Now ive started a new thread, but feel free to merge into whatever is relevant as there appears to be a few covering each area.
Basically I have done a few tests (that may have been done) that I feel may help the situation, however please call me out if they dont as im not an NFL expert by any means... im a couple years removed from having Madden as well, so please if anything, be constructive and point me in the right direction if im way off the mark.
Anyway for test purposes my sim was based on:
Offline Solo CFM
Weekly Progression
OS Simulation V1 Roster (thanks to them for doing this, found in the roster section of these boards)
SIM 1 - Roster as is:
Code:
Player Team Sacks/All Team Total
Bushrod CHI 35 64
Robinson STL 35 55
Kalil MIN 34 52
Williams/ WAS 25/19 51
Compton
Investigating these compared to the best 3 teams 'Sacks Allowed' the biggest difference was that these teams had a QB(s) with Sense Pressure set to Average or Lower. They also had lower AWR stats to begin with, but nothing drastic to make me think this is causing the LTs to cave in.
So for SIM 2 what I did was change all the 4 above teams QBs to Sense Pressure 'IDEAL' and left everything else the same.
Code:
Player Team Sacks/All Team Total
Bushrod CHI 19 34
Robinson STL 17 35
Kalil MIN 8 23
Williams/ WAS 6/7 21
Compton
Now you can see instantly that the team total sacks have dropped and in the case of Minnesota, Kalil now gives up 0.5 per game, where as before it was over 2 per game!
Interestingly if you look at the players stats (bare in mind this is a full sim with weekly progression):
Code:
OVR PBK RBK AWR
Robinson 84 (+11) 70 (-3) 89 (+1) 77 (+3)
Bushrod 85 (+6) 82 (-5) 74 (+2) 86 (-2)
Kalil 81 (+9) 82 (+9) 85 (+3) 88 (+4)
That is how they looked before the playoffs, again I defer to experience here if that is as it should look (worse or better).
In terms of the 3 teams QBs who took the sacks and their AWR progression:
Foles dropped from 78 to 68
Cutler dropped slightly from 74 to 73
Bridgewater improved nicely from 77 to 84
In regards to league wide sack numbers, well they stacked up well against the 2014 real NFL stats:
STL topped the charts with 53, one of 2 teams to break 50.
7 teams managed 40+ and then the majority of teams broke the 30 mark and higher.
At the bottom, CHI managed just 20... whilst the 2nd least was 27, so no major dropoffs and again in par with what the 2014 numbers looked like.
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I mean people can rip the guts out of that or ask me to do something else, but if im not wrong in my reading on these boards, it at least addresses the LT regression issue? QB AWR isnt drastically dying off for the worst effected teams and the total number of sacks allowed comes back into 'realistic' values rather than huge numbers?
I appreciate its a small sample size, but I took the worst offenders in a 'clean' sim and worked from there.
Thoughts?