you want to run happens to be one of your audible plays. In that case simply select a play from a formation that has the same players on the field as the audible play you intend to use, then after your opponent has attempted to steal your play, audible to the one you really want to run. If you do this consistently, at worst your opponent will find his Signal Stealer to be useless, and at best he will often think you are running one play when you are really running another. Once you get used to these methods and add your own creative twists to them, you might actually find yourself hoping your opponent steals your plays.
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| | Strategy | December 04, 2007 |
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 In order to use the Laser Arm or Rocket Arm ability, a Quarterback must be fully charged. To charge a Quarterback a player must hold down the A button until the charge is full. In the 1 step, 3 step, and even 5 step drops, the Quarterback may not have time to fully charge before the ball is thrown, and thus is never able to take advantage of the Laser / Rocket Arm ability. What a waste!
Why did they give the Quarterback's these abilities if they don't charge in time? Well, there's a secret. If the player does not take control of the Quarterback, and lets the game/AI drop the Quarterback back automatically, then it will take a long time for the Quarterback to become fully charged for a throw. However, if the player takes control of the Quarterback, then the charge will happen within a second, almost immediately! Players that take control of the Quarterback immedialey after the snap will have more opportunity to throw faster and more accurate passes when the Laser Arm and Rocket Arm abilities are in play.
While each Quarterback is different, and each will charge at a different rate when they drop back automatically, every Quarterback will charge almost immediatley when the player takes control of the Quarterback after the ball is hiked.
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| | Strategy | November 30, 2007 |
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 Looking to build a team around a strong defensive mindset, and control the ball to win a nice low scoring game like the Chicago Bears, Pittsburgh Steelers, or Baltimore Ravens? Then look no further! TuboWare has written a team building strategy guide that will touch on the steps necessary to build a team to dominate the defensive side of the ball as well as a team that can maintain a nice running game and control the clock on the offensive side.
Read the Ball Control team build strategy, and learn what defensive positions need to be filled as well as the defensive players that can make your team a legendary defense.
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| | Strategy | November 22, 2007 |
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 When setting up the defense, it's important to have the best defensive players aligned against the best offensive players, and to make sure that the guys that are a threat (Star players) receive more attention than the scrubs on the team. APF2K8 provides two methods for manually configuring your defensive alignments via the GamePlan > Defensive Matchup screen.
On the Defensive Matchup screen, players can select the defensive player they want to man up against on the offense. In addition, a player can check a box that indicates that the defense should focus on that offensive player. Only two players can be checked or focused on during a game.
WARNING! If not used properly, setting focus on a player can create huge gaps in your defensive plays!
Selecting focus is a team wide setting. It tells the entire defensive team to focus on that player. For an example, if two receivers run a route through a short zone, then the linebacker covering the zone will focus on the receiver that is selected in the Defensive Matchup screen. This will cause the linebacker to cheat towards the focused offensive player and leave the other player completely uncovered. Many times the uncovered player is an easy target for a completed pass. If the focus setting had not been set, then the linebacker would have covered the zone properly and more than likely covered the appropriate player and passed off the second player to the next zone.
Use focus sparingly, and wisely. Use it in key situations, or when there is only one or two Star offensive players on the field. Other than that, leave focus off as it will do more harm than good.
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| | Strategy | November 16, 2007 |
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 Using blitzes in APF2K8 is more science than art. It requires a player to call the appropriate D-Line play in order to control the gaps and setup lanes for their Linebackers to use in addition to directing the Linebacker to take the lane once it is setup. There is no hard fast way to blitz and get to the Quarterback on every play. If there were, then it wouldn't be much of a game now would it? However, with proper play calling it is possible to bring intense pressure and to snag a sack here and there.
When bringing a blitz from the sides (left/right), call a D-Line that sends the players straight down or Razor's right/left from the side you are blitzing. If coming from the right side, call a D-Line Razor Right and then have the Linebacker on the side blitz straight in. Hold LB and press down with the D-Pad (it will show an arrow pointed straight down or slanted slightly towards the quarterback, depending on the location of the Linebacker). This will cause the lineman to open up the gap on the right side and allow the Linebacker to pass through. Note this works most of the time, but if the offensive player calls a play that has his offensive lineman pushing the opposite direction, then the Linebacker will more than likely not come in free.
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| | Strategy | November 13, 2007 |
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 Looking for a new team build strategy? Then look no further! Many of the teams used online are built based on an offensive or defensive philosophy, yet when you look around the league at the current NFL teams or even at the historical teams, success has not been so much dependent upon the style of football played as it is upon the individuals who played. The risk takers, the game changers, and yes, the play makers, these are the guys that teams count on to convert that 3rd down, to break it open for a long run, or go deep for a touchdown catch.
Read the Play Maker team build and learn how to build a defensive or balanced team around the play maker, or play makers, of your choice!
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| | Strategy | November 09, 2007 |
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 Many players have their field goals and punts blocked because the ball handler fumbles with the ball after the snap. This problem is due to how players are hiking the ball. Kicking the ball requires a player to quickly press up on the right analog stick. With the pressure of a kick and the added stress of the situation, many players will pull back on the right analog stick just as violently as they press forward and there in lies the problem! Pulling back quickly will cause the holder to fumble with the ball and take longer to setup for the kick, especially if the location is not dead center on the pull back.
In order to have a perfectly held ball for a kick or punt, it is important to pull back slowly and be as accurate as possible on the center location of the analog stick. It takes a couple of seconds for the ball to hike anyway, so there is more than enough time for a proper setup/pull back of the analog stick. Don't rush it! Practice a smooth, slow pull back on the right analog stick and the ball will be snapped more quickly, the holder will setup up faster, and you will experience more success on your field goals and punts!
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