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Football Mogul 21: "Replay Mode"

9/15/2020

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When player ratings are inaccurate for a historical season, this is probably the reason: ratings are based on the player's overall career, not their stats in any single season. This is an intentional design choice. Football Mogul and Baseball Mogul are "general manager simulations". If player performance matched historical performance on a season-by-season basis, it would be too easy to build a dominant team every year.

For example, Terdell Middletown was a mediocre running back for Green Bay in 1977, coming off the bench and rushing for only 2.8 yards per carry. In 1978, he rushed for 1,116 yards and 11 TDs and made the Pro Bowl. Knowing this, it would be easy to trade for him at the end of the 1977 season — and just as easy to trade him away after 1978, before his performance falls off a cliff.
However... this default mode of play is unsatisfying if you want to "replay" a given year. Therefore, I've added "Replay Mode" to Football Mogul 21. If you check the "Replay Mode" box when you start a New Game, Football Mogul loads the upcoming season stats at the beginning of each season, and derives all player ratings from that season's statistics (and only that season).*
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This graph shows the difference. In the default "simulation mode", Tom Brady has a great career, but it's impossible to predict his best season. In Replay Mode, his 2007 campaign will be godlike. But in 2008, New England has to build their offense around Matt Cassel.
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*Because of the lack of historical stats for offensive linemen, several years around the current season are used to calculate ratings for guards, tackles and centers.
6 Comments
Ed Sawyer
9/16/2020 07:46:24 pm

this looks very interesting.
I will, definitely, test this.
cheers, Ed

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RUSSELL SCHMIDT
10/2/2020 01:34:39 pm

I couldn't agree with you more. If you were to make a player's performance mirror his real-life season-by-season stats, then the Mogul games would merely be clones of Strat-O-Matic, which was a great game that I played religiously growing up, but these days is a lot less satisfying than a game where players perform according to their skills and not their stats.

I mean, I remember playing Strat-O-Matic, playing the 1969 edition, based on the '68 season. The Pirates were always "my team," and that year Willie Stargell was my #7 hitter, which would never happen in real life, but he had an injury-plagued 1968 which impacted his stats.

I much prefer a player's actual stats not necessarily mirroring his actual stats for a particular season, but falling within a range dictated by his skill levels.

I, too, am playing the "full" 2020 season....my Pirates stink just as badly as in real life, even though I spent a bit more money than they actually did. Actually, even my fictitious spending (I signed Yasiel Puig for $9.5 mil, plus a $9.5 team option) probably gave Bob Nutting indigestion.

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Ken Lee White
10/31/2020 08:50:51 am

Not a football or baseball related question -- any thoughts on a hockey mogul games any time soon --- thanks for your time

Ken White

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David Riley
11/1/2020 09:08:32 pm

I, too, would be interested in a Hockey Mogul game. Any plans?

Will you be adding the 1960-69 seasons to your Football Mogul?

I would enjoy playing some American Football League seasons.

Keep up the great work. It is very much appreciated!!!

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Joe Murdy
11/1/2020 10:31:49 pm

Clay has seasons that go back as far as 1951 in both Football Mogul 20 and 21.

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David Riley
11/2/2020 10:27:17 am

Thank you, Joe! I did not realize that!

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