The Scouting Report feature is a staple in the MOF and has been for years. It is the prime way to gather information on your opponent, and set up a gameplan to stop them. They are also a mandatory requirement that are due before the deadline of that game. Some coaches are confused on what to include in their scouting reports, right now in Season 30 we're accepting full games as a complete scouting report, but starting in Season 31 that will no longer suffice. We will need information, like the old days. In this tutorial we will show you the format we need to see when creating a scouting report. We will also include the correct BBCode for the forum, so you can make it stand out!

Step 1: Obviously you must login into the MOF forum first, to post in the scouting report thread. http://s9.zetaboards.com/mofleagues/index/ 

Step 2: After you are logged in, you will scroll down to "Scouting Reports" You can either click the word "Scouting Reports" or click the AFC or NFC logo depending on what team you want to write a report on.

Step 3: Select the team you want to write a report on, and choose "Add Reply"

Step 4: You will now see the blank box to enter your report.

Step 5: The following is how scouting reports should be formatted. Remember to have the report detailed, if you want to add pictures of plays, you can do so. If you want to add your gameplay footage, you can do so as well. The code will be at the bottom of this tutorial. But make sure, you do not enter just 1 line information. Make your reports detailed, or they will not count. At the end of each category you will grade them on a scale of A-F. At the end of the Special Teams category please grade Above Average, Average, or Below Average, since Special Teams really isn't gradeable. The final category "Fun Factor" will be your sim experience. On a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 being the best, please grade them on the experience of your game.

Week 11: San Francisco (20) at NY Giants (7)

Rushing Offense: Rashard Jennings is his main back and loves to try to get to the outside but doesn't have the speed. If you have fast OLBs like the 49ers do, you will stop his run game all day. Also likes the offtackle, and will run towards the TE side most of the time. Saw mostly conventional formations, I-Form, Strong, Weak.
Grade: B

Passing Offense: Loves his Tight End Donnell with all the updates, he's tough to cover. Loves the fast routes and quick throws (Drags, Slants). Did beat me deep with a bomb to Randle in the 2nd half, also tried a couple times to go deep to Cruz but it was knocked down. So he will attempt the long throws, covered or not.
Grade: C

Rushing Defense: Manually controls the DT and tries to get in quick. Plays a 4-3 and saw a good mixture of man and zone. Found a lot of holes in the run D. Suseptible to the pistol, and also likes to run the 5-2 defense. You will be able to shake him loose if you get him in the open field, over pursues sometimes and dives. Outside runs worked very well, up the middle not so much since he user'd the DT. JPP is very fast, so watch out for him.
Grade: C

Passing Defense: Mixes up his man and zone, i saw zone more often than man. Left Vernon Davis open alot, he liked to blitz but his defense wasn't fast enough to get in on me. Slants worked very well, i was able to get seperation from his CB's. Again, the Tight End was open most of the game he didn't try to user cover him or double him at all. So if you have a fast dominant TE, go to him often.
Grade: C

Special Teams: Nothing really out of the ordinary.
Grade: Average

Fun Factor: Great sportsmanship, completely straight sim player. Always a good game. I dominated the time of possession because i knew he has offensive weapons. Get a lead, try to control the clock, and hope he makes mistakes. He scared me a bit at the end when he scored that deep TD and picked me off, but i was able to hold him off. GL rest of the way!
Grade: 5

Step 6: Now that your scouting report is complete, you may wish to spice it up a bit by adding color, or bold letters, italic letters, larger letters or images. The table below will show you how to use the codes, Also at the end of the table i will post all the helmet logos and all you have to do is right click the helmet, choose properties and copy the URL of the image, it should be something like http://www.mofleagues.com/pictures/oldschoolhelmets_100x100/ARI.png and you can add that into your scouting report as well.

and this is the code for that type of format:

[img]http://mofleagues.com/pictures/oldschoolhelmets_100x100/WAS.png[/img][img]http://mofleagues.com/pictures/oldschoolhelmets_100x100/SFO.png[/img] [b][size=7][color=black]WEEK 12: [/color][/size][/b][color=black][size=7]WASHINGTON - [color=red]20[/color] AT SAN FRANCISCO - [color=black]17[/color][/size][/color] [b][color=#773141]RUSHING OFFENSE[/color][/b]: Loves the formation Gun Bunch formation (3 WR on one side TE on the other). Then runs a sweep or draw out of that play and runs towards the outside. Morris breaks lots of tackles so one on one tackling will not be sufficient, try to wrap him up (x button) and do not hit stick him because he'll just run you over. Do not remember seeing much of Helu, but Helu has speed. Did score on a pistol HB dive up the middle, where he was untouched. RG3 didn't run many QB reads at all, the only one i remember is at the end of the game he ran one to get a first down to win the game. I think it's the presence of RG3 that will bother you more than he actually runs. His run game is his bread and butter, no doubt about it. [b][color=#FFB612]GRADE: [/color]A[/b] [b][color=#773141]PASSING OFFENSE[/color][/b]: Shotgun and Pistol pretty much exclusively. Again, loves the formation Gun Bunch TE [img]http://mymaddenpad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/50ed3f79ge016_thumb.jpg[/img] I saw more than 70% of his offense in this formation. Loves to run crossing routes with this formation, also will try to go deep. I made a user mistake that got him wide open for 70 yards on that play. Will scramble with RG3 to find seperation. I suggest to send pressure at all times. It will give him less time for the crossing routes to develop and it will stuff the run too if he runs a draw. Likes the TE and will try and squeeze the ball into him, picked him off manually with Willis once, and probably should have had 2 or 3 more picks that i dropped. Could zone coverage works best against him, user the MLB or Safety and send pressure and you will have success. [b][color=#FFB612]GRADE: [/color]B[/b] [b][color=#773141]RUSHING DEFENSE[/color][/b]: Loves to play 1 deep safety, dares you to throw deep on him. Mostly plays zone, most like everyone else, and shifts his DL to the side where he thinks you are running. Will usually send a LB on a blitz almost every play to stuff the run. Counters worked the best against him. HB Dives, off tackles did not work very well he got in very fast with his DT and DE. He will user the DT, and i didnt do this often, but fake hikes might draw him off side. So definitely run counters, get him out of the blitz, then Slams and Dives should open up a little more. QB reads didn't work well, his LBs are too fast. [b][color=#FFB612]GRADE: [/color]A[/b] [b][color=#773141]PASSING DEFENSE[/color][/b]: Loves the zone, lots of cover 2 and lots of seeing 1 safety deep. That dared me to throw deep a couple times, I had more success with short drags and slants. Just have to be patient for things to open up, which could be difficult if you have an in accurate quarterback because he sends alot of pressure. TE is your best bet, but he picked me off on a jumped slant route, and picked me off on a deep one on one ball. He has a very tough zone pass defense to break, you're going to have to do your homework to beat it. The most success i had again, was slants, drags, and short stuff. Screens (if you have a faster back than Gore). If you have the QB to throw deep, do it. [b][color=#FFB612]GRADE: [/color]A[/b] [b][color=#773141]SPECIAL TEAMS[/color][/b]: Has DeSean Jackson returning kicks and punts, which will affect him in the pass game. But nothing out of the ordinary or eye opening. Very good punter, can hit it inside the 10 religiously. [b][color=#FFB612]GRADE: [/color]Above average kicker[/b] [b][color=#773141]OVERALL[/color][/b]: Great defense, very good running game. He's an old school MOF player in a rookie's body. Great addition to the league, very apologetic if he makes a mistake that is against the rules, and very easy to deal with. Great sportsmanship. Wish him luck the rest of the way, but not too much luck ;) [b][color=#FFB612]FUN FACTOR: [/color]5[/b] "DO NOT HAVE FULL GAME, TURNED OFF TWITCH MID-GAME" [flash=700,400]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU4pzpw2KR8&list=PLebFltjjPfLEQaBWveEh155X_rKYB3W93[/flash]