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I raised my TE's Reps stats a point by raising Run Pwr (blocking). Now I'm wondering if that helps his strength in any other areas, such as fighting for a catch or holding on to the ball.

I guess I'm confused about the relationship overall between the combine report stats and the actual physical stats such as Strength (mine if 5 btw). If I raise the combine stats without changing the actual physical Strength stat, does that help in any other way than the category I put points into (Run Pwr Blocking, in this case)?

The beauty of GLB2 is that skills are broken down to where you shouldn't be thinking Run Power blocking helps you for fighting for a catch or holding on to the ball because that skill has absolutely nothing to do with ball related activities and there are skills (Catch in Traffic and Receiving Grip) which are 100% related to what you are talking about.

that doesnt seem beautiful

Originally posted by E-A-G-L-E-S
that doesnt seem beautiful

So you mean you love the part about GLB1 that has you training blocking on a defender on the small off chance that it helps in breaking blocks because of a mysterious Bort Quote from 5 years ago?

why would run power blocking help me fight for a ball? the guys who practice run power blocking are the single least effective people on the field at doing that, generally speaking

Originally posted by E-A-G-L-E-S
why would run power blocking help me fight for a ball? the guys who practice run power blocking are the single least effective people on the field at doing that, generally speaking

And in GLB2, you can be pretty sure it works exactly like you think it does
GLB1 had some oddities like "maybe blocking skill helps break blocks".

Originally posted by NiborRis
And in GLB2, you can be pretty sure it works exactly like you think it does
GLB1 had some oddities like "maybe blocking skill helps break blocks".

so does run power blocking help or not help fighting for a catch? trying to translate from bhallian

Originally posted by E-A-G-L-E-S
so does run power blocking help or not help fighting for a catch? trying to translate from bhallian

No that was the whole point.

Originally posted by bhall43
So you mean you love the part about GLB1 that has you training blocking on a defender on the small off chance that it helps in breaking blocks because of a mysterious Bort Quote from 5 years ago?

I think he's more referring to the fact that in GLB1 strength helps dots be strong. There's no corresponding attribute in GLB2, which is pretty weird/confusing.

Originally posted by bhall43
you shouldn't be thinking Run Power blocking helps you for fighting for a catch or holding on to the ball because that skill has absolutely nothing to do with ball related activities

You shouldn't be thinking it helps you. It doesn't help you.

Originally posted by bhall43
and there are skills (Catch in Traffic and Receiving Grip) which are 100% related to what you are talking about.

If you want to help with fighting for a catch or holding on to the ball, use the skills that say they help with that.

bhall doesn't think they help. I don't either. Combine skills are just for fun, so don't worry too much about it. I suppose being good at Run Power Blocking also makes you good at pushing a bar during a bench press, but only because there's no "Bench Press Technique" skill.

Originally posted by bhall43
The beauty of GLB2 is that skills are broken down to where you shouldn't be thinking (i assume the comma would go....here?) Run Power blocking helps you for fighting for a catch or holding on to the ball because that skill has absolutely nothing to do with ball related activities and there are skills (Catch in Traffic and Receiving Grip) which are 100% related to what you are talking about.

okay well that's not what you said

edit: well in that case, that's not beautiful or revolutionary in any way...that's how it should have been all along.

Originally posted by Kayoh
Originally posted by E-A-G-L-E-S

so does run power blocking help or not help fighting for a catch? trying to translate from bhallian

Originally posted by bhall43

that skill has absolutely nothing to do with ball related activities and there are skills (Catch in Traffic and Receiving Grip) which are 100% related to what you are talking about.


oh thank you for pointing that out,
right at the very end of his misleading as hell explanation. (idk if you got that, but it was misleading the way he said it..sometimes people just need things to be broken down for them its coo)

there was nothing misleading about it. Reading comprehension will take you a long way in life.

bhall said

1. The beauty of GLB2 is that skills are broken down to where you shouldn't be thinking Run Power blocking helps you for fighting for a catch or holding on to the ball

simple. You shouldn't be thinking that the "Run Block Power" trait helps you for fighting for a catch or holding onto the ball.

2. that skill has absolutely nothing to do with ball related activities and there are skills (Catch in Traffic and Receiving Grip) which are 100% related to what you are talking about.

Even more clearly stating that Run Block Power has absolutely nothing to do with ball handling and that Catch in Traffic & Receiving Grip are what you're looking for.

Originally posted by Longhornfan1024
I think he's more referring to the fact that in GLB1 strength helps dots be strong. There's no corresponding attribute in GLB2, which is pretty weird/confusing.

Yes but in GLB1 we have no idea what part strength plays in catching a ball. We have a really vague idea that isn't represented through the sim itself from Bort quotes but that is about it. Here there is no confusion about that whatsoever.

Originally posted by E-A-G-L-E-S
okay well that's not what you said

edit: well in that case, that's not beautiful or revolutionary in any way...that's how it should have been all along.

Except it is beautiful because it isn't a guessing game of maybe some ridiculous skill that logically shouldn't work for doing something might have a small part in doing something. That was the problem with GLB1. People took a vague Bort quote and ran with it forever.