Tecmo Online League

[Rod Woodson]

On some more topics that I wasn't allowed to talk about on Tecmo Inc, I'm involved in the HSTL (High Speed Tecmo League) that is just starting up it's third season. Due to the crap team I inherited I had the second overall pick in the draft which I traded down for the 4th overall. This meant that I went from picking Bo Jackson to Joe Montana in the first round.

If some of you guys haven't checked out an online league before, you can see me in draft action at http://hstl.puretecmo.com/ and the message boards are at http://wtl.puretecmo.com/bbs/index.php

I'm obviously Rod Woodson and I have the Pittsburgh Steelers. As you might be able to tell, Joe Montana is happy to be here....

[J-Diddy]

That I had been allowed to participate in this season, but I lose my HS connection over summer. How dissapointing. I would have loved to have drafted my team. How cool would that have been! Talk about inheriting a crap team... I had to make a killer deal for LT and even after that my team still sucked. If it wouldn't have been for the 5 creampuff teams I played I would have gone 0-16.

[Don Beebe]

I miss the Tecmo Rep. If things get out of hand over here, we may need to bring him back. ROM! ROM! ROM!

[Rod Woodson]

If it makes you feel any better, he is already here.....

[J-Diddy]

Hey Rod, if things ever get out of hand is it okay for a possible return of the TECMO REP?

[Rod Woodson]

Here is my Team - I'll update as the draft continues:

http://hstl.puretecmo.com/draft.html

QB - Joe Montana (SF)
QB - Mike Elkins (KC)
RB - Albert Bentley (IND)
RB - Derrick Fenner (SEA)
RB - Todd McNair (KC)
RB - Blair Thomas (NYJ)
WR - Haywood Jeffries (HOU)
WR - Eric Martin (N.O.)
WR - J.J. Birden (KC)
WR - James Lofton (BUF)
TE - Keith Jackson (MIA)
TE - Jonathan Hayes (KC)
C - Mike Webster (KC)
T - Rich Baldinger (KC)
T - John Alt (KC)
G - David Luts (KC)
G - David Szott (KC)
DL - Lee Williams (S.D)
DL - Burt Grossman (S.D)
DL - Les Miller (S.D)
LB - Pepper Johnson (NYG)
LB - Gary Reasons (NYG)
LB - Vaughn Johnson (N.O.)
LB - Sam Mills (N.O)
DB - Eddie Anderson (RAI)
DB - Mike Harden (RAI)
DB - Mark Kelso (BUFF)
DB - Leonard Smith (BUFF)
K - Nick Lowery (KC)
P - Bryan Barker (KC)

[hokie05]

Check this team out

QB:
QB: Stan Humphries
RB: Barry Sanders
RB: Gerald Riggs
RB: Kelvin Bryant
RB:
WR: Art Monk
WR: John Taylor
WR: Brian Mitchell
WR: Joe Howard
TE:
TE: Jimmie Johnson
OL: Russ Grimm
OL: Ed Simmons
OL: Raleigh Mckenzie
OL: Jim Lachey
OL: Jeff Bostic

DL:
DL:
DL:
LB: Daryll Talley
LB: Corneilius Bennett
LB: Dennis Byrd
LB: Kyle Clifton
DB: Charles Dimry
DB: Brian Washington
DB: Erik Mcmillan
DB: Deion Sanders

Mmm, Mmm, Mmm

[J-Diddy]

That is one good team... but didn't you learn from last year? YOU CAN'T WIN WITH BJ OR BUBBY! Who are you gonna get to QB?

[Rod Woodson]

he's going to get Bubby and try and figure out why half the passes are souviners for lucky fans.....

[Joshystyle]

Damn do I miss the HSTL. I can't believe it's in season 3. Well, at least I finished the first season. I haven't played online tecmo in 4 months now. I will soon return though......

[Rod Woodson]

My draft analysis and thoughts:

Last year my team was drafted by a mongoloid who happened to fall into QB Eagles and who's lone defensive player Eddie Anderson was slotted as a CB.

To prepare myself for this year, I dumped the database on my site that contains the complete player ratings into an Excel file and setup equations to give each player a mathimatical value. (A customized TSBM if you will) From this I was able to see where and when I should make picks. Using this method I only made one major error when picking. At 6.21 I should have chosen receiver instead of LB. While waiting for my next pick I missed out on Art Monk, Mark Ingram, and Mark Carrier. I did get the services of Eric Martin, but I could have probably picked up my LBs lower.

Another philosiphy I had was to trade down on some picks to gain more depth to my team. In the end I had 5 picks in the first 3 rounds and had my final pick at 10.7.

Anyway, this year I wanted to build a solid D around a running game. After trading down one too many spots to pick up Barry Sanders, I decided to go with Joe Montana and create a fearsome passing attack. I would say my weakness would be DBs not named Eddie Anderson and the lack of breakaway speed at RB. My strengths would be having only my FB with a RC number under 63, having one of the best O-lines, having the option to drop back the 63 int Gary Reasons on obvious passing downs, and having the sleeper stud Derrick Fenner as my KR behind a KR team featuring some decent HP. If I don't make the playoffs it's because I suck at playing, not at drafting...

[Rod Woodson]

http://hstl.puretecmo.com/Season3.NES

The league rom has been posted. Feel free to hit me up for a game if I'm around

[yo136]

Does a broadband connection really make that much of a difference? Most of the games I've been involved in have periods of bad lag. I suppose it could be my connection, but I don't have hardly any difficulty during long downloads or other high traffic events like Diablo and starcraft.

[Rod Woodson]

It does when using Nesticle. The better connection you have, the more like the NES console it is. When modem players play each other, the settings make it so that if you hit the A button to pass, the QB will do this 1-2 seconds later.

Does a broadband connection really make that much of a difference? Most of the games I've been involved in have periods of bad lag. I suppose it could be my connection, but I don't have hardly any difficulty during long downloads or other high traffic events like Diablo and starcraft.

[bgiadam]

How does 1 join on-line league