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anyone else not getting a lot of INTs in their leauges?

any suggestions for fixing the lack of INTs?

i'm playing cpu vs. cpu in 3D.

of the top of my head with not a lot of experience you could try a global edit of the hands of the DB's and maybe a lowering of the awareness of the QB.

I have the same problem when I coach or play. I see a INT about once every 2 or 3 games.
therhino

Yeah few Ints, but alot of fumbles. Sometimes up to 6 or 7 combined.

i feel that too....

Hands skill affects fumbles.
 
Catching skill affects picks, as does play design to some extent.

i am going to start simming the games with the animated ball view.  that seem to fix the issue.

Catching skill affects picks, as does play design to some extent.

Why should play design affect interceptions?

Well, bad play design definately can. I have dumped pass plays because they result in INTs too often.

In previous versions, I have increased the leagues hands for LBs and DBs with the hack editor and it worked on fixing this issue.

Catching skill affects picks, as does play design to some extent.

Hubbard asked:

Why should play design affect interceptions?

Hack is playing 3D CPU vs CPU, so the plays matter.

Bad timing on offense can mess up a play, as can routes into the teeth of coverage.

Defenders don't tend to get picks if they are not in a postion to do so, so good schemes should get more picks.

I would say the thing to look for would be the number of knockdowns to picks. that should tell you whether it is a hands problme or not.

The Hands skill attribute does not affect catching the ball.  
 
I would like it if it would, but it does not.

what are the key defensive skill attributes that affect ints?

what are the key defensive skill attributes that affect ints?

 
There are many skills that could affect it.
 
Speed (SPD) to keep up with a receiver.
 
Cover (COV) to stay with him.
 
Catch (CAT) to make the pick.
 
I am not quite sure how INT and DIS affect defensive play. 

My bad, I meant I improved the catching skills for LBs and DBs.

Deft stated: My bad, I meant I improved the catching skills for LBs and DBs.

Yes, I thought that is what you had done, and here is your post to prove it:

What I did to remedy this was to increase all of the DBs Catching by 5 using Database Editor mod. I now get around 2-2.5 INTs per game. You might also increase the LBs because they usually have very low catching #s.

As we can see, you were spot on.

The DBEditor comes in handy for this type of thing.

This also shows how flexible Maximum-Football is to move stats into the range that the game owner wants.

what range is your catching skill attribute for DBs?

I used to raise the catching skill of DB's by 5 using JD's editor but I learned that 5 years down the road you might have issues with too many interception because the DB's catching skill are too well developed. Thats why now before I start playing I sim through the first 5 seasons of a league so that the players are well developed and I am not having issues with dramatic changes in gameplay down the road.

i thought about simming the first couple seasons, but the cpu takes over and screws up my depth charts and rosters.