Originally posted by King of Bling
Certainly not to the extent it should be, 100% agree
EDIT: I believe there should be a positional sliding scale. ie: An OT playing G should be pretty chill and visa-versa, G to C or the opposite should work too as examples. On the other hand, a WR playing TE should get a penalty for instance.
It's pretty much that way now. I could go diggin about for former Bort's on this subject but I have it in my notes as follows;
One position away from original = least penalty.
2 positions = likely double penalty.
3 positions away = likely disaster.
And, TBPH, I've seen this in replays plenty enough. Trying to play a Center at TE generally weakens the center pretty badly. I've tried a STOP center at FB once... that was ugly... even though the skill sets between a STOP center and a BFB are pretty close to same. WR at TE does ok... unless called to block... even if you build a blocking WR. TE at WR plays good. FB at TE... I'll look about but I've likely tried them all... either out of curiosity or necessity so I made a list of "do/don't" for OOP. Generally speaking, most managers try hard to avoid it unless you have a need and not a dot for it. A few coaches do stuff like BTE's at WR for running plays (yup... and BFB's too). It's nothing new. But any advantage you can get by doing that can be overcome by a good DC, tagging, and other such things... so I still don't see a need to change the system. And, I highly suspect, neither does Bort.
Certainly not to the extent it should be, 100% agree
EDIT: I believe there should be a positional sliding scale. ie: An OT playing G should be pretty chill and visa-versa, G to C or the opposite should work too as examples. On the other hand, a WR playing TE should get a penalty for instance.
It's pretty much that way now. I could go diggin about for former Bort's on this subject but I have it in my notes as follows;
One position away from original = least penalty.
2 positions = likely double penalty.
3 positions away = likely disaster.
And, TBPH, I've seen this in replays plenty enough. Trying to play a Center at TE generally weakens the center pretty badly. I've tried a STOP center at FB once... that was ugly... even though the skill sets between a STOP center and a BFB are pretty close to same. WR at TE does ok... unless called to block... even if you build a blocking WR. TE at WR plays good. FB at TE... I'll look about but I've likely tried them all... either out of curiosity or necessity so I made a list of "do/don't" for OOP. Generally speaking, most managers try hard to avoid it unless you have a need and not a dot for it. A few coaches do stuff like BTE's at WR for running plays (yup... and BFB's too). It's nothing new. But any advantage you can get by doing that can be overcome by a good DC, tagging, and other such things... so I still don't see a need to change the system. And, I highly suspect, neither does Bort.