Greatest #NFL teams perform with their unique attributes in data-driven Breakaway Football

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Breakaway Football is one of the more unique entrants into the world of #tabletopfootball games: stats-based yet card-driven, data-rich yet colorful and accessible. Not only that, but this game thusfar is based on replicating the key attributes of some of the most iconic teams in history, from 1958 to the present – hence, beginning with normalizing stats across eras. Given alternate names and logos in deference to potential licensing issues, these teams are given unique qualities, like random Bum Rap bad-luck outcomes for the representation of the 1980 Oilers. Your Saints become the Sinners, Packers the Stackers, Steelers the Blacksmiths, Buccaneers the Privateeers, etc. And, the just-released Team Creator lets Breakaway Football fans create teams of their own. Arthur Franz IV walks us through some of the most important game functions and the thought process that led to them (hint: he watched a LOT of game film to determine how, for instance, the 1978 Cowboys [“the Horsemen”] used and profited from the then-rare shotgun formation). Notably, Arthur has coached football at several levels, starting right out of high school, which adds to his perspective on translating the action on the field to the tabletop. Arthur and the rest of the Breakaway Football design team will join us for the first time ever at our third cards-and-dice football event at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton on Aug. 24-25. Buy Breakaway Football: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/breakaway-football Breakaway Football group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/244866002738026 Uplink Underground Games: https://uplinkunderground.com Arthur’s love of football begins: 1:22 Breakaway’s approach to representing stats: 4:27 Solo mode: 6:49 Modern game mechanisms and storytelling: 9:47 Breakaway’s origins, team names, designs: 11:39 Testing with Tabletop Simulator: 15:19 Team Creator, full seasons vs. great teams: 17:29 Weather expansions, quick-play option: 19:43 Gateway for younger players? 20:47 Super Bowl preplays: 21:54 Normalization across eras; “brute force” mathematics: 22:56 Efficiency vs. explosiveness: 27:45 Quotas/proper usage: 33:47 Challenge flags: 35:54 Why 1958 as the starting point? 38:27 AI and reflecting team strengths: 40:03 Fumbles, interceptions, penalties, sacks: 47:49 Accuracy vs. flexibility: 49:32 Testing and refinement: 52:36 Injuries (’76 Steelers, etc.): 55:18 Randomization: 57:36 Cold/hot weather games: 58:31 Crowd noise/home field advantage: 1:00:15 The Pilots (1968 Jets): 1:02:13 The Horsemen (1978 Cowboys): 1:04: 38 Use of postseason stats (2002 Privateers/Buccaneers): 1:06:58 Carding the 2008 Cardinals: 1:08:25 James Harrison’s Super Bowl 43 pick-six: 1:09:52 Houston Drillers and the Bum Rap (the MIke Renfro call): 1:10:52 Run-and-shoot teams (1992 Oilers/Gunslingers): 1:14:51 Pump fake: 1:17:02 Omaha! (the 2006 Stallions/Colts): 1:17:39 Breakaway community: 1:19:15 #football #nfl #footballgame #footballgames #footballhistory #nflhistory #tabletopsports