This seasons running game

[Niki]

When I have enough time tomorrow I will make an overview the avg skills per position of the rookies for each year.

[Paul-London]

Well Niki.... almost.

As far as i know this has been done to increase the running-game - which is now working.

but taking a closer look at your stats it is clear to me why passing exploded:
QBs: + 31,6
WRs: + 26,1
TE: + 40,3
==> DBs: + 5,7 (worst improvement)
so that makes clear why DBs really are having a hard time nowadays.... you can say that passing-game "overimproved" due to the changes.....
my wish: instead of improving DBs we should reduce QBs/WRs/TEs. Look at their ratings: way through the roof!!!!!
Plus there should be a fairly good draft for DBs but not a ridicuouls skyscraping one (not 10 Superstars to be drafted, maybe one or two, the rest should be good but not immediate start......)

Its difficult if we reduced all the QB's, perhaps we wont try doing any adjustments this year because the defenses always catch up year after year so perhaps if they catch up a fraction this season then it might be okay next year ?

We wont have 10 superstars but we wont have a weak weak draft crop like last year.  Many players were weak but some had strange skills, eg 85 SP but then 68 ST or something

Dont get me wrong doing the rookies is a very very tough job but its so hard to get the right medium, eg not too good but not too bad

[JH-SanAntonio]

So....

Defenses were too good at the beginning of the year. So they were penalized.

But, oddly, offenses were penalized as well, and the defenses downgraded another notch to keep up.

Now you're advocating more reductions?



So if you happen to have an offense you've struggled to build up to the point where you have a reliable air attack... you can now pink-slip your reduced wide receivers, and replace them with a guy running around wearing a giant foam middle finger.

Jolly!



I still stick to:

"if you don't understand how it works, don't screw with it"

[Mario ADK]

hmmm......
the league-average of Passer-Rating of 99,94 does bother me a bit and i think Marco or Niki posted their opinion as well that our QBs are too good.

But you have always a passer and a receiver so a little adjustment here on both sides might help. But i do not stick to that because i agree with anyone that a 21-28 is better than a 6-10. In other words: it is not a real topic, just a thing to watch for the future.

[Marco_Frankfurt]

What really is an indication of a too good passsing game or in generall offense
can be find in the records data:

The top 5 passing yards for a season were all from this season !

4 of the top 5 offense yards per season were from this season

3 of the top 5 most yards allowed per season were from this season

3 of the top 5 rushung averages per season were from this season

3 of the top5 completion percentages per season were from this season

For passing TDs we have 3 teams bettern then any team before and 3 more tying the old record  in this season

all this is a good indication for me that our passing game is better then ever or vice versa our pass defenses worse then ever before !

[Paul-London]

I still stick to:

"if you don't understand how it works, don't screw with it"

Well that wasnt the case, i asked the advice of a few people who know the game (eg David) so it wasnt randomly just done.

Anyway this season there will be no changes on offense or defense and i would say the rookies would be slightly better but not outstanding, last years crop were probably the weakest ever but thats not so bad as in many NFL drafts you have weak crops of players etc

[Paul-London]

What really is an indication of a too good passsing game or in generall offense
can be find in the records data:

The top 5 passing yards for a season were all from this season !

4 of the top 5 offense yards per season were from this season

3 of the top 5 most yards allowed per season were from this season

3 of the top 5 rushung averages per season were from this season

3 of the top5 completion percentages per season were from this season

For passing TDs we have 3 teams bettern then any team before and 3 more tying the old record  in this season

all this is a good indication for me that our passing game is better then ever or vice versa our pass defenses worse then ever before !

While i agree this season had many great offenses etc srecords.htm is not to be trusted.  Because of a weird screw up seasons ago it stops adding new records, it adds them for the one week then when the following week is ran it erases the previous weeks and now adds the current week.

So i'm sure for the last 4 seasons most of the records arent stored, IF it was stored from the previous 13 seasons then not every single record broken would be from this year.

Basically i'm trying to say it hasnt stored most records the past 7 seasons year after year so every year now it will look like there are '68' new records when in actual fact if all the data was there there might only be 7.

[JH-SanAntonio]

Every season since my first in this league (season , we've had defenses reduced.

We just added a new ability to further customize your offense.


Regardless of how many records may or may not have been broken this past season, it's simply boggling that anyone would want to screw around with anything at this point.

Leave it be, let it work.

Honestly, if you don't like high pass ratings, run a non-conservative pass offense yourself, or start a rookie.

Sheesh.

[Paul-London]

Well no changes for next year so we'll see how it pans out.  Interesting to see a lot of players breaking career records now as many have now played in the FWL for their whole career whereas in Season 1 we had some 2nd or 3rd year players already