warrior462 wrote:
raymattison21 wrote:
... the first play the safety had the angle...
Absolutely false. Take another look, work out the geometry. From the point of the catch to first contact the DB had to run further than the WR. This is the far more egregious of the two, given the GIGANTIC speed difference between the two.
I could measure but it looks like the safety was beat so he didn’t have the angle until he dove to make the tackle. At the :16 mark the safety had a 5 yard head start ...was it enough?
Without measuring too much and geometry (tempting as it is) the wr was near the 40 at that same mark right after the catch. He ran a sub 5 second 40 time if you timed him to the :11 mark. Within the speed ranges of version 4.5. ....at a 4.8 sec,4.9 sec 40 yard dash
The safety changed is attack angle twice in that time once when your wr starting running completely straight and once again to dive and make the tackle....or trip him up enough for another tackle.
57 is slow but his acceleration would play some role here. Most sub 60 speed small guys will run between 5.2 sec and 5.4 sec in thier 40 yard dashes but this wasn’t a straight line that why I mentioned the acceleration.
Again without math I think that safety had like 38.5 yards to cover in the same time frame and with the dive at the end it was just enough to make up for the .2 seconds in thier respective 40 yard dashes.
When stuff is this close fatigue has to have a play in but who knows ......still I have posted even larger speed anomaly’s in beta over the years. Recently I have commented on how users might not like seeing thier guys getting run down by slower guys as 4.6 comes with similar speed measurements.
Really speed used to be displayed on the players card in ranges from zero to one hundred for every one . Some years back it got changed to represent a number with the players weight added in.
In that same time the value of zero speed was raised but the calculation on the card is the same. Its not far off but true speed is calculations of speed and acceleration moderated by weight and fatigue.
Currently an 86 speed 243 pounder is around the same speed as a 73 speed 198 pounder in the 40 yard range. Good or bad an update could be needed to reflect true speed but I would rather have a combine you could run guys through .