This version includes rosters and player ratings for opening weekend of the 2015-2016 season.
Features
- Start in any season from 1970 to 2015
- Rosters for every year since the AFL-NFL merger
- Play-by-play describes each play as it happens
- Box scores and play-by-play files created for each game
- Detailed play designer
- 22 offensive formations: 3rd down packages, wildcat, etc.
- 17 defensive formations: nickel, dime, prevent, 33 stack, 52, etc.
- View detailed results for each play in your playbook:
- Versus each type of defense
- In each down-and-distance situation
- Realistic player development and aging
- Play up to 100 seasons into the future
- Automatically loads files from previous versions
- and more...
New Features
- Updated team rosters for 2015-2016 season
- Accurate 65-man rosters, updated for opening weekend.
- More realistic simulation
- New ratings-based simulation, with 26 new ratings for each player.
- New Scouting Report and Player Rating Editor.
- New option to build an offense without a fullback.
- New stats and ratings for over 2,800 active players
- Updated year-by-year stats for every player
- Hand-edited ratings for over 1500 players
- More than 400 new players
- Includes all 2014 draftees, plus undrafted free agents
- More than 600 new player photos (1,425 total)
- Exact season schedule for every season from 2001 through 2014
- Accurate scheduling algorithm for all future seasons (2014 and beyond):
- Includes correct interdivision and interleague matchups according to NFL rules
- Plus realistic schedule options going back to 1972
Additional Features
Forty years of historical accuracy
- Historical rookies loaded for each college draft class
- Correct schedule and playoff format for each season
- Enable or disable overtime (which was added in 1974)
- Additional league editing options, like the number of wild card teams
Hotseat play
- Two players can compete head-to-head using the same computer
- Keyboard shortcuts for in-game playcalling (so you don't have to fight over the mouse)
Support for online play
- Schedule generation for shorter seasons (as few as 4 games)
- Schedule generation for custom league configuration -- even for an odd number of teams
- Fantasy drafts with more than one human-controlled team
- "Import Playbooks" feature lets you quickly load playbooks designed by each team's owner
Strategic options
- Set your team to run a '3-4' or '4-3' defense
- Build your offense with or without a fullback
- Adjust the run/pass balance of your offense
- Fine tune your game plan by customing your playbook
- Advanced playbook editor
- Easy interface lets you quickly edit existing plays or build a playbook from scratch
- Editable folder names and play names
- Load and save playbooks for use against different opponents, or to share online
- Playbook tracks the success of each play in a variety of offensive and defensive situations
- Supports custom offensive and defensive playbooks for every single historical team
- You can even redesign plays in the middle of a game
