..........can someone tell me what the game play does in passing situations?
So lets take the default proset medium distance pass as an example; the figures are 20% to the RB, 40% to WR1 and 40% to WR2. How does this work out? What is this saying? That the QB looks first to the RB on 1 play of every 5 and the two WR's on 2 of 5 plays each. What happens if the WR1 is tightly marked, does he then look at WR2 twice as often as he looks at the RB (40% v 20%). I thought I knew the answer but not so sure after listening to one of Chrondon's excellent posts

polarsi, I think the situation you describe cannot be evaluated by a single play. It has to be evaluated over the course of a game (or multiple games).

I'm of the opinion that the % is not initial looks, but rather targets. So....if WR1 is covered and the QB cannot get a pass off to him, it will not "count" in the % that the engine keeps track of. So, next time out...his chance of being the initial look is the same (or greater) than it was before.

Ive never seen or heard the progression that ebel331 mentions above, but I like it...and wish I had known it long ago.

OK., so back to the default proset, if I copy that and change WR1 to 100% for example. the QB will throw to him all of the time regardless of whether covered or not and never look for the other two at all?

I have found that no it will not throw 100 percent to one receiver. Like in real life he may be covered, out of the game resting, or other reasons. He may get more receptions than he ordinarily would get but no way 100 percent. The 100 percent in the controls just means he is the main target at the beginning of each play. But then the play has to play out and he is not always open or even in the game.

Yah WR1 100% just means the WR1 position will be the first option every play. Doesn't mean they will throw to it every time.

There will always be a WR1 in the game, regardless of which individual player is currently in the spot.

I was under the impression that 100% WR1 (or whichever WR you assign to that depth) means it will throw to that position every time. Didn't Jfootball prove this true a while back? His entire offense was target 1 receiver at one depth. The QB would drop back, look at the covered receiver, look at the covered receiver, look again at the covered receiver, and then either force it to said receiver, take a sack, or throw it out of bounds. You could set the defense to cover the depth, but with a good enough QB and WR combo and an offensive line to protect, it wasn't always easy to stop. That was during version 3 (current version). Did something change?

Dunno about Jfootball Samson .
But on one of my teams I am targeting one of my recievers 85 per cent of the time and he is lucky if he gets the ball 40 percent of the time. And it is usually due to the plausible excuses I had mentioned(receiver is covered, is resting on the bench, etc.). So the throw go's to another receiver.
One thing I am not doing that you said Jfootball is, I throw to all the different depths, not only 1.

This is the kind of thing that drives me crazy. Pretty important feature of the game, yet no one knows for sure how it works.

I don't feel quite so stupid now though! So if we're playing trips and have the three receivers plus RB all at 25% each, the QB is effectively looking at the 4 on an almost random basis - notwithstanding Harris' comments earlier?

Posted by realist9900 on 2/22/2017 11:09:00 AM (view original):
This is the kind of thing that drives me crazy. Pretty important feature of the game, yet no one knows for sure how it works.

Exactly. It is amazing that there is no definitive game guide. You can consolidate servers and/or reset servers and/or do whatever you want, but most new players are going to split when they have to ask questions in the forums only to get answers which may come from past versions of the engine, or peoples' limited experience with the game, or conversations partially recalled with developers during Beta who are no longer anywhere to be found, if they get an answer at all.

If I recall correctly, what Jfootball did was run a shotgun offense. He set 3 receivers shallow, and sent 1 medium or long. He set the 1 receiver to get 100% of the targets. Take a look at the records from Colorado in Yost. he had a couple of other teams as well. Can't recall which ones. I don't think it worked as well, if at all, at higher levels where the talent margins were closer though.

Below you will find passing yards, receptions, and reception yards records he holds using that offense.

1.	James McKee	Colorado	jfootball88	48	10956
2.	Daniel Tucker	Colorado	jfootball88	51	10906
3.	Glenn Timmons	Colorado	jfootball88	44	10368
4.	Robert White	Colorado	jfootball88	46	10317
5.	Glenn Timmons	Colorado	jfootball88	45	10295
6.	Henry Pittman	Maryville	slid64er	21	10217
7.	Keith McCollum	MIT	syhwang86	24	9742
8.	James McKee	Colorado	jfootball88	49	9631
9.	Mike Harper	Colorado	jfootball88	53	9505
10.	David Levy	Moravian	slid64er	54	9441

1.	Jason Ball	Colorado	jfootball88	51	838
2.	Jason Ball	Colorado	jfootball88	52	670
3.	Michael Miller	Colorado	jfootball88	53	508
4.	Richard Ryan	Brockport	polabonez	56	372
5.	William Fuller	Colorado	jfootball88	55	364
6.	William Fuller	Colorado	jfootball88	54	356
7.	Melvin King	Curry	miller97	54	315
8.	John Mann	Brockport	polabonez	55	305
9.	Rafael Carter	Brockport	polabonez	54	296
10.	Robert Reid	Curry	miller97	63	270

1.	Jason Ball	Colorado	jfootball88	51	10937
2.	Michael Miller	Colorado	jfootball88	53	9890
3.	Jason Ball	Colorado	jfootball88	52	8506
4.	William Fuller	Colorado	jfootball88	55	7506
5.	William Fuller	Colorado	jfootball88	54	7159
6.	Melvin King	Curry	miller97	54	4148
7.	Carlos Baker	Curry	miller97	57	3970
8.	Melvin King	Curry	miller97	55	3698
9.	Carlos Baker	Curry	miller97	56	3654
10.	Brian Garcia	East Texas Baptist	smoosh	76	3483