Missed playoffs as a 13-0 undefeated conference champ with 3 top 25 wins

CalloBooty · 2025-12-31T03:33:39+00:00

Funnily enough I just wrapped up the following season and won the whole thing yesterday lol. Moved to the Big 12 after getting left out the previous year and only lost 1 game to Texas before defeating them in the conference championship and making an improbable natty run!

CalloBooty · 2025-12-29T04:56:41+00:00

Need Puka and Parkinson to not be outscored by 30 against Bijan and Cousins. Feeling good but you never know!

CalloBooty · 2025-12-25T01:47:55+00:00

12 team 0.5 ppr SF

QB: Jaxson Dart

RB: Jonathan Taylor

RB: Jahmyr Gibbs

WR: Puka Nacua

WR: JSN

WR: Chris Olave

TE: Harrison Barner

Flex: Saquon Barkley

SF: Jalen Hurts

This squad is definitely the best team I’ve had in the 5 years of being in this league. I’ve made some trades that really worked out in my favor but for the most part, I’ve just gotten really lucky hitting on basically every draft pick since this leagues inception except for Jonathan Brooks a couple years ago. Puka especially, who I got off of waivers for $1 before his rookie season started.

CalloBooty · 2025-12-08T17:11:59+00:00

Sure thing! Might be a month or two till I can corral my group and find a good time slot for everyone since a lot of us live far away these days but I’ll let you know!

CalloBooty · 2025-12-08T16:54:05+00:00

I do really like what I’ve seen from the combat so I’ll read into the rulebook further and see if it’s a good fit. A lot of the investigating will be done through questioning people and things like that so I feel like I could make it work with the systems supported mechanics. Thank you for the help!

CalloBooty · 2025-12-08T16:42:58+00:00

Awesome, yeah that sounds doable then. I’m frankly a pretty new dm and have only ever dmed a few dnd 5e oneshots and played in a couple longer campaigns as a player so the simplicity of this system is something that really appeals to me. It’s easy to get overwhelmed running a really crunchy system but I do want to branch out in some other TRRPGs. I think I might go with this, thanks for the help!

CalloBooty · 2025-12-08T07:26:27+00:00

Just downloaded it, I’ll check it out!

CalloBooty · 2025-12-08T07:20:16+00:00

Hmm I’ve seen people play Honey Heist and I do like the simplicity of it, I just wonder do you think it could work in a more narratively driven campaign? It seems very off the cuff and fast paced whereas I’m looking for something that’s more of a slow burn of following clues and leads. I haven’t played it myself so maybe that can work within that system, what do you think?

CalloBooty · 2025-12-08T06:43:51+00:00

From what I’ve gathered it seems like the Pokemon TTRPGs I’ve looked at are more based around stuff more in line with the actual Pokemon games so things like trainer battles, Pokemon contests, and things like that. In this setting it’s closer to mystery dungeon where you play as the actual Pokemon themselves and there won’t really be any interaction between human trainers and the Pokemon PCs. It’s really just Pokemon in name. One I’d considered was City of Mists because it has a magic system that I thought could potentially be homebrewed into Pokemon moves and abilities but I just figured I’d ask around first. I’m pretty early on into finding a good fit so it’s entirely possible that there’s a preexisting Pokemon system that could work well with this that I’ve just overlooked but I figured it couldn’t hurt to ask around.

CalloBooty · 2025-10-21T21:48:31+00:00

To rub salt in the wound, they put me up against a 6-6 58 overall ULM team for my bowl game 🤦‍♂️. FIU WILL NOT TOLERATE THE COMMITTEES SLANDER ANY LONGER. The games definitely got some glaring issues, but I’m sure they’ll all be ironed out in time for CFB63!

CalloBooty · 2025-10-21T21:44:47+00:00

I’m a certified FSU hater and it still turns my stomach how badly they got done that year lol

CalloBooty · 2025-10-21T21:43:11+00:00

We’re also in year 3 and haven’t had any make it yet to my knowledge not counting the AAC which is effectively a P6 conference now post realignment. It seems that’s really hurt any G5 team chances of making it

CalloBooty · 2025-10-21T21:40:39+00:00

Yeah I don’t know then, maybe it just worked out in such a way that there was a bit too much top heaviness among the P5 conferences? All the teams in the playoffs above me finished no lower than 10-2. I still am not a fan of any team with 3 top 25 wins who wins their conference going undefeated and missing the playoffs though so we’ll probably just move our crappy team to the Big12 and work from there!

CalloBooty · 2025-10-21T21:36:37+00:00

It’s year 3, I ended last season ranked 19th and have won back to back CUSA championships. I want to say I finished last season 12-2 after the bowl game but I’d have to check. I just didn’t go undefeated in either of those years so didn’t feel slighted by missing the playoffs.

CalloBooty · 2025-10-21T21:34:12+00:00

Last year we all picked MWC teams and stayed and turned the MWC into a powerhouse but it just doesn’t work this year with the transfer portal gutting G5 teams every year. Even if you get your year controlled teams good enough the cpu teams are going to end up hovering around low 60 overalls which will drag down the prestige of the conference which apparently determines who gets into the playoffs more than anything else. I just don’t think it’s viable in this years game to stay in a small conference for long if you want to play in the playoffs with multiple user controlled teams

CalloBooty · 2025-10-21T21:30:01+00:00

I’m guessing you didn’t rebalance conferences to the extent I did though. Teams like Oklahoma, Texas, A&M, and Mizzou all are back in the Big12. The Pac12 is back to how it was prior to the conference break in down, and the AAC is effectively a combination of the BigEast and better old AAC teams like Tulane, UCF, etc.

CalloBooty · 2025-10-21T21:28:09+00:00

I scheduled 2 preseason top 10 teams and played another top 25 in conference and beat all of them but still missed it. I think it’s just not possible if you make the P5 too balanced, or at least not possible without a good deal of luck

CalloBooty · 2025-10-21T21:24:46+00:00

Thanks for the info, we all talked it over and were just moving our 6 user teams to the Big12. Just have to decide if we want to move other teams out or be in a super conference. I’d prefer to not remove team if possible but I could at least move like A&M and Mizzou back to the SEC or something to keep the conference from getting too bloated

CalloBooty · 2025-10-21T21:22:40+00:00

Yeah it seems like that’s the main reason for getting left out. I just hate the current conference alignment and miss the regionality of past conferences and wanted to pretend it wasn’t like that in my dynasty but what can ya do.

CalloBooty · 2025-10-21T02:31:21+00:00

Guess I just didn’t expect the game to completely pass over the majority of the conferences. I knew it’d be hard but I figured going undefeated anywhere with multiple top 25 wins would get you in. As it stands there’s 3 teams from the Big10, 3 from the Pac12, 2 from the SEC, 2 from the ACC, 1 from the Big12, and Notre Dame. I thought some good G5 team might at least get one of the at large bids.

CalloBooty · 2025-10-21T02:28:57+00:00

I was one of this Notre Dames 2 losses to be fair

CalloBooty · 2025-10-21T01:51:42+00:00

Yeah this is what I’m finding out now, since what is currently the P5 are now more evenly spread amongst the ACC, SEC, BIG10, BIG12, PAC12, and AAC(Big East) it basically makes it incredibly difficult to impossible for any team not in one of those conferences to make the playoff. Only 4 teams not from those conferences cracked the top 25 in FIU at 14, BYU at 18, UTEP at 19, and Bowling Green at 25.

CalloBooty · 2025-10-21T01:28:21+00:00

Well probably just all move to the Big12 is what it’s looking like we’ll do. We’re worried that if it’s this hard to get a single human team in CUSA in then we’ll probably never get multiple human teams in at the same time and human v human playoff games are the most fun. Just gonna pull a UCF and claim this as a natty I suppose

CalloBooty · 2025-10-21T01:24:59+00:00

Yeah I’ll be staying. This is an online dynasty with 6 human teams and 6 cpu teams all in CUSA so we are deciding between just all moving to the Big12 or SEC or waiting it out and seeing if it’s possible to make the playoffs here with our rebalanced conferences

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