Fastscore Football

Fastscore Football was created in the early 2000’s as a quick play football game, unfolding quarter by quarter, highlighting each touchdown (with missed PAT and 2pt conversions), each field goal and each safety.

Each teams’ personality is baked into the ratings, taking into account the offensive and defensive styles of each team. For example, some teams may score frequently, but fail to execute in the red zone, settling on field goals more often than scoring touchdowns. Other teams may rarely put points on the board, but when they do they efficiently march into the endzone, scoring more touchdowns than field goals. It will be harder to score touchdowns against great red zone defenses. Dominating pass defenses will shut down teams with pass-heavy offenses, and strong run defenses will stop the running game. With Fastscore Football, teams will perform similarly to their actual points scored and points allowed, their actual TDs and FGs (both scored and allowed), and each team’s win-loss record.

This can be used as a supplement to other football games, allowing you to quickly play other games in a single team replay scenario, or could be used as a standalone game to replay full seasons. If you don’t have enough time for a full play-by-play football dice game, you could use Fastscore Football to generate the score at the end of 3 quarters then play out the last quarter using your favorite play-by-play game. Each season comes with an as-played schedule with all ratings pre-calculated for each game. So all you need to do is sit down and start playing!

Fastscore Football is played using a scoring chart, season specific team ratings, and four differently colored or differently sized 6-sided dice. Alternatively, you can use two 6-sided dice and a 20 sided die. Each team has four ratings- the Offensive and Defensive scoring ratings (OFF and DEF) determine the number of scoring drives per quarter; the higher the OFF rating, the more potent the offense. Likewise, lower DEF ratings represent better defenses. The Offensive and Defensive Red Zone ratings influence whether a touchdown or field goal is scored. Teams with higher Red Zone ratings score more touchdowns than field goals, while teams with lower Red Zone ratings will often settle for field goals.

FASTSCORE FOOTBALL WAS DESIGNED FOR MAXIMAL STATISTICAL ACCURACY:
Every season of Fastscore Football is painstakingly calculated in a two-step process. First, the raw stats are converted into ratings based on a standard spreadsheet that takes into account the number of scoring drives, TDs, FGs and safeties specific to that season. Then the ratings are tweaked through thousands of simulations that adjust for the actual opponents and the strength of schedule. In this process, as many as half of the original ratings are adjusted for greater accuracy. Adjusting the ratings to a team’s strength of schedule is critical to achieve accuracy. After this process is completed, the average scoring drives, points, TDs and FGs (both for and against) fall within 5% of actual performance.
On any given Sunday, any team could win. Likewise, in any given replay, dice rolls have “a mind of their own”. But you are creating your own history in these games, so enjoy the unexpected events that take place as you replay your favorite seasons.