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How important is it? I've seen seen plenty of players in the HOF who have Heart at bare minimum levels of 10-15.

I know people are going to say it depends on the position...so what are the recommended levels of heart for each position?

It depends on a lot of things.

If your toughness is high enough, heart can take a backseat on a HB or FB - but the skill is extremely important for a WR or QB. And if you can't have a toughness in the high 90s you're going to need to take heart up to 35 or even 55+ if you want to avoid hot and cold games on a HB.

If an offense is really well built and tough it's not as important, but if you are trying to be balanced you need it more to have your HBs benefit from WRs big plays and vice versa - and to get the balanced o-line hyped up so they can start opening up even bigger plays.

It's a game of trying to take the skill as low as you can though, because 90 heart doesn't do shit for you if you are already confident. You just want to avoid having a low confidence, and heart is expensive as hell.

Powerbacks can get away with having slightly less heart than elusive and speedbacks as they break more tackles and get more confidence boosts from such.

I'm not an expert on much else, I build a lot of HBs and some DTs mainly.

i like heart at 30 for everyone just to be safe. WRs and TEs i like 40 or more as they are prone to morale issues with drops or knocked loose plays.

I had heart on my defenders around 30 or so on my first 80s teams and they got significantly demoralized in the 2nd half. I put it between 40 and 50 now and it helped a ton.

I have always heard "take every player to 30." I like to put my main WRs at 45, and I suppose if I was building a pass catching TE, I'd do 45 there, too.

I also like CBs at 40, because I have this weird feeling that they get more PDs and INTs with more Heart, but I don't have numbers to back that up. It's just my feeling.

Rule of thumb:

blocking interaction players (O/D Line, etc) need high toughness
All other (DBs, WRs, QB etc...) need high heart

I have been going with 40 Heart and 40 tough on pretty much all of my builds. I guess i will have to take a closer look

I usually use 30 for most of the guys, 40 for receivers and pass defenders, some tight builds i go 25.

it's very important at WR and CB, and at QB. Helps at FS, too

in a cold-weather game where your opponent gets a couple of early scores, it can be the difference between a comeback and a blowout

since the playoffs are almost always played in sub-freezing temps, it pays off when you need it most

I try to get my WRs and TEs to 40 by the end of Sophomore, QB close to 50 when he hits pro

I've had moderate success with Silver Home Town Hero/Road Warrior on non-star WRs and TEs, makes them very resilient in cold weather

I agree with G.E. on the line-of-scrimmage players, they need more toughness than heart.

very important? thats a stretch.