[quoted42ad1c="Fonzie"][quoted42ad1c="Cheesehead Craig"] Amazing how the same gameplans can give 2 radically different results.[/quoted42ad1c]
Indeed it is. Early in my MP life I spent some time testing gameplans in SP, running the same gameplan 20+ times against the same opponent to see how it would work. The averages resulting from those tests provided some useful information, but the variance from sim-to-sim was amazing.[/quoted42ad1c]
Ditto.
And that make perfect sense to me. Two games is no way to judge whether a particular 'system' or method is good or not. The right game plan can fall flat on its face and look stupid one, two, three times in a row, but then win the next nine. You can't panic too much in FOF.
It's poker. It really is. I think of a season as a poker tournament. A 'smart' play can still get a bad beat and lose... it's pretty random if you look at one or two games. Duh. It's kind of supposed to be.
Over time, the right systems, playing the pot odds properly for example, pay off. The whole idea of pot odds is a big picture, larger sample strategy, anyway, and not so much a game-by-game strategy.
SP lets you see the big picture stuff a little easier. It also, if you call some plays, get a good sense of endurance, and the percentages of what kinds of routes certain receivers will run. Things like that. You don't have to do it to be a good GM, but I think it helps a little.
I haven't done it in years and only did because I was laid up and couldn't walk for six months.
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