- Patch 2018.1005 Notes (Updated to 1006) - 6 October 2018
Game Fixes (thanks, folks who brought these to my attention!) - Fixed issue with displaying career leaders (players) in a very long career - Fixed Ineligible Man Downfield penalty (now 5 yards, no loss of down) - Fixed display of 3-4, 4-3 preference
- Patch 2018.0923 Notes - 23 September 2018
Added some enhancements: - Now displays name of tackler/sacker (only on new matchups/games) - Added Scout button to more Career screens - Improved AI logic regarding going for two points Any new games you play will display the tackler or sacker.
- New Video - Locating the PSF 2019 folder in Windows and macOS - 17 September 2018
The most difficult part of customizing PSF 2019 is knowing where to put files. This video helps you locate the PSF 2019 data folder. You should watch this video before any videos on sharing images, leagues, etc. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/x0E54dN5YlY
- Patch 2018.0905 Notes - 5 September 2018
I've just released the first update for PSF 2019, based on feedback from users. Update 2018.0905 (Sept 5, 2018) If your career has a problem from the initial version, you should either simulate the entire current season or start with a new career. However, I don't expect you to have any problems. Fixes: - several fixes to Career play when coaching or simulating individual games - now correctly update Career History all the time - now automatically advance to offseason when simulating super bowl - fix display of divisions to vary by conference - fixed OT rules for regular season and playoffs Enhancements: - Can now switch image sets on existing career! - Can now switch image sets on the fly! - Analyze Game now displays Point Spread (desktop versions) - Default End Zones now use all caps on team name and nickname - several cosmetic changes
- Another very nice set of images! - 2 September 2018
Hey, if you want to check out another set of images (VERY nice images!) of actually different fields and end zones per team, here's the link from a fan. The snow and rain fields are quite different than my default ones, but these look GREAT! For now, to switch image sets on a league, you have to "edit" the league and manually type in the name of the image set you want. And you can't change the image set for your career after it's started. I'm working to redesign that, missed that one! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iRPhcy0U5ZhU89rpKC4j_G_q_XDe428l/view
- Calling Plays - 30 August 2018
Someone here asked a great question about calling plays. With PSF you can quickly simulate games or even seasons, and you can even watch a game played out between two computer coaches. But there's incredible power and fun in the coaching side, too! In fact, I love that aspect of football (and because I love playing my brother). Just set the coach to Player 1 or Player 2 (rather than Computer). Now, some caveats. Most important, there are two game levels - Beginner and Expert. Beginner is great fun and fast, but you're basically leaning over to your coordinator and calling "run off tackle" or "throw short" (or "defend inside runs"), and then your coordinator sets the details. But now, if you want full bore control, select Expert. Now you can do something like this: 1) Counter Left 2) with the HB (or FB) 3) from the Pro I (or any of 12 formations) 4) strong right or strong left 5) tap any…
- Real league, real images! - 29 August 2018
Hey, a fan has just given me a link where he's hosting the real league, real csv file, and real images! I think he also has the instructions I shared out! Check it out! https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HfsHZoeqP97V15GktYN21sIpbyMNeYbw If he doesn't have the instructions, my instructions for sharing are here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1U2XTP3acCPxgxdzZi3kJ63dxqpmlg3mC
- Editing, Sharing, and Customizing - 29 August 2018
Because there are two steps involved (how do I edit, and how do I get shared files onto my computer), I wrote two documents. Check out the "Editing Leagues" and "Customizing Leagues" documents here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1U2XTP3acCPxgxdzZi3kJ63dxqpmlg3mC
- Home Field Advantage - 28 August 2018
You can turn this off in Settings, but I wanted to let you know that in PSF, homefield advantage is roughly three points. To test it out, I had the Rams at the Chargers and ran 1000 simulations multiple times, and got either a tie (most often) or a one point spread. Then I switched and had the Chargers visit at the Rams (Rams now have homefield advantage), and each time, the point spread wound up being Rambs by three.
- Analyze Game feature - 28 August 2018
Thanks to a good friend who's great with statistics, I can now provide point spreads in the Analyze Game feature! I'll have that in there in the first Steam update, and let me know of anything else that might be nice from the Analyze Game.
- Tweaking Teams - 26 August 2018
I thought I'd share something I've done recently, so it might spur your own creativity. Editing leagues involves converting to and from CSV files (easily editable in Excel or any spreadsheet editor). league csv file So, I would edit the csv file, which was in the "import_export" folder, tweaking a team or two. Then in the game, I would import the csv file and overwrite the league I was testing. Then I headed to Single Season play and simulated the 2018 season several times (very fast on my desktop!). If I thought something needed tweaking, or if I was just curious (what if I change this team to pass a little more?), I could change the csv file, import, etc. Very fast! Oh, and in career play, you can edit each year's draft pool!
- Customizing PSF 2019 - 26 August 2018
I've implemented Steam Cloud, which is very handy for keeping your customizations and saved games, etc across machines. However, I haven't had time to implement Steam Workshop yet. So, I wanted to briefly explain how you'll customize PSF 2019 within Windows and MacOS. At a high level, it's simply a matter of sharing leagues (binary files) and image sets (folders). Your game has three subfolders under it, and the game will tell you the path when you click on the "Customizing PSF" button. The folders are: leagues (every league there is available to your game, just paste new ones there) import_export (more on that later) images (here is where you'll create subfolders) So, the game will already have leagues 2019_leagues.lgs import_export 2019_leagues.csv images default/ (don't change these, you'll lose your changes) and you might add, say a set of real nfl images and another set of real col…
- PSF default league and images - 14 August 2018
With the csv file and image sets finalized, I've uploaded them to Google Drive, so that people can start creating their own leagues and sets of images. Let me know if you have any problems reaching this. Meanwhile, I know at least one fellow who's working on a full set of real images. When he's done, I think he's going to make them available as well! https://drive.google.com/open?id=1U2XTP3acCPxgxdzZi3kJ63dxqpmlg3mC
- Watch or Coach All Teams now, in Career Play! - 10 August 2018
I finished this feature after creating the video. A lot of people have requested the option to watch or coach all teams and games in career play. I'm happy to say that I've now implemented that! In addition, some folks asked me to improve "watch a simulation" by getting rid of all pausing (penalty screens, injuries, scoring summaries, ends of quarters, etc), and I've done that as well! In addition, you can now change your team's game plan at any point in the season, and can even tweak it for individual games!
