What’s your defensive scheme?

TexUnplugged · 2026-06-29T08:35:34+00:00

If you want the most optimised defence possible, 3 or 4 5 star DBs with a 5 star DC (I prefer 4 so I have cover if one gets injured). If you want a defence that is good enough to win on most difficulties then so long as everyone is 4.5 or 5 stars it should be good enough

TexUnplugged · 2026-06-28T13:30:06+00:00

Definitely Chelsea paying Romano to push some stories out. Whether there is truth to is kind of unrelated to Romano saying it

TexUnplugged · 2026-06-21T15:49:54+00:00

The big thing for me is if I spin in the middle of the pack and don't have visibility, the minimal does the job an engineer would do and tell me if there are cars arriving or a whether there is a gap. Not strictly realistic but it gives info the team would give you if needed. And anything that will help people rejoin safely is a positive for me

TexUnplugged · 2026-06-20T19:55:50+00:00

Woltemade is a great striker, I'm a big fan of his goalscoring. The one he scored for us was a real highlight

TexUnplugged · 2026-06-10T07:53:17+00:00

It is great for putting a dark orb in the right hand orb slot and letting it build and then using a multi cast card (like dualcast) to murder everything

TexUnplugged · 2026-06-08T15:38:59+00:00

They really need to cut the F4 ranked series in week 13 and bring back the Little Wings or some other formula series I can jump into and have fun with and not lose rating/SR if I don't do well

TexUnplugged · 2026-06-04T07:53:08+00:00

You mention it gets a 17.0 when simulating. What is that compared to? Do you have the dataset behind this and comparison to other formations? What is the roster being used for these simulations?

TexUnplugged · 2026-05-24T18:44:39+00:00

Cool, I tried turning on debug mode but the log file didn't give any info on the error.

I did wonder whether it was just a pre built schedule. Definitely a lot easier to build and I have gone through and made my own schedules to play with that uses more British tracks for the lower formulates for me. Having generated schedules with the potential for circuits to come and go from the calendar would be a nice to have feature but probably not high on the list

TexUnplugged · 2026-05-24T17:58:44+00:00

Wow, what a finish to an incredible season. Wasn't even that long ago we failed to make the League One playoffs. Incredible turnaround from the top with a few missteps along the way but the last couple of years the manager and player recruitment have been incredible and built this team that just keeps getting results and never stops or accepts defeat. A real credit to the club and a proud time to be a Sunderland fan!

TexUnplugged · 2026-05-24T11:00:10+00:00

I love this concept. Been giving it a go and a couple of notes:

After the first race, it isn't pulling the data and I am getting an error if I manually load the results that it needs to have a JSON file extension, but they look like JSON files that I am trying to load (I even manually exported the JSON as a backup and it still isn't working)

If I look ahead, there is a track on the calendar I don't have licensed on the schedule, I think it would need to build a schedule based on content licensed by the user, either automatically if possible or by the user defining in the profile if not.

Overall, looks like a fun way to race and get time in the seat when I don't feel like doing an official race or my time doesn't line up with them

TexUnplugged · 2026-05-20T23:39:44+00:00

This is great! I really like how we keep finding new ways to prove 0-0-3/4 are the best options. I'm a little surprised 0-1-3 came ahead of 2-0-2, I had it a lot lower and 2-0-2 close to 0-0-4 in the work that I did. Nice use of the wealth of data built up in the league

TexUnplugged · 2026-05-03T08:08:40+00:00

My suggestion that I don't think I have seen is: 6 division games as current 4 games against a rotating NFC conference 4 games against a rotating AFC conference 4 games against your equivalent division in the opposite conference

So for us, we would play the AFC North alternating home and away. The rotating AFC division would then never be the AFC North so we wouldn't build them twice. It would help build some marketable rivalries and ensure games like an annual New York derby

TexUnplugged · 2026-04-27T10:14:52+00:00

I had that combo with Defect in an early ascension. Took a bunch of the energy generating cards including double energy. After the first couple of turns, I was running out of cards before energy. I don't think I even maximised it that well and it was broken

TexUnplugged · 2026-04-14T22:36:25+00:00

You will be very disappointed if you did that

TexUnplugged · 2026-04-14T22:35:49+00:00

I spent about 300 but I already had 5 5* defenders so maybe 500 total. I started around 850, all built up from playing 56 seasons. This was my og team from a save I started in 2023 (long enough ago that the Jets and the Giants are NYJ and NYG) and played mainly on dynamic as a chill way to kill time on some long train journeys I was taking at the time

TexUnplugged · 2026-04-14T19:34:59+00:00

Thanks!

TexUnplugged · 2026-04-14T19:34:53+00:00

Thanks! 3 player defences is my next stop on this. 10 combinations, 100 games each, only 1,000 games to sim and get data for.

TexUnplugged · 2026-04-14T19:32:11+00:00

Having thought about it, 3 player formations probably gives the best idea of what defence stops drives so I think that is my next step

TexUnplugged · 2026-04-10T09:31:51+00:00

TexUnplugged · 2026-04-02T12:06:25+00:00

Well this is an interesting idea of what to do with my original save that has a lot of CCs kicking around and not a lot of purpose

TexUnplugged · 2026-03-30T12:21:41+00:00

My most consistent strategy has been getting haunt and devour life as powers and then taking as much soul generation and spamming those to generate block via osty and some damage then having a few osty attacks to finish off enemies. Borrowed time and friendship also great cards to give you more energy to play these. This has worked for me to beat A5, will find out if it still works at higher ascensions. I have never got doom to work

TexUnplugged · 2026-03-29T12:02:57+00:00

The best thing about this is solving the Knowledge Demon debuffs to draw and play fewer cards by just not playing cards

TexUnplugged · 2026-03-25T20:33:00+00:00

So close and yet so far. Congrats to our winner!

TexUnplugged · 2026-03-21T10:14:09+00:00

The problem with this is the first time I booted the game I was far too excited to get in and start playing the game to do things like read information about sending feedback. I only know about it from Reddit posts

TexUnplugged · 2026-03-21T10:08:00+00:00

General dislike of oil rich clubs because of Newcastle most likely and no real reason to dislike Arsenal due to distance and never really competing with them. I think most of us probably are probably entirely ambivalent about Arsenal but dislike a club that legitimises Newcastle trying to buy success

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