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Android App for playing/simulating/recruiting as a college football coach
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Prestige bonuses for making/winning a "New Year's Six" Bowl #67

Open akeaswaran opened 8 years ago

akeaswaran commented 8 years ago

Like how real-life teams get a bit of a boost from being on national TV for major bowl games (specifically the NY6 bowls - Rose, Fiesta, Orange, Cotton, Peach), we should designate a few of our bowl games a similar way and give teams a +1 prestige bonus for making the game and a +2 bonus for winning (actual numbers may vary). This may also require rebalancing the NCG's prestige boost to make it more meaningful (IE: a +5 or +6 point boost, rather than the current +3). This would add to the "realism" of the game, as well as give teams incentives to not only make a bowl game, but make the premier bowl games and win.

destilla commented 8 years ago

I like the idea, and have a question to extend on it: If we decide to go with giving points only if you win the NY6 bowl you're in, do we give you credit for just making it to the playoffs? Making it that far is an accomplishment as it is, and harder than the NY6 bowls from the standing point that you at least have to make it to #4.

Another thought: I haven't looked at the code for bowls since more bowls were added, but are the bowls pulling based on rank, or are they kind of a random assignment within the top 24/25? That might require some restructuring to have designated bowls actually be designated.

My two cents; a good idea though, I like it!

akeaswaran commented 8 years ago

In the iOS version, I pull the top 20 teams to assign to bowls. There's currently no random assignment on my end; I tried that early on and could never get it working. Right now, the bowls are just assigned in pairs - 5/6, 7/8, 9/10, and so on.

I think we should give players credit for being national semifinalists as well. We could create a tier system and designate the national championship as the largest bonus, the national semifinalists as a smaller one, and NY6 bowls as the smallest. I propose the following point distribution:

Thoughts?

jonesguy14 commented 8 years ago

The bowls on Android are slightly different, Lilac Bowl is 5 v 7, Apple Bowl is 6 v 8, Salty Bowl is 9 v 15, and so on.

But tbh I'm not sure if I'm a fan of so much prestige bonus for winning a bowl/ncg/etc. I could try it out for a couple days (like just on my device) to see how it plays, but I'm worried about it becoming too easy too quickly. I've talked about a "snowball" effect before which is what I'm worried about here.

In my mind, the only way to implement a tier system like that is too remove the "did / did not meet expectations" prestige bonus. Because if we have both a bowl prestige bonus and a expectation bonus, users will be gaining 20 prestige if they have a good year.

Having a prestige bonus based entirely on results might be interesting. It would have the tier system like you described, and maybe if you didn't make a bowl but had a prestige above 80 or some threshold then you would lose prestige.

Its something to think about, but I definitely don't want to make Football Coach too easy, where you can take a 45 prestige team to the NCG and keep them there a dozen years in a row.