6. Profile Rules

6a. Universal Requirements & Restrictions:

• Play category usage rule: Every play category used in your game plan must be represented in your profile and it must have more than 0% chance of being used.

• 'Specific' plays: No calling of specific plays is allowed in profiles.
• 'Random' plays: No calling of RANDOM plays is allowed in profiles.
• Audibles: No audibles allowed. Audibles must be unchecked in all profiles.

6b. Offensive COACHING PROFILES requirements:

• Substitution %: In each Offensive profile, the QB substitution % must be set to 75/80. All other positions may be edited freely.

• Category Weights: Regardless of how much time is left in the half, each profile situation must have THREE different offensive play categories, each with some chance of being called. In other words, each category must have a number other than 0 (zero). ONLY exceptions to this rule are when punting and going for field goals.
• Category Usage by Game Situation:
  
  With more than 5 minutes to go in both 1st and 2nd halves.
  What you can call (or cannot call) depending on down and distance:
  (inside DEF 5 means inside the Defense 5 yard line etc.)
  
  DOWN, DISTANCE and ALLOWED CATEGORIES
  
  1st down 0-1yds
  inside DEF 5 RM RL - PSL PML - GLP GLR
  
  1st down 2-5yds
  inside DEF 5 RM RL - PSL PML - GLP GLR
  between 5-5 RM RL - PSL PML
  inside OFF 5 RM RL - PSL PML - GLP GLR
  
  1st down 6-10yds
  between 5-5 RM - PSL PML
  inside OFF 5 RM RL - PSL PML - GLP GLR
  
  1st down 10+yds
  between 5-5 any category
  inside OFF 5 any category
  
  2nd down 0-1yds
  all over the field RM RL - PSM PMM - GLP GLR
  
  2nd down 2-5yds
  inside DEF 5 RM RL - PSM PMM - GLP GLR
  between 5-5 RM RL - PSM PMM
  inside OFF 5 RM RL - PSM PMM - GLP GLR
  
  2nd down 6-10yds
  between 5-5 RM RR - PSM PMM
  inside OFF 5 RM RL RR - PSM PMM - GLP GLR
  
  2nd down 10+yds
  between 5-5 any category
  inside OFF 5 any category
  
  3rd down 0-1yds
  all over the field RM RL - PSR PMR PLR PSL PML PSM PMM - GLP GLR
  
  3rd down 2-5yds
  inside DEF 5 RM RL RR - PSR PMR PLR PSL PML PSM PMM - GLP GLR - PRD
  between 5-5 RM RR - PSR (MANDATORY) PMR PLR PSL PML PSM PMM - GLP GLR - PRD
  inside OFF 5 RM RL RR - PSR PMR PLR PSL PML PSM PMM - GLP GLR - PRD
  
  3rd down 6-10yds
  between 5-5 RM RR - PSR PMR (MANDATORY) PLR PSL PML PSM PMM - GLP GLR - PRD
  inside OFF 5 RM RL RR - PSR PMR PLR PSL PML PSM PMM - GLP GLR - PRD
  
  3rd down 10+yds
  DEF 5 to DEF 35 any category
  DEF 35 to OFF 5 any category, but PLR (MANDATORY)
  inside OFF 5 any category
  
  
  With less than 5 minutes to go in both 1st and 2nd halves.
  Free. You can call whatever you want, whenever you want.

6c. Defensive COACHING PROFILES requirements:

• Substitution %: All defensive position sub % may be edited freely.

• Category Weights: Regardless of how much time is left in the half, each profile situation must have at least TWO different defensive play categories with some chance of a play category being called in each situation. In other words, each category must have a number other than 0 (zero). Exceptions to this rule are when defending against punts or field goals.
• Category Usage by Game Situation:
  
  

With more than 5 minutes to go in both 1st and 2nd halves.
What you can call (or cannot call) depending on down and distance:
(inside DEF 5 means inside the Defense 5 yard line etc.)

DOWN, DISTANCE and ALLOWED CATEGORIES

3rd down 2-5yds

between 5-5 PS (MANDATORY)

3rd down 6-10yds

between 5-5 PM (MANDATORY)

3rd down 10+yds

DEF 35 to OFF 5 PL (MANDATORY)

With less than 5 minutes to go in both 1st and 2nd halves.
Free. You can call whatever you want, whenever you want.

6d. COACHING PROFILE enforcement:

• Potential profile violations of CPU teams: If you discover a profile violation for a CPU team, please report the situation(s) where it impacted game results to the XFBS commissioner so he can investigate. The Commissioner will then investigate the violation and determine if a re-sim is warranted.  Re-sims will only occur if it “Clearly affected the outcome of a game result.” “Clearly affected the outcome of a game result” means the violation resulted in a score, a key first down on a drive leading to a score, or it was used throughout the game for a consistent yardage gain (e.g. used 5 or more times with an average of 10 yards or more). If you lost 31-10 and the potential profile violation was used only once for one big gain late in the 4th, it did not affect the outcome of a game result, so please get over it and move on. If the Commissioner's investigation reveals that the profile violation “Clearly affected the outcome of a game result,” the commissioner will provide a legal replacement of the CPU profile and the game will then be re-simmed. If it did not affect the outcome of the game, the commish will just fix the profile to ensure it won't affect future results.
  
  

• Potential profile violations of owned teams: If you discover a profile violation, please report the situation(s) where it impacted game results to the XFBS commissioner so he can investigate. Confrontational behavior is not appropriate. If you EVER contact the other coach directly about possible profile violations, results will not be changed. The Commissioner will then investigate the violation and determine if a re-sim is warranted.  Re-sims will only occur if it “Clearly affected the outcome of a game result.” If it did not affect the outcome of the game, the offending coach will just receive a warning and will be asked to fix it.  Repeat offenses of profile violations will meet stiff penalties and are at the ultimate discretion of the Commissioner. Additional penalties that will be considered for repeat offenses could include and are not limited to one or a combination of the following:
  • Your team could be placed on probation (i.e. you will not be College Playoff eligible in the current season if you have a winning record)
  • Your team could be placed on profile intervention (i.e. the offending profiles will be replaced permanently with legal CPU profiles provided by the commish and your profile will be locked "as is" for the remainder of the season or a specified number of games).
  • Your team may be placed on scholarship probation (i.e. you will lose one or more rounds of recruitment starting with your first round of recruitment)
  • The player(s) that benefited statistically from the profile violations will be classified as ineligible for the season or a specified number of games.
  • You could be fired if the violation is extremely severe or blatantly intentional or negligently repeated. You will no longer get to coach the team you have - you will be forced to coach the worst CPU team in the league or be allowed to resign from the league in disgrace, never allowed to return.

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