Sim Dynasty Football Game Guide
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| + | Your Roster gives you a one-page view of everyone on your team. From the Roster, you can perform transactions on players (moving them between the Active and Inactive rosters, moving them to Injured Reserve, placing them on the Trade Block, or waiving them) and you can set a player's training plan for his Position Training and assign Drills. From other teams' Roster pages you can propose trades. | ||
=== Depth Chart === | === Depth Chart === | ||
| + | Depth charts are the mechanism by which players are assigned to roles. There are two kinds of Depth Charts: "Parent" Depth Charts that are generic in nature, such as Guard and Safety, and specific charts such as Left Guard or Strong Safety. If there are no players on a specific Depth Chart, the corresponding parent chart is used instead. The Formation Preview will show exactly which players will be assigned to a given formation and how they got there. | ||
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Revision as of 12:00, 10 February 2011
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.
Introduction
Objective of the Game
In Sim Dynasty Football, your objective is to draft a football team drawn from a pool of fictional players, build a playing strategy that will guid you through four preseason games, 16 regular season games, and the postseason, cumulating in the Sim Bowl championship. Although you do not have direct control of your team during a game, your decisions in how to utilize and train your players and your strategies will determine their on-field success. For additional challenge, multi-league seasons are available in which you have the additional objective of building your team over time.
League Information
League Names and Structure
Each league type is named according to a different scheme. The Single Season leagues are named after some of the top players of all time. The Dynasty leagues are named after running backs that are in the Hall of Fame. The names are also selected such that the league names form unique four-letter abbreviations, so some players with names that have the same initials as players on the list or names that would have more than two initials are not represented.
Single Season leagues consist of 16 teams arranged into two conferences, with each conference divided into two divisions of four teams each. Dynasty Leagues start with the same structure but may grow or shrink over the years. Teams will be arranged into conferences and divisions after the league fills.
League Types
Game Information
Field Measurement
All measurements on the field are measured to the nearest 3.6 inches (1/10th of a yard); each 1/10th of a yard is referred to here as a "field unit" (or "unit" for short). The play area is 999 of these units wide, with unit 0 and unit 1000 representing the goal lines.
Because the ball moves in increments smaller than a yard, this may cause apparent mismatches due to rounding, i.e a ball may be reported as moving from the 33 yard line to the 36 yard line, yet be reported as gaining only 2 yards. Likewise, a play that is reported as a 2-yard gain may only change the "To Go" yardage by 1.
Units .5 of a yard or more are rounded up, units less than .5 of a yard are rounded down. Yardlines likewise are rounded at their midpoint. The exception is the area between the goal line and halfway to the 1 yard line, which is reported as the 1 yard line rather than the goal line. "To Go" distances shorter than half a yard are reported as "inches".
Within the simulation, the ball is 3 units wide, and all measurements are taken from the point of the ball nearest the goal the offense is advancing towards. However, in Dynasty Vision, the ball is 9 pixels wide (to make it visible), and each pixel covers 2 units of space, so the ball appears on screen at six times its normal size. The end of the visible ball closest to the goal line the offense is attacking is aligned with the end of the ball in the simulation.
Weather
Weather is an important part of football. Weather components directly used in the simulation are:
- Precipitation
- Wind direction
- Wind speed
- Temperature
- Wind chill
Weather conditions are tied to the home city; weather data including monthly average temperatures, precipitation and prevailing winds by city have been compiled from real-world sources and used to build the weather model used in the game. Short, medium, and long term trends are generated by the weather model and applied against the real world data to generate varying yet realistic weather patterns. Weather conditions do not change over the course of a game.
Precipitation
There are five levels of precipitation modelled in Sim Dynasty Football:
- Clear
- Rain
- Heavy rain
- Snow
- Heavy snow
Precipitation occurs when there are sudden temperature changes due to crossing trend lines; if the temperature is at or below 32 degrees the precipitation will be snow instead of rain.
Wind Direction and Speed
Wind direction is locked to the eight main compass points. Note that the direction indicated is the direction in which the wind is blowing toward, rather than the traditional weather reporting standard of the direction the wind is coming from. All football fields in Sim Dynasty are oriented north-south; note that on the Dynasty Vision display, North is to the right side of the screen, not the top.
Temperature and Wind Chill
Temperature effects that primarily affect the ball use the actual game temperature; temperature effects that primarily affect the players include wind chill. Wind chill has no effect if the temperature is 50 degrees or higher or the wind is 3 mph or less, and on clear days the wind chill effects are halved.
Penalties
Penalties are a fact of life in football; even the best players will make mistakes in such a physical environment. The main two factors influencing penalties is Aggressiveness and Execution, with the exception of Illegal Touch which is solely a factor of Execution and Personal Foul which is a function of Attitude and Aggressiveness.
List of penalties
The penalties currently included in the simulation are:
| Penalty | Description | Yardage | Avg per game |
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| Encroachment (defense) | Before the snap, a defensive player illegally crosses the line of scrimmage and makes contact with an opponent or has a clear path to the quarterback. The play is whistled dead. | 5 yards | 0.3 |
| False start (offense) | An offensive player illegally moves after lining up prior to the snap. The play is whistled dead. | 5 yards | 2.5 |
| Holding (offense or defense) | Illegally grasping or pulling an opponent other than the ball carrier while attempting to ward off a block or cover a receiver. | Offense, 10 yards; defense, 5 yards and automatic first down | 2.8 |
| Illegal contact (defense) | Making significant contact with a receiver after the receiver has advanced five yards beyond the line of scrimmage. The illegal contact is called only if the quarterback is still in pocket and the ball is still in his hands. | 5 yards and an automatic first down | 0.3 |
| Illegal touching of a free kick (special teams) | The ball, after an onside kick, is first touched by a member of the kicking team prior to traveling 10 yards. If a member of the receiving team first touches the ball, any player may touch it. | Re-kick 5 yards back | Varies |
| Offside (defense) | A player is on the wrong side of the line of scrimmage when the ball is snapped. This foul occurs at the snap, so play continues. Although technically an offensive player can be caught offside, offensive players moving into the neutral zone are charged with a False Start. | 5 yards | 1.2 |
| Pass interference (offense or defense) | Making intentional physical contact with an intended receiver after the ball has been thrown and before it has been touched by another player, to prevent him from catching a forward pass. Offensive players can commit pass interference when a defender has a clean shot at an interception. | Offense, 10 yards; defense, spot of foul (or placement on the 1 if the foul occurs in the end zone) and automatic first down | 1.5 |
| Personal Foul (offense or defense) | A conduct- or safety-related infraction. Includes unnecessary roughness, such as hitting a ball carrier after he is already out of bounds, "piling on" a ball carrier who is already down, violent contact with an opponent who is away from and out of the play, and other Attitude-related violations. Note: Players with Attitudes above C+ (52 or higher) will not commit Personal Fouls. | 15 yards; automatic first down if committed by defense | 0.2 |
Team Information
Roster Size and Salary Cap
During the regular season, your team is limited to 53 players. Of those 53, only 45 may be designated as active players that will participate in games. The active roster is fixed when the game starts; if you move a player to or from the active roster during a game, you will see that change on your roster page and depth charts but not in the game in progress.
You are not required to keep a full roster; however, a team must have at least 24 uninjured active players at the beginning of each game. Players will automatically be moved from inactive to active and/or picked up from waivers if necessary to comply with the 24-player minimum.
If a team has more than 45 players on the active roster at the beginning of the game, only 45 of the active players will be selected to participate in the game and some players will autmatically be moved to the Inactive roster. If a team has more than 53 players when a game starts, players will automatically be waived to get down to the limit.
During the first two weeks of the preseason, teams may carry up to 80 total players on their roster, and the salary cap is not enforced. Teams must cut down to 65 players before the start of the third preseason game and must cut down to 53 players and be under the salary cap before the start of the first regular eason game.
Player salaries and the salary cap are expressed in numbers that are roughly equivalent to thousands of 2009 dollars. The default salary cap is 128000, equivalent to 128 million dollars in 2009. Salaries are based on both overall skill level and position, with quarterbacks, defensive ends and cornerbacks earning the highest and tight ends, safties and kickers earning the lowest. Salaries are relative to the overall skill level within a particular position, so a player at a particular position in one league may earn less than a player with a lower rating score in another league. Players with lower Attitude scores may demand slightly more money than they are actually worth, and there is a slight randomness to the salaries as well; this prevents a salary from exactly corresponding to any given numerical ranking.
Drafts
When you first sign up for your team, you will have no players; a draft process is used to select players for your team. Single Season leagues will only have an Initial Draft; owners in multi-season leagues will refresh their teams each year with drafts from the college system.
The Initial Draft
There are two steps to the initial draft process: bidding for draft position and ranking players in order of draft preference.
Each team will draft 70 players from a pool of over a thousand. In order to make this process manageable, each of the first 50 rounds of the draft is limited to a specific position, or pairs of positions in later rounds. These 50 rounds are divided into 5 "superrounds" of 10 rounds each. In order to determine the draft order for each round, an auction is held for each superround. Within each superround you have 1000 points to bid for draft position at each round. Each superround has a slightly different mix of positions.
| Round 1 QB | Round 2 RB | Round 3 WR | Round 4 LB | Round 5 S | Round 6 T | Round 7 DT | Round 8 DE | Round 9 CB | Round 10 C |
| Round 11 QB | Round 12 RB | Round 13 WR | Round 14 LB | Round 15 G | Round 16 T | Round 17 DT | Round 18 DE | Round 19 CB | Round 20 K |
| Round 21 TE | Round 22 RB | Round 23 WR | Round 24 LB | Round 25 G | Round 26 T | Round 27 DT | Round 28 DE | Round 29 S | Round 30 P |
| Round 31 TE | Round 32 RB | Round 33 WR | Round 34 LB | Round 35 G | Round 36 S | Round 37 KR | Round 38 CB | Round 39 H | Round 40 C |
| Round 41 QB/RB | Round 42 CB/S | Round 43 DT/DE | Round 44 LB | Round 45 G/T | Round 46 K/P | Round 47 WR/TE | Round 48 KR | Round 49 RB/WR | Round 50 LB/CB |
You start with 100 points assigned to each round. If you were to bid, say 400 points on Quarterback, you would have to remove points on one or more other positions, making it more likely that you will draft later at those positions. Ties are broken randomly.
If you attempt to save your bids with more or less than 1000 points in each row, the system will evenly (as much as possible) add or remove points to each column until it evens out at 1000.
Three hours before the draft, your bids will lock, and returning to the draft page will reveal which draft slot you won in each round. You may continue to order players at each position until the draft runs at 6PM Esatern time.
Clicking on the position abbreviation in the bidding grid will take you to a page displaying all of the players available at that position. Most of these are players who actually play that position, although a few may be players at other positions that qualify for the position being ranked. The two special teams positions on the draft grid, Kick Returner (KR) and Holder (H) may be a variety of positions as there is no native positions for these roles. Kick Returners are most often wide receivers, although running backs, safeties and cornerbacks round out that list. Your Holder is usiually your third-string quarterback with good Hands, although punters and occasionally offensive linemen will show up on this list as well.
To rank your players for the draft, simply drag and drop them into your preferred order or enter the position numbers in the fields to the right.
Player Information
Player Abilities and Numerical Values
Because of the wide variety of roles played in football, it takes a number of abilities to describe a football player. Fortunately, only a subset of these abilities is really important to a particular position; however, because responsibilities can rapidly shift on the field of play during, say, an interception, a player may find all of his abilities being put to use at some point.
Abilities are divided into six groups: Offense, Defense, Special Teams, Physical, Mental, and Dexterity.
All players are created with skills assigned randomly. Skills are stored internally from 0.0 to 100.0, but for most leagues they are displayed as "grades" between a value of A+ through F. Ratings are presented only with the letter value of each skill because it is easier to evaluate and read online, and it more accurately represents the reality that a player's precise abilities are usually not known. Ratings are color coded to make them easier to quickly interpret: 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.
Each letter is assigned a numerical range of eight points (see chart below).
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Salaries
Each player is assigned a salary based on his overall skill level, the number of years he's been in the league, plus a slight modifier based on Attitude (as lower Attitude players tend to hold out for more money) plus a slight random factor to represent the vagaries of contract negotiations. Salaries are not linear; the top few players at each position often make quite a bit more than their colleagues even though there may not be a huge skill difference between them.
Of course, salaries go up from year to year, and a player's Player Card will show his salary in actual dollar figures for that year, but for simplicity's sake salary is shown on most pages as a number of "salary units" that is effectively equal to thousands of dollars in 2009 dollars. For example, a given player's card might read "4825 ($156K/1960 $)" for his salary, which translates as 4825 salary units, or 4.825 million dollars in 2009 dollars, which is about $156,000 in 1960 dollars.
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.
Overview
During the course of the football season, your players will improve and decline based on that player's playing time, training plan, and individual factors such as Age, Potential, and Attitude. These improvements are noted in your players' records as your coaching staff records them.
Improvements are accumulated from a set of Improvement Chances, or IC's, accumulated over the course of each game. During the week between games, your players will practice and train based on the training plan you outline for them, including which role to Train As and what kind of Drills to run between scrimmages, and just prior to the next game your coaches will prepare their reports and add records of each player's Improvements in their Player Cards.
Improvement Mechanism
Player improvements occur during the week before a game, based on each player's individual training plan. Improvements are tracked internally to a tenth of a point, and a successful improve may encompass a range from a fraction of a full point to over a full point. Thus, in leagues using letter grade systems, counting improvements will not give an exact value of a player's grade, but should provide a good estimation. Average improvement sizes are larger for low grades and smaller for high grades. The maximum value for any ability is 100.0.
Training Plan
There are two types of improvements available in your Training Plan: Position Training and Drills. These are set on the Roster page, in the far right columns.
Position Training
Position Training trains a player in areas that are important to a particular position or role. Improvements will be earned in the skills that make up that role's overall score, in roughly similar proportions to that skill's importance to the overall score. Any player may train in any position or role; however, if you are training a player in a role or position that is not connected to that player's natural position, Execution improvements cannot be earned.
Drills
Drills are meant to help you target improvements for abilities that are not part of your position's basic skill set. About 60% of your improvements go to the skill set of the position you are training for and 40% go to your drills.
The default drill is A, which means "All-Around". This drill does not concentrate on any area, and can result in improvements in Speed, Health, Agility, Execution, Stamina, Jumping, Hands, Tackle, and Strength. The conversion rate is a little lower than the more targeted drills.
Targeted drills are different from the All Around drill in that they have a higher conversion rate for the abilities that they target, but they also may reduce one ability that is opposite to the targeted goals of the drill. For example, Weight Training drills build strength, but they add bulk to a player reducing his overall speed. Conversely, running Sprints may improve a player's Speed and Agility, but they tend to make a player lose weight and thus Strength. The targeted drill groups are:
C - Conditioning - This is an exception to the others because it only improves two skills and has no "downside". This improves Health and Stamina, and as a bonus any player training in Conditioning will have his Conditioning score for the next game at 100%. It is recommended to have players coming off an injury late in the week prior to a game to have Conditioning drills in his training plan; this is also useful for players with Attitude problems who do not put in enough effort on the training field to be at their top Conditioning.
D - Discipline - Discipline training improves Attitude, Execution, and Hands; it reduces Aggressiveness.
F - Footwork - Footwork drills increase Agility, Jumping, and Break Tackle; they reduce Strength (on the theory that as you become more agile you may lose weight)
K - Kicking - Kicking drills increase Kick Accuracy, Kick Power, and Execution; they reduce Endurance (as kickers don't really need it). This helps make up for the fact that kickers tend to earn fewer IC's overall.
S - Sprints - Sprint drills improve Speed, Agility and Pursuit; they reduce Strength.
W - Weight Training - Weight Training increases Strength, Stamina, and Tackling, and reduces Speed.
Accumulating Improvement Chances
Improvement Chances (ICs) are accumulated separately for Position Training and Drills. Only full IC's are attempted to convert to Improvements at the end of the week; fractional ICs will roll over to the next week.
ICs are allocated as follows:
Position Improvement Chances (improvements applied to those attributes most important to the position selected for training):
All players on roster: .5 All players on the active roster: +.25 All players who appeared in that week's game: +.25 Time played in game: seconds of play/450 (maximum +2.0)* Young inactive players: +.5 for each year under 25 Bye week: +1.0
- Time played means total time in the game, not clock time, so the time resetting after a play and in the huddle counts even if the clock is stopped. (i.e. it uses the same timer that fatigue is calculated on.)
Drill Improvement Chances (improvements applied to the set of attributes in the selected drill set):
All players on the roster: .5 Attitude (work ethic) bonus: Attitude/400 (i.e. 0.0-0.25)+random(Attitude/200) (i.e. 0.0-0.50) *
- Thus, Attitude is, on average, worth just over 1 IC per 10 points of Attitude over the course of a 21-week season (16 games + bye + preseason).
Converting Improvement Chances to Improvements
At the end of the week, immediately prior to playing the first quarter of the next game, Improvement Chances are processed based on your selected Training Plans for each player and may be converted to Improvements. The chance of converting an Improvement is based on a player's age and Potential, so players with a higher Potential will convert more improvements over time.
For most abilities, the conversion chances are roughly as follows:
| Age | Rate |
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| 20 | 42.5% |
| 21 | 52.0% |
| 22 | 57.5% |
| 23 | 45.0% |
| 24 | 32.0% |
| 25 | 11.0% |
| 26 | 7.5% |
| Older | 5.0% |
This chart is correct for most players; some players may improve at a slightly faster or slower rate, as if they were a year or two older or younger than their actual age.
Most abilities follow this pattern; however, Execution and Throwing Accuracy continue to improve into a player's early 30's, while Speed improvements fall off almost completely after age 24.
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
Football is a very physical game; over the course of the season, players will get injured. Although the number and severity of injuries has been reduced in Sim Dynasty compared to reality, you may still see key players unavailable for long periods of time.
Injuries come in two forms: minor injuries, which can take a player out of a game for a period of time (anywhere from a couple of plays to the rest of the game) but have no lasting effects, and major injuries which cause a player to be out for days, weeks or even months.
Injuries happen based on a player's role on the field; the ball carrier/receiver and the defender that tackles him are at a higher risk of injury, but anyone on the field can be injured. Injuries are roughly distributed as follows:
9.9% Offensive Line
17.5% Quarterback
19.6% Running Backs
14.4% Wide receivers
11.3% Defensive linemen
15.5% Linebackers
11.7% Defensive backs
About half of all major injuries are for 10 days or less, although some particularly severe injuries may last two to three months.
The number of days a player is listed to be out is only an estimate; players may occasionally heal faster or slower based on their Health rating. The Injury Report page will show each player's estimated status for the next two games.
Conditioning and Fatigue
Football players spend the week prior to a game training and getting in proper condition, both mentally and physically, to play. Some players work harder at this than others, and players coming off an injury mid-week do not get the benefit of a full week's workouts. This is all represented by a player's Conditioning level, which is visible on his player card. A player's Conditioning for a game is set immediately after his previous game ends, giving you time to make substitutions if necessary. Most players will start each game at around 95% of their top physical condition, although a few hard workers may be higher than that. Players with low Attitude ratings do not always put in the work required to be in top form and may start games at anywhere from 80 to 95% of their top Conditioning.
The Conditioning rating represents the top energy level a player can reach during a game; this energy level is prepresented on the Dynasty Vision display as a small bar graph to the right of each player. As players play, they expend energy and start to fatigue, causing their abilities to drop. A player that is 50% fatigued will find his ability scores about 20% lower than normal. As players fatigue, they will be substituted out based on the "substitute out" rating on the Depth Chart at that position. If no substitution level has been set, they will be substituted at 50%, again representing a 20% (a full letter grade) drop in abilities.
Positions vs. Roles
Each player has a native position that does not change; this position represents his skill sets and training. The positions are:
Offense
Quarterback (QB)
Running Back(RB)
Wide Receiver (WR)
Tight End (TE)
Guard (G)
Tackle(T)
Center (C)
Defense
Defensive Tackle (DT)
Defensive End (DE)
Linebacker (LB)
Cornerback (CB)
Safety (S)
Special Teams
Placekicker (K)
Punter (P)
While on the field, a player fills a particular role. In some cases, the role is the same as the position, i.e. a player with the Quarterback position plays the Quarterback role. For some positions, the role simply determines the exact position a player occupies in a formation, for example a player at the Guard position may fill the role of either Left Guard or Right Guard. In other cases, a role determines a particular specialization within a role, such as Fullback vs. Halfback. Finally, special teams units may have specialized roles such as the Holder that holds the ball for placekicks, or a Kick Returner which is normally filled by a wide receiver, running back or cornerback. The roles used in each formation are displayed in the formation preview on the Depth Chart page. A player's Player Card shows the player's skill level at the most common roles, and whichever grade is highest is shown as his Best Role on the roster page.
Playing Players out of Position
Although each player has an assigned position, any player can play in any position. However, this comes at a penalty, both in a player's abilities not likely being suited to the alternate position and in the form of reduced Execution while playing at the alternate position. Offensive linemen can play other positions on the offensive line without an execution penalty, and defensive linemen can do the same on the defensive line. The Player Card for each player shows the player's rating at each position; this rating takes into account the Execution penalty.
In order to appear on the depth chart at a given position, the player must either play that position natively or hold at least a C+ rating in that position.
Managing your Team
Sim Dynasty offers you a large assortment of ways to manage your team.
Roster
Your Roster gives you a one-page view of everyone on your team. From the Roster, you can perform transactions on players (moving them between the Active and Inactive rosters, moving them to Injured Reserve, placing them on the Trade Block, or waiving them) and you can set a player's training plan for his Position Training and assign Drills. From other teams' Roster pages you can propose trades.
Depth Chart
Depth charts are the mechanism by which players are assigned to roles. There are two kinds of Depth Charts: "Parent" Depth Charts that are generic in nature, such as Guard and Safety, and specific charts such as Left Guard or Strong Safety. If there are no players on a specific Depth Chart, the corresponding parent chart is used instead. The Formation Preview will show exactly which players will be assigned to a given formation and how they got there.
In addition to specifying players, each depth chart has substitution settings determining when players are removed from the game or returned to the game due to fatigue.
Coach Preferences
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. However, if a trade is made while a game is still in progress, that change does not take effect until the game is over; you will see the player on your roster and be able to put him on your depth chart but he will not appear in the game in progress.
Injured Reserve
Any player who has been injured and is expected to be out longer than 5 days may be placed on the Injured Reserve list. Players on Injured Reserve do not count for or against the team's roster limits; however, once a player has been moved to the Injured Reserve list, that player is ineligible to play, practice or train with the team for the remainder of the season, including the postseason. Thus, players on Injured Reserve cannot collect Improvement Chances even after their injury has healed.
NOTE: Although Injured Reserve is available in Single Season leagues, its use is not recommended, as the player on Injured Reserve will be unavailable for the rest of the season but his salary will still count against the salary cap.
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.
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
