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Re: In the word of Colombo...

By jhartshorn
10/28/2016 4:40 pm
the guy had great stats other than....speed

Re: In the word of Colombo...

By lellow2011
10/28/2016 4:42 pm
jhartshorn wrote:
the guy had great stats other than....speed


Well it didn't help either that I had no running back talent and everyone knew I was going to be throwing a lot. Still that's not an excuse for a QB to take that many sacks.

Re: In the word of Colombo...

By Bryson10
10/28/2016 4:42 pm
Both those qb's have low speed in common. I'm wondering if they tried to take off to run and were so slow that they got caught behind the line and it went down as a sack. I like more qb's to have above 70 speed so this doesn't happen. Cunningham has rushed pretty well for me this season and even ran in like 3 scores.

Re: In the word of Colombo...

By lellow2011
10/28/2016 4:44 pm
Bryson10 wrote:
Both those qb's have low speed in common. I'm wondering if they tried to take off to run and were so slow that they got caught behind the line and it went down as a sack. I like more qb's to have above 70 speed so this doesn't happen. Cunningham has rushed pretty well for me this season and even ran in like 3 scores.


My QB in that same league has taken 9 sacks on 389 passing plays.

Re: In the word of Colombo...

By Bryson10
10/28/2016 4:45 pm
i noticed that when i was doing the sacks allowed matrix stat page. What do you attribute that too? Is your line sweet or is your qb just getting it out quick? Playcalling?

Re: In the word of Colombo...

By jhartshorn
10/28/2016 4:48 pm
sacks allowed matrix???

whats that?

Re: In the word of Colombo...

By lellow2011
10/28/2016 4:48 pm
Bryson10 wrote:
i noticed that when i was doing the sacks allowed matrix stat page. What do you attribute that too? Is your line sweet or is your qb just getting it out quick? Playcalling?


I contribute it to random luck mostly lol, I did draft some offensive line fairly high (which I am incredibly annoyed by now that offensive linemen are being generated with speed. I used a 6th, 7th, 10th and 12th rounder on actual offensive linemen with low speed).

I'm pretty sure it's just random, some combination of attributes and play calling that is allowing me to luck into not taking sacks.

I do believe the speed and scrambling are probably the most important factors though.
Last edited at 10/28/2016 4:50 pm

Re: In the word of Colombo...

By Brrexkl
10/28/2016 5:54 pm
jhartshorn wrote:
Quote from previous post:

Re: Custom Player Weights (Need Explanation)
By parsh
9/02/2016 7:30 pm
Someone posted this awhile back in the forums, so I feel it's okay to repost .. I saved it because I think it has a bunch of good info. Whoever originally posted this .. thank you
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"Top Attributes (in order)

QBs -- Intelligence, Scramble, Arm, Accuracy, Lookoff, Release
Analysis: Intelligence helps the QB learn plays, which is essential. Scramble affects accuracy on the move. You can expect your QB to be on the move 70-80% of the time regardless of how good your OL is until changes are made to the passing game.


Speed has to be in there, unless you 'manually' ignore all QBs with less than say 35 Speed (not sure the actual cut off, but there is a number where he's just to slow for anything else to matter).

So you wouldn't have to actually weight it if you just took your Top QBs and the took all the slow guys off the list.

Benny Worrell was perfect... should have been Drew Bledsoe or Troy Aikman... but he had the kiss of death wasting 100's in FOV and Look Off, High 90's in Accuracy and Release, and 80 in Arm.

I mean, they clocked Tom Brady, Troy Aikman and Drew Bledsoe with Sun Dials, Joe Montana was never 'fast', nor was Dan Marino. But apparently in MFN you need an Olympic Sprinter at QB... even if he had both arms amputated.

To make it worse you can't even get him to target some one safe like a TE even when you only use 2 TE Sets and pick all the Plays that have TE in the name.

Don't get me wrong, I'm loving the game. I just now know to take all logic and reason, abandon it, and see what sticks to the wall. At least I'll always have Phillip Bolden, my MLB turned DE with 40+ Sacks a Season.

Re: In the word of Colombo...

By setherick
10/28/2016 5:57 pm
parsh wrote:
jhartshorn wrote:
Quote from previous post:

Re: Custom Player Weights (Need Explanation)
By parsh
9/02/2016 7:30 pm
Someone posted this awhile back in the forums, so I feel it's okay to repost .. I saved it because I think it has a bunch of good info. Whoever originally posted this .. thank you
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"Top Attributes (in order)

QBs -- Intelligence, Scramble, Arm, Accuracy, Lookoff, Release
Analysis: Intelligence helps the QB learn plays, which is essential. Scramble affects accuracy on the move. You can expect your QB to be on the move 70-80% of the time regardless of how good your OL is until changes are made to the passing game.


This game changes so much probably half that stuff is nullified now ... lol


That's from my post during v.3.2 of the code. A lot of that is still probably true, but I'm going with a different approach for QBs now.

100 Accuracy
33 Scramble, Intelligence, Arm, FOV, Look Off
1 Everything else

In 76, I'm drafting the best, fastest, nastiest pass block line I can just to experiment with QBs. Will I break 60% completion? No eff'ing way.

Re: In the word of Colombo...

By jhartshorn
10/28/2016 5:59 pm
Two TE'S made 800+ yards in mfn74 last season
They must be doing something right