Offensive playbook

[Another Mike D]

Does anyone who doesn't call their own plays use the offensive playbook? Just wondering if there is any benefit to setting it, or will the coordinators just run plays to the strengths. I am curious because I didn't even really notice it, and wondered if I could prevent running behind my 1* center and more to my 4.5* LG. If the percentages don't add up to 100, will it matter?

[Erich Ingram]

You do need to have the percentages add up to 100

[Greendiver]

I spend sometime setting up the playbooks and gameplans on offense and defense at the beginning of the season for my team and then tweak them each game. I call all plays during the game, but hit the suggest button on almost every play and then decide whether to go with the play. I consider it the OC and DC giving me suggestions in my headset, but I end up calling something different about 33-50% of the time. By setting the playbooks, however, I feel like the playcalls are guiding me to run the team within the gameplan I established before kickoff. I find it a nice combination of pregame planning and in game decisions.

[Another Mike D]

Hmm...so if I set the percentages to never run behind my crappy center, it will use both the strategy to determine whether to run, and the playbook to consider what play to run. Pretty interesting. Gameplanning is going to take hours to adjust these things for injuries and such.

[raf105]

[QUOTE=Greendiver]I spend sometime setting up the playbooks and gameplans on offense and defense at the beginning of the season for my team and then tweak them each game. I call all plays during the game, but hit the suggest button on almost every play and then decide whether to go with the play. I consider it the OC and DC giving me suggestions in my headset, but I end up calling something different about 33-50% of the time. By setting the playbooks, however, I feel like the playcalls are guiding me to run the team within the gameplan I established before kickoff. I find it a nice combination of pregame planning and in game decisions.[/QUOTE] I like your approach.