Following up on this. Every year prior to the sim season starting I try to tweak a couple of things with the aim of keeping up to date with our sim results so they look as realistic as possible. With less than 10 days until we do our first sim, won't be a lot of changes but some of the things discussed over this off-season I'll attempt to integrate. One of the items mentioned above is checking our stats vs. NFL to see if we need to tweak the amount of plays or play calling that happens to ensure the best sim results.
Here's the NFL's top 20 passers by yardage.
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Name Team G Comp Att Pct Yds TD Int
Drew Brees NOR 16 468 657 71.2 5476 46 14
Tom Brady NWE 16 401 611 65.6 5235 39 12
Matthew Stafford DET 16 421 663 63.5 5038 41 16
Eli Manning NYG 16 359 589 61 4933 29 16
Aaron Rodgers GNB 15 343 502 68.3 4643 45 6
Philip Rivers SDG 16 366 582 62.9 4624 27 20
Tony Romo DAL 16 346 522 66.3 4184 31 10
Matt Ryan ATL 16 347 566 61.3 4177 29 12
Ben Roethlisberger PIT 15 324 513 63.2 4077 21 14
Cam Newton CAR 16 310 517 60 4051 21 17
Ryan Fitzpatrick BUF 16 353 569 62 3832 24 23
Joe Flacco BAL 16 312 542 57.6 3610 20 12
Josh Freeman TAM 15 346 551 62.8 3592 16 22
Matt Hasselbeck TEN 16 319 518 61.6 3571 18 14
Mark Sanchez NYJ 16 308 543 56.7 3474 26 18
Andy Dalton CIN 16 300 516 58.1 3398 20 13
Michael Vick PHI 13 253 423 59.8 3303 18 14
Rex Grossman WAS 13 265 458 57.9 3151 16 20
Alex Smith SFO 16 273 445 61.3 3144 17 5
Tarvaris Jackson SEA 15 271 450 60.2 3091 14 13
Here's AFFL:
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1. 4,871 - Brees, Drew (SD) 411-for-555 4,871 yds 46/7
2. 4,527 - Brady, Tom (NE) 397-for-632 4,527 yds 32/10
3. 4,518 - Romo, Tony (MIA) 365-for-553 4,518 yds 31/9
4. 4,496 - Ryan, Matt (JAC) 426-for-681 4,496 yds 21/13
5. 4,351 - Stafford, Matthew (DET) 294-for-490 4,351 yds 42/12
6. 4,271 - Sanchez, Mark (KC) 409-for-645 4,271 yds 25/15
7. 4,180 - Rodgers, Aaron (ARI) 353-for-512 4,180 yds 37/2
8. 3,940 - Flacco, Joe (DAL) 337-for-490 3,940 yds 30/10
9. 3,881 - Rivers, Philip (GB) 330-for-474 3,881 yds 28/12
10. 3,836 - Roethlisberger, Ben (PHI) 354-for-516 3,836 yds 22/12
11. 3,809 - Hasselbeck, Matt (CHI) 339-for-516 3,809 yds 20/13
12. 3,777 - Grossman, Rex (SEA) 368-for-672 3,777 yds 19/21
13. 3,337 - Manning, Eli (STL) 284-for-535 3,337 yds 21/11
14. 3,259 - Vick, Michael (IND) 290-for-494 3,259 yds 19/15
15. 3,132 - Smith, Alex (SF) 274-for-473 3,132 yds 16/5
16. 3,096 - Moore, Matt (TB) 286-for-572 3,096 yds 11/19
17. 3,056 - Freeman, Josh (MIN) 307-for-492 3,056 yds 15/18
18. 2,954 - McCoy, Colt (BUF) 293-for-507 2,954 yds 17/9
19. 2,636 - Newton, Cam (CLE) 231-for-449 2,636 yds 14/14
20. 2,581 - Fitzpatrick, Ryan (NO) 239-for-471 2,581 yds 19/19
CFFL:
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1. 4,938 - Rodgers, Aaron (GB) 418-for-606 4,938 yds 39/8
2. 4,262 - Rivers, Philip (WAS) 333-for-484 4,262 yds 25/14
3. 4,234 - Brady, Tom (NE) 334-for-461 4,234 yds 40/5
4. 4,148 - Ryan, Matt (DET) 348-for-466 4,148 yds 36/7
5. 4,118 - Brees, Drew (NO) 366-for-457 4,118 yds 46/10
6. 4,076 - Manning, Eli (PHI) 304-for-502 4,076 yds 31/12
7. 3,987 - Romo, Tony (KC) 361-for-560 3,987 yds 23/7
8. 3,759 - Roethlisberger, Ben (PIT) 327-for-550 3,759 yds 20/14
9. 3,653 - Dalton, Andy (NYJ) 369-for-646 3,653 yds 17/14
10. 3,538 - Flacco, Joe (SF) 268-for-462 3,538 yds 21/8
11. 3,377 - Sanchez, Mark (BAL) 315-for-527 3,377 yds 22/17
12. 3,324 - Stafford, Matthew (OAK) 330-for-538 3,324 yds 19/14
13. 3,309 - Fitzpatrick, Ryan (CIN) 290-for-549 3,309 yds 16/18
14. 3,111 - Freeman, Josh (TEN) 280-for-439 3,111 yds 15/18
15. 3,042 - Vick, Michael (NYG) 265-for-464 3,042 yds 20/13
16. 3,025 - Newton, Cam (JAC) 261-for-467 3,025 yds 15/15
17. 3,022 - Cutler, Jay (SD) 278-for-427 3,022 yds 17/8
18. 2,491 - McCoy, Colt (MIA) 253-for-499 2,491 yds 6/12
19. 2,437 - Schaub, Matt (HOU) 196-for-325 2,437 yds 16/6
20. 2,398 - Hasselbeck, Matt (MIN) 228-for-414 2,398 yds 10/15
DFFL:
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1. 5,051 - Rodgers, Aaron (SD) 408-for-528 5,051 yds 47/5
2. 4,745 - Brees, Drew (CLE) 385-for-522 4,745 yds 51/10
3. 4,728 - Stafford, Matthew (KC) 396-for-525 4,728 yds 46/11
4. 4,135 - Manning, Eli (CHI) 311-for-513 4,135 yds 26/14
5. 4,110 - Newton, Cam (OAK) 373-for-571 4,110 yds 19/15
6. 4,086 - Romo, Tony (GB) 365-for-533 4,086 yds 26/8
7. 4,022 - Ryan, Matt (ATL) 345-for-530 4,022 yds 26/8
8. 3,897 - Sanchez, Mark (DEN) 387-for-595 3,897 yds 22/15
9. 3,716 - Flacco, Joe (BAL) 317-for-546 3,716 yds 24/9
10. 3,694 - Dalton, Andy (NE) 324-for-521 3,694 yds 22/11
11. 3,641 - Brady, Tom (NYG) 315-for-466 3,641 yds 29/6
12. 3,521 - Freeman, Josh (CAR) 370-for-604 3,521 yds 16/21
13. 3,417 - Rivers, Philip (DAL) 281-for-496 3,417 yds 20/20
14. 3,409 - Roethlisberger, Ben (PIT) 315-for-586 3,409 yds 19/19
15. 3,408 - Hasselbeck, Matt (SF) 273-for-394 3,408 yds 29/7
16. 2,895 - Vick, Michael (TB) 250-for-407 2,895 yds 17/10
17. 2,659 - Orton, Kyle (NYJ) 271-for-543 2,659 yds 8/15
18. 2,455 - McCoy, Colt (MIA) 213-for-459 2,455 yds 12/13
19. 2,411 - McNabb, Donovan (TEN) 237-for-492 2,411 yds 7/12
20. 2,343 - Kolb, Kevin (WAS) 209-for-327 2,343 yds 13/8
We only had 1 5K passer across all the leagues (3 in NFL) and about 30% less 4K passers.
One of the things mentioned above is not leaning so heavily to the conservative setting in the play calling scripts to force run, run, run while ahead in the second half quite as much. We may also look at scaling down the time range between plays if finding not enough offense production in sim within the amount of plays run against the clock.
I'll post some others, but before I dig into the game simulator a bit again prior to our sim season, this is a good place to post things. We won't have major changes, so you can suggest them for posterity, but it'll mostly be small tweaks aimed at improved game stat results comparable to reality.