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For me, missed Tackles are one of the most frustrating things that can happen to a Safety. So I’m trying to decide how much I need to work on my FS’s tackling related skills for next season. Here are my stats, and I’d be curious to see what other people’s looked like.

25 games
10 Missed Tackles
2 Max per game, .4 average
8 on Rushing plays
2 on Passing plays
4 before halftime
6 after halftime

The crucial stat for me is that only two of those plays resulted in real breakaways. Most of my MsTk were on big pileups, where my dot was often still touching the ballcarrier’s dot at the end of the play. In those situations, I think the sim awards a MsTk in situations where in reality, shared credit might be more appropriate. Also, in both those cases, bigger guys (a DT and a SS) failed to bring the guy down before me, so I can’t feel to bad about that.

Anyway, based on that data set, I don’t think I’m going to prioritize tackling skills for next season, barring further developments. If I do change my mind, what’s people’s opinion about the best way to cut down on MsTks: Str, Tkl or SAs?

I’d be happy to hear other peoples’ experiences as well.

from what i've heard str. isn't all that big of a factor. I do believe though that if you are on wrap up, strength has very little to do with it and agility/ vision. If it's balanced, a combo of strength, agility, and vision. And if it's just hard hitting it's more to do with strength.

I've never seen anyone say this or write about it. My player is a wrap up guy and does fine with it cause of his agility/ vision. I had less than 30 tackling last season so i missed a few tackle and from here on out i'm going to put more into tackling to help right the problem. But over all i had more or the same "tackling" in my scouting bar as people who had 10 more points in tackling than me. So i figured it must be other attributes involved.

could also just be the % possibility of missing a tackle. if you made the tackle every time against even competition, where would the fun be. i'd even have to say that there are too few missed tackles in this game compared to what you would see on sunday...

Originally posted by UMRocks
could also just be the % possibility of missing a tackle. if you made the tackle every time against even competition, where would the fun be. i'd even have to say that there are too few missed tackles in this game compared to what you would see on sunday...

I definitely agree with that last part.

Originally posted by Stone Mason
from what i've heard str. isn't all that big of a factor. I do believe though that if you are on wrap up, strength has very little to do with it and agility/ vision. If it's balanced, a combo of strength, agility, and vision. And if it's just hard hitting it's more to do with strength.

At 25 strength and 35 tackle I missed around 20% of my tackles. 30 strength and 35 tackles cut that down to 10%. I'm sure other things factored into the drop in missed tackles, but food for thought. Not to mention it's tpat that told me hike up strength to cut down on missed taclkes.

Originally posted by southlight
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At 25 strength and 35 tackle I missed around 20% of my tackles. 30 strength and 35 tackles cut that down to 10%. I'm sure other things factored into the drop in missed tackles, but food for thought. Not to mention it's tpat that told me hike up strength to cut down on missed taclkes.

I thought this: http://goallineblitz.com/game/forum_thread.pl?thread_id=1632170 was a good post, btw.

Thanks

Zach O'Brien Lvl 40 FS
Mean Machine - Oceania Pro
Tackles: 65
Missed Tackles: 4

42 tackle and 30 strength and i had 1 missed tackle last year and i'm pretty sure it was on a big pile up. Agility is at 66 and vision at 71 though. Missed tackles have never been a problem for me.

Season 5

54 tackles 3 missed

my vision was 48

Season 6

25 tackles 0 missed

at beginning of the season I upped my vision to 60

vision seemed to help

I also between those seasons moved from an USA A league up to a USA AA league facing better competition

32 strength and 45 tackling and I missed 1 tackle this past season out of 32 made (including playoffs). I just got upgraded to a new league but I think my strength and tackling are going to stay where they are unless there is a big problem.