How to Create a Death Penalty in Sport Video Games

Sports video games have really advanced since the early 1980s. Now you can take a team through an entire season against real opponents. But if you've mastered the game and want a real challenge, then create the death penalty within the game. It refers to taking a top team, wiping them out of their best players and slowly building the franchise from scratch.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Video game console
• Team sports games

1. Select the best team in the game. This can also be the team you hate the most, which you want to see completely dismantled. Think of last year's champion in the sport. If they beat your favorite team, then they have to go down.

2. Set the mode to "season play" for your team. Different games on different video game consoles have different ways of doing this. Some are more advanced than others, where you can build teams to play over many seasons or just one season. Determine what your game allows. The more seasons, the more complicated.

3. Trade away your best players. Make sure that you receive terrible players in return. Remember, this is a challenge for you.

4. Adjust the players' strengths and weaknesses. Some video games allow you to change the players' strengths and weaknesses. Make sure to take away virtually all strengths.

5. Schedule impossibly hard games. Now that you are a terrible team, go after the best. Schedule the highest ranked teams that will agree to play against you.

6. Go to work and use strategy to defeat the better teams and improve your players. This is where you will really see if you are worth your salt. Now that you've created the death penalty, it's time to roll your sleeves up and play. Use tactical solutions to overcome your team's lack of athletic ability.

Tips & Warnings

• If you have to go through several seasons in order to make your team really stink, put the game simulator on and let the console do the work. Then pick up the game once you have truly created the death penalty.
• This is not recommended for the video game player who throws and breaks controllers. If you need to feel like a winner, select the best team and play someone inferior.