State of the Sim Transfer: February 22nd

[Pat]

When you say that you're compressing the PositionSkill range for RBs, what does that look like? Is the plan to decrease PS at high TPE and raise it at low TPE relatove to where it currently is, or is the plan to simply raise the floor closer to the ceiling again?

We haven't solidified final numbers on that quite yet but the working theory is to raise the floor across the board, and modify the formula to create more of a bell curve of position skill. We've gone through multiple iterations of it so I can't really say 100% what we'll end up going with, but in doing so we've been able to make it so even the lower TPE RBs are a lot more viable, but still are outpaced by the higher TPE users. Once we have the final numbers in place we'll share the formula and the distribution. Thanks for the good question!

[mee]

Make Safeties Matter Again

[Faded]

thank you sim transfer team very cool

[The_Kidd]

can we let all DB's be 100 speed and call it a day? If I see another equal or lesser WR blitz an entire defense.....

[Pat]

1. the FS designation will prevent them from being overpowered if played at other positions on the field.

These all sound like great changes! Could you expand on this line though - does the FS designation itself make players worse out of position?

I'm sorry we should have clarified the rationale there a little better. What it comes down to is that the boosts the game assigns players listed as FS and SS specifically were kept in mind with these balance changes. It's not necessarily about one being overpowered, but more so they just work better when listed as such. This doesn't mean you can't have say two Center Fielder archetypes out there at the same time. They would just both need to be listed as Free Safety.