[FrustratedFinFan]

Well....I can't say I liked that diagram with the QB all alone in the backfield....I prefer keeping a TE in the equation and a RB in the backfield with the QB, similar to most shotgun formations.

Before you start getting addicted to using real football strategy for the electric football game, let me give you some sage advice that I got from Bill Porche....a real veteran of the game!

Bill saw me trying to set up 3-4 defenses and 4-3 defenses.....and not doing too well with them. Bill often put 10 men or more on the line.....and kicked my butt. Bill told me....design your plays and players based on electric football and use what works. Don't worry about simulating the real thing....that won't necessarily work on an EF board.

So...I began using unorthodox formations....stacking receivers, putting 9 or more me on the defensive line of scrimmage, etc....and wow, it works! I started picking player poses and base combos with EF functionality in mind.

Does that mean I have learned it all? Hell no. Other veterans will still school me, but at least now I can hold my own. Am I a great tweaker? Nope, but I sure am a lot better now than I was a couple years ago....and I am always looking to learn new tricks!

That said, don't think the spread isn't a viable offensive scheme for EF...it is. However, start thinking more along the lines of using the way things actually work on the EF game board and then exploiting/using your knowledge of those tabletop physics! Here are the kind of questions to be asking....What happens when bases hit each other? Do they veer off? Do they turn away or bounce? Why? How can I use this to my advantage?? How does all that change if the weight balance of the figure is changed? Why does jacking up a base in the rear seem to provide strength/leverage?