Sim Dynasty Football Game Guide
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Sim Dynasty Football Game Guide
This is the wiki game guide for Sim Dynasty football. Please feel free to make any changes or additions you see fit.
Contents
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Introduction
Objective of the Game
League Information
League Names and Structure
League Types
Team Information
Roster Size
Practice Squad
Drafts
The Initial Draft
The Amateur Draft
The Expansion Draft
Off-Season
Player Information
Player Abilities and Numerical Values
All players are created with skills assigned randomly between a value of A through F in the following areas:
Each letter is assigned a numerical range of eight points (see chart below). Each point represents one improvement (see Improvement Chances). In most leagues, the numerical values are only visible to ABE so that he can use them to simulate each game. In some leagues, general managers have the option to see the number ratings instead, but otherwise these ratings are presented only with the colored letter value of each skill because it is easier to evaluate and read online. (A's are red, B's are blue, C's are green, D's are yellow, and F's are black.) The higher the letter grade, the better that player is in that skill area.
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Overall Rating
A player's overall rating is a quick way to get a general sense of how good a player is, but should not be relied on too heavily to evaluate players.
Player Cards
Player skills, Improvement Chance history, career statistics, and transactions of each player are just a few examples of what is listed on each player card. You can see a player's card by clicking on his name. These links appear everywhere you can see the player's name, including your Depth Chart, the Waiver Wire and Box Scores.
Improvement Chances (ICs)
Improvement Chances are the means by which players improve (i.e., increase their numerical value) in each individual skill area. The higher the value, the better that player is in that skill area. An IC is an opportunity for that player to improve. A player who receives an IC must also convert that IC to receive an improvement in that skill. As each player accumulates and converts ICs, his skill levels increase. Each player will improve at a different rate, based on age, current skill, and other factors. Practice Squad ICs are accumulated differently than Active Roster ICs.
Earning Active Roster ICs
Converting Active Roster ICs
Earning Practice Squad ICs
Mathematically, the expected value of the CP distributions will roughly relate to the following IC amounts per season (the actual value may be more or less):
| CPs | ICs |
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| 0 | 26 |
| 1 | 33 |
| 2 | 41 |
| 3 | 49 |
| 4 | 57 |
| 5 | 64 |
Converting Practice Squad ICs
Mentoring
Name Changes
If it is early in the season, you are permitted to change the name of the player by clicking on the player's name and going to his card. Note that you can only do this during the first 30 days of the season, unless he has won Rookie of the Year or been named to an All-Star team, and offensive player names WILL NOT BE TOLERATED! If you find another team's player names offensive, please report that team so the issue can be resolved. Duplicate names in a league are not permitted, and names must be between three and 30 characters long.
Injured Players
Playing Players out of Position
Managing your Team
Sim Dynasty offers you a large assortment of ways to manage your team.
Depth Chart
Playbook
Coach Preferences
Manager Mode
Regular Mode
Advanced Mode
General Manager Information
Trades
Through the GM menu, you can propose a trade to any other team in your league. If the other team accepts, the trade will be executed immediately, and the players will change teams.
Injured Reserve
League Information
League News
Sim Dynasty has a news page that will show you what has been going on in your league in the way of player transactions, such as trades, status changes, injuries, and retiring players.
Standings
To see how your team is doing in the league overall, you should go to the Standings page. This will show you the standings for all of the teams in your league.
Results
Schedule
League Info
Sim Dynasty also has a League Info page that allows you to see who is in your league. It also displays their e-mail address, if they have chosen to let it be shown in their Profile. You can also U2U them from here by clicking their name. When you do this, the u2u screen will pop up, and you can U2U them right from there. You can also see when your opponents last checked into the site. This way you can know who has been actively managing their teams, and which teams belong to "dead" owners.
Team Statistics
You can view your team statistics from the Team Stats page. These are actual cumulative stats from the current season. If you traded for a player during the season, only his accrued stats from when he was on your team will show up. If you traded a player away, only the stats he accrued while on your team will show up here.
Individual Statistics
You can view your players individual statistics from the Individual Stats page. You can only see players here that are currently on your roster.
League Leaders
To see who leads the league in various statistical categories, check out the League Leaders page. It will show you the top 20 players in each category. You can view Single Season leaders and All Time leaders of various categories.
Player Rankings
The Rankings page serves two purposes. The first is to show all players ranked according to their statistics, and the other is to show all players ranked according to their abilities.
Player Statistics
The benefit of using this page as opposed to the Leaders page is that this page will show all of the players in your league, which is more comprehensive. On this page you can choose to sort by every category that is kept on the player cards.
Player Abilities
This part of the Rankings page will show all of the players in your league according to their abilities. As with the other page, this page can be sorted by all player abilities displayed on the player cards. This page is especially useful for scouting around your league to find the players on other teams that you would like to trade for.
All Pro Page
Miscellaneous
PayPal and Payments
For our pay leagues, we use PayPal as the method to receive payments. If you have a credit card, checking account, or any other type of banking account, you can use PayPal to send in a payment.
If you only have a checking account, the payment will be sent to us by a PayPal e-check. E-checks can take up to 4 business days to clear, and you will not see the credits hit your Sim Dynasty account until then. If you are signing up for a new team and send in an e-check, please post a message in the Support Message Board letting Admin know, and we can hold the team for you until it clears. (You can post a message in Support privately if you prefer.) If you are renewing a team using an e-check, you will have to wait the four days to get credit. We have considered removing e-checks as a payment option, because of the confusion they cause, but many of our players only have checking accounts, and we don't want to prevent them from playing.
Finally, if you don't have any kind of bank account or credit card, you can mail in a personal check or money order to us. Please write your screen name and/or league name on the check or money order, and add $2 for handling. (For example, if a league costs $20, the payment would be for $22.) Please make your payment out to the site owner, Tyson Lowery. Allow up to three weeks for the credits to be posted to your account. You can get our address by posting a private message in Support.
Reporting Problems & Suggesting Enhancements
Have you noticed something about the game that isn't quite right? Are you having problems accessing your team or logging in? Or is there something about the game that you would like to see improved? We encourage you to sound off on the Message Boards.
Using this Wiki
We use the same software as Wikipedia for maintaining this page. We encourage you to make additions and corrections where you see fit. We found the following links to be helpful when learning the syntax of editing a page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page
Working with Tables:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Table
