About This Game Front Office Football is a text-based sports simulation. It's a game for those of us who love the numbers in sports.In Front Office Football, you play the role of your favorite team's general manager. You determine your team's future through trading with opponents, negotiating contracts, bidding for free agents and discovering new talent through the annual amateur draft.You can also play the role of the armchair coach, setting game plans, creating playbooks and depth charts. You can call every play yourself if you like.You can determine ticket prices and submit stadium construction plans for public approval. You can move your team if the public won't properly support your franchise.Front Office Football Eight includes a multi-player career mode with full ftp support, allowing you to compete in a league with up to 31 other enthusiastic general managers. Multi-player mode runs independently of Steam and requires a commissioner to manage the web site.The original game, released in 1998, received an Editors' Choice award from Computer Gaming World and a 4 1/2-star review. It was nominated for numerous Sports Game of the Year awards. This is the Eighth full version, updated in October with 2017 player rosters.Put Yourself in the Front OfficeIn order to succeed in Front Office Football, you need to perform as well as possible in four different areas.Team Performance. On the field, your primary goal is winning the coveted Front Office Bowl. Your fans, players and staff all want to see that championship banner raised to a new position in the ring of honor surrounding your stadium.Financial Performance. Off the field, your team needs to show a profit, or the owner will become angry and threaten your job. You need to control salary and staff costs while balancing the need to spend money to build and upgrade your stadium against the risk of facing stagnant ticket revenue with an aging arena.Roster Value. You need to negotiate contracts, sign free agents, make wise decisions in the amateur draft and outsmart opposing general managers in trade. Building a strong, capable roster means everything in Front Office Football.Franchise Value. The bottom line is that a happy owner has a franchise that's the envy of professional football. Nothing means more to the owners than seeing their franchise on the top of the list of most valuable franchises. You help put your team on that list by excelling in the three other categories, but the best general managers look for opportunities to move the team in order to find a home town with a strong economy that will support your team like none other.Major Features of Front Office FootballThe game concentrates on roster management and career play. There are several key elements emphasized in the game design:A realistic trading module. You can't simply take the players you want from other teams.Proper aging of players. Players at different positions age differently. Quarterbacks need a couple of more years to reach their prime, but their careers last several years longer, on average, than running backs.The amateur draft. Teams realistically assess their needs, and build through the draft.Statistics. All the major stats are tracked and are available at any given time. Career and full season-by-season statistics are tracked in 135 different categories, including Red Zone and Third Down numbers. You can view and sort statistics by team, category and position. It's fast and accurate. Front Office Football also tracks and displays 182 different team statistics and league totals.Play calling. Designed to allow quick selection of a large library of players, you can be the ultimate GM and wrest control of the play-by-play action from your coach. You can tailor your in-game strategy to your team's strengths without having to build each play from scratch.Free agency. Teams compete with you to sign the best free agents. Each player has his own idea of how much he wants to stay with his existing team, and how much he wants to play for a champion. But money is still at the root of all decisions.Home towns. Each player will have a home town from nearly 10,000 American cities. When deciding on teams during free agency, players may prefer a team closer to home.Offensive playbooks. Each season, you can create a playbook full of offensive plays your team will use during the season.Depth charts. You can set every personnel grouping for your team, on offense and on defense. Front Office Football simulates games based on these charts.Game plans. The game plan will allow you to specify different strategies depending on the score of the game and how much time remains. You can create scripts of plays to use based on down, distance and field position. On defense, you select plays based on the situation and what the offense is showing. You can micro-manage every decision, or you can leave everything to your coaching staff.Player ratings. Each player is rated for 53 different skills. But you don't have access to the raw numbers. Where's the fun in that? You hire a coaching staff, with varied strengths and weaknesses. Your coaches tell you how good they think your players are - and how good they think your opponents' players are.The salary cap. It's an essential tool in keeping parity among professional football rosters. You'll have to cut your aging, high-paid veterans just like any ruthless general manager worth his weight in negotiations.City profiles. Submit a plan to build a new stadium to your voters. If they turn you down, you can propose a move to any of 169 cities modeled in the game. Each city is rated for several economic criteria, which affects its desire for a new team.Team chemistry. Players will perform better or worse in some instances, depending on how they feel about players in their group.Dynamic Quarterback learning process. As quarterbacks learn more about the game, they will have access to more plays during games, allowing the smarter signal-callers to better confuse their opponents.Record keeping. All team statistics are tracked for a manager's entire career. Team records, including all-time performance against every other team, are kept. A game-by-game performance breakdown is always available for individual players.Power ratings. You can see how your team ranks using Solecismic Software's custom power rankings. These ratings are used to set a point spread for each game.Enhanced replay value. Every time you start a new career, the core ratings for each player are randomly affected. For veterans, the random change will be very small. Established stars will always be significant players. For rookies, however, performance will vary significantly. This allows for a more challenging game and greater replay value.Multi-Player League Support. Choose a commissioner to run the games for your league. Your commissioner will simulate the games and process every team's instruction set for each stage during the game. Up to 32 people can compete in each multi-player league.New in Version EightFor those of you who have played Front Office Football in the past, there are dozens of new features in the game. This is our most ambitious new product to date, and you'll find it a much more realistic professional football experience. Custom offensive playbooks. Each year, during training camp, you can create a book of up to 200 offensive plays to use during the season. Of course, as with all the management features in Front Office Football, the game's AI can create a playbook specifically for your team if you like.New player participation charts. You can select your starters based on personnel groupings. This gives you much more control over who is on the field in every situation.More realistic game planning. Rather than filling out extensive charts, you can write scripts for the plays your team will run in every situation. Create a list of plays for use in the Two-Minute Drill. Save your best plays for those critical third-and-three situations. This is much closer to how professional teams handle in-game play-calling. On defense, your plan will cover how you react to what your opponent is doing. You'll have fewer choices to make, but the choices will have a big impact on performance.Instant history (or at least history created as quickly as your computer can run). At the press of a button, you can generate up to 50 seasons of "history" for your league, with the AI running every team.Enhanced Multi-Player Support. A fuller set of options for maintaining your multi-player games. Additional security features to prevent "hacked" stage files and file compression to shorten load times and reduce the FTP space needed to run a game.New player cards with quick access to all the information available about each athlete.Create graphs showing how many wins each franchise has over any time period in your league to highlight potential dynasties.A playoff probability simulator so that late in the season you can determine each team's chances of reaching the playoffs or gaining a first-round bye.A brand new menu interface. Front Office Football will never be the prettiest game in the world, but the the new menu will quickly get you any place in the game.Interface improvements. Switch between using various screens within the game. You can even take advantage of multiple monitors and have all sorts of varied information available at once. Front Office Football has always been about displaying as much information as possible.Quote of the Day. Every day, you can read a quote from the vast store of collected wisdom within the Front Office Football universe.Extensive improvements and fine tuning within the game engine. Little was left untouched. The heart of Front Office Football is in the play results and the simulation of thousands and thousands of games. A 2018 player file and coach file.Thanks for taking a look at Front Office Football Eight. 7aa9394dea Title: Front Office Football EightGenre: SportsDeveloper:Solecismic SoftwarePublisher:Solecismic SoftwareRelease Date: 23 Nov, 2016 Front Office Football Eight Ativador Download [Xforce] front office football eight forum. front office football eight mods. front office football eight crack. front office football eight demo. front office football eight tips. front office football eight key. front office football eight review. front office football eight download. front office football eight One of my all time favourite game series. Very detailed and enjoyable.. Great game!! Can´t wait everyday to get Home and play it!!Can´t wait to start playing MP either!!. Would be kinda fun if the UI wasn't crap and the player ranking wasn't junk.To give you an idea of how bad the player rankings are, in the game I started, the top 5 QBs in the league were in order: Andy Dalton, Tom Brady, Blake Bortles, Jay Cutler, Matt Stafford.Players like Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees, and Eli Manning were somwhere near the middle with Josh McCown and Fitzpatrick.The game randomizes players attributes, thus giving some mediocre starters elite skills while killing some very good players skills and making them mediocre.The UI's problem is that everything has a weird name. Want to see your Depth Chart, yeah that's called Offensive/Defensive Staff. Along with that confusion is the help system, which doesn't explain anything other than definitions of words. I wanted to know how to sign players in Free Agency since no players show up in my free agency window, so I looked up Free Agency in the help, all it told me was how to open the free agent window and that free agency is where I could sign players.You can edit the rosters in a very time consuming manner of exporting the player file, opening it up in Excel, editing players, then starting a new game using the edited player file. And you can spend many hours trying to figure out the frustrating layout of the UI. I can not recommend this game, because of these flaws it makes it a lot of work and not much fun.. Playing FOF since Sept 2005FOF8 I Purchased this game opening day, I have spent nearly 800hours playing this delightful General Manager game and I really Love it. Many have spoken out about the game planning, How it has changed and is different than past games. Just let the computer control your Game Planning isn't that what a real GM would do? Be the GM learn what kind of players work with your Cordinators chosen Offense/Defense of taste! I enjoy finding that hidden gem in the draft that everyone missed! I really get Pumped about player development, and this is why FOF8 is a Superior Game. If you play long enough you can learn what to look for in a player to understand and know how he will grow, and mature. "See the future player he will become!" When I Draft correctly and select that player who will become a future All Pro, serious wood! If you like stats, numbers, the chance to be a real gm...almost, oh and if you think you're talented jump into a multi player league and see if you can compete with players around the globe, enjoy the trash talking...its a good time.. I've played this game for over fifteen years and it is simply the best NFL sim out there. No other game comes close to the statistical realism of FOF8. Building a great team through the draft, trades and FA signings is an immersive way to spend my time. You can delve as deeply into game planning and even draw up your own plays.There isn't anything out there like it, and it fills the pro football bill admirably.. Best game of all time. The big problem of the game is the simulative part . You can lose hours building a team , evaluating players and ...you get games that end 55-48 , 62-57 if you run in fast time ...if you actually play the game you feel like you are actually cheated at every play (even in your favor) because the game have to create an "emotional" comeback ... and having this in 90% of games is irritating . Also stats are ridicolous ...you have QB that launch 5 intercepts ...or excellent runners that have an average of 2.5 yards all season . You can face great runners that make 3 yds all game or you can have a bad QB that mount a late winning TD on a 4th and 17 ...That things happen in football but not ALWAYS . As results the only acceptable thing are automatic results but then ...why lose hours setting a team when the results can be the product of some cheap calculations ? AlSO that thing of random stats for players generate unplausible things , I really wanted to love it but ...no right now is more frustrating than everything else . Ive won a SB the second season , from under 13 , with a score with 35 seconds to go ..onside recovered and hail mary of 58 yards ...That is acceptable 1 season out of 50 not in almost every game .. the salary negotiations, evaluting talent, and drafting is all great. its really fun building your team.i will say though the actual season sucks. if you simulate the entire season, no matter how nasty your team is you pretty much go 8-8 every time. and if you do the actual play calling, your team will play to its potential the first half but then second half you will go 3 and out almost every single series and the opposing team will complete every pass and rush for 20 yards a run and always come back and close the point gap, so that part is frustrating. i cant even count how many time i will be winning 21-0 in the first half and go on to lose the game for the reasons mentioned above. so it sorta takes away from all the fun of building a high caliber team only to have it mean pretty much nothing in the regular season.. Good luck trying to navigate the menus, this game looks like it was made for windows 98 yet here it is on steam for $30. It's like the game wants you to spend more hours scrolling through a list of free agents that youve made offers too and then wondering if you signed the player because the game doesn't ever feel the need to update you on anything going on whatsoever. So If youre looking to get this game, make sure you know what every confusingly named menu is abdwhat every abbreveation for every stat the game thinks is important is. Oh do you want to draft last year's star college QB? Well sorry! This hame relies 100% on combine scores to rank the prospects. It doesnt even tell you college stats. Super Indepth would randomly guess on a player due to 40 yard dash ranking again 6.9/10. Limited in-game control and options make this a just another poor excuse for a football simulation. I would NOTrecommend this game to anyone looking for a American football simulation.
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