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Version History II. Introduction III. About the Drills IV. About The Original Weekly Preparation Setting V. The Original Weekly Preparation Setting VI. About The Equal Overall Rating Growth Setting VII. The Equal Overall Rating Growth Setting VIII. Common Problems ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [I. Version History] Version 0.5 Created July 27, 2004 Last Updated August 4, 2004 Created for ESPN NFL 2k5 for XBox and PS2. August 4, 2004: Authorized website list. Common problems. July 28, 2004: About the drills. July 27, 2004: First version. Includes introduction, about the setting, the equal overall rating growth setting, and the first weekly preparation setting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [II. Introduction] In Franchise mode, you are allowed to prepare for each game by having workouts and other training. This FAQ is to help you maximize your time in preparation by increasing everyone's overall rating, while decreasing none or very little of some players. The weekly prepartation feature in this game is helpful, becausedepending on your opponent for that week, you can adjust your players to better handle some of their offensive or defensive threats, as well as improving on mistakes from your last week game. You have 40 hours each day to spend on improving your team and decreasing time it takes for your injured players to come back. To do this you can have players watch film, weight train, do team workouts, alternative workouts and 7 on 7 drills. The increase in ratings due to preparation only lasts for that week. So, don't worry if one of your players ratings go down because in the next week it will be restored back to default and you can fix the problem. (* Your players might have a permanent stat change in the middle of the season, this might happen once in the season) On Mondays you can set coaching tasks, meetings, conferences, player tasks such as films and weight training (no Positon Drills), and rehabilitate injured players. On Tuesdays-Fridays you can do player tasks including Positon drills, films, and weight training, Team Drills, rehabilitate injuredd players, and give the team a full or half a day off. During 7 on 7 drills and Full Drills, there's an option to have no pads, partial pads, and full pads. Using Full pads would give you the most out of the workout, but this can cause injuries during training camp. I have only gotten injuries when full pads are on, so right now I either use partial or no pads. 7 on 7 drills and Full Drills improves many players because they are team drills. So, each week try to have at least one of these since these help everyone. During Full Drills, there's an option to work your 1st, 2nd, or 3rd teams. These teams refer to players who are on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd slot on your depth chart. Ideally you want to work out all the teams, but try focusing on the 1st team because they play the most. Also, don't forget to give some of the other teams some workout becaue some of your WRs and CBs won't be getting any practices in. When working with a specific set of players (for example TEs or RBs) you have the option of focusing on certain players of the postion, this can be helpful so you do not overwork some of your players. But, you will still be developing other players. You might not want to give players days off because you want them to gain more rating points. But, if you don't you risk your players from getting injured during the game. If you want to take that risk you can or you can play it safe and give your players some time off. Injuries can happen during workouts. To lessen the risk of getting injured during workout, have your players use partial or no pads, do not overwork your players, and fit time off if you can. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [III. About the Drills] Note: not 100% correct on these, if you find any of them wrong please e-mail me. Meetings affect the teams morale and focus. Coaching affects the teams focus. Conferences can affect the teams focus as well. Having players talk in interviews can decrease team focus. Film will give your players focus and also improves some attributes of the player. Weights improve your players strength, speed, and agility. Aerobic improves player's strength, speed, stamina, and agility. Alternative affects your teams strength, agility, stamina, durabiltiy and reduces players injuries. Rehabilitation will help speed up your injured players recovery. Position Drills improve qualities that are needed for specific player. For example: Quarterbacks will improve on pass accuracy, while wide receivers can improve on securing the ball and breaking tackles. 7 on 7 drills increases your teams physical attributes as a whole team. Full drills increases your selected squad's physical attributes. Giving time off will reduce chance of injury during the preparation as well as in the game. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [IV. About The Original Weekly Preparation Setting] This setting has been tested in a Bears franchise with default rosters. All my players progress except for about 2-3 bench players. Also, I used up all my hours. You want to do this to maximize your teams time to gain overall rating points. During a game, I got a cut scene in which my players are like "yea, it's because of the workout" (something like that and after I got a td). This happend after a touchdown and showed me that this workout is on the right track of what you are suppose to have. On Friday, I gave my team half a day off because what I have seen from my games so far is that there will be minor or no injuries during the game. But, when I didn't give my team half a day off, I had a pretty long injury. If you want to risk getting injured, but get more rating points, you can take out the half a day off and add more positon drills. Note: Depending on your team you can edit and tweak these preparations. This schedule will progress everyone and 99.9% of your starters will never lose overall points (hasn't happened to me, but there is a small chance). For example, if you need to improve your Runningback you should lower time spent with other positons and used the hours to improve your RBs. A good positon you can decrease time is your offensive line and wide receivers. They gain 2-4 overall points with this setting, so lowering there time would be okay. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [V. The Original Weekly Preparation Setting] Monday: Meeting-- Happy Conference-- Happy Coaching-- Coverages Film/ 2/ ALL WRS/ Coverage Film/ 2/ All DTs/ Pass Blocking Schemes Film/ 3/ All DEs/ Pass Blocking Schemes Film/ 1/ All TEs/ Fronts Film/ 1/ All QBs/ Coverages Film/ 3/ All CBs/ Route Combinations Film/ 3/ All Cs/ Blitz Packages Film/ 2/ All Gs/ Blitz Packages Film/ 2/ All Ts/ Blitz Packages Film/ 1/ All FBs/ Blitz Packages Film/ 1/ All OLBs/ Pass Blocking Schemes Film/ 1/ All FSs/ Route Combinations Weights/ 2 /All DTs/ Hamstring and Quads Weights/ 1/ All SSs/ Arms Weights/ 1/ All CBs/ Hamstring and Quads Alternative/ 2/ All SSs/ Stretching/Flexibility **Note: Conference isn't available every week (appears randomly)** Tuesday: Full Drill/ 1/ 2nd Team /No Pads Full Drill/ 2/ 1st Team/ No Pads Film/ 2/ All WRs/ Coverages Weights/ 1/ All DTs/ Arms 7 on 7/ 2/ All/ Partial Pads Pos Drill/ 1/ All Cs/ Run Blocking Pos Drill/ 1/ All Gs/ Pass protection Pos Drill/ 1/ All DTs/ Pursuit Drills Pos Drill/ 1/ All OLBs/ Beat the Block Wednesday: 7 on 7/ 1/ All/ Partial Pads Full Drill/ 2/ 2nd Team/ Partial Pads Full Drill/ 2/ 1st Team/ Partial Pads Pos Drill/ 3/ All Ts/ The Big Sled Pos Drill/ 1/ All DEs/ Recognition Pos drill/ 2/ All WRs/ Wide Receiver Release Thursday: 7 on 7/ 1/ All/ Full Pads Full Drill/ 1/ 3rd team/ No Pads Full Drill/ 1/ 1st team/ Partial Pads Film/ 1/ All SSs/ Run/pass Distribution Film/ 3/ All WRs/ Man/zone Tendencies Weights/ 1/ all CBs/ Calves and Ankles Weights/ 1/ All DTs/ Arms Pos Drill/ 1/ All Cs/ Enemies at the Gate Pos Drill/ 2/ All Gs/ Enemies at the Gate Pos Drill/ 1/ All DTs/ Special Move Focus Pos Drill/ 1/ All CBs/ Pattern recognition Pos Drill/ 1/ All DEs/ Get off the ball Friday: Day Off-- 1/2 Day Off 7 on 7/ 2/ All/ No Pads Pos Drill/ 1/ All WRs/ Pattern Depths Pos Drill/ 1/ All HBs/ Tire Relay Pos Drill/ 1/ All TEs/ The Gauntlet Pos Drill/ 1/ All FBs/ The Gauntlet Pos Drill/ 2/ All FSs/ Ball Reaction or: (if your willing to risk getting injured, but gain some more overall rating points here's another way to use Friday) Friday: Film/ 3/ All ILBs/ run blocking schemes Pos Drill/ 1/ All WRs/ pattern depths Pos Drill/ 3/ All Ts/ pass protection 7 on 7/ 3/ All/ no pads Pos Drill/ 3/ All TEs/ the gauntlet Pos Drill/ 2/ All FBs Pos Drill/ 3/ All FSs/ ball reaction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [VI. About The Equal Overall Rating Growth Setting] This setting gives all your players an overall growth of 2 rating points or higher. With this setting all your players will have an equal amount of time working on drills, so custimization for your team is even easier. All your players will be having 2 hours of position drills each week, most of your players will be having 1 hour of film study and weights, and everyone will be having at least one full team drills. This setting does not give any of your players time off, but that can be fixed by taking out the full drills and some positon drills on Friday. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [VII. The Equal Overall Rating Growth Setting] Monday: Meeting-- Happy Coaching- Coverages Film/ 1/ All QBs/ Coverages Film/ 1/ All Cs/ Fronts Film/ 1/ All Gs/ Fronts Film/ 1/ All Ts/ Fronts Film/ 1/ All FBs/ Fronts Film/ 1/ All DTs/ RUn Blocking Schemes Film/ 1/ All DEs/ Run Blocking Schemes Film/ 1/ All OLBs/ Run/Pass Distribution Film/ 1/ All ILBs/ Run/Pass Distribution Film/ 1/ All CBs/ Route Combinations Film/ 1/ All SSs/ Route Combinations Film/ 1/ All FSs/ Route Combinations Film/ 2/ All TEs/ Man/Zone Tendecies Weights/ 1/ All QBs/ Shoulders Weights/ 1/ All HBs/ Hamstings and Quads Weights/ 1/ All WRs/ Calves and Ankles Weights/ 1/ All FSs/ Calves and Ankles Weights/ 1/ All SSs/ Calves and Ankles Weights/ 1/ All CBs/ Calves and Ankles Weights/ 1/ All DEs/ Hamstings and Quads Weights/ 1/ All DTs/ Hamstings and Quads Weights/ 1/ All OLBs/ Arms Weights/ 1/ All ILBs/ Arms Tuesday: 7 on 7/ 3/ All/ Partial Pads Full Drill/ 2/ 1st team/ Partial Pads Full Drill/ 1/ 2nd team/ Partial Pads Full Drill/ 1/ 3rdteam/ Partial Pads Wednesday: 7 on 7/ 3/ All/ Partial Pads Full Drill/ 1/ 1st team/ Partial Pads Pos Drill/ 1/ All QBs/ Routes and Combinations Pos Drill/ 1/ All HBs/ The Gauntlet Pos Drill/ 1/ All FBs/ Run Blocking Pos Drill/ 1/ All WRs/ Wide Receiver Release Pos Drill/ 1/ All TEs/ Run Blocking Pos Drill/ 1/ All Cs/ Run Blocking Pos Drill/ 1/ All Gs/ Run Blocking Pos Drill/ 1/ All Ts/ Run Blocking Pos Drill/ 1/ All DTs/ Get Off The Ball Pos Drill/ 1/ All DEs/ Get Off The Ball Thursday: 7 on 7/ 3/ All/ Partial Pads Full Drill/ 2/ 1st Team/ Partial Pads Pos Drill/ 2/ All OLBs/ Beat the Block Pos Drill/ 2/ All ILBs/ Beat the Block Pos Drill/ 1/ All CBs/ Backpedaling Pos Drill/ 1/ All SSs/ Backpedaling Pos Drill/ 1/ All FSs/ Backpedaling Friday: Full Drill/ 1/ 1st team/ No Pads Full Drill/ 1/ 2nd team/ Partial Pads Pos Drill/ 1/ All QBs/ Routes and Progressions Pos Drill/ 1/ All HBs/ Run Blocking Pos Drill/ 1/ All FBs/ Tire Relay Pos Drill/ 1/ All WRs/ Pattern Depths Pos Drill/ 1/ All TEs/ Tire Relay Pos Drill/ 1/ All Cs/ Run Blocking Pos Drill/ 1/ All Gs/ Run Blocking Pos Drill/ 1/ All Ts/ Run Blocking Pos Drill/ 1/ All DTs/ Get Off the Ball Pos Drill/ 1/ All DEs/ Get Off the Ball Pos Drill/ 1/ All SSs/ Backpedaling Pos Drill/ 1/ All FSs/ Backpedaling ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [VIII. Common Problems] You might have noticed that some of your players are losing stamina and durability. The easiest way to fix that is to go to Alternative workouts and then select Piyo which is on the high intensity level. This will usually make your players not decrease in stamina and durabilty. Strong and free safeties are the hardest players to increase in ratings. I'm still trying to get them to gain some points, but I can only get them to stay the same with a minor increase. I'll post more when I find a good way to increase them. This setting can be easily changed for your own players. For example, if you have guards that are already good at run blocking choose the pass blocking option instead so that they can increase in that stat instead. Having a conference end where you challenge the players will help your team stay the same or increase team focus. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Created: July 27, 2004 Updated Last: August 4, 2004 Have any questions, suggestion, see any errors, or have your own changes to the weekly preparation FAQ? E-mail me at yodawgyo2002@yahoo.com Everyone who submitted there own information and allowed it to be in the FAQ will be credited. Authorized websites: http://www.gamefaqs.com http://www.neoseeker.com Do not distribute or reproduce without my permission. Copyright 2004