[ehfeinberg]

It's great to see that your team wants to experiment in the offseason with different drive trains! My team tried building a 6 wheel WCD in the off season a few years ago and probably wont go back for a long time.

It's hard to say what gear ratios you need without knowing anything else about your drive train plans. Are you planning to have a directly driven center wheel? Live axle/dead axle? And most important for determining your gearing is what wheel size are you planning on using? Before we recommend a gear box or a gear ratio we need to know more about your set up.

If you are asking for generalized speeds for how fast your high and low gear speeds should be, it is generally considered for a low gear the gear ratio should be set for somewhere around 4-6 (maybe even a little higher) feet per second. And a high gear around 14 -16 feet per second. (Some teams gear their high gear for 18 - 20 fps even). It really depends on the game to determine the exact ratios. If you feel that there will be a lot of defense like this last year then having a low gear on the bottom end could be of value, but if the field is also open and you need to move fast having a upper end of the high gear values is also very realistic.