Suggestion about Safeties

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pdozer63
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Suggestion about Safeties

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I think this is more of a suggestion rather than reporting a bug, per say. I am in week 3 of my test league and I want to open a discussion about safeties. I am seeing an absurd amount of them. I am ok with seeing one once in awhile and hope they reflect a truer percentage of real life safeties but this is just too much. What is causing them, is the new punt return, or lack of them from the more recent updates. Sometimes a returner calls for a fair catch, but more often than not, he just lets the ball bounce and doesn't field it.
The punting team is downing the ball on the opponenets 1 or 2 yard line, then the defense records a safety on the following play. See the list please, a red star denotes a game that had a safety recorded in it. 2 red stars denotes multiple safeties in the same game.

Now this is from build 1.3.84 & DB engine 1.0.308
PC mode vs PC mode (played in real time...not simulated)
American Rules.



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pdozer63
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RE: Suggestion about Safeties

Post by pdozer63 »

I guess what I am suggesting is that you adjust the percentage rate or whatever of how many times a punt returner just lets the ball go by and bounce on the ground, allowing the punting team to down the ball onthe 1 or 2 yard line. It would help lower the percentage of games that safeties are occuring in, in my opinion.
Deft
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RE: Suggestion about Safeties

Post by Deft »

I have seen punters get the ball to stop inside the 3 several times as well and it could be tweaked. But I also think you should look at the gameplan to see if lots of pass plays are run from that location.
pdozer63
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RE: Suggestion about Safeties

Post by pdozer63 »

point taken, and I guess you might have something there, but I have added a slew of plays to my playbooks, that all seem to perform ok, granted it's the first season of this league and there are plenty of slower players that may not make the best lead blockers, and whatnot. I will keep watching to see if things improve as I go.
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