About This Game Put Yourself in the Front OfficeFront Office Football is a text-based sports simulation. It's a game for those of us who love the numbers in sports.In Front Office Football, you play the role of your favorite team's general manager. You determine your team's future through trading with opponents, negotiating contracts, bidding for free agents and discovering new talent through the annual amateur draft.You can also play the role of the armchair coach, setting game plans and depth charts, or even calling each play from an extensive playbook.You can determine ticket prices and submit stadium construction plans for public approval. You can move your team if the public won't properly support your franchise.Front Office Football Seven includes a multi-player career mode with full ftp support, allowing you to compete in a league with up to 31 other enthusiastic general managers. Multi-player mode runs independently of Steam and requires a commissioner to manage the web site.The original game, released in 1998, received an Editors' Choice award from Computer Gaming World and a 4 1/2-star review. It was nominated for numerous Sports Game of the Year awards. This is the Seventh full version.Front Office Football Seven features a 2015 player file and new careers with the default files begin in 2015 with the 2015 schedule. We're keeping this product on sale at half price to promote the series. For the latest in the series, Front Office Football Eight is available and features a 2018 player file and schedule.Your Goals in Front Office FootballIn order to succeed in Front Office Football, you need to perform as well as possible in four different areas.Team Performance. On the field, your primary goal is winning the coveted Front Office Bowl. Your fans, players and staff all want to see that championship banner raised to a new position in the ring of honor surrounding your stadium.Financial Performance. Off the field, your team needs to show a profit, or the owner will become angry and threaten your job. You need to control salary and staff costs while balancing the need to spend money to build and upgrade your stadium against the risk of facing stagnant ticket revenue with an aging arena.Roster Value. You need to negotiate contracts, sign free agents, make wise decisions in the amateur draft and outsmart opposing general managers in trade. Building a strong, capable roster means everything in Front Office Football.Franchise Value. The bottom line is that a happy owner has a franchise that's the envy of professional football. Nothing means more to the owners than seeing their franchise on the top of the list of most valuable franchises. You help put your team on that list by excelling in the three other categories, but the best general managers look for opportunities to move the team in order to find a home town with a strong economy that will support your team like none other.Major Features of Front Office FootballThe game concentrates on roster management and career play. There are several key elements emphasized in the game design:A realistic trading module. You can't simply take the players you want from other teams.Proper aging of players. Players at different positions age differently. Quarterbacks need a couple of more years to reach their prime, but their careers last several years longer, on average, than running backs.The amateur draft. Teams realistically assess their needs, and build through the draft.Statistics. All the major stats are tracked and are available at any given time. Career and full season-by-season statistics are tracked in 135 different categories, including Red Zone and Third Down numbers. You can view and sort statistics by team, category and position. It's fast and accurate. Front Office Football also tracks and displays 182 different team statistics and league totals.Play calling. Designed to allow quick selection of a large library of players, you can be the ultimate GM and wrest control of the play-by-play action from your coach. You can tailor your in-game strategy to your team's strengths without having to build each play from scratch.Free agency. Teams compete with you to sign the best free agents. Each player has his own idea of how much he wants to stay with his existing team, and how much he wants to play for a champion. But money is still at the root of all decisions.Home towns. Each player will have a home town from nearly 10,000 American cities. When deciding on teams during free agency, players may prefer a team closer to home.Depth charts. You set the depth chart at each position for your team, and fill out a play preference chart. Front Office Football simulates games based on these charts. You can choose different personnel depending on your choice of formations.Game plans. The game plan will allow you to specify different strategies depending on the score of the game and how much time remains. There are literally thousands of choices to make, or you can leave everything to your coaching staff.Player ratings. Each player is rated for 53 different skills. But you don't have access to the raw numbers. Where's the fun in that? You hire a coaching staff, with varied strengths and weaknesses. Your coaches tell you how good they think your players are - and how good they think your opponents' players are.The salary cap. It's an essential tool in keeping parity among professional football rosters. You'll have to cut your aging, high-paid veterans just like any ruthless general manager worth his weight in negotiations.City profiles. Submit a plan to build a new stadium to your voters. If they turn you down, you can propose a move to any of 169 cities modeled in the game. Each city is rated for several economic criteria, which affects its desire for a new team.Team chemistry. Players will perform better or worse in some instances, depending on how they feel about players in their group.Dynamic Quarterback learning process. As quarterbacks learn more about the game, they will have access to more plays during games, allowing the smarter signal-callers to better confuse their opponents.Record keeping. All team statistics are tracked for a manager's entire career. Team records, including all-time performance against every other team, are kept. A game-by-game performance breakdown is always available for individual players.Power ratings. You can see how your team ranks using Solecismic Software's custom power rankings. These ratings are used to set a point spread for each game.Enhanced replay value. Every time you start a new career, the core ratings for each player are randomly affected. For veterans, the random change will be very small. Established stars will always be significant players. For rookies, however, performance will vary significantly. This allows for a more challenging game and greater replay value.Multi-Player League Support. Choose a commissioner to run the games for your league. Your commissioner will simulate the games and process every team's instruction set for each stage during the game. Up to 32 people can compete in each multi-player league.Thanks for taking a look at Front Office Football. 1075eedd30 Title: Front Office Football SevenGenre: Indie, Simulation, Sports, StrategyDeveloper:Solecismic SoftwarePublisher:Solecismic SoftwareRelease Date: 21 Nov, 2014 Front Office Football Seven Download For Pc [hacked] front office football 7 free agency. front office football 7 tips. front office football 7 strategy. front office football 7 download. front office football 7 rosters. front office football 7 cheats. front office football 7 draft files. front office football seven roster. front office football seven update. front office football 7 review. front office football 7 guide. front office football 7 free. front office football seven mods. front office football 7 editor. front office football 7 vs 8. front office football seven. front office football 7 free download. front office football 7 draft analyzer. front office football 7 roster files. front office football seven manual. front office football 7 real teams. front office football 7 nfl rosters. front office football 7 crack. front office football seven pc download. front office football 7 forum. front office football 7 player editor. front office football 7 draft guide This game is frustrating as hell. As much as I try to like it (as I love the stats that it generates), here are the problems.The interface is from the 90's. Horrible modal windows that need to be constantly opened and closed to the point of exhaustion.Too many injuries to the point of being unrealistic. I've had several seasons completely ruined by having my roster decimated with injuries. I dread checking the injuries after every game. I've never seen teams completely wiped out by injuries to that extent in the NFL (to the point where I need to acquire 1 to 2 players each week just to field a freak'n team). I shouldn't have to tweak the config settings to make injuries realistic.One of my best players was "severely depressed" for an entire season and would not play. I could have cut him if I wanted to pay about a $1 mil. settlement. I know that kind of stuff happens from time to time for real, but combine that with my six players that are out for 10 weeks with broken arms, feet, clavicles etc. and it gets a little unnerving.There is not enough background on players in the draft other than combine scores. What this means is that the draft is usually a complete crap shoot. Acquiring new staff members with good scouting ability doesn't seem to change a thing.I need to draft coaches...give me a break.I'm required to have a fullback on the roster...give me a break. Waste of a roster spot.This just names a few of the problems.. Outstanding computer football game to the core. Would recommend to anybody who loves NFL football or any version of American football. Worked great from day one and is easy to play. Loved the way the game engine breaks down the season to create an offseason where you can Hire/Fire Staff members, sign Free Agents, Draft incoming college players and rework your entire roster. I also like the coaching features where you can adjust your gameplan and even scout your opponent. I do see some minor drawbacks like forcing a team to carry three QB's on the active roster and no 10 man Practice Squad but overall it hits all the major issues that other football sims seem to either ignore or simply do a bad job with.. E.Wolf's +51. If you like spreadsheets, you will enjoy this game. If you dislike spreadsheets, you will be bored.2. There is an incredible amount of customization. From the playbook to each player's stats, everything can be edited to make the game however you want it.3. There is also an incredible amount of detail. Each player has a variety of stats beyond what is offered in games like Madden NFL. Player performance changes their stats and benching players can both upset them and reduce their stats. The teams actually feel like teams instead of lists of individual players.4. With this being a spreadsheet-focused game, there is a plethora of statistics available to analyze. This is extremely useful for determining what your team needs to succeed.5. The off-season is incredibly detailed and realistic. I enjoyed the off-season more than the season due to the incredible customization and the hope for success next season.. 6/10It's okay, but really your money is best spent on other management sims. Very complex, very detailed, but with no real tutorial, and no guide that means plenty of time wondering what is going on and how to do simple things. The user interface is not really user friendly, it takes time to learn the basics. If they had a good tutorial that would no doubt make the game enjoyable, that said if you only like gridiron football management games, I know of none better than this game (that said I know of no other gridiron football management games period*), just with all the other games I have on steam, really a waste of money. I like it enough to probably play it once in a while from time to time, but really do not see myself getting more than 50 hours out of this game lifetime.*=GLB is different to this, I do not consider that a management gameNote: if you love calling plays every single snap then it might be for you, just I find having to update my roster every week in relation to injuries a waste of time, really wish they had an auto function that would do that for me based on position depth...maybe they do mind you (I do not think so, I have looked and am pretty miticulous, just there is so much detail to this without direction that not sure if I just skipped over it...). If you like sports managment games and American football this is a must buy. American Football Sims? Hard to come by! They are like the White Buffalo...So I decided to try FOF 7. In summary its worth the price of admission because nothing else exists. Front Page Football is horrible so that leaves Front Office Football.Is it fun? Yes! if you like American football and you pour over every detail online every Sunday Evening for the Stats for your favorite team. It has its football moments that make you soooooooo happy. Taking my hapless St. Louis Rams from 5-11 to 8-8 to 11-5 was quite satisfying. Then in the 2016 draft, Trading a 2016 second round pick, a 2017 first round pick, and a 2018 first round pick for a quarter backed named Felix Brown from Idaho was awesome. Because I interviewed him and decided he was "under rated". He turned out to be a 91/100 overall. The St. Louis Rams are horrible in real life, but in my simulation I have a young Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers to destroy the league with! HAHAHAHAHA!. I got excited when I saw this game on Steam. I was thinking it would be a cross between OOTP Baseball and NFL Head Coach. Technically, I guess it was.I tried to play it for about half an hour before I gave up and requested a refund. The UI was extremely chunky and didn't flow very well. There was no tutorial and I had to try to find every little thing with no help.It's probably a cool game if you can figure it out, but it was not what I was looking for. If OOTP would've made this game, I would've played the crap out of it.
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