Coaching Changes

[Wisnoodles]

How do you determine coaching changes? Who get's fired why? What are some stories you have about these changes?

[JoeMontana]

As it stands, hiring and firing can only be done by editing the coach name in team data mode. I tend not to keep any detailed coaching stats or records, so there's a surprisingly low turnover of coaches in my league.

As an aside, Larry's use of coach name modification for the pre-defined coaches is a source of amusement. I like playing "match the coach"... George Cypher...

[Wisnoodles]

Does anyone use the 10% worst rule of getting fired for coaches, I am interested in hearing about these decisions if anyone has any?

[Benjamin]

Firing and hiring coaches is not my favorite thing to do in UFL. It is a labor for me. I normally fire the head coaches whose teams have the worst records in the league unless the coach has won a league championship or conference championship in recent years. I also normally don't fire coaches that have recently been hired to give them a chance to build their teams. Coaches normally last about 15-30 seasons (normally on multiple teams) in my leagues, mostly because I would rather use existing coaches then find rookie coaches to hire. If a coach is up in years (25-30+) and they win a championship, I retire them so that they can go out on top.