I'm famous!
It's funny, when I originally decided to make a kicker and go for the points record, I picked the Power archetype because there is a positive correlation between your Kick Power and field goal attempts. That's because the sim allows you to kick from further out with a higher Kick Power, so King would have more opportunities to score points on those super long 55+ yard field goals early in my career than if I picked the Accurate archetype. I knew that meant for the first few seasons he'd most likely have a subpar FG% because he would have a more difficult mix of field goal attempts, but I assumed once I fully maxed out both kicking stats after a few seasons that the FG% would stabilize a bit. But it just... didn't. Even though the numbers show King is likely to make any field goal he attempts, my default assumption is that he's gonna miss if it's over 40 yards. Fortunately I know it can be entirely chalked up to bad luck because there isn't really much build diversity when making a kicker, so I'm ultimately happy with all the volume stats King racked up over the course of his career.
Kicking sucks anyway, punting is where it's at.
It's funny, when I originally decided to make a kicker and go for the points record, I picked the Power archetype because there is a positive correlation between your Kick Power and field goal attempts. That's because the sim allows you to kick from further out with a higher Kick Power, so King would have more opportunities to score points on those super long 55+ yard field goals early in my career than if I picked the Accurate archetype. I knew that meant for the first few seasons he'd most likely have a subpar FG% because he would have a more difficult mix of field goal attempts, but I assumed once I fully maxed out both kicking stats after a few seasons that the FG% would stabilize a bit. But it just... didn't. Even though the numbers show King is likely to make any field goal he attempts, my default assumption is that he's gonna miss if it's over 40 yards. Fortunately I know it can be entirely chalked up to bad luck because there isn't really much build diversity when making a kicker, so I'm ultimately happy with all the volume stats King racked up over the course of his career.
Kicking sucks anyway, punting is where it's at.