Features

• Start in any season from 1970 to 2015
  
• Rosters for every year since the AFL-NFL merger
  
• Play-by-play describes each play as it happens
  
• Box scores and play-by-play files created for each game
  
• Detailed play designer
  
• 22 offensive formations: 3rd down packages, wildcat, etc.
  
• 17 defensive formations: nickel, dime, prevent, 33 stack, 52, etc.
  
• View detailed results for each play in your playbook:
  
• Versus each type of defense
  
• In each down-and-distance situation
  
• Realistic player development and aging
  
• Play up to 100 seasons into the future
  
• Automatically loads files from previous versions
  
• and more...

New Features

• Updated team rosters for 2015-2016 season
  
• Accurate 65-man rosters, updated for opening weekend.
  
• More realistic simulation
  
• New ratings-based simulation, with 26 new ratings for each player.
  
• New Scouting Report and Player Rating Editor.
  
• New option to build an offense without a fullback.
  
• New stats and ratings for over 2,800 active players
  
• Updated year-by-year stats for every player
  
• Hand-edited ratings for over 1500 players
  
• More than 400 new players
  
• Includes all 2014 draftees, plus undrafted free agents
  
• More than 600 new player photos (1,425 total)
  
• Exact season schedule for every season from 2001 through 2014
  
• Accurate scheduling algorithm for all future seasons (2014 and beyond):
  
• Includes correct interdivision and interleague matchups according to NFL rules
  
• Plus realistic schedule options going back to 1972

Additional Features

• Historical rookies loaded for each college draft class
  
• Correct schedule and playoff format for each season
  
• Enable or disable overtime (which was added in 1974)
  
• Additional league editing options, like the number of wild card teams

• Two players can compete head-to-head using the same computer
  
• Keyboard shortcuts for in-game playcalling (so you don't have to fight over the mouse)

• Schedule generation for shorter seasons (as few as 4 games)
  
• Schedule generation for custom league configuration -- even for an odd number of teams
  
• Fantasy drafts with more than one human-controlled team
  
• "Import Playbooks" feature lets you quickly load playbooks designed by each team's owner

• Set your team to run a '3-4' or '4-3' defense
  
• Build your offense with or without a fullback
  
• Adjust the run/pass balance of your offense
  
• Fine tune your game plan by customing your playbook
  
• Advanced playbook editor
  
• Easy interface lets you quickly edit existing plays or build a playbook from scratch
  
• Editable folder names and play names
  
• Load and save playbooks for use against different opponents, or to share online
  
• Playbook tracks the success of each play in a variety of offensive and defensive situations
  
• Supports custom offensive and defensive playbooks for every single historical team
  
• You can even redesign plays in the middle of a game