the only thing we know about this game engine is passing and catching. the rest is an estimate (most are bad estimates)

Gatr22 wrote: Zekral wrote: viktor wrote: Even if the TEs block you would probably never know unless told so. The 'blocking(1-20)' skill may not necessarily hav e adirect correlation with blocking on pass/rush plays, if the other TE skills have been trained up. Its a 'TE as an algebraic expression' going up a 'defender as an algebraic expression' True but I doubt it is a simple expression of X+Y+Z=A It is more likely (.5)X+Y+(.1)Z=A Of course this is just a fictional formula and doesn't actually apply in game as far as I know. If that's true, then X+Y+Z=A would work just fine for the fictional formula. Because X could represent (.5 x any number), in its simplest form

if x is a constant, that would be true. but x is not a constant (its a variable) and is bounded (presumably).

Well with the GL Cup starting up the experiment is going to be on hold for a bit, as I won't have the same friendly opponent for awhile now. And I agree, the utter randomness of bot games, etc. won't prove a thing.

Will update once I get to chance to test it in some more "controlled" circumstances.

Short version is ... there's enough unknowns in the system, I'm going to just start with the statistics route and try to see if with a good sample of runs ... with TE blocker, without TE blocker, with *bad* TE blocker, against the same opponent ... analyzing some scatter plots, etc.

I think it'll give a reasonable read of if TE blocking is actually being used at all - and if so, does the blocking skill make much of a dent.

I'll certainly share the info once I get a chance to do it ... this is the kind of info, that really should be available when you start here. Not the formulas mind you, but a more accurate nudge in the right direction. Especially where the sim engine gives such limited feedback on what actually happened on a given play ...

My concern is that TE blocking might only be used during running plays...and how much do you run?

Then is the effect additive or does the game engine just select a blocker between the tackle and tight end? I which case, you might come up short if your tackle was a superior block.


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