Let the Players Play!
 

Comrads:

There is an ongoining controversy in our sport about moving players and board stoppages.

I firmly believe that the figures should play the game without the interruption of coaches.

1) It is unrealistic
2) It makes for long boring contests

I say base up the men, know their tendencies, cut on the board and let their tendencies take over --just as in true football.

Board stoppages and turning players who are in no position to make a play seems ludicrous to me.

Let the players play.

Carpe Diem,
Paul Leslie Gardner

hmmmmm
 

i have read all the posts between the guys getting technical, intricate and complex in their strategy talk, strategy play, and even strategy vocabulary.
Dont get me wrong, i agreed with alot of it and do encourage different ways to play for different people who enjoy it.

but then i read this,:rtfl: and it makes so much sense and is so simplistic.thmbsp$ thmbsp$ thmbsp$ thmbsp$ thmbsp$ thmbsp$ thmbsp$

Let the players play. ppls$ ppls$

Thanks Paul,

a refreshing view of the old way that is still good today.

You know...
 

I would say that the way we play in the CNYEFL is very close to what Tudorian and Downs support here - with the exception of stopping to pass.

The way I see it is this, you have two camps, the electric football purist and the football simulation guys.

You can do them both with the same exact equipment, yet the play styles are totally different. Neither of them is wrong, they are just vastly different.

The majority of us are electric football purists, we take the game we all loved as kids, but play it as we wished we could have done 30 years ago. Due to the new equipment and 30 years of well known tweaking techniques we are able to do this. Even though the electric football purists utilize a variety of rule sets, they are still playing the game as it was designed to be played.

The other camp wants to use the new fields, players, bases, tweaking techniques, the exact same equipment the purists use, but in a different manner, they wish to truly simulate the ever evolving second by second, real life football play with multiple stoppages allowing the figures to act intelligently.

This is interesting, it really is, I am a purist at heart, I play the game I loved as a kid using modified Shootout rules, to each his own.

Keep in mind they are vastly different styles. The one thing I believe that causes such a stir is that the football simulation guys seem to talk down to the purists, and it comes across on about every post they make that their way is the only way.

I know that is not the intention, but that is the take away, thus you have two camps at war.

I created a thread about accidently discovering the MPFL style of play while testing some linemen, it was quite interesting.

It's all good as long as MF is being played.

Well stated
 

thmbsp$ thmbsp$ Gotcha! thmbsp$ thmbsp$

It's All Electric Football
 

The way that I see it, it's not about how we play; it's what we play. Outsiders see us all as the same group.

Maurice

The Electric Coach

Purist!
 

Comrads:

Excellent term that I use frequently.

1) This game is played in many forms

2) All should be acceptable, although they may not be palatable

3) MFCA, the major EF/MF organization should come up with
uniform rules for both styles of play. (There is power in unity and conformity. Ask the Mafia about it. :)

Carpe Diem,
Paul Leslie Gardner

Yep, what he said. :D

I can hear the little plastic men chanting now.....

LET THE PLAYERS PLAY, LET THE PLAYERS PLAY, LET THE PLAYERS PLAY! :D

Ii UNDERSTAND