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Originally Posted by Von Dozier |
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I've been back and forth on QB Accuracy from 5 to 10 for years now, and personally decided on 10.
Yes, on 5, you do have to get in a rhythm, because when you're not, every ball you throw past 5 yards looks like a child attempting to throw a ball for the first time. And the thing is, once you get yellow, you become that Brady or Rodgers anyway, so all 5 does for the HUM, to me, is make you absolutely awful for the first quarter or so, almost as if scripted and you have no say in the matter. You just have to accept the fact your should-be high powered 90+ rated QB will look like a high school player vs an NFL defense.
The biggest thing is that QBA at 5 for CPU doesn't JUST bring down accuracy, but it also makes the CPU QB simply stupid. If you observe the same QB on 5 vs 10, it's night and day in their decision making. On 5, they seem to have no confidence to throw unless their first read is open by about 10 yards. This usually ends up in a bunch of coverage sacks throughout the game. You can see this on replay after replay. Whereas on 10, they become basically normal, will go through a read or two, and don't mind taking a risk here and there.
TLDR, I've always seen QBA as less of an accuracy slider and more of an AI slider. 5 to 10 does totally different things for HUM and CPU.
I only make this particular argument because everything else looks real solid, and a lot of it mirrors my own, including little things like injury edits and QB strength.
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I'm gonna test this. Currently 3-5 with WVU, about to face #5 Miami. After that, it's 0-8 MTSU, 1-8 Pitt, and 3-5 NC State to close the season. Outside shot at a bowl. I'm not gonna lie, I've been VERY tempted to up it to 10 all year. My starter is sitting at 2086 yards on 54%, 10 scores, 14 picks so far, and there have been some puzzlingly bad throws. I've never played football, I'm a soccer guy, so I'm not amazing at reading the D, but there have been some throws where he misses by 5-10 yards from a clean pocket and it gets picked. He's got 88 THP, 90 THA, but only 77 AWR, so he comes out ice cold, I'm probably completing under 40% in the first quarter on the year. I'm hesitant to do this with the CPU, just cause I've already been torn up for 300 yards with 75%+ completion % a couple times. Haven't
really had an issue with excessive coverage sacks.
Now's the time for me to test though, because I plan on playing out this dynasty to the 60 year mark. Simmed to 2020 just to see which P5 was a good project and to get all the real players out of the game. I'll give it a go for the next 4 games, see if it results in OP QBs, if not I'll extend the sample size to a season.
I do think it's a losing battle on 5 though, you saying it makes me realize how insane it is that a guy with the ratings my starter has is putting up these awful numbers.
Curious, do you use coaching trees? I was thinking about using the Game Management tree, because I can upgrade all 3 slots of HFA with no real effect due to me having HFA off. This would allow me to get to the second tier with passing/running matchups and setup plays. It would also slow my recruiting improvement down. Looking at the OC/DC trees, I don't actually think it'd be cheesy to use those trees (aside from the physical and AWR boosts). CPU uses them and often blatantly shows that it knows exactly what I'm calling.