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Chrill
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posted: 2026-03-25 23:24:56 (ID: 100198768) Report Abuse
MacsUltraVideosYT wrote:
What do you mean by that I know you can set a depth chart and playbook and s e l e c t them in game settings but to link those two together???

First off: I don’t know if that’s in any way conducive to being an important factor in RZA, as the title of this thread suggests. It’s just something that I found out about by thinking a lot about a new playbook.

And I’m happy to share. It is a bit nerdy, though:

You know that you can set up your depth chart in a way that certain players play on certain positions at the start of the game, until fatigue sets in and they get rotate in and out to whichever position needs a fresh player. Those starting lineups are set by the players position on the depth chart, on offense first one goes left, second goes right.

It got really interesting when I decided to put a strong HB out-of-position to FB1 for the amount of time I control (will come back to this aspect later). Now I had to dig into the Formations-Section of the Manual to look up the formations I could use with him on either position, especially looking at the way the engine picks the players off the depth chart each play.

This information is then very useful for setting up the playbook, that I now can truly link to the depth chart through chosing the play directions to take advantage of certain players. As I said, though, only for the time I control the flow of the game.

That’s usually the first quarter, after that the substitutions for PC-reasons set in. You can, though, prolong said time of control. First, of course, through making the player „first string“ for the whole game by ticking their box on the depth chart. But the second is an interesting option, too: You can set up the game settings by choosing the quarter you want the substitutions to start. So you can put up the playbook with certain players for certain plays in mind for as long as you want in a game, even without ticking „first string“.

That „discovery“ was a fun one. And was initially triggered by playing against one of the most veteran managers of this game in the Supercup
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posted: 2026-03-25 23:28:54 (ID: 100198769) Report Abuse
Chrill wrote:
MacsUltraVideosYT wrote:
What do you mean by that I know you can set a depth chart and playbook and s e l e c t them in game settings but to link those two together???

First off: I don’t know if that’s in any way conducive to being an important factor in RZA, as the title of this thread suggests. It’s just something that I found out about by thinking a lot about a new playbook.

And I’m happy to share. It is a bit nerdy, though:

You know that you can set up your depth chart in a way that certain players play on certain positions at the start of the game, until fatigue sets in and they get rotate in and out to whichever position needs a fresh player. Those starting lineups are set by the players position on the depth chart, on offense first one goes left, second goes right.

It got really interesting when I decided to put a strong HB out-of-position to FB1 for the amount of time I control (will come back to this aspect later). Now I had to dig into the Formations-Section of the Manual to look up the formations I could use with him on either position, especially looking at the way the engine picks the players off the depth chart each play.

This information is then very useful for setting up the playbook, that I now can truly link to the depth chart through chosing the play directions to take advantage of certain players. As I said, though, only for the time I control the flow of the game.

That’s usually the first quarter, after that the substitutions for PC-reasons set in. You can, though, prolong said time of control. First, of course, through making the player „first string“ for the whole game by ticking their box on the depth chart. But the second is an interesting option, too: You can set up the game settings by choosing the quarter you want the substitutions to start. So you can put up the playbook with certain players for certain plays in mind for as long as you want in a game, even without ticking „first string“.

That „discovery“ was a fun one. And was initially triggered by playing against one of the most veteran managers of this game in the Supercup
so basically you set your players in a certain order in the depth chart and set your playbook in a way where this player will be used for this play based on the formations? interesting...
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