1. Create a "Return Man" archetype which focuses clearly on return skills(Speed, Agility, Endurance) but lowers the cap on other abilities that would make the player OP(hands, intelligence, strength). We're talking pure burners that could barely crack the starting eleven --- the Joshua Cribbs, Young Steve Smith, Leon Washington, Corrdarrelle Patterson, Devin Hester, Dwayne Harris, Darren Sproles, Reggie Bush molds of the league. These players are only useful for making one cut and running really really fast in a straight line for a long time. Granted the Sproles, Hill, Sanders, Reed, Bo Jackson types exist but we know how OP those players are in video games, let alone this sim.
   
2. Which brings me to my second proposal, maybe someone feels the right to mimic Ed Reed, Tyler Lockett, or Deion Sanders to the most microscopic detail. My compromise would be the "Return Man Designation". Each team would be allowed to designate two players as return man specialists. This would allow this player to exceed the cap limits of their current archetype to fill the SPD, END, AGI attributes, BUT they must subtract TPE from their other attributes or the TPE costs will be 1.5x what the original costs would be(can't mix both, either subtract it all or pay on the 1.5x scale)
   

(06-28-2021, 03:31 PM)qWest Wrote: A) Just to address this off the bat, it seems you're using net, league-wide totals on return TDs. This isn't a direct comparison given that the NFL has more than twice as many teams we have and therefore we should automatically expect our net totals to be about half those of the NFL's.

B) one of the biggest obstacles I've seen to return TDs has been the general ability in the sim for defenders to more easily catch up with ballcarriers. We see this on long runs and receptions all the time and we see this on occasion when you have a return like Triplet's in s28, where he returned the ball all the way to the 2 yard line before being taken down. Don't know if this is a WS problem, I know they nerfed long plays at some point, or a transfer team issue, but defenses right now have a bunch of DK Metcalf's that can chase down any ballcarrier.