Universal SIM Rules

1) PUNT RULE - You must punt when the ball on 4th down if it is in your end...
unlesss a) your behind in the 4th quarter...
b) your behind 3 scores or more anytime...
note:
when recieving a punt, you are NOT ALLOWED to take an extra blocker off
the "D-Line" and bring him in a better blocking angle position... (if
you wnt to bring a playerback beside the kicker, move the players
over-top of the Kick coverage team's gunners...)

2)
QB is PROHIBITED from doing UNREALISTICLY LONG DROP BACKS AND SPRINT
OUTS (on pass plays that are designed for being thrown from a standard
pocket)... A QB cannot drop back farther than 12 yards from the Line of
scrimage... The QB cannot move laterally (as a preplanned sprint out)
more than 5 yards outside of the pocket in pass plays that are designed
to be thrown from a standard pocket...

note - the LATERAL movement does not apply to ON THE FLY QB scrambles - but the distanced dropped back in the pocket applies regardless of pressure and scrambling ability...


3)
You must PASS RUSH a minimum of 2 players EVERY PLAY (that means no
"gay" defense)... You are prohibited from moving a Defensive Linemen off
the Line of Scrimage (to a traditional LB starting position) before the
snap... If you want to play with less DL and more LBs or DBs than call a
defense that has such a strategy implemented ...

note:
DE that are given a "contain" responsibility are considered HALF of a
pass rusher (so if you have your two DE in `contain`pass rush - that
only counts as 1 pass rusher (in terms of rule number 3) and you will be
required to have 1 more player pass rushing...


4)
Players played out of position must be REASONABLE and SIM like... (the
most obvious example is that u cant play Ofensive players on defense and
vice versa) unless in an EMERGENCY SITUATION where injuries and
fatigues demands this switch from a depth chart perspective... The
acceptable changes of positions are as follows:

HB to FB cant have a speed greater than 89...
HB to WR they cannot be in the depth chart higher than #3 position.
TE to FB cant have a speed greater than 89...
TE to SLOT, SPLIT-END or FLANKER - must be an "isnide reciever"
OT to TE, G or C
G to OT or C
C to G or OT

DE to OLB or DT
DT to DE
OLB to DE or MLB
MLB to OLB
SS to FS, CB OR OLB cant be greater than 88 speed @ OLB...
FS to SS or CB
CB to FS or SS


5)
Mix your plays up...We all have our "go to" plays - aka MONEY PLAYS but
dont over use any one play... The exception being BASIC FUNDEMENTAL
PLAYS that are "main stays" of all ofenses (example - dives, offtackle
or sweeps... and blitz counter passes) - if a defense dictates that a
bliitz counter pass be used b/c the defense continues to BLITZ - the
offense is not responsible to mix it up as his play call is actually
dictated by what the defnese calls...


6) The
use of known GLITCHES and ILLEGAL BLITZES (aka NANO BLITZES) blitzes is
prohibited... Examples of such things are Spy Glitch, Inside Out Return
aka IOR, Motion Glitch or stacking your MLB directly behind a DL...
These Kind of plays will be updated on an ongoing basis (new glitches
and nanos present themselves all the time) - we will provide specific
written discription of each and where possible video footage of the
play...

note - there are many BLITZES that may
appear as "NANO " blitzes to some - while others see them sound
strategy... A blitz will be determined ILLEGAL if there is no reasonable
easy way to defend the blitz (after falling victim to a BLITZ - a
player should easily be able to find its counter on subsequent plays) -
iof this counter is not relatively obviosu and easy to implement - than
its an ILLEGAL BLITZ....


7)U can only
manually move (joystick move) 1 player that rushes the QB - U can shift
as many pass rushers u want using the `shift` system with L1 or R1...
player that manually move more than 1 player that pass rush the QB,
could be tryn to confuse the a.i. of the Offensive Line - so this
practice is outlawed!