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natural kicking is 101.01, natural strength 70.02. AEQ up to date in Big Boot and Automatic. Endorsement EQ is worth +3 kicking, +1 Calm Nerves.

He's proven to be a ridiculously good and reliable FG kicker (probably as close to perfect as the sim is going to allow) so I'm thinking it's time to focus on extending his kickoff distance. Suggestions? I'm planning on using boosts to push strength to the 4th cap, plus 1 point of vision. Later points will push vision and confidence to 4th cap, then they'll fill out the SAs, then get divvied up amongst agility, speed and jumping if I'm still getting any.

Take your points out of Laces out and put them in booming kick. You'll start getting tons of TBs.

Also, speed agility and jumping will help with distance as well. Train them.

I don't want to detract from his FG kicking- having 60+ yard range for a gamewinner at over 90% is worth more than a few yards on kickoffs. Besides, by the end of this coming season he'll have 15 in BK.

How did you come up with that %?

Pulled it right out of my butt. But with his accuracy stats plus the massive boost from 15 Laces Out, I figure it's reasonable. If it's a game winner inside 2:00, I'd trust him to 65ish over trying to convert more than a couple yards on 4th down. He just doesn't miss many kicks.

I sit on the fence with LO.

Consider:
How many times could he have had the opportunity to kick a tying/go ahead FG in the 4th quarter in his career? Once a season at best probably. Add to the fact that you're doing it to improve kicks > 50 yards, and you've removed half of those opportunities again probably.

OTOH, Booming kick will affect 45% of KOs, which means half the time, the O is probably starting from the 20. This can reduce big KO returns, and force the O to go 80 yards more often.

IMO, he's as accurate as he is from 50+ because of the huge amount of kicking he has. He sacrificed confidence to get there, though, so perhaps the LO is needed to cover for that.

What I like about LO is that's it's a straight gain to the roll outcome. Not just a contributor like an attribute or even an SA. I agree about the importance of touchbacks on kickoffs, but I really hate seeing missed kicks by Pro level kickers inside 50- especially shorter ones. Since LO affects a chip shot 30 yarder in clutch situations, it's gotta be worth it.

It's not worth it if you never get to the roll because someone returned a KO 80 yards for a TD.

You've got to weigh the trade offs for spending 15 in laces out over some other VA. If you had 15 in BK instead of laces out you might not have even had to kick the game winning field goal. And the fact that BK can fire on every single KO means that over the course of a season you have tons of opportunities to allow your team to win the game instead of having to kick a FG at the end.

IMO, the tradeoffs are too much. I'd rather my kicker be a better performer throughout the game thereby making it more likely that he won't have to kick a clutch FG.

Like I said I'm on the fence about it. My kicker avoided it in favor of Booming kick and Motivational Speaker. He's doing clutch now and will liekly do LAces Out last.

His kickoffs are consistently around the 5 right now actually. He's not that bad at it, I'm just looking to finish off the last part of his abilities.

Clutch is also a big boost to making FGs though, and anything that gives you points directly is better than things that may help not give them up.

I go back and forth on LO.

I agree that it's not very likely to kick in, but I still like it a little bit.
5 is as far as I'd go with it.
That should be enough of a boost to a good kicker that already has +15 in clutch.

And yeah, booming kick would be the way to go.
Especially if you're looking for touchbacks, which you should be in the pros.

Hey Kevin, I sent you an invite to the Strong Leg Pub a private forum for K/P only. Feel free to drop in and take a look around.

where would you soccer star to get +0.3% on a natural attribute pushing 100?

4.5 points.

My plan in 2 levels with my kicker is Booming kick with few into laces out and might add some into clutch. Since my kicker at current time lethal at 30-39 range the last 2 season. With only minimal amount str so far but will adding some into str after I add more into vision. Since I rather have my kicker be lethal on kickoffs before field goals.

Touchbacks give your team much better positioning on the field. This is easily better than your " kick the game winning fg attitude." If you're kicking the touchbacks, then you won't need to kick the game winning field goal at some insane distance.