The 99s fix, four screen plays that look like four different screens, an in-game menu, the end of half clock, the goal line pile, the coaching tree chair bug, and fixes you reported.

Ratings

• Too many players showed 99. Two causes. The Talent number was graded against fresh rosters, so on a developed league nearly every starter read 99. It is graded against a developed league now.
• D1 starters with any 99 go from about three in four to about one in five. D1 scoring comes down about a point a game to the real-world line. D2 and D3 do not move.

On the field

• The half could end before you got to use your last timeout after a completion. Your call or the timeout offer now comes at the whistle, before the clock runs off.
• On a stuffed run near the goal line the pile could be drawn past where the ball was spotted, out the back of the end zone. The carry stops at the spot now.
• The touchdown call comes the instant the ball crosses, not after the tackle finishes.
• Trailing teams no longer run the ball under a minute. Under two minutes with no timeouts, or under one with any, the computer goes to hurry-up passing.
• On a defense book with a quarterback spy, Base Rush pulled a tackle to spy. The spy is a linebacker now, he does not count in coverage, and the box score says the right number of rushers.
• The board drew almost every incompletion it could not stage as a drop. It draws a drop only when the play was a drop.
• Bubble, tunnel, running back and slip screens are four different plays. The sim records which one was called and the result depends on the blockers, the defense's call and the receiver.

Calling the game

• A Menu button on the game screen, or Escape. Sound, music and volume at the top, M to mute. Resume, Quit to menu in Play Now, Sim the rest in a dynasty game, which plays out the game you are in and counts the result.
• The field goal is never locked. Any down, any distance, with the yards and the make chance on the card. If you want to try a 65 yarder, that is your call.
• Every play card is redrawn in coaching board notation on a lighter card. Defense cards show who covers which zone. Every formation diagram in the game matches.

Saves and records

• Quit at halftime now resumes at halftime.
• Other schools' playoff and bowl games count on every record screen.
• If you seated a coordinator in his own head job, one tap on the main menu could load you as him, and quitting from the seat picker could bring you back in the wrong chair. Fixed. If a save already has you in a chair you never chose, you go back to your own and get told once.