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pp help!

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 4:55 pm
by larnefc
Hello all and I Hope you guys can help me!

I'm The toronto maple leafs and I'm 8-4 at the start of my first season. I'm doing ok but My powerplay stinks. Real bad.
My pp % is 8.1% and I think I would win alot more games if my team got more then 1 goal in 10 or 11 pp chances in a game.

My pp lines are

pp1---- Arkhipov-Sundin-O'neill
Kaberle-McCabe


pp2----Tucker-Roenick-Suglobov
Wesley-Kubina

and the tactics I use for the pp are---

pp1

breakout-wingscross
n.z offensive-wingscross
offensive zone-umbrella
forecheck-3-2
Neutral zone def-1-2-2
def zone-open
offence faceoffs-drop pass
def faceoffs-overload

and I use the same for my second pp line.

Please help!! thanks

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 4:59 pm
by larnefc
Sorry forgot to say, I have my centers set to pass and my wingers too shoot. And I have one d-man to shoot and the other to pass.

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:09 pm
by holydogg
Check this, there is some nice hints and tips.
PP hints

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:02 pm
by Systemfel
If you're using the umbrella, try putting Sundin on LW. That will make him stand around the top of the left faceoff circle waiting for a pass from Kaberle or dishing it to him.

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 9:22 pm
by Danny
The most important thing is patience. Slumps happen, even if you've done nothing wrong. Of course it would be more helpful if it happened mid-season, you'd at least know this strategy worked before, but there will be times where certain stats will drop, no matter how good the team/player is.

My tactics which have worked well so far (I'm in my 5th season combined over 2 careers, 4 times over 20%, 19.3% last season) regardless of which players I use:

Systems:
Freeflowing
Grouped
2-1-2
Positional High
2-1-2
Open
Basic
Basic

Settings:
shooting heavy, tempo high, high puck pressure, tight gap control, very offensive mentality, aggressiveness high, everything else normal. Although I figure to play high tempo you really should have quick players :-D :-p

60 seconds per shift, preference of lines depending on how good the 2nd unit is, I have PP time distributed equally between both units.
I have set one playmaker per unit, and players with a rating of 17+ in BOTH creativity and passing have passing set to creative in their personal settings. I don't use that for Defenceman or forwards playing the point though.
The only true goalscorer on my team is Hejduk currently although I've got a couple of other 30+ and 15-30 goal scorers, so Hejduk is the only one set to shoot. I figured a player really should have at least 18-19 in shooting to allow him to shoot at a proper percentage. But that's just from my own experience and doesn't mean setting all wingers to shoot is wrong :)

Umbrella and breakouts/neutral zone wing cross never really worked for me, for some reason. I also noticed giving up too many SHG using those settings :(