There have been rumors circulating that the Ball Hawk VA causes issues with WRs such as
disrupting route running, disrupts pass leading by QB, causes receiver to stop in his tracks,
disrupts run, etc. We decided to run a quick test to determine if there was an obvious issue.
I ran two quick pass heavy tests.
Bullet passes with quick pass release to open guys (i.e. shorter QB to receiver flight time)
http://test.goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=901
Lofty passes with longer routes (i.e. longer QB to receiver flight time)
http://test.goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=902
Team 20 (Rochester Flyers) has WRs and TEs with Ball Hawk VAs of 15. As you can see from these 2
games, the QB throws have a decent distrabution of various throws with no apparent negative impact to
receivers with the Ball hawk skill. The quality of passes thrown varies but no evidence of any wide
spread problem is present with the VA for receivers. If you watch closely you can see receivers gain
a burst of speed and often times the ball is delivered to the correct location.
disrupting route running, disrupts pass leading by QB, causes receiver to stop in his tracks,
disrupts run, etc. We decided to run a quick test to determine if there was an obvious issue.
I ran two quick pass heavy tests.
Bullet passes with quick pass release to open guys (i.e. shorter QB to receiver flight time)
http://test.goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=901
Lofty passes with longer routes (i.e. longer QB to receiver flight time)
http://test.goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=902
Team 20 (Rochester Flyers) has WRs and TEs with Ball Hawk VAs of 15. As you can see from these 2
games, the QB throws have a decent distrabution of various throws with no apparent negative impact to
receivers with the Ball hawk skill. The quality of passes thrown varies but no evidence of any wide
spread problem is present with the VA for receivers. If you watch closely you can see receivers gain
a burst of speed and often times the ball is delivered to the correct location.