Posted by bomber085 on 7/27/2018 12:50:00 PM (view original):
Posted by robbman21 on 7/27/2018 12:24:00 PM (view original):
I was actually looking forward to competing against everyone NOT using Yatzr or Game Analyzer. Got two NC's under my belt and have never used either. I know I'm far and away an outlier here and maybe I could have won more had I used both, but I've been interested in seeing what happens with a season or two without it.
It's not a magic potion that raises your winning percentage. It doesn't give you gameplanning tips or tell you how to recruit. It simply reduces the time for simple tasks.
As someone who has played the game first without the Game Analyzer and then with it, I believe the "magic" can best be illustrated in the following way. If two coaches with similarly talented teams each have 10 minutes to game plan and coach A doesn't use the GA (say, he didn't know know about it or didn't pay the donation or didn't hear that it was free to use for a couple of months yet) and coach B does use GA, which coach can reasonably be expected to have an advantage?
Time is a factor in good game planning, and good recruiting for that matter (if A and B each have 10 minutes to recruit ...). The coach that has the tools to make the most of the time available is probably going to see better results. Is that cheating? No, no one is breaking any rules. But is it an advantage? I think reasonably so, yes. And to one degree or another, small or large, to the extent that some benefit from these tools and others don't, I feel it necessarily creates an uneven playing field.
That's why I feel that the features of yatzr's tools should be made part of the game, or until then, yatzr's tools in full should be made available to everyone.
7/27/2018 2:43 PM (edited)