I don't understand this comment at all. I often carry 9-10 DBs on my roster and I play something like 80-90% of all plays in a base 4-3 defense.9-10 DB is standard, the problem comes when teams start holding 12-15 CB plus 2-5 Safeties (FS and or SS). Usually these roster styles will carry either 2or 3 LB or DL and in 'extreme' cases 2 or 3 of both.
I believe (as an extreme example), CJ Fred won the exploit League with this strategy, to prove the point.
People see the strategy, copy the strategy and soon there are half a dozen teams in a league doing it and being successful because there is no real detriment to doing so.
The same is true of WR, it's not difficult to find a team with 12-15 WR, usually the teams with a heavy excess in Secondary players.
It leads to an imbalance of players. I don't have an issue with players playing out of position per se. I just think that if they are training at CB all week but playing and starting at LB or DL they should be more inclined to making errors, picking up injuries and getting overpowered by heavier guys. You'd also find them picking up the wrong player, running the wrong route, jumping offsides, getting called for holding etc
I also don't get the statement that more teams have CBs with elite speed and cover abilities by converting fewer players. The reason that you convert your good B&R and cover LBs to CB in the first place is because there are never enough of these players in a league period. And you can get LBs from converting DL cheaperIn 4.5 speed is too dominant so people inevitably stack up on it. It's about the imbalance it creates across a whole league - the haves and have-nots. Because speed is so dominant things like coverage ability become irrelevant. You wouldn't have a QB with 25 pass accuracy but you do see CB with less than 25 for m2m coverage just because they have 90+ speed.
Pro tip everyone: Never convert a high coverage DB to LB. Leave them at CB or safety if you play your safety in man. There are enough high cover DTs and DEs that you can convert to LB that you can get dirt cheap at the end of a draft or in FA. Converting a DL has the benefit of gaining speed as they drop weight. If you convert a guy to lose speed, you're doing it wrong.
Good advice, I like to convert players if I feel they have qualities better suited elsewhere on a roster. In BETA there is a case for converting down as strength and weight are a bigger factor at the line of scrimmage and for LB's when they need to defend the run.
Here's the problem that no one wants to talk about still. What 4.6 gives in terms of fixes, it takes in making game planning that much harder. It's going to be less enjoyable to your casual player than 4.5 is now. I mean there will be a set number of plays that work - I think - against almost all defenses still, but finding these plays and building a game plan around them will be harder.I respect your opinion and you may be right. You could also be wrong. Only one way to find out for sure though.
Getting beat by 75 points after being hit with 5 punt blocks and getting scalped in trades is proving detrimental to keeping newbies in 4.5
And if you don't use rules, I don't see how anyone is likely to be successful on defense with the spread runs gashing all of the nickel and dime playsYou can win with little or no rules. People do. If your argument is that to be the best of the best you need to play with rules, I would agree. It could/should be the difference in two evenly matched teams. However, many don't fully understand how to create rules as the current system is overly complicated and counter intuitive.
Until the punt block is corrected in 4.5 people will continue to vote with their feet and leave. There is a fix, tried and tested across 4 leagues for 12 months and proven to be robust.
That fix affects every play in the game as it involves improved blocking.
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