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Compare my QB's stats from last seasons to this seasons. All i did was put custom equipment into throwing and then just keep adding confidence. It really helps a lot.

Last year my confidence was 30-31 and he had a streak of 7 games with a pick. Not pretty. This year he is killing it and just came off a game where he had a perfect QB rating. Also this game came after my team got shutout 42-0 and my QB threw 2 picks. Last season this would have been a disaster.

I gotta say 100% sure confidence is the 3rd most important skill for a QB behind Throwing and Vision.

Good to know. Congrats on your success. Also, go Dirty Birds - Matty Ice, baby!

Originally posted by donnybrizzle
Good to know. Congrats on your success. Also, go Dirty Birds - Matty Ice, baby!


Hell yea!

Agreed. Confidence helps a lot and should be near your strength (depending on personal preference, my STR is higher). After working on my QB's confidence late last year and when I boosted before game 1 he made it through the first 6 games without throwing a pick and only threw 1 in week 7. Of course he then turned around and threw 4 in week 8. However the only other team he threw more than 1 INT against since then was the undefeated #1 team in our conference.

After i got throwing and vision up i was putting 3 SP into Confidence and 2 in Strength as i leveled up. I'm happy with the way my strength is at now. Passes get there on time and it doesn't make my WR drop passes (don't know if that's even true or not).

My strength is too high in my opinion, I wish I hadn't raised it past 50. I think it is the biggest reason my receivers have been dropping passes all season even though their catchings scores are much higher than they were last season.

Originally posted by rsb014
My strength is too high in my opinion, I wish I hadn't raised it past 50. I think it is the biggest reason my receivers have been dropping passes all season even though their catchings scores are much higher than they were last season.

I was afraid of that, which is why i stopped increasing my strength.

Having "too much strength" is an urban myth. That's like complaining that your passes are too accurate or you see the field too well. Just because you have high strength, doesn't mean your QB is gonna rifle the ball as hard as he can, as long as he's not set to bullet.

His first two seasons combined my WR dropped about 6% of the passes he touched, or 11 drops to 174 catches. Last season he 4.6% of the passes he got his hands on or 5 drops to 104 catches. Before this season I boosted him and increased his catching by about 5 points. He came out dropping some balls so I put more points into catching each time he leveled up. He catching is now about 10 points higher than it was for the vast majority of last season but he has dropped 17% of the passes he has got a hand on. I've also been training his confidence almost every night all season trying to decrease drops. In today's game he caught 3 and dropped 2.

Last season our possession #3 WR dropped 4.5% of all catchable passes. This season he has over 50 points in catching and a fair number of points in sticky hands and has dropped 14.6% of the catchable passes. The WR we traded for in the off season has also dropped 11.5% of the balls that hit his hands. However stranegly enough our QB rating is higher than it has ever been and we complete 2/3 of our passes with a higher avg per catch than ever before. It is like his passes are more accurate, but harder to hold on to. We left him on medium passing all year and have played all kinds of different passing schemes with similar results every time.

The only explanations I can come up with are:

A) The QB strength caused a problem as I did increase it a fair amount when I boosted him this off season

B) The WRs are better now and so are more often getting their hands on passes that last season they wouldn't have been able to get to but there is a very large penalty to catching passes that far off target.

C) Bort changed the catching equations some how, possibly to emphasize more balanced builds instead of everyone just getting to 35 catching and stopping. He did play with changing the way they bobble the ball but I think he said he changed it back after there was a dramatic increase in drops and he like the way WRs would bobble the ball around 2 or 3 times before they got control of it if they had low catching.

D) Defenders across the board are just better at knocking the ball out of the receivers' hands due to be being faster/stronger/more agile having more vision etc.

E) Two or more of the above combined.

The biggest reason I think I spent too much raising strength up over the soft cap isn't the above though. It is that I think I could have put 4-6 of those points into another skill and got more bang for my buck if it had been in vision or confidence. I recognize eventually you will probably want 50+ strength, I just don't think now is the time you NEED it.

That's why I have 70+ confidence

Originally posted by rsb014
His first two seasons combined my WR dropped about 6% of the passes he touched, or 11 drops to 174 catches. Last season he 4.6% of the passes he got his hands on or 5 drops to 104 catches. Before this season I boosted him and increased his catching by about 5 points. He came out dropping some balls so I put more points into catching each time he leveled up. He catching is now about 10 points higher than it was for the vast majority of last season but he has dropped 17% of the passes he has got a hand on. I've also been training his confidence almost every night all season trying to decrease drops. In today's game he caught 3 and dropped 2.

Last season our possession #3 WR dropped 4.5% of all catchable passes. This season he has over 50 points in catching and a fair number of points in sticky hands and has dropped 14.6% of the catchable passes. The WR we traded for in the off season has also dropped 11.5% of the balls that hit his hands. However stranegly enough our QB rating is higher than it has ever been and we complete 2/3 of our passes with a higher avg per catch than ever before. It is like his passes are more accurate, but harder to hold on to. We left him on medium passing all year and have played all kinds of different passing schemes with similar results every time.

The only explanations I can come up with are:

A) The QB strength caused a problem as I did increase it a fair amount when I boosted him this off season

B) The WRs are better now and so are more often getting their hands on passes that last season they wouldn't have been able to get to but there is a very large penalty to catching passes that far off target.

C) Bort changed the catching equations some how, possibly to emphasize more balanced builds instead of everyone just getting to 35 catching and stopping. He did play with changing the way they bobble the ball but I think he said he changed it back after there was a dramatic increase in drops and he like the way WRs would bobble the ball around 2 or 3 times before they got control of it if they had low catching.

D) Defenders across the board are just better at knocking the ball out of the receivers' hands due to be being faster/stronger/more agile having more vision etc.

E) Two or more of the above combined.



C is your answer.

Maybe Strength. I am not sure at all, but maybe you are trying to catch balls in traffic and since the QB strength is so high, maybe if you increased your strength a little bit, you would be able to come down with more balls.

Originally posted by jeffgarcia
That's why I have 70+ confidence

LOL

me too


Oh, and btw, Confidence is NOT the third most important thing for a QB to build. At least if you want to help your team score points. It might be #6 among Attributes + SAs.

A lot of our issues are because of the big changes to the WR position. My WR has been sucking this season, but the QB hasn't changed much. I've noticed most of the problems come after the ball is thrown.