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Hi Everybody,
I was wondering if anyone knew how to sort playoff teams by record rather than division champion? My experience--or inexperience--led the USFL hack to have three divisions of three teams each. While scheduling keeps the original league's integrity--two divisions--I sometimes find that a club gets a bye because they won the "middle" division despite another team having a better record. I've played around with the code that determines division champs and wild card teams before, but I haven't had any success.
Anybody know how to get the rom to sort based on best record?
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Figured it out, thanks jstout! Got some gnarly helmet colors right now.
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I was thinking that too--just rename the two teams in TSB--but would swapping the logos mean I'd have to also tweak the colors in the code? I can do that I think with the big helmets, but I always have difficulty with the small helmets.
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I was playing around with the idea of swapping teams into different divisions. Like, I considered turning the New Orleans Breakers back into the Boston Breakers. My goal is to group them closer to the Atlantic division clubs; in turn, I'd place the Feds closer as well. Essentially, swapping both clubs places either on the Team Data/Control screens or just the standings.
I can always adjust the schedule to where the Breakers play PIT/NJ/BALT twice and WASH play MEM/JAX/BIR/TB twice, but that could mess up my standings.
I guess I'm just asking is there a way to "swap" the spots for both clubs in the code? It seems division organization is more built around arrays of teams rather than where each individual team is placed.
Any help would be great.
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USFL '87: The Ballad of Brian Bosworth
A continuation of my hypothetical USFL series. Narrative up soon and in pieces.
Player placement is based on collegiate territory research, polling, and some hypotheticals. Number re-arrangements for NFL vets based as closely as possible on that player's number in college. Veterans also based on researching preseason NFL transactions and contemporary trade/cut/signing rumors for a little what-if stuff.
This hack uses Buck's "Juice Helper" so it is challenging, though I also modified offensive stats--high pass control, receptions--to keep the frenzied "USFL" feel.
If you wish to vote on future player placements, follow me on Twitter (@Tombor13).
I apologize for the delay.
Enjoy.
Features:
-7 minute quarters
-Stats after every quarter
-Wedge Returns
-Directional Punting
-Graphic Tweaks, including funky end zones
-Stat Tweaks-Sim Data Tweaks
-Offensive Formation Tweaks
-3 team, 3 Division Structure
-12 teams make playoffs (as opposed to original 8 teams)
-18 game, locked, custom schedule
-All Pro: '87 All-NFL Vs. '87 All-USFL (I had to make modifications: if an All-Pro is in the USFL, they were replaced by an all-conference or Pro Bowler)Transactions/Roster Edits:
*New Jersey trades rights to Kelvin Martin (NFL), Scott Schwedes (signed), Steve Trapilo (signed), and '87 and '88 Open Draft 1st round picks to Oklahoma for rights to Brian Bosworth (10 years, $15 million). The '87 pick is via Chicago, completing compensation for Keith Byars signing in '86.
*Pittsburgh trades their 9th round selection to New Jersey per arbitrator ruling after the Maulers signed Joe Shield.
*Memphis trades rights to Walter Lewis and Dwight Stone to Birmingham for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd round picks in the '88 Open Draft; one territorial selection.
*Oklahoma trades an 11th round Open Draft pick to Memphis for rights to Clyde Duncan per arbitrator ruling.
*Denver trades 16th and 18th round Open Draft picks to Houston for rights to Rick McIvor. Deal completed to avoid arbitration.
*San Antonio trades James Hadnot (cut in training camp), 5th, 8th, and 12th round picks to Washington for rights to Ethan Horton per arbitrator decision; Washington request for a 2nd round pick denied.
*Houston trades 4th round open draft pick to Washington for rights to Calvin Daniels per arbitrator decision; Washington request for a 1st round pick denied.
*Denver trades Stan Blinka to Oklahoma for a 6th round Open Draft pick in '88.
*Los Angeles trades Darrell Patillo to Baltimore for a 5th round Open Draft pick in '88.
*San Antonio trades 13th round '88 Open Draft pick to Los Angeles for rights to Gary Moten.
Roster Additions:
Arizona
David Adams*
Jon Horton
Danny Lockett
Dan Saleaumuna*
Jeff Van Raaphorst
Darren Willis
Baltimore
Alvin Blount
Michael Clemons (2nd round Open Draft)
Chuck Faucette
Rich Gannon
Birmingham
Tommie Agee
Howard Ballard*
Cornelius Bennett
Lewis Colbert
Keith McKeller
Freddie Robinson #10
Mike Shula*
Dwight Stone (4th round Open Draft)
Chicago
John Carney
Curtis Duncan
Les Miller* (3rd round Open Draft)
Todd Peat*
Ray Wallace
Frank Winters
Denver
Steve Alvord
Steve Bartalo*
Tyrone Braxton
Jeff Criswell (17th round Open Draft)
Jon Embree
Merrill Hoge
Lakei Heimuli
Frankie Neal (1st round Open Draft)
Pete Najarian* (11th round Open Draft)
Ed Simmons (2nd round Open Draft)
Al Smith
Kevin Willhite (19th round Open Draft)
Houston
Jerry Ball
Ray Berry
Thomas Everett
Donald Narcisse
Derrick Macadoo
Matt Stevens (9th round Open Draft)
Jacksonville
Tracy Ham*
Kirby Jackson (2nd round Open Draft)
Greg Lloyd*
Ricky Nattiel
Jesse Tuggle
LA
Rick Finney (5th round Open Draft)
Charles Lockett
Tim McDonald
Christian Okoye
Memphis
Tony Burse
Jimmy Clinkscales
Enis Jackson*
Wayne Haddix* (17th round Open Draft)
Tony Robinson
Elbert Shelley*
Daryle Smtih*
Theo Young*
Michigan
Doug DuBose (22nd round Open Draft)
New Jersey
Walter Briggs*
Brian Bosworth (rights trade w/Oklahoma)
Cris Carter
Scott Merserau*
Ed Rubbert* (8th round Open Draft)
Tyronne Stowe*
Harry Swayne
New Orleans
Milton Barney
Joe Caravello
Mark Carrier
Willie Fears
Patrick Scott*
Ronald Scott
Henry Thomas
Oakland
Toi Cook
David Diaz-Infante
Kevin Gogan
Lorenzo Lynch*
Hardy Nickerson
Gene Taylor
Oklahoma
John Clay (1st round Open Draft via NJ) ('87 Raiders)
Tim Gordon*
Andrew Jackson (15th round Open Draft)
Robert Mimbs*
Scott Schwedes (New Jersey rights, Boz trade)
Derrick Shepard
Steve Trapilo (New Jersey rights, Boz trade)
Pittsburgh
Tom Brown
Cornell Burbage (3rd round Open Draft)
Mitch Frerotte
Ray Isom
Mancia Massimo
John Settle (2nd round Open Draft)
San Antonio
Ron Bernstine
David Caldwell (rights trade w/Houston, future considerations)
Sammy Garza
Larry Kelm*
Kevin Murray* (signed post NFL Draft)
Eugene Seale
Tampa Bay
Eddie Hunter (10th round Open Draft pick)
Dan Sileo
Jeff Zimmerman (rights trade w/Jacksonville, future considerations)
Washington
James Brim
Robert Clark*
Kenny Flowers
Don Majkowski
Mike Junkin
USFL Transactions Free Agency/Trades/Listing Acquisition
Arizona
Kim Bokemper
Trent Bryant
Earl Cooper
John Harris
Howard Richards
Baltimore
Stefon Adams ('85 territorial pick)
Tyrone Anthony ('84 territorial pick)
Marvin Harvey
David Martin
Mike McCloskey (‘83 territorial pick)
Darrell Pattillo (trade w/LA for 5th round '88 Open Draft pick)
Birmingham
John Fourcade
Walter Lewis (trade w/Memphis for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd round '88 Open Draft picks)
Junior Miller
Virgil Seay
Ken Woodard
Chicago
Owen Gill ('85 territorial pick)
Gary Ellerson ('86 territorial pick)
Mel Jenkins
Denver
Rick McIvor
Houston
Rodney Bellinger
George Cumby
Calvin Daniels
Marvin Powell
Al Richardson
Adam Schriber (‘84 territorial pick)
Jason Stauvosky (rights swap w/Oklahoma, future considerations)
Jacksonville
Charles Alexander #4 ('83 Bengals)
Bobby Duckworth
Mike Rozier
Turk Schonert
LA
Keith Browner ('84 territorial pick)
Steve Busick
Craig Ellis
Paul McDonald #16
Timmie Ware #19 ('85 territorial pick)
Memphis
Jimmy Colquitt
Allama Matthews
Calvin Muhammad
Brad White
Van Williams
Michigan
Doug Marsh
Eugene Marve
Rick Massie
Joe Morris
Butch Wolfork
New Jersey
Paul Coffman
Joe Dufek
Garcia Lane
Jeff Rohrer
Mike Siano (‘86 territorial pick)
New Orleans
Jerry Gordon
Kyle Mackey
Oakland
Clyde Glover ('84 territorial pick)
Alvin Hall
Earnest Jackson ('83 9th round Open Draft pick)
Clint Sampson
Byron Smith ('84 territorial pick)
Ted Watts
Jim Zorn
Oklahoma
Stan Blinka
Gordon Brown ('86 territorial pick)
Clyde Duncan
Pittsburgh
Dennis Fowlkes
Ralph Giacomarro
Bernard Henry
Joe Shield
Larry Station (rights trade w/Chicago, future considerations)
San Antonio
Paul Allegre
Keith Baldwin
Pat Franklin (‘86 territorial pick)
Ethan Horton
Lam Jones
Gary Moten
James Noble ('86 territorial pick)
Buzz Sawyer ('85 territorial pick)
Tampa Bay
Greg Allen ('85 territorial pick)
Chip Banks
Harvey Clayton ('83 territorial pick)
Jackie Flowers
Kevin Ingram
Florian Kempf
Dexter Manley
Jim Miller
Bob Niziolinek
Joel Williams
Washington
Charles Bowser
Lynn Dickey
Jeff Hayes
Dan Banish (‘83 territorial pick)
Reggie Pleasant ('85 territorial pick)
*USFL '88 or future hack
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Submitted03/16/2022
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Young is the only one with a dedicated running play; I will give it a shot and see what happens.
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Hi everybody,
I'm getting '87 ready and have been simming through a few times to make sure everything is working all right. How do others handle running quarterbacks? Seems like very season I do, Steve Young or Damon Allen or Walter Lewis only have about 100 rushing yards over the season. I crank up sim run to 15 or even 44/50 MS but it doesn't seem to move the needle when I sim the game. They work great when you play though.
Not a big deal, just kind of wondering.
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Hey,
Thanks! I forgot that it is 255 for each, not 255 total. I was wondering what was going on...
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Thanks for the advice--I went through and cleared out everybody and I cranked up the front seven, though it did even up going the other direction; still Reggie White notching 42 sacks in 18 games isn't totally out of reach.
Probably keep tweaking.
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Yeah it isn't working still after a fifth sim/tweak. Here the league's sack leaders, all safeties.
I have noticed stats come out more interesting when I tweak sim stats on the offense but leave defensive players alone...maybe I will try that and see where it is going. I am not sure what this is happening...
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Hi everybody,
I was experimenting with another USFL hack and I feel like I've gotten the hang of Sim Data, but I have playing around with a new hack I made and it seems like the only guys recording any stats are my safeties--they get all the sacks and safeties.
I've attached the file. Is this sim data issues, or a team sim data issue?
Thanks!
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USFL '86: Shadow Market
A continuation of my hypothetical USFL series.
Features:
-7 minute quarters
-Stats after every quarter
-Wedge Returns
-Directional Punting
-Formation Experimentations
-Graphic Tweaks, including funky end zones
-Stat Tweaks-Sim Data Tweaks
-Offensive Formation Tweaks
-3 team, 3 Division Structure
-12 teams make playoffs (as opposed to original 8 teams)
-18 game, locked, '85 schedule
-All Pro: '86 All-NFL Vs. '86 All-USFL (I had to make modifications: Dennis Gentry, Bobby Joe Edmonds, and Tim McGee all made ALL-NFL as Special Teams Players; some other modifications based on ALL-AFC or ALL-NFC)-Custom Schedule
Player allocation was based on a mix of the 1986 territorial and Open Drafts, narrative flourishes, and '85 NFL final cuts. In terms of NFL player cuts: I placed players based on their USFL draft status or regional proximity of their college or through research.
'86 territorial rights/Open Draft
Arizona
Phil Freeman
Greg Baty (rights trade w/Oakland)
Paul Godbey*
Max Zandejas
Baltimore
Rich Badanjack
Todd Bowles
Tim Cofield
Stan Gelbaugh
J.D. Maarveld
John Taylor
Birmingham
Auburn
Alabama
Jesse Bendross (‘84 territorial pick)
Carl Byrum
Harold Hallman
Willie Totten ('87 Bills Strike QB)
Chicago
Illinois
Indiana
Northwestern
Wisconsin
Cap Boso
Keith Byars
Jim Everett
Bobby Howard
Devon Mitchell*
Denver
Colorado
Colorado State
Nebraska
Utah
Utah State
Mike Busch ('87 Giants)
Rick Donnelly
Dwayne Jiles
Glen Kozlowski ('87 Bears)
Vai Sikahema
Eric Yarber
Houston
Baylor
Houston
SMU
Texas
Floyd Dixon
Rory Graves (rights acquired in Weddington "liquidation" trade w/New Jersey)
Brett Maxie*
John Teltshick
Reyna Thompson
Jacksonville
Florida
Georgia
Georgia Tech
Eddie Anderson*
Kent Austin (rights trade w/Birmingham)
Ray Criswell
Alonzo Johnson (rights trade w/Tampa Bay for Alonzo Mitz)
Pat Swilling ('86 or '87 Saints)
LA
UCLA
USC
Joe Cormier
John Lee
Erik Howard (completes '85 trade w/Oakland for rights to Damon Allen)
Robert Jenkins*
Allen Pitts
James Pruitt
Memphis
Tennessee
Tennessee State
Tony Baker
Brian Blankenship ('86 open draft pick, '87 Steelers)
Ravin Caldwell
Don Griffin*
Enis Jackson*
Tim Harris
Michigan
Michigan
Michigan State
Brad Cochran
John Offerdahl
Butch Rolle
John Wojciechowski
New Jersey
Boston College
Colgate
Rutgers
Syracuse
Gill Fenerty (3rd round open draft selection, pick acquired in Sam Bowers trade)
Tim Green
Mark Jackson (2nd round open draft pick)
John Tagliaferri
New Orleans
LSU
La Tech
Tulane
Willie Gillus (15th round open draft pick)
Dalton Hilliard
Tank Landry
Ronald Scott*
Jackie Walker
Oakland
Stanford
Washington
Washington State
Joe Kelly
Rueben Mayes
Junior Tautalatasi
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Tulsa
Tony Casillas
Charles Crawford
Rusty Hilger
Kevin Murphy
Willie Pless
Pittsburgh
Pitt
Penn State
West Virginia
Chuck Banks
Doug Marrone (4th round open draft pick)
Mike Zordich*
San Antonio
Texas A&M
Domingo Bryant
Matt Darwin
Seth Joyner
Larry Linne*
Walter Murray (2nd round Open Draft)
Anthony Toney
Tampa Bay
Jamie Dukes*
Joe Dudek
Percy Griffin*
Hassan Jones
Alonzo Mitz (Jacksonville territorial pick, signed after cut)
Orson Mobely
Ricky Moore (rights acquired in trade w/Birmingham)
Jesse Solomon
Washington
Clemson
North Carolina
East Carolina
Dino Hackett
Mike Haight (1st round Open Draft)
Napoleon McCallum (rights acquired in trade w/Baltimore for Curtis Bledsoe)
Henry Walls*
*Will appear in future USFL Hack
Transactions
Arizona
Andre Francis (‘83 territorial pick)
Al Harris ('84 Bears)
Jim Kovach ('83 or '84 Saints)
Odis McKinney (‘81 Raiders)
Art Still ('86 Chiefs)
Eric Truvillion ('87 Lions)
Baltimore
Curtis Bledsoe (trade w/Washington for rights to Mark Kelso and Napoleon McCallum)
James Burroughs
Clarence Collins
Dave Dreschler ('83 territorial pick)
Major Everett
Cornell Gowdy
Birmingham
Robert Brazile
Jeremiah Castille ('83 territorial pick)
Bob Harris (‘83 territorial pick)
Mike Landrum ('84 Falcons)
Malcolm Scott ('83 Giants or '87 Saints)
Chicago
Tron Armstrong ('84 3rd round open draft selection)
Todd Bell
Tom Cousineau
Ted Petersen
Gerald Small
Bob Thomas
Denver
Hasson Arbubakrr
Wendell Cason ('85 22nd round open draft pick via Jacksonville, acquired in Hemphill/Turner trade)
Chris Kołodziejski (‘84 territorial pick)
Larry Mason (trade w/Jacksonville for Daryl Hemphill, Calvin Turner, incul. cash, draft picks)
Todd Shell
Byron Williams
Houston
Danny Knight
Bobby Micho ('84 territorial pick)
Allen Rice ('84 territorial pick)
Jimmy Teal ('85 territorial pick)
Mike Weddington (trade w/New Jersey for Kiki DeAyala, Ricky Sanders, and Hosea Taylor)
Mike Whitwell
Jacksonville
Carl Aikens (part of Evans trade)
Vince Evans (trade w/Chicago for '88 and '89 1st round open draft picks and Carl Aikens)
Daryl Hemphill (trade w/Denver for Larry Mason, 2nd and 14th open round picks)
Ken Jenkins ('85 Skins, check '82 Lions)
Frank Middleton ('83 territorial pick by Tampa Bay, rights acquired in trade)
Mike Pruitt
Larry Swider
Calvin Turner (part of Hemphill trade)
LA
Mark Bortz ('83 6th round open draft pick)
Michael Harper ('84 territorial pick)
John Hendy ('85 territorial pick)
Bernard Quarles ('83 22nd round open draft pick)
Kelly Thomas (‘83 territorial pick)
Memphis
Sam Bowers (trade w/New Jersey for '86 3rd round open pick (Gill Fenerty), '87 5th round open pick)
Earnest Gray
Eddie Hill
Gary Hogeboom
Michigan
Ross Browner
Bill Elko (rights acquired in trade w/Tampa Bay)
Ron Springs
Lawrence Ricks ('83 Territorial pick)
New Jersey
Kiki DeAyala
Chas Fox ('85 6th round open draft pick)
Russell Erxleben
Kris Haines
Beasley Reece
Tommy Robison
Jay Saldi
Ricky Sanders
Hosea Taylor (trade w/Houston for Mike Weddington, Danny Knight, rights to Rory Graves, and '87 territorial pick)
Richard Todd
Reggie Wilkes
New Orleans
Perry Brooks
Hokie Gajan
Gary Kowalski
Todd Leibenstein
Herkie Walls
Oakland
Cliff Benson ('85 1st round open draft pick)
Greg Braclin
Henry Ellard
Neil Elshire
Emilie Harry ('85 territorial pick)
Jackie Flowers
Mike Lush (trade w/Baltimore for 2nd and 3rd round open draft picks '87)
Mike Moroski
Vince Newsome
Dwaine Wilson
Oklahoma
Theotis Brown
Duane Galloway
Louis Oubre
Stump Mitchell
Drew Pearson
Willie Tullis
Uwe Von Schumann
Pittsburgh
Less Browne
Julius Dawkins
Scott Fitzkee
Guy Fraizer
Tom Orosz
Don Smith
Leo Wisniewski
Dirt Winston
San Antonio
Greg Bingham
Bruce Davis ('85 territorial pick)
Doug Dawson ('84 territorial pick)
George Farmer
Paul Johns
Ronnie Paggett (trade w/Birmingham for 9th and 14th round '87 open picks)
Tampa Bay
Ray Alexander
Warren Bryant
Alphonso Carraker ("trade" w/Green Bay for Mike Butler)
Putt Choate
Speedy Neal
Marcus Quinn (trade w/Oakland)
Washington
K.D. Dunn ('85 territorial pick)
Kelvin Edwards*
Bubba Green
Homer Jordan ('83 territorial pick)
Mark Kelso ('85 6th round open pick by Baltimore, rights trade as part of Bledsoe deal)
William Perry ('85 territorial pick)
R.C. Thielemann
Tommy Vigorito
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Submitted10/08/2021
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Is there a way to change the color of the football itself? I know it likely isn't a sprite in the same sense of the other graphics. I saw an article on Twitter about Charles O'Finnley's bid to start another spring league post-USFL and he had what looked like an orange and red football in the photo. Thought it might be a cool experiment...
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USFL '85: Nasty War
'USFL '85: Nasty War
A continuation of my USFL Project, this is a "hypothetical" season that features all 18 clubs from '84, with some modifications to rosters.
Features:
-7 minute quarters
-Stats after every quarter
-Wedge Returns
-Directional Punting
-Formation Experimentations
-Graphic Tweaks, including funky end zones (watching USFL games I came to admire how bad the end zones often looked)
-Stat Tweaks-Sim Data Tweaks
-Offensive Formation Tweaks
-3 team, 3 Division Structure
-12 teams make playoffs (as opposed to original 8 teams)
-18 game, locked, '85 schedule
-All Pro: '85 All-NFL Vs. '85 All-USFL in Vanilla (Gerald Riggs replaces Eric Dickerson on NFL All-Pros)Notes:
-As the four clubs that folded/merged are returning, '85 territorial lists returned to their general '84 designations, and new players were redistributed. The imagined '85 rosters of the Blitz, Maulers, Outlaws, and Panthers generally resemble their '84 assemblies, though I did take liberties and retained players. This meant the surviving clubs had to be reworked. I tried to keep these "realistic" by filling gaps with actual territorial selections or by doing research into near-miss signings. Dickerson, for instance, did consider an offer from the Wranglers in '83 and used the league as leverage for negotiations in '85.
-These rosters are continued from my reimagined '84 roster. If you want accuracy, an NFL and USFL '85 hack by Buck on TBorg has real-life rosters and some cool graphics.
The schedule is an adaptation of the original '84--I flipped interdivisional and conference hosts, but they are the same "pattern"; I did shuffle the weeks around to avoid the same schedule. If I can get to an '86, maybe I can make one that swaps inter-conference and inter-divisional matchups.
Territorial and Open Draft Picks
*Year denotes their territorial selection; unmarked players were territorial or Open Draft selections in ‘85 unless noted.
Arizona
Ron Brown ('84)
Randall Cunningham
Rickey Hunley ('84)
Vernon Maxwell ('83)
Rick Mallory ('84)
Pete Mandley (‘84)
Rich Moran
Vance Johnson
Lionel VitalBaltimore
Troy Benson ('85 Maulers territorial pick, traded for Mike Johnson, imagined)Birmingham
Al Del Greco
Kevin Greene
Paul Ott Carruth
Emmanuel King
Freddie Joe Nunn
Jerry RiceChicago
Carl Aikens ('84)
Dwight Beverly ('84)
Bobby Bell Jr. ('84)
Mitchell Brookins ('84)
Mike Burgereau (‘84)
Jeff Dellenbach
Babe Laufenberg ('83)
Alex Moyer
Ken Stills
Stacey Toran ('84)
Al Toon
Dan Turk
Denver
Joe Walter
Rich MianoJacksonville
Frank Bush
Robert Lavette
Gary WilkinsHouston
Ray Childress
Jeff Fuller (‘84)
Raphel CherryLos Angeles
Duane BickettMemphis
Tiger Greene
Herman Hunter
Fuad Reviz
Chris Scott ('84)
Gizmo Williams
Carl ZanderMichigan
Carl Banks ('84)
Mike Green ('83)
Ali Haji-Sheikh (‘83)
Paul Skansi ('83)
Steve Smith ('84)
Daryl Turner ('84)
Lonnie YoungNew Jersey
Steve DeOssie
Lionel Emmanuel ('84 LA territorial pick, imagined trade w/LA)
Herman Fontenot
Doug Flutie
Eugene RobinsonNew Orleans
Bud BrownDino Hall
Calvin Magee*
Eric Martin
Lance Smith
Elton Veals ('84)
Oakland
Damon Allen (imagined rights trade w/LA)
Bo Eason ('84)
Damone Johnson
Reggie Langhorne
Tom Neville
Ron Rivera (‘84)
Tom Toth
Dokie Williams (‘83)Oklahoma
Tom Benson ('84)
Scott Case ('84)
John Goode ('84)
Jamie Harris
Rodney Harding
Shawn Jones
Kevin Murphy
Terry Orr (imagined rights trade w/San Antonio)Pittsburgh
Dwight Collins ('84)
Chris Doleman
Willie Drewery
Tom Flynn ('84)
Bill Fralic
John Frank ('84)
Mike Johnson ('84 territorial pick, signed w/Baltimore, imagined trade w/Baltimore for rights to Troy Benson)
Tony Paige ('84)
Doug Strang
Ron WolfleySan Antonio
Danny Bradley (imagined rights trade w/Oklahoma for Terry Orr, though an actual territorial selection in ‘85)
Alan VeingradTampa Bay
Eddie Brown
Steve Calabria (NJ territorial pick, imagined traded to Bandits though Jim Bassett claimed to sign him in '85)Washington
George Adams
Louis Cooper
Mike Golic
Willie Joyner ('84)
Lester Lyles
Bob Olderman
Andre Reed
Chris Washington ('84)Free Agency/Veteran Transactions/Returning from ‘84 What-If Hack
Arizona
Eric Dickerson
Ronnie Lott (1-year deal offered during hold-out)Chicago
Irving Fryar
Walter PaytonDenver
John Grimsley
Prince McJunkinsHouston
Billy SimsJacksonville
Deron Cherry (imagined)
Brian Sipe (trade w/New Jersey for draft pick)LA
Reggie Brown (played '83, appeared in one game in '84, stays w/LA for '85, imagined)Michigan
Anthony Allen (trade w/LA before club folded)New Jersey
Mark May (imagined but offered)
Randy White (imagined but offered)New Orleans
EJ Junior
Johnny Meads
Alan Risher (trade w/Arizona, imagined)Oklahoma
Greg Kragen
Darrol Ray (nearly signed for '85 back in '83)
J.C. Watts (expressed interest, rights held by NJ)Pittsburgh
Jeff Hostetler (offered in '84)
Russ Grimm (offered in '84)San Antonio
Earl Campbell (offered in '83)Tampa Bay
Cris Collinsworth (signed to start playing in '85)
Wilber MarshallWashington
Boomer Esaison*Will appear in a future USFL Hack
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Submitted07/09/2021
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Yeah, I felt like this would be too complex. I have been tooling around with Sim Data as best as I can, and have gotten some balance.
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I got two questions; if anyone knows of an older thread to direct me, that'd be great too.
1) Is there a way, either in sim or when playing the COM, you can get the COM to substitute players? Sometimes in a regular season game it gets a little ugly when the opposing quarterback falls into a bad condition. I remember the COM would swap out players in TECMO NBA Basketball on occasion.
2) Is there a way to prevent your entire roster from being "reset" when a player returns from injury? There has been a few times where I got some backups in "excellent" condition and a guy is out, but then when I sim the result and the guy returns, the entire roster resets.
There questions are probably more source code questions. I was just curious.
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Because there are fewer than 28 teams (there are 18 in the USFL mod), I am able to sort of "stack" a couple matchups within a single week: with 18 teams, there are 9 a week, so around Week 13 and Week 14, I double-up the schedule in order to fit the whole schedule. And since there were even fewer WFL clubs, I think I could work the schedule in order to make a 20 games work.
Thanks Kamphuna! I will try to reach out. Work has been a little crazy.
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I kind of got some notes for an '85 hack--it would likely be completely "reimagined," with all 18 teams--but I was wondering if the current ESPN (it was updated in '85) or ABC logo ever appeared in any NES games? Just so I can have maybe a baseline.
Are there any good programs out there to import and digitize graphics in Tile Layer Pro?
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I think the work on USFL '84 has given me a framework to do a WFL one pretty smoothly--like I know I can fit the original 20 game schedule, and the 18 total clubs; it's just the graphics stuff would definitely hang me up--helmets, small helmets, and on field logos. Probably would be a dynasty rom.
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Just out of curiosity, has anyone attempted a WFL mod? I don't know much about the league, but some of the helmets are pretty cool; I am not great with graphics.
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USFL '84: Kings of Spring
USFL '84: Kings of Spring
Features:
-7 minute quarters
-Stats after every quarter
-Wedge Returns
-Directional Punting
-Run and Shoot formation for Houston
-What If Players
-'84 Rosters as close as possible (there were a lot of midseason trades, so I tried to place players on rosters where they made more appearances)
-New Orleans Breakers
-Graphic Tweaks, including funky end zones (watching USFL games I came to admire how bad the end zones often looked)
-Stat Tweaks
-3 team, 3 Division Structure
-12 teams make playoffs (as opposed to original 8 teams)
-18 game, locked, '84 schedule
-All Pro: '84 All-NFL Vs. '84 All-USFL in Vanilla (slightly modified in What If--All-AFC Freeman McNeil replaces Payton)
Built off the legendary USFL-WLAF hack by jstout and Denny, this rom features the '84 USFL teams, schedule, and rosters, along with a few wrinkles.
This rom was tricky as I am still new to this. I looked to TheRaja's TFO rom for some structure. Clubs are split into three, 3-team divisions. The schedule is '84's, so clubs still have the same division matchups. I tried to order games as close as possible to their original times and distributions, as USFL clubs played Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday every week. This still got a little murky in the middle, but all schedules are as accurate as possible.
This rom maintains TSB's playoff structure as well--six get in from each conference as opposed to the original 4, but, honestly, I wondered why the league didn't go with 6 just from a marketing standpoint. You got a new league with new teams, why not show them all off, a la the NHL? Once I get better at this stuff, I will edit down to a 4 team playoff.
Jstout's and Denny's hack was invaluable--they did the art and logos. I did make some light edits to the helmets and logos--several clubs had "triple stripe" helmets, so I shifted them to the "40" code designation, with the exception of the Maulers, whose logo is placed in the Rams making that too difficult. I changed the Feds' big helmet to reflect the switch to silver in '84 and I edited the Blitz's and Star's logos just a little bit. I also took a crack at the midfield and end zone graphics.
Special thanks to USFLFan (@VUSFL2018 on Twitter) for providing invaluable knowledge on the what-if roster changes. Reading about some of the league's near-miss signings inspired me to take this on; @VUSFL2018's Virtual USFL project provided a great guide and framework.
There are two versions of this rom:
Vanilla--the more I experimented with rosters, the more I realized I needed some balance. Vanilla has more accurate rosters.
What If Edit--this is the counterfactual version, a little harder (not super juiced, but all clubs start 2-0 in terms of difficulty). This includes the "What If" Rosters.
Note non-TSB players: as this is an edit, and if you are playing TSB for the first time, this rom lacks the 2-point conversion implemented in USFL. Also, no touchbacks on kick-offs.
The Read Me includes a partial narrative and explains roster placements.
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Submitted04/05/2021
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- Bolt, kamphuna8 and Midnight Marauder
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I was just wondering if there is a thread that has discussed editing text on the black event screens ahead of playoff games or regular season games. Screens like below:
I have managed to edit some text on menu and playoff screens by tooling around with translhextion, finding spots where I can read the text to the right of my location, but this has been sort of tedious. I am nearly done with my USFL '84 hack and I just wanted to change "World Bowl," as it is displayed in the USFL-WLAF hack, to "USFL Championship" or something like that. I have seen thread discussions on how to edit the title screen and "Super Pro Football," but can't seem to find discussions on how to do this here. Buck's 1985 USFL-NFL hack does something similar, as do other historic hacks.
Any help would be appreciated.
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I have been using Carther's excellent end zone guide to experiment; and I figured out that the mid-field logo and the right end zone are controlled by palate 55, at least in Jstout and Denny's original WLAF rom, which I am using as a basis for mine. I changed "11 25 30" to "11 25 1A." The white background on the the USFL logo below swtiched to green:
This, of course, did this to the end zone:
I have tried to manipulate it in TLP: I hoped to edit the "USFL" to look blue (as green is 01 in the tile layer pro palate, I assumed it would register within palate 55 as "blue"), but it isn't registering onscreen--it is still green. I thought this would be a shortcut, but I guess not. I have been debating just "blanking out" the endzones and making them a generic green. I was wondering also, I guess, how do these end zone tiles interact with the palatte?
Sorting Playoff teams by record (28-team Rom)
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Thank you for the explanation, that aligns with my experience playing around with it. I would guess eliminating the third wild card winner--having it recognize only two division champs, sorting the third best team--would be of similar complexity?
That seems to be the issue--i.e., Tampa Bay (sitting in the NFC East) finishes 13-5 and gets a bye, but 12-6 Memphis--narratively the second place Southern Division team--gets the other bye because they "finished" first in the NFC Central--where they're placed--over Baltimore, who "wins" the NFC East with a 9-9 record, when Baltimore "should" get the bye from a narrative standpoint.
Maybe I'm making a mountain out of a mole hill...