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a stealer is certainly a good dfender,a blocker could not

I believe that shot blocking either has to become more useful or eliminated. In its current format it:

-serves very little purpose in-game. Perhaps you will block a few but this has only a small impact on the outcome. Plus, if the opponent player has good enough skills, this negates your shot blocking anyways.
-because it is a skill, new users make the assumption that it is useful. I have seen many users post on the forum that it makes a contribution to inside d, which is clearly false.

Now don't go telling me that people should know better. Why? Because it has been discussed on the forums? Only a small percentage read the forums and even then they would still have to find the relevant post. Not to mention some of the misinformation out there.

They should do their own research? That takes time and experience. It took me 2 seasons before I figured this one out. Granted, I'm slower than the average guy, but so is your average user. ;-)

By the way, you missed out the category of player that knows SB is pretty useless, but makes sure his players have a decent level because they expect that to be fixed in the future.

Fixing it must be well overdue then...

I will also say that I do think in reality those who try to block a lot of shot do foul more.. though I don't think I want that part of BB because I dont want training a good player a little bit more in shot blocking to make him worth less because he fouls out all the time. Since there is no way to "untrain" it would be very bad for an owner to discover he invested training in his star player and actually made him less valuable.

I believing today we have the same problem, when you train blocking the salary increase pretty much with nearly no effect on the gameplay ... I checked the players with blocking 10 on the tl in the past, and they usually made around 1 Block per game or even less. Which ain't a noticeable different to other Centers, or at least no big different.

Also Centers with blocking reach their potential earlier then others, so you was punish in 2 ways for training blocking and it would be fine when you could untrain it today, or make it usefull