Posted by realist9900 on 3/15/2017 6:05:00 PM (view original):

Posted by mojolad on 3/15/2017 4:37:00 PM (view original):
The voice of dissent: Ok, maybe not dissent but another opinion. On some of my teams I have taken to recruiting Kickers with high Strength and as high a tech as I can get; high growth. I figured his kicking would be better and they tend to average punting in high 30's . 37-38 , not bad for a better kicker.
It's working out ok. So I would say either way K or P you can win with if you recruit them correctly; K with high strength and P with high Tech.

hrmm, I thought it was the other way around. Tech more important for kickers and strength for punters

Tech "is" more important for kickers . But we are discussing how to recruit a One player that does both. So in this case I find a kicker that starts with as high a Strength as possible so he has a good start at being a good Punter . You want to make sure he has a decent if not great number for Tech as well so his Kicking will be good as well. Both will grow.

I tried this a while back and didn't think it was worth it in the end. If I were going to do it though, definitely take a punter that can also kick. You can always lower your FG threshold, but a poor punter will cripple you in head to head human matchups that commonly involve 8+ punts. 5 yards per punt can easily cost you 40-80 yards in field position throughout the game.

side point: never lower your FG threshold below 42 yards. I learned the hard way in a playoff game when I lost because I went 3 and out in overtime and decided to go for it on 4th and 10 instead of tying the game with a FG. =)