Planned Release Date: September 2024

About This Game

This new version of the highly customizable statistics and ratings based Pro Strategy Football game is even more amazing!

PSF's realistic engine for on-field results, excellent AI that never cheats, and fun visuals are just the start! New to this year's release are

• TWO career modes!
  
• Historic Careers (also called Encyclopedia mode) let you load HISTORIC rosters in each season of your career!
  
• GM Careers now include League Expansion! Add or relocate teams or even redefine your whole league structure!
  
• Convince retiring players to stay on!
  
• Vastly overhauled animation, with custom zooming, custom scoreboards, and more!
  
• Fog and overcast skies!
  
• More options when creating custom pick-up games (set the month, name the stadium, more)!
  
• Set the starting month for your tournaments!

Historic careers are new in this version, an amazing addition for history buffs! Using the fantastic mods provided by the community, you can load historic rosters each year of your career! Start your career with the 1971 league, then when you advance to 1972, load in the 1972 mod and you immediately have the updated rosters, the championship folder, links to the new artwork (you still have to download it), everything to immediately continue your run through history, except this time you're in control! And don't worry, this picks up any new teams added or renamed (even if they moved to a different conference)!

Animation is still the retro graphic you love, but vastly improved, and you can now select custom scoreboards on the coaching and animation screens! You can also select any custom color for the network box and sports ticker! The engine and AI are improved even over before!

For people new to PSF, it is based on a realistic game engine that was developed for a Master's project and then fine-tuned over many years with great feedback from users. But it's not just a text game! You can watch any game played live, can coach against the AI or another player, can simulate entire weeks or even seasons, and the game results aren't affected!

However, because it was primarily a coaching game, the game results ARE greatly affected by plays called - formations, shifts, motion, coverage, everything that a coach can set in a play, including substituting players! Of course, weather, refs, and injuries can impact you as well!

BUT PSF doesn't box you in! You can change rules, tweak injuries and penalties and other realism settings, and choose how YOU want to play the game. The game is highly customizable, and you can run the whole league as a commissioner, play behind the scenes as a GM for one or more teams, coach from the sidelines, or even watch games in the stands as an observer – and you can play any or all of these roles at any time.

As coach, you can design your own plays and juggle your lineup. As GM, you can draft the next unstoppable quarterback, sign former stars off the waiver wire, convince a retiring player to stay on another year, and more. As the Commissioner, you can even modify league rules to reflect changes in football history.

As a fan, you can watch the highly-developed computer game coach both teams, and a running sports ticker tracks other games. In the upcoming version, you can now zoom in on the field and customize your scoreboards, including a new broadcast box version.

You can also create simple pick-up games, which I also call quick games or exhibition games, where you can pair any two teams from any leagues, you can set the game’s weather, change the rules, and even create situations, such as being down by 4 with 2:00 left in the game.

Whether you coach, watch a game played live, or run quick simulations, the engine treats every game the same, so you get the same results whether you watch it or sim it.

BUT WAIT, there's more! The community has created dozens of historical and fantasy leagues, including art sets, schedules, and everything you need to play for thousands of hours! With the historic careers, you can load real rosters for every season!

Regarding the new kickoff rules that someone thought would be a good idea, check back. There is a new rule option where you can "Require Announcing Onside Kicks" but the rest of the new rule isn't implemented yet.