Originally posted by merenoise
First off WL scores look nothing like NFL scores
Scores of the latest "week" of WL games, as of the time I'm writing this. They are preseason fwiw, but I don't think the regular season will look that different:
17-34, 40-3, 38-26, 6-18,
6-9, 15-34, 27-20, 23-20, 34-20, 20-23, 23-34, 6-24, 19-20, 34-20, 47-21, 17-24.
There are some quite high scores in there, and some quite low scores. They're probably slightly high overall, but not by much. In four games, a team was held without a touchdown. I'm not saying that's bad, just that it suggests offense isn't dominating.
Originally posted by merenoise
I just think that an all out offense-fest where the defense and special teams can never score is just as boring as a 3-0 game.I agree that an all-out offense-fest is as boring as a 3-0 game. I don't see one in those WL scores. 47-21 seems to be the highest scoring game there. I wouldn't want to see scores like that every game, but for the highest scoring game of the "week," it's not extreme.
As far as the defense not scoring, for the most part that's how it should be. The defense's job is to prevent the offense from scoring, not to score itself. Prior to this season, there was way too much defensive scoring. I'm really not sure one way or the other about special teams. They didn't strike me as unrealistic before this season, but given the other moves' making things much more realistic, I'm inclined to give the devs the benefit of the doubt that STs were scoring too much.
Originally posted by merenoise
I'd like to see defensive stats as inflated as offensive stats, and special teams stats also similarly inflated.I don't want any of the stats inflated. Average offenses in the NFL get 7 yards per pass attempt every year (7.1 in 2011):
http://www.nfl.com/stats/categorystats?seasonType=REG&offensiveStatisticCategory=TEAM_PASSING&d-447263-n=1&d-447263-o=2&d-447263-p=1&d-447263-s=PASSING_AVERAGE_YARDS&tabSeq=2&season=2011&role=TM&Submit=Go&archive=false&conference=null&defensiveStatisticCategory=null&qualified=trueAverage offenses get 4 yards per rush attempt, year in and year out (slightly more in 2011):
http://www.nfl.com/stats/categorystats?seasonType=REG&offensiveStatisticCategory=RUSHING&d-447263-n=1&d-447263-o=2&d-447263-p=1&d-447263-s=RUSHING_AVERAGE_YARDS&tabSeq=2&season=2011&role=TM&Submit=Go&archive=false&conference=null&defensiveStatisticCategory=null&qualified=trueYards per rush attempt in GLB is hard to gauge, as GLB throws sacks in as the NCAA does, rather than keeping them out as the NFL does, and I never have found a site with much in NCAA stats. But in any event, my goals have always been something like real life stats, nothing more.
When average teams get those numbers in GLB, people complain that offensive stats are inflated, because the best players end up with higher stats than the best players in the NFL do-- but that's because there isn't NFL-style parity. My DE, whom you (probably correctly) said will never play in WL, got enough sacks to lead the NFL:
http://goallineblitz.com/game/player.pl?player_id=2480480 (25 last season, compared to Jared Allen's NFL-leading 22).
For some reason, people don't complain when GLB players that are just reasonably good beat real life defensive leaders, but do when GLB players beat offensive leaders. That's what leads me to end up defending offenses as much as I do, as it's a dynamic pushing GLB toward defensive domination, as there was in seasons 24-25. Season 26 was much better, at least at top levels, and Season 27 may be spot on or may even be overly offensive. We'll see. But the answer even if so isn't inflating fumble and interception returns.
