OFFENSE DIALOG
The Offense Dialog lets
you view and rearrange your starting offensive team, and the other
offensive players on your team.
Hint: In order to fool
the defense, it is important to have a variety of offensive threats
on the field. A team with a superstar running back but no passing
game will not have great success running the ball, because the defense
will be able to shift their focus to protect against the run. This
is true for all aspects of your game. For example, if your QB is
underperforming compared to his Scouting
Report, make sure you have quality receivers and offensive linemen.
INTERFACE
Use the Move Up and Move
Down buttons to position highlighted players on your starting offensive
team.
The Release button is
used to eliminate players from your team that you don't need. Because
Football Mogul contracts are not guaranteed, there is no cost to
releasing a player. If, however, you paid a signing bonus in hiring
a player, that money has already been spent and cannot be recouped.
The Auto-Sort button
asks the computer's artificially intelligent coach to sort your
offensive players for you. This will pick the best player's for the 11 starting
offensive positions, and sort the bench by skill and by position.
Even if you disagree with the choices the computer makes regarding
player talent, this is still a useful tools for organizing your
team and grouping all player's of the same position so that they
can be easily compared to each other.
To replace a starting
player with a bench player, select both players and click the Swap button.
HOW PLAYERS ARE USED
In Football Mogul, the
order of players on your bench is only important in relation
to other players of the same position. When the computer runs
a play that requires players from beyond your chosen starting teams,
it picks by position in the order shown.
Example:
On third down and long, the computer coach is much more likely
to choose passing formations such as the Run and Shoot. This
formation uses 4 WR, 0 TE, and 1 RB. So the computer looks at
your roster and picks the first uninjured RB (listed right after
the QB), and the first four uninjured WR (the two in your starting
11, plus the first two it finds on the bench). It doesn't matter
whether these #3 and #4 receivers are listed at the top of your
bench or near the bottom, as long as they are the first two
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Football Mogul simulates each play using all players on the field. So if you have 4 excellent WRs, you will have more offensive weapons
than the average team on passing downs, and will have greater success. A great QB and WR combo will not fully realize their potential until you surround them with a talented supporting cast.
Click
here for more information on the various formations used in
Football Mogul.
POSITION DESIGNATIONS
Because formations pick a number of players from each position, a player's listed position is actually more important than how the players are organized on the Offense Dialog.
For example, if you want a Guard to play as your Left Tackle, you cannot simply put the player in the spot labeled "LT" in your starting offense like this:
In the above example, you would need to change Russ Hochstein's position to "Tackle" for the game to put him at Left Tackle in your offensive formations. To change a player's position, click his position in his Scouting Report.
DATA DISPLAY
P = The player's position.
Each player in Football Mogul has one primary position. To change
a player's position, click on the player's position in his Scouting Report.
The abbreviations for
positions are shown below:
OFFENSE |
DEFENSE |
SPECIAL TEAMS |
QB: Quarterback |
DE: Defensive End |
K: Kicker |
RB: Running Back |
DT: Defensive Tackle |
P: Punter |
FB: Fullback |
LB: Linebacker |
KR: Kick Returner |
WR: Wide Receiver |
CB: Cornerback |
PR: Punt Returner |
TE: Tight End |
S: Safety |
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T: Tackle |
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G: Guard |
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C: Center |
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You can view each year's
stats and career-to-date totals for each player on your roster.
Select a differenct team to see the rosters and statistics for your
opposition.
At
the end of the season, the names of players whose contracts
are about to expire are shown in parentheses. This is to help
you pick out the players whose contracts you wish to renegotiate,
and those who you wish to release to the free agent pool. |
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