Sportsmanship Auto Injury

[PowerofRed25]

At first I thought this was a coincidence, but after seeing it a few times now, I am convinced the game is coded to automatically injure a key player who is running up statistics and getting -50 or -100 on the idiotic "sportsmanship" system.

First it happened with Taylor Martinez at Nebraska. I had him in late in a blow out and he broke his arm on a seemingly minor tackle. Lost him for the season. I had just scored a defensive TD to really put the game out of reach and hadn't even thought about removing him, very first play, he was gone.

Next it happened with Bryant Moniz at Hawai'i. He was in the game in a blow out, still throwing the ball because I am Hawai'i and that is our running game too. He gets hit AFTER releasing a pass (should be roughing the passer, if they called it) and he is now out two weeks.

Another time it happened to a recruited player at quarterback. He was in in a blowout because my other 2 QB's were being redshirted and he was the only active QB on the roster. I only lost him for two weeks, but it forced me to burn a redshirt of one of the other QB's 10 weeks into the season.

At this point, I am convinced that if you reach a certain score and do anything against sportsmanship rules, the CPU gives a key player an injury risk boost to make you think twice.

It has been a QB all 3 times though. We all know only QB's and HB's get hurt with any consistency, but come on, this is ridiculous. They are barely getting hurt, I'm not taking any risks with them, quick passes and the occasional speed or read option.

[CleverDevil45]

Totally agree. Ive always said that the CPU doesnt like being shown up. Ive had situations like yours: if you are up big and the CPU believes you should pull a key player/not stat pad and you dont, they will get injured. Buddy of mine in our OD played texas and was shutting them out. Once he got to a certain point total, they racked off two quick 90+ td runs to keep it close/ruin his shut out. Lesson: dont try to show up the CPU, it will come back to bite you

[lhinds7]

Yeah I've noticed this too. Stupid turnovers seem to happen more often as well.

[nortobc]

Quote: Originally Posted by CleverDevil45

Totally agree. Ive always said that the CPU doesnt like being shown up. Ive had situations like yours: if you are up big and the CPU believes you should pull a key player/not stat pad and you dont, they will get injured. Buddy of mine in our OD played texas and was shutting them out. Once he got to a certain point total, they racked off two quick 90+ td runs to keep it close/ruin his shut out. Lesson: dont try to show up the CPU, it will come back to bite you

This pisses me off too. I was up on the CPU last night 40-0 late in the 4th quarter. Then, all of a sudden, the CPU players all turned into super man. I blitzed and was in the back field within a second of the ball being snapped, and the QB would roll right, throw off his back foot across the field to a wide open WR, whose CB guarding him was just standing still, even though all game he was on him like white on rice. Then the WR catches the ball and breaks 3 tackles and sprints for a TD. This is to a far superior team, whose players weren't even close to as good as they were on that play. This happens on EVERY GAME. No matter how bad a team is, on one drive late in the game, they are going to score a TD.

[psychicDB]

That's BS. This AI is so awful it's embarassing. Then it tries to compensate for sucking by simply cheating. If a CPU is getting blown out it shouldn't start cheating just to make up for it.

[PowerofRed25]

Quote: Originally Posted by CleverDevil45

Totally agree. Ive always said that the CPU doesnt like being shown up. Ive had situations like yours: if you are up big and the CPU believes you should pull a key player/not stat pad and you dont, they will get injured. Buddy of mine in our OD played texas and was shutting them out. Once he got to a certain point total, they racked off two quick 90+ td runs to keep it close/ruin his shut out. Lesson: dont try to show up the CPU, it will come back to bite you

I had that too, actually in the very same game as Moniz getting hurt. The CPU decided it didn't like the way things were going down and broke off a 99 yard touchdown run after I pinned them deep. It was INTO a blitz, he broke a tackle, did a juke and somehow out ran everyone. Following drive, it was a long pass play where my defense suspiciously didn't react for about 2 seconds on a streak and the WR flew right by.

To that point in the game, they had been about 1-7 on 3rd down and only had 2 first downs total. Then two really quick TDs.

On the flip side, once I was up big and still throwing, again, because I'm Hawai'i and that's what we do... my throws started flying all over the place as if I took an accuracy penalty for scoring so many points, despite every single player on my offense being yellow and red on the coach view.

Shady things are going down in those types of games. I like to think that wouldn't be coded in the game, but knowing this game as I do, it wouldn't surprise me one bit.