jhartshorn wrote:
I see all LBs have same weightings - how do you then decide which would be best in such position?
Here's why I have LBs weighted the way I do.
Primary Nonimprovable - Speed, Acceleration, Strength
-- These are pretty self explanatory. Speed and Acceleration allow the LB to move around the field quickly and Strength allows them to come up and take on blockers.
Primary Improvable - Tackle
-- Why not Run Defense or Pass Rush here? In general, you don't need much of either to be an effective LB. With how the code works, your LBs are not crashing every running play anymore and getting swallowed by the OL. Instead, they are moving laterally and advancing on the RB when they have an opening. This is where Speed, Acceleration, and Tackle are more important. You also don't need Pass Rush because rarely does the OL engage a blitzing LB, and the RB/FB often misses them as well. It's better to have Speed, Acceleration, and Tackle here as well. It doesn't matter from what spot they are blitzing from.
Secondary Nonimprovable - Intelligence and Discipline
You can probably drop DI to 1. I will probably do so when I go back to revise since it doesn't seem to do anything. Intelligence is good for play knowledge.
Secondary Nonimprovable - Run Defense
Your LBs are only going to use this maybe 20% of the time if that. Why weight it higher?
Tertiary - M2M, Punish, Pass Rush
M2M and Punish should probably be higher, but Pass Rush could probably be a 1 for the reasons listed above. I've noticed that low M2M LBs are "falling down" against TEs and RBs. If you play a lot of "zone" with your RBs, then Punish is more important since it completely wrecks the "short QBs throw the ball way to low" code.
Now, the reason why all three LBs are weighted the same is that in my system, they all basically do the same tasks. Also, LBs still kind of **** in the code, so why worry about more than Speed, Acceleration, Strength, and Tackle?
EDIT: I realized I didn't fully answer jhart's question.
The most important LB in any system is the WLB. Your best LB should always go here. Always.
Here's why. Most of the effective running plays go to the weak side of the line. You need your WLB to be fast, strong, and have good enough tackle to shut those plays down one-on-one.
Your MLB should be your second best. This is where you probably want to put your best cover LB - other than your WLB - since the WLB and MLB stay in the Nickle.
I often use overrides to get what LBs I want on the field.
Last edited at 8/20/2017 8:42 am