What I'm thinking is that the linemen should accelerate quickly and be at their top speed within a second, two at the most, a secondary player or wide receiver's acceleration would be slower as they never line up in a 3-point stance this could result in a slight delay in 'getting off the blocks' which should be enough to allow the bigger heavier player to have the advantage. Whilst allowing the occasional burst through the line.

Acceleration should be a key factor for linemen on both sides of the ball, you want your guy to be winning the battle and the first to be in position will win the battle more times than not. Maybe their needs to be some sort of 'twitch' response or trigger, which is only activated by players above a specific weight, say 240lbs.

Basically the linemen (both sides of the ball) will be training all work in 'explosiveness' in getting off the line. O line should be slightly quicker as they should know when the ball is going to be snapped. Some D line players would be more likely to gamble on the snap count based on their own volatility and aggressiveness (think Michael Bennett as an example, he'll get called for offsides on a regular basis but will also eff a play up with that initial burst.

This is how our code works its just that bigger player is slower due to weight. If two guys were ethe same size but one had really low acceleration and one had really high....this makes the the guy with more acceleration faster and quicker over a certian distance until the numerical speed number is reached.

Additional code could be added but why not fix the current lapses in weight penalties in the first place? Alot of caps on current code are due to this problem of a players weight slowing a player down to the skills of highschool players. Making these small areas of exploit

Nerfs/ caps will be present until its changed and that is no good.

Its like the time from snap to kick on punt in the first place...they were a fraction of a second slow in the 4.5 release.....he tweaked them and blocks dropped dramatically here in beta...

Still, here in beta with the value of zero speed being raised and the speed part of blocking algorithms going exponential instead of linear the guys linned up a T are still to slow out ofa three point stance to catch the db scorching offf the end for a block attempt.

These changes are more pronounced in the run and pass game than they are seen in the punt block play currently.

Theses OTs are appling quick feet developed through training but technique can be refined to make up the distance.....Our point of engagement is at the line of scrimage as nfl offensive tacckles get back into a pass blocking mode by standing up right (presnap)in clear passign situations...a three point stance is abonandon to help pass blocking ....not hinder it..

Our player movement uses rocket science. Our OTs dont use any physical leverages the nfls do thus making exploitable holes especially cause the calculations that hinder this"acceleration" rate, but our speed too.....putting the trending players weight per position into "boxes" that dont fit relative statistical scales.

And these same "true speed' gaps cause expliots all throughout the game and change every outcome

Run these guys through some vitural combine events and compare the results witht the nfls. Youll will see our big guys rank really low and should never play past college

Should the O-line line up in more of an arc in this formation?

tpyically, and they are in a 2 point stance most of the time, but you only get a bit of leeway before the tackle is considered off the line of scrimmage thus become something different or even an illegal formation to be flagged.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lVfc6tsHXeM

And in this video for pass blocking the G is lined up off the foot of the C....a bit further back...better angle to cut off the outside rush..

This is more pronouced for the T but the key is the "kick back" or "kick slide" coach is reffering to....that is the first responsiblity of the blocker even before the post snap blitz read.

If it were a tackle he would kick back several times to keep pace with the rusher outside. I kinda think were misssign those parts as well.


None of this should really matter on a punt return play cause its almost accepted the rush will be light if not non existent