How do you set up your Online Dynasty with your friends?

[iverson3]

We are all in the same conference and all gotten pretty good at the game. There are 5 of us. It’ll be impossible for us to all get to the CFB playoff and I was thinking maybe we should all be in separate conferences and try that out? Idk. It is also fun playing each other but stinks when we are all pretty darn good and only one or two can compete for a title. What do you all do?

[brent3419]

In my online dynasty, we play in different conferences. Usually the only times we play each other is if we cross in bowls or on the recruiting trail

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[Orange Krush]

My dynasty has 10 of us broken down into 2 conferences of 5 each. We relegate one user. We play 9 user games and 3 cpu games. What’s the point of being in a dynasty with your friends if you’re not going to schedule each other?

[jello1717]

I don’t play OD in ‘25 but I played year long ODs in every version of NCAA that had it and we were always either all 12 in the same conference or plat 6 and 6 in 2 conferences because [emoji3596]

Quote: Originally Posted by Orange Krush

What’s the point of being in a dynasty with your friends if you’re not going to schedule each other?

In ‘25 knowing that you all won’t make the playoffs would make it even better as every user v user game would mean more, knowing it could decide if your in or out of the playoffs.

[DLev4552]

Quote: Originally Posted by iverson3

We are all in the same conference and all gotten pretty good at the game. There are 5 of us. It’ll be impossible for us to all get to the CFB playoff and I was thinking maybe we should all be in separate conferences and try that out? Idk. It is also fun playing each other but stinks when we are all pretty darn good and only one or two can compete for a title. What do you all do?

We were debating this very thing in my Online Dynasty this morning. Really there are 2 schools of thought with pros and cons to each.

1. Stack the users in 1 or 2 conferences with lots of regular season user games:

Pros:

• Regular season games mean more.
• Lots of user games, which is the life blood of an online dynasty.
• Winning the Conference Championship and/or making it to the playoff is actually an accomplishment.

Cons:

• Regular season takes longer because you have to work around people's schedules IRL.
• Guarantees a lot of regular season user losses.
• The CFP and bowl season become a lot less exciting if only 2 out of 12 users make the playoff.
• Higher attrition from the lesser talented users from season-to-season. People get tired of going 4-8 to 7-5 every year because they can't get past the dynasty's top tier users.

2. Spread the users out and minimize regular season user games to maximize interaction in the CFP.

Pros:

• Regular season goes by faster because most games are against the CPU and you don't have to work around IRL schedules.
• Getting 6 or 7 users in the CFP instead of 2 or 3, making the CFP more fun and higher stakes.
• Lesser talented players are more engaged by getting into the playoff regularly, even if they get creamed when they get there.

Cons:

• Regular season is a lot less exciting.
• Conference titles and making the CFP isn't that big of an accomplishment.
• All the user teams become 4 and 5 star prestige juggernauts very quickly if everyone has 9+ win seasons every year without beating up on each other, which isn't very realistic.

[eric7064]

In mine we all start in the same conference (Only 3 of us) and then we let the Dynasty take us where we go. BUT I make sure to always schedule us against each other every year, so we still get to play each other.

[DLev4552]

Quote: Originally Posted by iverson3

We are all in the same conference and all gotten pretty good at the game. There are 5 of us. It’ll be impossible for us to all get to the CFB playoff and I was thinking maybe we should all be in separate conferences and try that out? Idk. It is also fun playing each other but stinks when we are all pretty darn good and only one or two can compete for a title. What do you all do?

With only 5 users, it would be pretty easy to put you into 2 separate conferences and then schedule each other in non-con if your goal is to meet up in the playoffs.

Someone could lose every user game and be 8-4 and still have a chance to make both their CCG and the CFP.

[ChaseB]

We worry less about all getting into the same conference (though we have done that!) and more about trying to schedule each other however possible.