Front Office Football 8 Guide
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Put yourself in the Front Office with Front Office Football, the professional football simulation from Solecismic Software. Manage your roster through trading, free agency and the amateur draft. Create game plans, organize depth charts and watch your franchise thrive for decades. Aug 27, 2017 Front Office Football 8 play through! Thanks for watching! Be sure to like, comment and subscribe! If you have any criticisms be sure to leave that in the comments, I am happy to listen!

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Beginners Guide to Front Office Football by Steam User form_an_opinion

Before Starting This Guide Just a quick mention I want to make before you go on to read the basics - If you have questions about deeper aspects of the game that go beyond this basic guide (and I am sure you will) - A great place to ask those questions is here: Front Office Football Central [www.operationsports.com] This is the message board of the biggest FOF fan site on the internet, and there is a lot of in depth reference material available there already, as well as a group of knowledgeable fans of the game who are always glad to help. GAME SETTINGS One of the first things we should address is the game settings. Click the gear button on the toolbar at the top of the game screen. You will be presented with the following options:

1: View General Manager Records - This is not really a setting as much as it is a list of your best performances as a GM in your history with the game. There are records for single season and career, and a button at the bottom of the screen that allows you to erase the records and start fresh. (Clicking this DOES NOT erase your saved game, just the records you have accumulated).

2: Edit Franchise Nicknames - This is where you can change the team nicknames of all the teams in the game. This is the place to go if you want to rename the teams after their real life counterparts, or if you want to name every team after bodily functions, or whatever else you can come up with.

3: Edit City Affiliations - This option is only available right when you open the game, before you load a league. In here, you can change the city affiliated with each team in the game. This is where you can create a completely new universe of 32 cities of your choice. If you want to have 4 teams each in 8 different states, you can do that. (This may require some additional tweaking via the next option in the single player settings menu).

4: Edit City Names - This is where you can change the names of any of the cities modeled in the game. Unfortunately you cannot change the size of the cities or the weather patterns the city is known for, but you can at least create the illusion of a world wide football league if you so desire. Just take a city like Anchorage, affiliate it with a team via Edit City Affiliations, then change the city name to Yakutsk, and boom - You have a team in Russia.

5: Edit Single Player Options - This is the section of the game settings menu that effects your single player games. Your options are as follows:

A: Hide Results on Schedule Overview Windows - When selected, this will hide your team record and the score of your most recent game from the SIMULATION menu. This is helpful if you wish to view your games in 'Solevision' (which basically amounts to watching your team play.)

B: Coaches Reset Depth Chart Prior To Each Game - When this is turned on, you will have no control over your depth chart week to week aside from declaring active and inactive players. The coaches will set your starters and backups for you.

C: Coaches Reset Game Plan Prior To Each Game - When this is turned on, you will not need to set your game plan week to week. Your coaches will do the game planning for you.

D: Staff Automatically Signs Players To Fill Roster - When this is turned on, your coaches will sign players in the event your roster is undermanned. The coaches will sign enough first year players so that your team can field a 46 man active roster.

E: Add Formation Information to Game Logs - Turn this on to add formation information to game logs. This will require slightly more hard drive space to store the game logs, but if you want this piece of information available to you for whatever reason, this is where you make that happen.

F: Cap Increase Range - This is where you determine how much the cap increases from year to year when the league negotiates a new television contract. If you want a static cap, set both parameters to 0. If you want a widely fluctuating cap, set the first value to 0 and the second value to 100. Every 5 years or so, your league will sign a new television contract and based on the range allowed in this setting, the cap will be designated to increase each year by a set amount.

G: Injury Setting - Set this to 0 for no injuries, set this as high as 400 if you want to simulate a world where everyone has significant body integrity issues. 200 is said to be similar to real life, and 100 is the setting many multi-player leagues use.

H: Combine Accuracy - Set this to 0 to make drafts almost a crap shoot, set it to 100 to make it so that the combine numbers of a potential draftee tell you a lot about the player you are about to draft. At a setting of 100, a guy that runs a 4.3 40 will be fast, almost without fail. A guy who bench presses 35 reps will almost always be strong like an ox, etc.

6: Multi-Player Options - Aside from these options only having an effect on multi-player mode, there is only one new option that needs to be explained, which is the option to save game plan and depth charts on export. What this will do is keep the changes you make to your lineup and game plan when you export your multi-player file to the commissioner. Essentially, this basically acts as a bookmark for any roster or game plan changes you make between stages in a multi-player game.

And now, on with the guide. What follows is a walk through for each step of a season, starting from the beginning of a new game to the start of your second season as GM. Good luck, and enjoy! When you are done reading, feel free to leave comments or suggestions and I will do my best to address them. Pre Season The Beginning

This is where a new game will begin, the first week of the Pre Season. You will be preparing your team for their first foray into battle on the gridiron, and you will need to set lineups, declare inactive players, and possibly sign or release players prior to getting started.

POINTS OF INTEREST

I. On the ROSTER COMMANDS menu, select View Rosters.

Here you can declare inactive players (You may only have 46 active for game day). To quickly declare inactive players, simply right click a player to change their status to inactive. They will be highlighted in green. Right click again to change an inactive player back to active. After declaring inactive players, exit the View Rosters screen and proceed to step 2.

II. On the DEPTH CHART/GAME PLANS menu, you will see an extensive list of options for preparing your starting lineup, game plan, and other strategic elements.

For now, lets just use recommended settings for everything, later you can delve into each option and go more in depth with your game preparation. You will want to click Recommend All Depth Charts, and then Recommend Entire Game Plan. Your team will now be ready for its first week of action.

III . We are ready to simulate a week of the Pre Season. On the SIMULATION menu, select Simulate Games, then select Simulate Week. Once you have done this the week will simulate, after which you may view the game log or the box score for any game simulated by clicking on the box or the log next to the game. You may also right click a game for a quick recap of the top performers and the final score.

IV. For the remaining weeks of the Pre Season, you may need to shuffle your lineup due to any injuries that may have occurred. To do this, go back to the ROSTER COMMANDS menu, select View Rosters. A player that is too injured to play will be highlighted in red. Make any highlighted players inactive, replace them with another player to bring your active roster back to 46, then repeat steps II and III above as necessary until the Pre Season has come to an end.

Now we can move on to part 2 of the guide, the Regular Season.

Regular Season / Playoffs (PLAYOFFS!?) By now you have finished the Pre Season, and it is time to look forward to the games that matter. The Regular Season is here, and if you're lucky/good enough, the Post Season awaits to whittle the survivors down and give the league a champion.

First, before we start simulating, y

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