Is making a player taller cheating

[LetsVoltron]

We had a player in our dynasty that made his linebacker and receiver 7 feet tall. He keeps telling us that the height don't matter. He got 24 sacks in one game with his linebacker. Is there any advantage for doing this?? I don't know why they give you an option to do this anyways. Thanks!

[Allworld]

Re: Is making a player taller cheating

Thats super cheating dude should be removed from the dynasty

[jj06]

Re: Is making a player taller cheating

um yea..


you guys are fools for letting him do it

[PowerofRed25]

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Absolutely that's cheating. Height DOES impact the game, especially at LB and WR. A 7' WR would tower over defenders and if he has high jump ratings, even better. As for 24 sacks, it is pretty obvious that guy cheats. The sacks are unrelated to height, that is a pretty good sign of nanoblitzing. Kick him out.

All Users in an OD can edit Name/Number/Appearance/Equipment/Height/Weight of all players. The commish can do that plus edit ratings. Height DOES impact the game significantly, especially at LB/DB and WR/TE. It defeats the purpose of people recruiting taller/bigger guys if you've got people editing 5'9" guys to be 6'9". That is cheating, plain and simple.

Editing weight does NOT matter, 170 pounds, 320 pounds, no difference within the game. I do prefer to edit weight of my players, especially guys I've moved down or up a position. If a 6'4" 220 WR comes in and I move him to TE, I'll bulk him up 10 pounds his freshman year to 6'4" 230, 10 pounds his Sophomore year to 6'4" 240 and then let the natural CPU weight progression take over from there.

[jello1717]

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I don't understand why you even needed to ask that question.

[LetsVoltron]

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Thanks for answering it guys. We called him out on it, and he got all pissy at us, and told us that we were whinning. He retired from the league. Thanks again!

[sublime3189]

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lol anyone who enjoys playing with 7 footers shouldn't be allowed in an OD regardless of actual impact.

[The_Rick_14]

Re: Is making a player taller cheating

We had a player in our dynasty that made his linebacker and receiver 7 feet tall. He keeps telling us that the height don't matter. He got 24 sacks in one game with his linebacker. Is there any advantage for doing this?? I don't know why they give you an option to do this anyways. Thanks!

If height doesn't matter then why did he do it? You guys were right to call him out. Good riddance to him.

[blkrptnt819]

Is making them shorter cheating?

[stratospaly]

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I have used CAP 7 footers and they are NOT helping. Anything over 6" 6' is too tall. When you try to cut they trip over their own feet and fall flat on their face. They also get beat on jump balls by 5" 9' players who have a better jump rating.

[OnWisconsin]

Re: Is making a player taller cheating

Absolutely that's cheating. Height DOES impact the game, especially at LB and WR. A 7' WR would tower over defenders and if he has high jump ratings, even better. As for 24 sacks, it is pretty obvious that guy cheats. The sacks are unrelated to height, that is a pretty good sign of nanoblitzing. Kick him out.

All Users in an OD can edit Name/Number/Appearance/Equipment/Height/Weight of all players. The commish can do that plus edit ratings. Height DOES impact the game significantly, especially at LB/DB and WR/TE. It defeats the purpose of people recruiting taller/bigger guys if you've got people editing 5'9" guys to be 6'9". That is cheating, plain and simple.

Editing weight does NOT matter, 170 pounds, 320 pounds, no difference within the game. I do prefer to edit weight of my players, especially guys I've moved down or up a position. If a 6'4" 220 WR comes in and I move him to TE, I'll bulk him up 10 pounds his freshman year to 6'4" 230, 10 pounds his Sophomore year to 6'4" 240 and then let the natural CPU weight progression take over from there.

I was never aware of the natural CPU weight progression. Do you have any more information about that? I.e. Scale of how it happens, does redshirt effect it, does position effect it?

[PowerofRed25]

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I was never aware of the natural CPU weight progression. Do you have any more information about that? I.e. Scale of how it happens, does redshirt effect it, does position effect it?

From what I've seen in the past, there seems to be about a 2-6 pound per season weight progression. I have no idea how it works, it seems completely random. I really haven't paid enough attention this year to see how it works or if it exists.

I will during my next offseason for sure though just to see if there is some sort of pattern to it.

[blkrptnt819]

I was never aware of the natural CPU weight progression. Do you have any more information about that? I.e. Scale of how it happens, does redshirt effect it, does position effect it?

It happens just not as much as everyone would like.

[ajwhawkeye12]

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Actually height and weight have ZERO impact in the game... unfortunately.

[PowerofRed25]

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Actually height and weight have ZERO impact in the game... unfortunately.

Weight, no impact. Height, absolutely has a huge impact.

I recruited a 6'7" 250 pound, 80 speed TE for my air raid offense and the guy is amazing because of that height. I line him up everywhere to get mismatches, my favorite being when I align him on the single WR side of Trips. He's usually matched up against a DB 9 or 10 inches shorter than him. He has 88 jump and I just lob it up to him and he catches it.

He has 51 catches for 864 yards and 11 TD's through 6 games as a true freshman. That height is a huge matchup problem and it absolutely has an impact on the game, especially tied to the jump and spectacular catch ratings.

I prefer height to speed at WR and TE, way more useful and effective.