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My HB was tearing it up earlier in the season, averaging over 200 yards a game for the first 4 games, but recently he's been playing more poorly, not even breaking 100 yards these last two games. Also, his broken tackle numbers have dropped severely. He wasn't one of those backs who would routinely pull a 70 yard TD run with 7 broken tackles, but I usually had 20-25 broken tackles per game on roughly 30 touches, now I have 5-6.

I know Bort increased the chances for missed tackles to result in "latching and dragging", but would the "small increase" he put in really equate to this big of a difference? There are plenty of other Power HBs in my League and around GLB that are still doing fine after the change, but my guy has just collapsed.

Having my best season ever. Some cream puff teams and some not but doing very well over all.

Your HB is almost entirely strength/carrying/SA-based. If he's completely dependent on breaking tackles for production then any change to tackle breaking is going to hurt him severely. I'm speaking from experience.

http://goallineblitz.com/game/player_game_log.pl?season=3&player_id=93332

Look around game 11.

Start reacting NOW, adapt your build. With all of the bitching the hammer WILL fall on powerbacks, particularly those without speed or agility. And at least some of it is justified, I just hope that they don't over-nerf them like they did with the DE/OT dynamics.

Originally posted by OMGWTF
Your HB is almost entirely strength/carrying/SA-based. If he's completely dependent on breaking tackles for production then any change to tackle breaking is going to hurt him severely. I'm speaking from experience.

http://goallineblitz.com/game/player_game_log.pl?season=3&player_id=93332

Look around game 11.

Start reacting NOW, adapt your build. With all of the bitching the hammer WILL fall on powerbacks, particularly those without speed or agility. And at least some of it is justified, I just hope that they don't over-nerf them like they did with the DE/OT dynamics.

I've been working on Speed/Agility for all of this season, I have 65 and 57 respectively. The main problem is that it's a lot harder to adapt at lvl 50+ because you level up so infrequently, This season I've leveled up 5 times so far (3 boosting, 2 XP based), those 25 SP have gotten me a total of +5 Speed and +5 Agility.

Originally posted by skel1977
Having my best season ever. Some cream puff teams and some not but doing very well over all.

I counted 5 out of 8 games being blowouts/stat padding/gutted team games. If I had played that many crappy teams I wouldn't be having this problem either. We've played one CPU team thus far, but our next two games are against 2 teams that are winless. Let's hope I can turn this season around some.

Originally posted by Dianwei32
Originally posted by OMGWTF

Your HB is almost entirely strength/carrying/SA-based. If he's completely dependent on breaking tackles for production then any change to tackle breaking is going to hurt him severely. I'm speaking from experience.

http://goallineblitz.com/game/player_game_log.pl?season=3&player_id=93332

Look around game 11.

Start reacting NOW, adapt your build. With all of the bitching the hammer WILL fall on powerbacks, particularly those without speed or agility. And at least some of it is justified, I just hope that they don't over-nerf them like they did with the DE/OT dynamics.

I've been working on Speed/Agility for all of this season, I have 65 and 57 respectively. The main problem is that it's a lot harder to adapt at lvl 50+ because you level up so infrequently, This season I've leveled up 5 times so far (3 boosting, 2 XP based), those 25 SP have gotten me a total of +5 Speed and +5 Agility.

Believe me, I know, have you seen my players?

Split your equip to strength and speed if you haven't already. Keep in mind that some of your productivity is based off of playcalling, so you can only control so much.

Originally posted by skel1977
Having my best season ever. Some cream puff teams and some not but doing very well over all.

That's what happens when you play with underdogs. Everything I touch turns to gold mother bitches.