Warrior General Games

(Tried asking this in the K/P forum, but nobody answered.)

Anyone have any luck using a roster with 2 kickers? As in, 1 Boomer and 1 Technician? A lot of real-life college and NFL teams have their most-accurate kicker (their Technician) handle FGs while their strongest-legged kicker (their Boomer) handles kickoffs, so I was wondering if it's ever been tried in GLB.

Best way I can think of to make it work would be this:
1.) Put both kickers in the K depth chart: Boomer first, then Technichian second.

2.) Set the Energy Settings at K to be something like 1/2, so the Boomer will always play on kickoffs.

3.) Put just the Boomer in the PH depth chart. That way, on FG plays the Boomer would get pulled into the PH slot, leaving the Technician to fill in at K to actually attempt the FG.

Problem is, that would only work if the sim fills the PH spot first before filling the K spot. If the sim fills K before PH, then the Boomer would attempt the FG and a QB would get pulled in at PH instead.

(Also means using up an extra roster spot, but for teams who already have some STOPs, it would be pretty easy to just cut one STOP to make room for the extra Kicker. Then you'd get the benefit of your most accurate kicker handling FGs while your strongest kicker sends all the kickoffs back for touchbacks.)

Biggest obstacle is finding out whether the sim fills PH before K, or if the sim fills K before PH.

Anyone ever tried this?

(And no, I don't care about your opinion of whether or not you think it would or wouldn't work, or whether or not you think it would be worth the extra roster spot. I don't care. All I want to know is whether or not anyone's ever tried this before. If you haven't tried it yourself and you don't know anyone who's ever tried it, don't waste your time or mine with a reply. Thanks!)

Probably just best off running an insta-scrim to see if PH or K fills first.

Originally posted by Novus
(And no, I don't care about your opinion of whether or not you think it would or wouldn't work, or whether or not you think it would be worth the extra roster spot. I don't care. All I want to know is whether or not anyone's ever tried this before. If you haven't tried it yourself and you don't know anyone who's ever tried it, don't waste your time or mine with a reply. Thanks!)

did you post this quote in the k/p forum? if so that's probably why nobody replied. I can't imagine anyone has tried a 2 kicker system, but I do find it intriguing. First you would have to find one of each who are built correctly, most Ks you will find, despite their archetype are probably going to be pretty similar.

but I actually agree with the romo fan, you need to see what pulls first, the place holder or the kicker. If the kicker pulls first than this plan won't work.

If you do find out that the PH pulls first and you decide to try this, i'd love to follow your progress.

Originally posted by InRomoWeTrust
Probably just best off running an insta-scrim to see if PH or K fills first.

I'd do that... if I had a team. Which I don't. Which is why I asked here.

Originally posted by Robbnva
did you post this quote in the k/p forum? if so that's probably why nobody replied.
Nope, the PS was something I thought of as I was re-posting the OP here, and it occurred to me I'd probably get quite a few replies from people just saying whether or not they thought this would be a good idea. And like I said, I don't care about that... I just want to know if anyone's actually tried it.

Originally posted by Robbnva
I can't imagine anyone has tried a 2 kicker system, but I do find it intriguing. First you would have to find one of each who are built correctly, most Ks you will find, despite their archetype are probably going to be pretty similar.

but I actually agree with the romo fan, you need to see what pulls first, the place holder or the kicker. If the kicker pulls first than this plan won't work.

If you do find out that the PH pulls first and you decide to try this, i'd love to follow your progress.
I doubt I'm ever going to own my own team again, to be honest. This was just something I thought of yesterday and got curious about.

I'm starting to think nobody's tried it before. I've never seen it done anywhere else, and nobody's posted here to say whether or not they have, so I think that's a "no."

Thanks!

I doubt too many people have actually tried it for obvious reasons. The payoff is just not there.

Originally posted by Dub J
I doubt too many people have actually tried it for obvious reasons. The payoff is just not there.

*ahem*

Originally posted by Novus
(And no, I don't care about your opinion of whether or not you think it would or wouldn't work, or whether or not you think it would be worth the extra roster spot. I don't care. All I want to know is whether or not anyone's ever tried this before. If you haven't tried it yourself and you don't know anyone who's ever tried it, don't waste your time or mine with a reply. Thanks!)

Thanks. Just don't want to get the thread derailed on a discussion of whether or not this would be a good idea. All I'm asking is whether or not anyone's tried it, not whether anyone thinks it's a good idea or not.

I don't think its a good idea and I don't think its worth it and Its not worth the extra roster spot.....wait.....what?

No.....I haven't tried it but you probably wont get too many posts to clutter this up since not too many have tried it

Originally posted by Novus
Thanks. Just don't want to get the thread derailed on a discussion of whether or not this would be a good idea. All I'm asking is whether or not anyone's tried it, not whether anyone thinks it's a good idea or not.

Well, good luck on finding someone that's tried this worthless endeavor.

I have actually done this and it works fairly well as far as making the substitutions. (though I did it for different reasons....I wanted to stop my K from getting more FGs because I didn't want him to win the MVP so I had my punter kicking FGs in soft games).

I think I put the punter first in the K slot and the K second, but then had the P as the sole occupier of a slot on the KO team so for KO the second slot would fill the K spot.

The way you have it mapped out might work too.


However, a good and well built kicker will have both plenty of leg and accuracy so it's pretty pointless to try to gain something this way.

Originally posted by tautology

However, a good and well built kicker will have both plenty of leg and accuracy so it's pretty pointless to try to gain something this way.



He just said "fix ur builds"

Judging by average KO distance, this guy http://goallineblitz.com/game/player.pl?player_id=2162460 is usually the longest-leg in WL, though I haven't checked this season.

Except for XPs which seem to be pretty random (and sometimes get blocked) I don't think he's missed from less than 50 yards since he hit plateau, and his 50+ yard percentage is pretty respectable.

Originally posted by tautology

Judging by average KO distance, this guy http://goallineblitz.com/game/player.pl?player_id=2162460 is usually the longest-leg


hey baby, how long is your leg..