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you'll also need a photo timing machine, to control the board on/off, because you'll not be able to fairly watch the clock and play the same time, I'm speaking about gaming situation without a referee of course.


I don't know the real name of the device for but I believe Weirdwolf is using one. thmbsp$

Honestly we aren't too worried about the exact timing. Especially since it will just be a couple of us.

But it would come in handy if we eventually got additional players and formed a real legaue.

You'll see if you like it or not. You can see that everyone here is always talking about rules :D

Of course because of yesterday our rules ideas will have to be adjusted probably.

A young buddy of mine said to heck with it, and we went out and bought everything to make a monster board on a budget. I'll share pics and info soon!

Not complete yet, but we basically went shopping at 10:30am and by 11pm we had the board basically running. ******** thing is huge LOL

I think it's time to suscribe to MFCA, my friend :D

LOL well if we actually get a game in and enjoy it I certainly will be ;)

You're planning to build a monster board, so ? real scale ?

Just caught up on this thread. You will find that 2 stoppages is plenty once you get the feel for what your players do and especially if the bases are tweaked. Most leagues have some form of stoppage either behind the LOS (line of scrimmage) or after 10 yards on certain plays.

The MPFL uses multiple stoppages and has a great system worked out, but to get the rules i think you have to purchase the DVD Anthony offers. It is very nicely produced. It was often very hotly debated on here and has a following that enjoy the multi-stop way of playing.
http://www.mpflfootball.com/

Well I don't know what 'real scale' is. but the board is 65"x32" so we'll do 2" = 5 yards.

It's pretty much built right now. We burned up a rheostat on our first wiring try, which we will chalk up to user error! :rtfl:

So I'll be picking up a new one today, and we discovered that the one counterweight was about 1mm too long and needs to be trimmed. not a big issue. But other than those issues it's pretty much going as well as could be hoped.

Stoppage does not mean more fun for sure. It depands how you want to play the game. Playing fast counting on tweaking, playing 4hours games with multistoppages, etc... it's all a matter of taste.

Personally I like fast gaming, but simply don't like random events and "action" part of the game. I prefer to keep the game strictly a coaching game.