Madden NFL 10 Quick Update: Assisted Tackles and 1/2 Sacks Are In

[DubTrey]

Better late than never I suppose. Hopefully, this year will be the year to remember for Madden fans.

[bonannogiovanni]

Quote: Originally Posted by Krioniq

If two players simultaneously tackle a quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, each is credited with a half of a sack.

thanks i didn't know, so theoretically even 1/3 of a sack would be possible?

[bowdown2shadi]

I wanted a good read. But a paragraph is fine I guess.

Make next weeks update about 5 paragraphs or something!

Anyways, nice feature, glad its in.

[Hotlanta]

It's nice to see assisted tackles and half sacks making there debut to Madden.

I know there's still tweaking and stuff being done, but the TFL column has me somewhat concerned.

[Nza]

This is great - finally in Madden.

I assume though that solo tackles are just not on the screen when the shot was taken? 'Total' as per most NFL stats would be good too. Obviously you can't just have 'assisted' tackles, right?

What makes a 'solo' tackle anyway? If he starts the tackle and another defender joins in, are both credited an assist? or does the first guy get a solo, and the next guy an assist? I assume it's the latter as most defenders in the NFL seem to have more solo tackles than asists. If they had to tackle entirely unassisted then surely solo tackles in the NFL would be much lower. Anyway, hopefully these are all portrayed in Madden 10 otherwise it's a little pointless IMO.

BTW Ian, it would be cool if you could add a tackles to the team stat screen. I'd be cool to see which defenses were abused more, and which swarmed to the ball more (i.e. most assists) over the course of a season. Even if there is an inherent disconnection between how a team performs in a simmed game and in an actual played game, it would still be nice to see.

[youALREADYknow]

Quote: Originally Posted by Nza

What makes a 'solo' tackle anyway? In real life, I assume a solo is credited only when the defender does it all himself. If he starts the tackle and another defender joins in, are both credited an assist? or does the first guy get a solo, and the next guy an assist?

Technically, both scenarios exist in the NFL.

The first guy gets the solo tackle and the second gets the assist if the second guy just supported the takedown after the first defender began the tackle.

Both players are usually given an assist if they make contact simultaneously with the player.

I'll be interested in seeing how EA handles it and more importantly whether they actually tune their sim engine to credit the appropriate amounts of solo and assisted tackles per game in franchise mode.

[Nza]

Sounds messy, I don't really envy the stat guys in real life recording this stuff. Well, I guess it might be a pretty cool job a few months of each year.

I don't really expect Madden 10 to get that technical, but it should have solo tackles for single take downs, and at least grant 1 solo and 1 assist per gang tackle.

This should be easy, because it's basically exactly like how 09 works, but instead of the 'odd man out' in any given tackle who used to get credited with nothing, he gets 1 assist. The exact same logic used in 09 for who gets the tackle would suffice for solo credits. Then add them up on the stat screens for total. Wholla, done.

[Hooe]

Quote: Originally Posted by bonannogiovanni

thanks i didn't know, so theoretically even 1/3 of a sack would be possible?

The stats people don't go down that far... if more than two players are tackling the QB I think they credit half sacks to the first two defenders to touch him. Could be wrong, however, but 1/2 sacks is definitely the limit for this.