About FastScore Football Replay Game

In 2004, I set out to design a quick play game that would generate the score of a football game with a few rolls of the dice. The task was clear; I wanted to design a game that incorporated ease of play, a simple ratings system and simple charts. I realize that we all play these games to relax, so I wanted to avoid any system that required complicated mental gymnastics.

I feel the current version of Fastscore Football meets and exceeds these goals. While the basic ratings system was developed in 2004, over the past few years I’ve been working on perfecting the ratings methodology, and I gradually developed a series of spreadsheets that fine-tune the accuracy of the ratings. This programming allows hundreds of simulated seasons to be run, ensuring the accuracy of each Fastscore season while factoring in each team’s strength of schedule. 

Although the ratings seem simple, there is a great deal of background information packed into each rating. This game uniquely takes into account the offensive and defensive styles of each team by separating scoring frequency and scoring ability. For example, some teams may score frequently, but fail to execute in the red zone- thus adding points to the board with field goals more frequently than touchdowns. Others may rarely score but efficiently march into the endzone- thus scoring more touchdowns than field goals.   Additionally, offensive and defensive strengths in the running and passing game are reflected in the ratings and will influence the score of the game.  For example, teams with strong defenses against the run will more effectively shut down teams that rely on the running game.  And in close games, give your team a fighting chance by going for a 2-pt conversion!

With Fastscore football, teams will perform similarly to their real-life stats in points for and against, touchdowns for and against, field goals for and against, and most importantly, their win-loss record.  These stats are fine-tuned to a 250-season average typically within 10 points of actual, and within 2 TDs and FGs of actual.  Strength of schedule is factored into the ratings to ensure the utmost in accuracy.

And the best part: we’ve included the as-played schedule for each season! And we didn’t stop there- we know that your time is valuable, so we’ve calculated the final team ratings for each game on the schedule- taking into account home field advantage and the run/pass ratings- so you don’t have to do the calculations yourself.  Just sit back, roll the dice and mark down the score of the game.

Fastscore Football is played using two differently colored 6-sided dice. Each team has seven ratings representing offensive and defensive abilities and a clutch rating. Better ratings are color coded in green while worse ratings are color coded in red. Higher offense ratings represent teams with punishing offenses. Lower defense ratings represent teams that effectively shut down their opponents.

If you play Fastscore as a stand-alone game, you can finish a season replay in a few hours! You can also use Fastscore Football as a complement to detailed, play by play games like Second Season Football. If you are enjoying a single team replay, play your favorite team’s games with your favorite football game while playing out the other games on the schedule with Fastscore, and see how your team is doing in the standings! A week’s worth of games can be completed in less than 15 minutes! Remember, we’ve done all the legwork by performing all of the calculations for you!

Fastscore offers great value for the gamer. Each Fastscore set includes multiple seasons for one low price! We intend to rate every season from current day to the seasons of yesteryear.

Each season includes:

Rules of the game

Scoring Charts
 

Team Ratings Chart
 

As-Played Schedule with pre-calculated game ratings for each team

So, grab your favorite beverage, take out Fastscore Football and play out a season replay of your favorite season. You’ll see Fastscore Football teams perform similar to their real-life counterparts. And you’ll finish so quickly, you might decide to replay the season again and again!

—Brian Davis