Hey guys,
Thanks for helping to get this off the ground.
We have 1 more game in round 1 (grtwhtsk1 vs Kobe8). Hopefully they can get that done ASAP -- in the meantime please check the brackets for your next opponent as well as the home field designation (H).
http://ootp.hugginsweb.net/%5Cfiles%5Cbrackets.html
Some great games in round 1 with a 2OT 44-41 thriller, some huge blowouts, and some defensive struggles. Great stuff.
Cheese complaints were very few, as I expected with this group of players. We only have a few fresh faces in the tourney and so far things have been played very much on the up and up which makes the games more enjoyable for everyone and I appreciate it.
I only had a few questions re: the scrambling rule. (Yankeefan4444, who is a buddy of mine, failed to grasp this rule
This is basically just a common sense house rule. The idea is to play like real football and not take advantage of the game's bad secondary AI by taking the snap, and immiediately sprinting with all gusto out of the pocket and throwing on the run play in and play out. It makes passing incredibly easy because the secondary, particularly on default settings, gets lost when the QB starts to move.
*This does NOT mean you cannot run with your QB. You can.
*This does also not mean you cannot rollout with your QB on designed plays. You can do that too.
*Finally, this also does not mean you cannot run out of the pocket to avoid the rush and still pass the ball to whomever you wish.
The only time that a red flag is raised is if you see a QB take the snap with the sole purpose of running like a madman out of the tackle boxes just to gain an advantage on shoddy default level programming.
Like I said this isn't coming up much at all (and Badgun beat the tar out of Joel despite him doing this) but I just wanted to throw the reminder out there for everyone to keep it clean.

If we could alter sliders online this wouldn't be such an issue.
Anyway, feel free to start scheduling and playing your round 2 games.
And good luck.
Dan -- Todd (W. Michigan) is on vacation this week and should be back Friday or Saturday, FYI.