Off/Def Aggression Sliders for Dynasty

[youALREADYknow]

I'm still working on the offensive aggression sliders, but the defensive aggression sliders are finished and I like the results I've seen so far.

How I came up with the numbers:

Turnovers forced from last 3 years
Interceptions from last 3 years
Sacks from last 3 years
All of the above for 2007 to weigh last year's numbers more

I didn't use this year's numbers because of the sample size.

These sliders should help get the defensive styles of teams more accurate. You will notice a more passive or aggressive defense when you play games depending on the Def Agr sliders. You will notice higher/lower turnover values in sim games depending on the Def Agr slider.

[youALREADYknow]

DEFENSIVE AGGRESSION SLIDERS

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Air Force 60 Akron 55 Alabama 65 Arizona 60 Arizona State 55 Arkansas 60 Army 30 Auburn 55 Ball State 55 Baylor 50 Boise State 70 Boston College 90 Bowling Green 50 Buffalo 35 BYU 60 California 60 Central Michigan 60 Cincinnati 80 Clemson 60 Colorado 50 Colorado State 35 Connecticut 65 Duke 40 East Carolina 70 Eastern Michigan 50 FIU 40 Florida 55 Florida Atlantic 55 Florida State 55 Fresno State 20 Georgia 60 Georgia Tech 65 Hawaii 70 Houston 55 Idaho 40 Illinois 55 Indiana 60 Iowa 60 Iowa State 40 Kansas 75 Kansas State 55 Kent State 35 Kentucky 75 Louisiana Tech 60 Louisville 40 LSU 65 Marshall 25 Maryland 40 Memphis 40 Miami (Fla.) 50 Miami (Ohio) 50 Michigan 60 Michigan State 55 Middle Tenn. State 70 Minnesota 50 Mississippi State 50 Missouri 70 Navy 40 Nebraska 25 Nevada 55 New Mexico 60 New Mexico State 35 North Carolina 55 North Carolina State 35 North Texas 30 Northern Illinois 35 Northwestern 40 Notre Dame 40 Ohio 60 Ohio State 65 Oklahoma 70 Oklahoma State 50 Ole Miss 30 Oregon 75 Oregon State 85 Penn State 70 Pittsburgh 40 Purdue 55 Rice 60 Rutgers 40 San Diego State 40 San Jose State 75 SMU 50 South Carolina 50 Southern Miss. 60 Stanford 50 Syracuse 30 TCU 75 Temple 50 Tennessee 60 Texas 65 Texas A&M 40 Texas Tech 55 Toledo 35 Troy 70 Tulane 30 Tulsa 50 UAB 40 UCF 65 UCLA 55 UL Lafayette 30 UL Monroe 50 UNLV 30 USC 65 USF 75 Utah 75 Utah State 40 UTEP 60 Vanderbilt 65 Virginia 55 Virginia Tech 85 Wake Forest 80 Washington 30 Washington State 50 West Virginia 65 Western Michigan 60 Wisconsin 50 Wyoming 35

[mgoblue678]

What effect do they have in gameplay?

[youALREADYknow]

Quote: Originally Posted by mgoblue678

What effect do they have in gameplay?

Defensive Aggression mainly impacts turnovers, specifically interceptions. The higher the slider, the more interceptions. Of course this doesn't happen every single game, but there is enough of a trend for me to come to that conclusion. CPU/CPU games (played, not simmed) on 7min qtrs averaged around 3.5 INT per game with Def Agr at the default sliders and 1.5 INT per game with Def Agr at 0. You will also see less CB blitzes from the CPU with this setting lower.

Offensive Aggression in gameplay isn't as clear cut, but basically the CPU throws deep posts and go routes more often and appear to go for it on 4th down more often around midfield.

Based on the numbers I provided in this thread, you will see the teams that usually get the most INTs and sacks going after the ball more and sending more blitzes.

[SpHSpH]

Are there offensive aggression sliders also?

Thanks!

[youALREADYknow]

Quote: Originally Posted by SpHSpH

Are there offensive aggression sliders also? Thanks!

Still working on them and haven't had the time to finish. Hopefully they will be up by the weekend.

[fordblues]

I'm not sure if this is the case, but have you noticed when you've raised the CPU Defensive Aggression to 70+ that they start playing alot more Man to Man defense than normal?

[edaddy]

Quote: Originally Posted by fordblues

I'm not sure if this is the case, but have you noticed when you've raised the CPU Defensive Aggression to 70+ that they start playing alot more Man to Man defense than normal?

Defensive aggression basically determines the amount of times the CPU will blitz..The higher the aggression the more likely the CPU will play press man to man and blitz..the lower the aggression the more likely the CPU will blitz less and play zone...

[devonc]

When will the offensive aggression sliders be posted? I am really looking for those.

[youALREADYknow]

OK... here's the long story made short....

Offensive Aggression didn't have exactly the effect on sim results that I expected and I've only been able to find a loose correlation with Yards Per Carry and Completion %.

Here's what I've found (this only applies to the sim engine):

1. Lower Offensive Aggression = Lower Yards Per Carry
2. Lower Offensive Aggression = Higher Completion %

So basically I'm not going to recommend values for offensive aggression like I did with the defensive sliders because the sliders would be too dependent on the players instead of school philosophies if I based it on completion percentages and yards per carry.

What I'm going to do for my own personal dynasty is create a formula to set passing teams to have high Offensive Aggression (more deep passes in game, lower completion percentages in sim) and set running teams to have low Offensive Aggression (lower YPC in sim, more running plays in red zone in game). The playbook will ultimately determine what kinds of plays are called so even though a team in the spread offense like Texas Tech may have an Aggression of 100, their playbook mainly consists of short/mid throws and that is mainly what you will see playing against them. Option running teams will still run the option regardless of where the Aggression setting is.

Sorry to disappoint those looking for a more concrete answer, but I'm not going to put sliders out there that don't represent real life. The defensive aggression sliders are working great though and can be used to get real life defensive team tendencies.