How to get skilled offensive d-men producing?

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Marc the Habs Fan
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How to get skilled offensive d-men producing?

Post by Marc the Habs Fan »

I have a team with Doughty, Vatanen, Leddy and Edler on the backend and only Vatanen has even come close to what I expect offensively (25 points in 58 games this season)...and even that is underwhelming. I have a fairly solid group of top 6 forwards. My D SHOULD be a huge part of my offence, a big strength, and yet it does not produce even close to what I expect. It's not the first year I have had this issue either.

Doughty has a horrible 18 points in 58 games. He has a PA of 82 and a SC of 72. I play him on a play on a 1st pair that has settings of 0PHY-2 DF-3OF. My team settings are generally set at 3 OF if the game is tied or if I am trailing.

I look at the highest scoring blueliners in our league (guys like Karlsson, Byfuglien, Subban, etc) and they are all on defence pair settings of 1 PHY-2DF-2OF.

It just makes no sense to me. Like, less OF and more PHY = more production from your D? Any thoughts?
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Foo
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Re: How to get skilled offensive d-men producing?

Post by Foo »

2 guess here:

1) your commish is using engine 2.0 which inputs a lot of randomness in the sim, so the're is nothing you can do.

2) your commish is using morale in the options. Even if it is set at a low percentage, the morale still have a big influence in the sim. What is the morale of those players?
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Marc the Habs Fan
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Re: How to get skilled offensive d-men producing?

Post by Marc the Habs Fan »

They have morale's in the 63-70 range.

And yes, we are using 2.0
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Re: How to get skilled offensive d-men producing?

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Well you should consider moving to engine 1.5 and use my free ratings...

here is last year top def in scoring
Karlsson
Bruns
Subban
Wideman

here is mine with 30 games left
http://www.wchlsim.com/leaderswchl.php? ... =Get+Stats
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Mdd136
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Re: How to get skilled offensive d-men producing?

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Is engine 2.1 is more effective than the 1.5.
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