Back to the OP's question:
I OC'd one pHB back about 20 seasons ago - that did have 9 Juke +15% Fake. (If it were mine, I'd post the build)
It almost never fired, maybe 2-3 times per season against good competition. He was running 15 QFeet, but he was just short of the vision for SYMonster, so maybe the extra 30% would've helped on sweeps? That said I do think a pHB on a sweep is going to be far better off keeping full momentum and trying to just steam roll the edge defenders, rather than trying to dance around them. Against good competition, those edge guys likely have one AvFk% piece anyways.
Stiff Arm - After doing a pretty deep dive on the statistics from a pair of pHBs, both with 5:
89.1 Agl: 32 Stiff Arms on 477 carries w/331 BT. SA on 6.7% of carries, 9.6% of broken tackles.
85.1 Agl: 21 Stiff Arms on 876 carries w/547 BT. SA on 2.4% of carries, 3.8% of broken tackles.
First dot was faster (+4 Spd), but significantly weaker (-7 Str), had 2 less Power Thru (both still 10+ however), and less natural BTkl%. First is the 9 Juke, +15% fake pHB, second is mine from the past 2 seasons.
Interesting to see how much more effective Stiff Arm was on the first dot. I'm thinking it's likely a combination of multiple factors - PT over riding SA more often on the 2nd dot, angle of tackles (higher speed on 1st dot = more attempts from the sides vs frontal 90 deg cone), and some part of it might be the +4 agility? How much came from the +4 is pretty much impossible to tell, might be a fun experiment to take it to 10 on an eluHB and see if it works better there with extreme agility, and likely more side angle tackle attempts.
TL;DR - best combination is still likely Power Thru / Hurdle - and if you do add a 3rd - Spin, and put the SPs into maximizing the rest of the build rather than chasing fake or making 2nd tier BT abilities like Stiff Arm effective.
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Originally posted by Sonic
Too much funneling the ball through that one player?Yeah we likely needed a 2nd pHB. For the record, I'm the DC on LQ, not the OC ... I'd never whore my own dot that hard lol.
That said, we were 0-6 with him taking a sane amount of touches - and 6-4 whoring the ball to him hard.