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Penalties when Winning

By setherick

10/17/2016 6:33 am

Is there code that jacks up the number of penalties to keep a game artificially close.

Here's the latest example. I beat my last opponent in MFN-75 by a score of 49-19, but the game wasn't that close: https://private75.myfootballnow.com/gamecenter/view/216#42198

I respect all of my opponents in 75, but my defense was completely in Mistborn's game plan.

If you look at the game log, my opponent had more first downs than I did. The reason being my team gave up 7 first downs on penalties (most of them defensive holding penalties).

I've noticed that my teams end up having a lot of penalties and that the number of penalties increases with the size of my lead in a game. Are these things merely coincidental? If so, can someone tell me how to get this coincidence to work in real life in my favor?

Re: Penalties when Winning

By jdavidbakr - Site Admin

10/17/2016 8:26 am

No, there is no code that changes anything to give a losing team any advantage in their attributes. The only thing that changes is hurry up/slow down logic which of course you have control over.