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If you raise confidence enough, you should be able to play it like Deion Sanders, 5 yards off the WR on purpose just to lure the QB into making the throw you want =P

Originally posted by omgitswill
If you raise confidence enough, you should be able to play it like Deion Sanders, 5 yards off the WR on purpose just to lure the QB into making the throw you want =P

how does confidence help this?

Originally posted by DLight03
Originally posted by smarlow

so what's the secret?

The secret is be slow and let teams throw at you a lot :\

Thats a cute little zinger. Ya, my CB has 100 more career tackles then your CB, which is potential an extra 100 career catches allowed (though he has been huge in run support so I doubt its that many). At any rate I think the extra 35 career INTs and 50 career PDs and my CB doesn't look too shabby in comparison.

I was thrown at alot in seasons 2 and 3 because I played medium coverage to induce throws at me. This year I am playing close, still getting a ton of INTs, and allowing less catches.

Currently my team is 6-0 and thus far we've only had 2 opponents who passed for 200+ on us and they got 203 and 216 yards respectively. Give me a break man...

Originally posted by omgitswill
If you raise confidence enough, you should be able to play it like Deion Sanders, 5 yards off the WR on purpose just to lure the QB into making the throw you want =P

This is a GAME not real life. To GLB there is no such thing as the bait and switch.
The only way to actually do that is to set your man coverage distance to far, coverage style on aggressive, have very high agility and high vision to break on the ball and the closing speed SA would help as well.

Confidence is the most underrated stat IMO, soft cap it to 48

why why why do you think its overrated? A couple dudes saying its good means nothing to me. But a well constructed argument on why its useful would be AWESOME!

Originally posted by mmuhr
why why why do you think its overrated? A couple dudes saying its good means nothing to me. But a well constructed argument on why its useful would be AWESOME!

I don't know. But I do know that (1) the highly successful players I've talked to (in all positions, not just CB) have generally suggested confidence, and (2) my level 28 CB has higher stats in every category than my level 26, except for confidence and carrying. My level 26 has more PDs and INT, and less tackles.

Anecdotal evidence and not empirical, but I think it says something.

yeah thats some good stuff there. Do they play against similar level opponents? What is the difference in confidence between them?

Originally posted by mmuhr
why why why do you think its overrated? A couple dudes saying its good means nothing to me. But a well constructed argument on why its useful would be AWESOME!

Why confidence is good ?

Well let's see ....

With low confidence it's impossible to keep your morale up , don't think anyone can argue about that .

Some events in the game makes you lose a lot morale , some not as much . Like a catch allowed for 2 yards is probably not the largest hit , but a catch allowed for 15 yards would hit you more .

And to prevent a downward spiral it will help you a lot to keep a high confidence , makes you able to shake it off a little better .

I must agree some games it's a irrelevant skill , but imagine this scenario (worst case , I know):
It's the championship game , you're playing a great team and you're very evenly matched . First play of the game they run a outside run , the WR pancakes you . yet you still get up just to get a missed tackle leading to a huge gain by the HB . Ever played IRL ? Ouch , that's a rough start , but yet you have to stay on the field on the next play . They throw the ball your direction and even though you have the WR heavily covered he still makes the catch and gets to the endzone . Imagine your morale if you had 17ish confidence ?

And with 3+ quarters to go , that could really ruin your game .

As mentioned , this is the worst case scenario probably , but you wanted someone to explain why confidence and good and hope this is good enough .

But also in not as bad games it would still suck if you performed bad later in the game just because you neglected a skill completely . If given up 2-3 catches during the game makes your morale low that could affect how good you play later on , and therefore a possible deflection could end up with a catch for the WR giving the other team that important 1st down and lead to a score , who knows ?

So there you have it , that's why I think confidence is underrated .

I would agree that confidence is important, but to say that you should soft cap it is crazy. Many other skills are way more important and need to be developed first. I think for a lvl 20 or so a confidence of 28-30 is on the high side, but thats just me.

Originally posted by pauldabamf
I would agree that confidence is important, but to say that you should soft cap it is crazy. Many other skills are way more important and need to be developed first. I think for a lvl 20 or so a confidence of 28-30 is on the high side, but thats just me.

Sure thing , my general advice is 30+ confidence for a level 20+ guy .

Im really not sure how ingame morale works. All I know is that my dude has 100 morale after every game but maybe thats because my team is 7-1. My CB gives up an average of maybe 2-3 catches a game and iv noticed the games where its usually 3-4 catches he gives up they sometimes come in streaks and one is usually thrown deep and gets bobbled and caught(I hate those soooo much). I feel no1 can really know how well confidence helps unless they know how ingame morale actually works.

I think in game moral works similar to in game energy in the fact that your morale goes up and down based on certain things in the game, as well as that if your morale starts at something other than 100, your in game moral will start lower.

Teams that have more losses see players with varying out-of game morales, based on that players confidence.

I do need to read up on the details again though.

If someone knows where the specific details are, feel free to post please.