I've noticed two very big issues in my sim results so far.

1. I get zero sacks from the top pass rushers in the league. TJ Watt has one sack? He averages on per game IRL and is rated 100 in the game. Sacks league wide in my sim are horrifically low.

2. Even when I set qb tuck and run to never, the qb is my leading rusher in carries, running nearly twice as often as any other carrier. Why is that happening?

Anyone have ideas on tweaking settings to get a more realistic sim?

I think TJ Watt comes in as a LB in the game and since he is rated so highly the game will put him in as first LB on the DC which typically gets deployed as a MLB and not on the edge.

I ran a sample season out of the box and I'm getting league leaders of 14+ for sacks which is pretty close to real life. And I'm getting league wide around 1250 sacks which is around 7% low, but can also vary a bit depending on how the league generates.

The QB rushing happens if you have "running QB" ticked on a particular player. That tells the game to incorporate more running plays in the playbook and will increase attempts. For QB rushing leaders, I'm getting about 150 attempts for guys like Lamar Jackson but I'm not seeing them double up their starting RB. I'm not seeing QB's get 300 carries or anything near the top of the leaderboard.

brooks_piggott wrote:I think TJ Watt comes in as a LB in the game and since he is rated so highly the game will put him in as first LB on the DC which typically gets deployed as a MLB and not on the edge

Is there a way to fix that?

ran a sample season out of the box and I'm getting league leaders of 14+ for sacks which is pretty close to real life. And I'm getting league wide around 1250 sacks which is around 7% low, but can also vary a bit depending on how the league generates.

No season has had a leader as low as 15 since 2020, which was a crazy year and there's been just 4 sub 16 sack leader seasons since 2000.

The QB rushing happens if you have "running QB" ticked on a particular player. That tells the game to incorporate more running plays in the playbook and will increase attempts. For QB rushing leaders, I'm getting about 150 attempts for guys like Lamar Jackson but I'm not seeing them double up their starting RB. I'm not seeing QB's get 300 carries or anything near the top of the leaderboard.

Thanks. At least this looks like there's a remedy, but even with qb runs set to NONE, I have games with a qb running 18 times and my rb1 with 6 or 8 carries. It's really odd.

OH, i see what you mean about setting his spot. No, I set him to olb myself.