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While I agree with the attributes needing to matter more other than just speed, I'd like to see the player weights equal to a hundred. Like for each position, allow 100 points to put in whatever attribute you want. If you want to put 80 points on speed you will only have 20 points to distribute to the others. I think this will challenge the owners a little and will make a little more sense to it as you can only put 100 points on any attribute anyway. Just my opinion.

Idk if that really matters. Weights are arbitrary and you can go about analyzing a player just by visually looking at attributes. I put very little stock into my weights or the default weights hardly even consider them until I’m forced to during trades or signing players.

Can we remove keying on defense? Or at least nerf it a bit? I see teams (myself included) who will run 4-3 defense with blitzing and pretty consistently stop passing games because they use the pass key. And it doesn't even have to be the blitz. The 4-3 defense pass key seems capable enough to stop the run as well.

It just seems not logic based for a defense to not be punished when trotting out 2 DBs against 3 or 4 WRs. How can you possibly send the blitz whilst simultaneously play the pass lol. Maybe it's possible to punish that kind of defense but it feels silly for it to be so effective if you're not specifically gameplanning to beat it.

In my opinion, the play should speak for itself. A blitz should be good against the run and high risk high reward against the pass. And a non-blitz should be weak against the run but strong against the pass. You shouldn't be able to tell your team to simultaneously stop the run, pressure the qb, and also everyone else play the pass just in case! If the o-line holds up, it should be an easy 20 yard play.

Also running a defense with fewer DBs than WRs should be easy pickings for an offense. But as currently set up, playing fewer DBs than WRs seems to stuff the run and contain the passing game.

I don't think it needs to be removed so much as being punished for incorrect keying (and maybe beefing up the run key a little - particularly against the 113/203). If you're pass keying you should be near guaranteed to give up higher-than-normal yards against the run.

Without knowing what plays you’re running it is hard to say what really wrong here. Is base defense broken or are the offensive plays you’re trying to run broken.? Very very common to have useless offensive and defensive plays in this game. Most owners are probably using about a 20% or less subset of plays because they are the ones that work.

There is a lot of info about the effective plays in forums where they have been tested and proven at this point over many many trials. JDB need to not look far to find room for improvement, but needs to look first. I’m sure this is on the priority list.

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The reason why I brought up removing keying is cause there was a blowout between two top teams in the league I'm in and I was curious to see what happened. The team that won mostly ran 4-3/3-4 defense against 2/3/4 WRs with a lot of success. It just doesn't feel realistic for a team to run one type of defense all game without being punished. There obviously could be more to it. Maybe their team is just that good.

But yeah, I think there needs to be a better balance between reward and punishment when lining up fewer CBs than WRs. Whether that is adjusting/removing keying or making all plays relevant against the expected scenario (3 CBs vs 2 WRs strong against pass/weak against run, 2 CBs vs 3WRs strong against run/weak against pass, etc)

Just about every play has 4 DBs except Goalline and FS is probably the most important cover DB in MFN when playing elite GMs because he mostly covers the TE which is almost always a WR with elite owners.

On plays where the LB is covering a top 3 WR then a CB is overided into that position.

The real problem with game plans is that there are only 12-15 offensive plays that work consistently and maybe 10 or fewer defensive plays worth a darn.

JDB needs to fix broken plays to really open up the game and he should start with long passing which is completely useless at the moment