Practice Routine?

[Liquid Bricks]

I am wanting to improve my game in every area, play calling, running, passing, defense , the works. I have been trying to go and do some things is in practice mode but I just feel like I am not getting much accomplished because I really dont have a practice routine or schedule.

Does anyone have a "Practice routine" or "Practice Schedule" that you have done or are doing that has improved your gameplay? Offense or Defense. Do you practice say, so many running plays, passing plays, defense etc. ? If so how? In what order ? etc. :confused: any feedback would be a great help. Thanks

[TheTdMaker]

Liquid go to http://www.westcoastoffense.com/ and click on the links PRACTICE PLANNING AND GAME PLANNING and IMPLEMENTING AND PRACTICING AN OFFENSIVE GAME PLAN. These to links will give you a great starting and finishing point. Good Luck!

[K Freeman]

I usually pick one offensive formation a day. For example I normal. Then I go through all of the plays and see how the routes work with each other to see if the play is worth calling. Every play has a purpose and I think some times the guys at EA just make up plays just b/c it looks good on paper, totally disregarding a decent purpose. I will stop on the poor play design conversation b/c it is talked about in another post :eek: . So after I have found the plays that I like, I run them against the defense that they are designed to beat and monitor my progress. This requires an understanding of defensive coverages. Then I go and pick random formation defense that matches up with my personel and practice. For example. I would pick the 4-3 or 3-4 random defense to go against the I normal. Once I feel comfortable working against those, I run my I normal against the random selection for all of the defenses. So now I have run my formation against all of the possible defenses. So when my opponent comes out in a formation that I have had trouble with, I can make adjustments. I do the same thing on defense. I just play defense against my offensive playbook. This allows me to practice up on the play calling and it also allows me to see if the computer can find holes in my defense. If the computer does find holes ( and it usually does) I make note of this b/c it gives me more info on the coverages that the offensive play can beat. I do this for all the formation and it takes me about month. Then I apply it to the game. I still play games in the mean time. On another note, this worked well in Madden b/c after I practiced a formation I would go into the 2 min drill and just use that formation to see how I would do. :cool:

[GaryGuanine]

I do something very similar to K_Freeman. I pick a spread (4 WR) formation and practice a play against straight up Dime Cover 2. Then I practice it against Dime Cover 3. Then I practice it against Cover 2 Man. After I've gotten my routines down for attacking different coverages, I practice it against a random Dime defense, identifying the coverages as early as possible. I try motion, and I make sure that if motion is necessary to open something up in one coverage, I can still run it against the others.

Gary

[jville]

I usually pick one offensive formation a day. For example I normal. Then I go through all of the plays and see how the routes work with each other to see if the play is worth calling. Every play has a purpose and I think some times the guys at EA just make up plays just b/c it looks good on paper, totally disregarding a decent purpose. I will stop on the poor play design conversation b/c it is talked about in another post :eek: . So after I have found the plays that I like, I run them against the defense that they are designed to beat and monitor my progress. This requires an understanding of defensive coverages. Then I go and pick random formation defense that matches up with my personel and practice. For example. I would pick the 4-3 or 3-4 random defense to go against the I normal. Once I feel comfortable working against those, I run my I normal against the random selection for all of the defenses. So now I have run my formation against all of the possible defenses. So when my opponent comes out in a formation that I have had trouble with, I can make adjustments. I do the same thing on defense. I just play defense against my offensive playbook. This allows me to practice up on the play calling and it also allows me to see if the computer can find holes in my defense. If the computer does find holes ( and it usually does) I make note of this b/c it gives me more info on the coverages that the offensive play can beat. I do this for all the formation and it takes me about month. Then I apply it to the game. I still play games in the mean time. On another note, this worked well in Madden b/c after I practiced a formation I would go into the 2 min drill and just use that formation to see how I would do. :cool:



OK so how many plays do you use a game and have you used all of them in practice. And if this is the case how do you remember the in and outs of all those plays through the differen't coverages.

[djwill13]

first of all pick a playbook lol sounds easier than it actually is lol. second pick one formation as has been suggested. find your comfort zone, those are plays that you can use and are confident using them. once you figure out how those work, progress to other plays within the formation. that's how i've come to like the offense i run. i try to add at least 2-3 new plays a game until i can run almost anything consistantly

learning the ins and outs of coverages comes from knowing what the coverages are designed to stop. you must also learn how to read the d presanp and postsnap. what i do is look for the shortest route (especially when i know a blitz is coming). if he's not open, look to the 2nd shortest route. i usually have time to make 2-3 reads before i run outta time (post snap)

hope that helps

[Liquid Bricks]

All great posts guys , Thanks.

[Farmer]

First off I pick my PB, then once the practice session has loaded up, I put the AI on Heisman. I basically pick 4 teams to go up against and those are the teams with the highest rated defenses.

Next I do like the others have suggested, and pick a formation and a play and run it against a defensive formation that I think my opponent would choose to combat it. I run the play several times and try and see what's open, what's not, how the front is attacking, etc..... after that, then I start looking at the best way to attack or counter what's going on.


But I really would suggest putting the AI on Heisman as it will help you read, react, and adjust much quicker.


-Farmer