Following that there was an update in December.
[0.4.6] Version 1792c8b1
By jdavidbakr - Site Admin
12/12/2020 5:49 pm
Made some tweaks that I hope make long passing work again: deeper drop for the QB and the blocks are also held longer. Also increased the base probability for a catch, which I hope will reduce (but not eliminate) the wide-open drops.
Since then nothing.
[caveat]: The following are generalisations.
So, the running game was supposed to be more potent - it is - has it been souped up too much?
After an initial bloating of sacks, owners were put in a position where they needed to improve the OL to stop the pass rush. Resulting in sacks falling into line with where they're expected to be. If your OL (inc. TE, FB, RB) can't pass block or are too light then your QB will be under pressure and getting sacked. This doesn't really happen in 4.5.
However if you load up on pass blocking specialists, then it becomes harder to run as effectively but your pass completion goes up and sacks are controlled better. Finding OL that can do both effectively is tough and as such (both OL and DL) now play to their trade values (or at least, much closer to it). If you try to fill your lines of scrimmage with lighter weight players they are likely to get pushed around.
Completion % is currently 63.15%, slightly above whene JDB wants it, but reflective of teams wanting to play 'dink'n'dunk' possession offense. High is 81.5% (which I'm guessing compares favourably with NFL stats)
Interception % is 2.79% (5053 attempts, 141 interceptions) again slightly higher than the 2.5% ideal, but close enough? High is 6.79% (187 attempts, 13 interceptions). Six QB's are yet to throw an interception.
Sacks through 5 weeks have produced 395 from the 5053 attempts which is 7.82% - marginally on the high side but there are a couple of huge outliers 29 sacks in 122 attempts (23.77%) and 29 from 187 (15.51%) - take those two out and the line is 7.1%. The other consideration is that a sack isn't recorded as a passing attempt, if you add the sacks as an attempt the percentage is 7.25%
Yards per attempt is sitting at 5.27 yards so better than rushing (as it should be) but maybe a yard and a half to two yards lower than ideal?
As yet the Punt block has only occured when the punt timing is below 75 or it's a non Punter.
All in all, it's pretty much as expected, so why hold back on the release? Then put in a renewed focus to the passing game.
Last edited at 10/01/2021 11:53 am