Uh, Yeah...This is a Shade Screwy

EA, please fix this.
Just for me.
Do it for me.
I'd do it for you.

The second test sim using the 2008 teams ended up in some ways better and in some ways much worse than the first. I am simming 2009 as I type this.

The notables:

Todd Boeckman set OSU passing records for yards (3400) TD (33) and fewest INTs ...thad' be ONE. Yep, Todd had a 33-1 season, marched his team to the National Title and STILL didn't win the Heisman.

That would be 43 TD 2 INT Tim Tebow.

Red Alert. Red Alert.

Wasn't this fixed last year? Did EA just decide to use old code? WTF?

The good news is that the rushing stats were much BETTER. Yards are again low (1675 lead the nation) but fewer 7+ YPC backs.

Other oddities:

Animal Jr. was the leader (for OSU) in tackles for the season. With 45. How is that even possible?
The B10 leader in tackles was the MLB out of Minnesota..he had 85.

Chris Wells lead OSU with 1245 yards with Saine getting 894. Wells won every HB award that the game carries. The game also had Beanie returning kicks and punts. He is Iron man,m apparently.

A top 25 nightmare for the BCS.

UGA, OSU, OKL, BYU and Boise State all go undefeated. BYU, somehow, gets 2 first place votes.

Mormons.

UL Lafayette goes 11-1 and is ranked #17?
VTech runs a 12-1 season and is #12? At 12-1?

I also noticed another old (and I thought fixed) sim issue -- very high scores. Most games are in the 30s, 40s, and 50s with games with both teams in the teens or 20s pretty damn rare. Fact is, the defenses (let's focus on pass defense) in the simmed games are absolutely useless which bears out the crazy QB stats.

So we're back to the burning question: does this matter to you? Do you play your games in a vacuum and not look around the league or care about league stats and possible ranking bugaboos? I know a lot of you don't, which is fine. But for a guy like me that really gets into delving into the guts of the Dynasty, this is a huge deal. And I know for a fact it'll be a big deal with our Online Dynasty players. This is really the first Three Alarm Fire I have seen in the game thus far. Weird thing is, wasn't this all fixed last year?

Some good news--Pastapadre's rosters are free inside the EA Locker. Totally free and you can snag 'em in 10 seconds. Awesome.