So the past few days I've been testing out the DPC to make sure it's ready for next season. I've been testing two things.
1) Trying to break it with "cheese" plays.
2) Make sure everything is working the way it is supposed to with "normal" plays.
I started by compiling a bunch of plays from users in the Defensive Coordinators forum - Big thanks to odg62, wrw47, San Diego Chargers, and PhoenixSunrise for their submissions - then created a few of my own for the "cheese" plays. Here's the results I have so far, and I'll update this post with more as I work on it more the next few nights.
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Florida Defense v Wasps Offense
http://test.goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=561
Runs these 4 plays.
1. All HB Spy
2. All HB Cover Man on HB
3. LBs Spy DBs Cover on HB
4. LBs Cover DBs Spy on HB
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Florida Defense v Wasps Offense
http://test.goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=563
Then this game used this play solely:
1. All LBs & SS HB Spy
CB1 Cover WR1 Man
CB2 Cover WR2 Man
FS Cover Man WR3 or HB
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Florida Defense v Wasps Offense
And finally this game, where all of the LBs were on HB Spy, and the rest were on coverage of some sort.
http://test.goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=565
In all of these cases the running game was shut down TOO well. We're currently discussing options to change the HB Spy or possibly to remove it completely - don't worry, you can still run the M2M coverage on the HB to achieve nearly the same results without it being too powerful.
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Florida Defense v Wasps Offense
Next I tested two user-submitted plays. Both were "Overload" style rushes, one overloaded everyone on the left side, and one was a "Double Edge" style blitz.
http://test.goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?game_id=566
One particularly bad part you can see here from this game:
http://test.goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?game_id=566&pbp_id=146447
"Overload" blitzes seem to not work very well right now because the defensive players basically all trip over themselves.
1) Trying to break it with "cheese" plays.
2) Make sure everything is working the way it is supposed to with "normal" plays.
I started by compiling a bunch of plays from users in the Defensive Coordinators forum - Big thanks to odg62, wrw47, San Diego Chargers, and PhoenixSunrise for their submissions - then created a few of my own for the "cheese" plays. Here's the results I have so far, and I'll update this post with more as I work on it more the next few nights.
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Florida Defense v Wasps Offense
http://test.goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=561
Runs these 4 plays.
1. All HB Spy
2. All HB Cover Man on HB
3. LBs Spy DBs Cover on HB
4. LBs Cover DBs Spy on HB
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Florida Defense v Wasps Offense
http://test.goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=563
Then this game used this play solely:
1. All LBs & SS HB Spy
CB1 Cover WR1 Man
CB2 Cover WR2 Man
FS Cover Man WR3 or HB
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Florida Defense v Wasps Offense
And finally this game, where all of the LBs were on HB Spy, and the rest were on coverage of some sort.
http://test.goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=565
In all of these cases the running game was shut down TOO well. We're currently discussing options to change the HB Spy or possibly to remove it completely - don't worry, you can still run the M2M coverage on the HB to achieve nearly the same results without it being too powerful.
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Florida Defense v Wasps Offense
Next I tested two user-submitted plays. Both were "Overload" style rushes, one overloaded everyone on the left side, and one was a "Double Edge" style blitz.
http://test.goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?game_id=566
One particularly bad part you can see here from this game:
http://test.goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?game_id=566&pbp_id=146447
"Overload" blitzes seem to not work very well right now because the defensive players basically all trip over themselves.