How many formations have a package moving the TE2 out wide? My backup is the much better reciever but I dont know how to get him out wide without making him the #1 which Id rather not do
I can't think of any that puts TE2 at receiver, outside of the Dual TE packages that put both TEs in the slot in Spread Flex/Spread formations.
Why don't you want to put him at TE1? Always put your best receiving tight end at TE1, regardless of his overall ratings. It just works better and it is so much easier to manipulate some combination of packages to get the receiver all over the field and a blocking TE at TE2 as a true on the line TE. The way packages are set up, pretty much every single formation in the game has at least one of the following:
TE Sub
TE Flip
TE Slot
TE Solo
If your TE1 is the receiver, that lets you do anything you could want with him as a receiver while being able to get a blocking TE as a pseudo-6th OL or replacing the receiving TE all together (TE Sub).
Never be afraid to put lesser OVR players at the top of your depth chart, OVR very rarely is a true indicator of a player's skill level or their fit in what you're trying to accomplish offensively. I doubt I've played a single season of an OD in NCAA where my depth chart was ordered best OVR players top to bottom at every position, even on defense.
The OVR rating formula for each position is different, weighing certain individual ratings excessively. Awareness in particular is a rating that carries excessive weight for some positions, in some cases rating OVR +1 just by going up 2. QB and HB are most notable, AWR is arguably the most weighted rating for QBs but for a user, AWR has 0 impact on gameplay because you user control the player the second you snap the ball. AWR is canceled out. I actually normalize every position's ratings independent of awareness when I do depth charts. It helps immensely.
The quirks of who to play where on both sides of the ball in NCAA is one of the many, many things I've spent way too many hours of my life figuring out. Examples:
- My most athletic HB, regardless of OVR, is HB1 for the same reason my most athletic TE is TE1... it's easier to use packages to move them around the field.
- My best press break WR is WR1, no matter how good his ratings are because that position is almost always on the LOS or split to the solo side in my offense. My most athletic WR is WR3, again, regardless of other ratings. Sometimes that means my best OVR WR is WR3, sometimes it means my 4th best OVR WR is WR1.
- My best acceleration OL plays RG, my best impact block OL plays LG (because I don't flip formations and only run Counter one direction).
- My quickest DE plays RE and my best block shredding run stopping DL plays LE (most users have a tendency to run the ball to the camera's right, so I want my RE to be quick enough to chase plays down from behind and my LE to set the edge). The reverse is true for DTs, my best pass rusher is DT1, my best run blocker is DT2. I don't shift my fronts often so both DT play a 2-tech most of the game, I feel like doing it that way compliments the DEs better and my DTs routinely lead my team in sacks and TFL because of it.
- I play a field corner and a boundary corner, using CB Flip to put my best coverage corner to the wide side of the field. If there is no real difference between coverage ratings of my two corners, I won't bother. Except...
- When my best coverage corner is also my best tackling corner. Because I tend to play 4 CB on the field in my 425 (2 CB at SS1 and SS2) when depth allows it, I prefer to have my best tackling CB at SS.
- My best tackling DB overall, regardless of position, will always play FS. That's who I user control nearly all game and I need that guy to be a sure tackler because if I miss a tackle with him, I'm screwed. Typically it works out that my best tackling DB is my FS by default just through recruiting and position changes, but there have been times I've played a SS, CB or even athletic LB at FS in my 425. I won the National Championship in Powerhouse last season playing with 3 and even 4 LB on the field in my 425 by default because 1 played SS2 and 1 was my backup at both safety positions.
All that stuff really proves is that I spent way too much time figuring out the quirks of this stupid game, but if they handed out post graduate degrees in NCAA I'd have a double doctorate by now.