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i had my CB play on aggressive for the past 2 games. And while he did manage to grab a pick six, he actually had more success jumping routes and knocking them down than actually intercepting them.

like:

http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?game_id=284753&pbp_id=12512937

and

http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?game_id=284753&pbp_id=12516899

as 2 good examples. now i have catching in the high 30's and 4 in sticky hands. how much higher would they have needed to be to make these plays? or do u guys think it was a confidence thing, since the team was getting murdered?

i havent seen catching make much of a difference

id say carrying is almost more important than cathing for INTs. its just like for WRs and how carrying is apparantly the attribute used for tucking the ball away. yeah catching helps, but i didnt really seem to see an effect when i got mine up either. now my carrying isnt high either, so i guess i cant 100% back it up, but its just a guess.

Originally posted by Worker 3
id say carrying is almost more important than cathing for INTs. its just like for WRs and how carrying is apparantly the attribute used for tucking the ball away. yeah catching helps, but i didnt really seem to see an effect when i got mine up either. now my carrying isnt high either, so i guess i cant 100% back it up, but its just a guess.

That's like smelling your own brew. you like it, but you wouldn't admit it.

i sent customer service a question about % catching and percent intercept, this is the answer I got.


Hi Ilok. The % catch isn't the same thing as % intercept (because there's a better chance of a receiver catching a ball, than a defensive player making an interception. However, catching definitely can increase the chances of a CB intercepting a pass.

The mod inevertanly answer a question I have been wondering for a while.

Basically the percentages that you get on AEQ is the same percentages the sim uses when it decided what happens during a play, like how the sim calculates tackling, strength, SAs and tactics for the defensive player minus the break tackle attributes/SAs/Tactics of the offensive player when determining if the tackle will be made. % make tackle on the AEQ must be just a hard percentage on all those calculations.

When it comes to interceptions, there must be multiple calculations/percentages coming to play.

First is whether or not the WR catches it or not. It have to be all attributes/SAs that determine catching (catching/jumping/vision/confidence/carrying/openess/quality of pass/SAs ect.) minus the attributes it takes in to consideration if the CB defends the pass (strength/jumping/vision/SAs/Tactics ect.)

Second if the CB defends the pass there has to be a calculation on what the CB does like tactics (if he tries for ints or PDs) vision, confidence and other attributes to determine if he can make the interception or if he just slaps it down (or up which seems like the case a lot of the time)

Last there has to be a calculation if the CB does make the catch on the interception, sort of the first calculation in reverse it calculations catching/jumping/carrying/openess/quality pass for the CB and defense attributes of the WR.

So basically, the fact that there are multiple calculations coming into play way before the CBs ability to catch the ball comes into play means catching is more of a low priority for corners.

I'm sure everyone has noticed when a CB jumps the play, it almost always results in an interception no matter how low the CBs catching is since the WR isn't really defending just like when a WR is wide open he almost always makes the catch. Vision/tactics and SAs and possibly confidence seems to be the only determining factor if the CB jumps the pass (and not get fooled by a fake) so those attributes would be more important to CBs wanting to make interceptions. If a CB is going after a contested pass trying to turn it into an interception it already has a great chance of fail so it's not really important since the corners ability to catch is the last in a series of calculations.

The biggest factor in getting INTs is not being that good. If your CB is very good, especially relative to the WR, the QB will not throw at you very often.

So try not to be too good and you'll get interceptions based on sheer volume.