Football Mogul 16 Preview

There's not a lot to see this year, as most of our work has been under the hood. One new feature is that you can now save and resume the game during Play-By-Play Mode (just as you can in Baseball Mogul).

That means you will no longer be seeing any of these messages:

We've revamped the financial engine to eliminate problems with teams running out of money (or hoarding too much of it). And we've improved the AI so that it's harder to wrest away a team's top draft picks.

We've also added two options to the Calendar Page: Point Spread and Over-Under, to give you a better idea of your odds before each game (and to let you know if you covered the spread).

You can now also see each team's record against the spread. In one replay, the 1985 Bears went 13-3 (compared to 15-1 in real life). But they were only 8-8 against the spread.

Football Mogul 16 Cheat Keys

We added some "Cheat Keys" to Football Mogul 16, to help us with testing the in-game AI.
However, there's no reason you can't use them while playing the game. Maybe you want to make the game situation more interesting. Or perhaps you disagree with a play call, or found a bug, and you want to fix a "mistake" caused by the computer.

Cheat Key Action Ctrl - F1 Reduce the Away Team score by 1 point. Ctrl - F2 Increase the Away Team score by 1 point. Ctrl - F3 Reduce the Home Team score by 1 point. Ctrl - F4 Increase the Home Team score by 1 point. Ctrl - F5 Move the ball 10 yards to left on the screen. Ctrl - F6 Move the ball 10 yards to right on the screen. Ctrl - F7 Take 10 seconds off the clock. Ctrl - F8 Put 10 seconds back on the clock. Ctrl - F9 Decrease "Yards To Go" by 1 yard. Ctrl - F10 Increase "Yards To Go" by 1 yard. Ctrl - F11 Decrease current down by 1 (minimum = 1st down). Ctrl - F12 Increase current down by 1 (maximum = 4th down). Note: The Away Team is always displayed on the left side of the Play-By-Play screen.

Viewing Head-to-Head Stats (Baseball Mogul)

When I posted some news last week about Baseball Mogul Diamond, one of the responses was a request to add "hitter/pitcher results vs. each pitcher/hitter and hitter/pitcher results vs. each team".

As it turns out, we've been tracking player-vs-player and player-vs-team results since 2007. So here's some info in case you didn't know how to access this feature:

1. On the charts tab in the Scouting Report, click on the gray box that shows what is currently being displayed (batting average, 2 outs, etc.) and you will get a dialog box that lets you choose vs-player or vs-team:

2. Stats by each team's lineup versus the other team's pitchers are shown at game start (when selecting a starter or adjusting the lineup). For example, this screen shot shows a player comparing the career performance of two pitchers against the Yankees:

3. During game play, head-to-head stats are shown under the batter's scouting report.