WWM Football

What's Next?

I had a lot of fun with the Fast Drive Football college football playoff. I want to keep playing some football.

However, I decided not to use FDF. It's a good game, but games take a little longer than I want. And the instant result rules are too quick. Therefore, I chose to try creating my own rules.

The Rules

FDF works well, but each side gets a lot of possessions, many of which don't result in scores. To speed things up, I created rules where each side gets fewer possessions but score more often. I assume that there are more non-scoring possessions but the game skips over them.

In general, here is what I came up with.

• Each team starts with 1 possession per quarter.
• Roll a D6 to find the result of that possession: 1-2 no score, 3-4 field goal attempt, 5-6 touchdown
• If the roll is even, the team will get another possession in the quarter, up to a max of 3 possessions.
• It requires a roll of 3 or more to make a field goal.

Those are the basic rules. I also wanted to account for differences in team quality. I settled on three categories, offense, defense, and kicking, rated as superior, average, or inferior.

For a team's first possession of a half, roll 2D6 and determine the results as follows:

• If the offensive rating > defensive rating, use the highest roll.
• If the offensive rating < defensive rating, use the lowest roll.

If there is a 2 degree difference (for example, superior offense vs. inferior defense), roll 2D6 for the first possession of each quarter.

Sample Game

Here is a sample game for team A vs. team B.

First Quarter

• Team A scores first with a field goal. Team A leads 3-0.
• Team B drives but misses a field goal. Not surprising due to an inferior kicker.

Second Quarter

• Team A scores a touchdown. 10-0.
• Team B misses a field goal.

Third Quarter

• Team B actually kicks a field goal! They're down 10-3
• Team A gets a TD. They lead 17-3
• Team B gets a TD. 17-10
• Then they miss another FG. That's 9 points missed!

Fourth Quarter

• Both teams miss field goals.
• Team A then ices the game with a TD. 24-10.

This game took only about 5 minutes to play.

The WWM Football League

Now that I have rules, I decided to build a league and play a season.

Key features:

• Eight team league with two 4-team divisions
• Each team plays 10 total games - two each vs. division rivals and one each vs. the teams in the other division
• Division champions will play in a championship game

I asked Chat GPT to generate helmets for the 8 teams. Here they are