I have noticed in almost every league that kickoffs are far to easy. The way it was before was more realistic. Not only do I see them in multiple leagues but I have seen in three leagues since the new engine a team return a kick and the opposing team return it back to back.

Maybe this issue was already brought up but if not it's worth a look.

I posted before checking stats and after checking them.....

Last four years
2032 -34
2031 - 1
2030 - 19
2029 - 11

Rediculous. Their is five guys with four or more KO TDs

For anyone curious, the typical return rate for TDs in the NFL under the "new" KO rules is ~7 per season for the entire league:

http://www.espn.com/nfl/statistics/team/_/stat/returning/sort/kickReturnTouchdowns

Obviously with issues of parity MFN will never perfectly mirror NFL rates, and we should expect higher return rates, but just thought I'd add that context.

It's got to be a change he made in the new engine and if I had to guess what the problem is I would lean towards the blocking updates resulting in blocks being held more and longer.

If a change can be made to kickoff season without effecting anything else it should be an easy fix.

This is more then a problem when the NFL average is 1 every two weeks and in this league it's over two kickoffs returns per week.

I've heard others mention this, but I don't see it.

The entire season I had 0 kick or punt returns for or against me.

I wonder why this seems to be happening in all the other games except mine? What am I doing differently?

Are the teams giving up the most returns playing backups on special teams or something? Or worse, letting the Ai set the depth chart?

I have witnessed a rise in kickoff returns for TD's, also. Luckily, most of them have been from my team. I think what WarEagle says is accurate. I do believe owners are letting the AI set the depth chart. The change I have seen is the kick returner looks to be tackled 3-4 times and somehow breaks out of it. I rarely observed this before.

With that said, I've also noticed punt returns seem almost automatic. When the returner decides to run it back, it is around 8-10 yards almost every time.

I'd like to see more excitement on punt returns (not too much), and a little less on kick returns.