what abilities would you recommend, I rarely leave the pocket only to run when no one is open. Also who on my offense should have abilities activated? Debating on my two tackles, two receivers, my qb and Halfback
Are you primarily a passer or runner? If you don't run the ball much, I wouldn't waste the AP on your HB unless you have 3-6 left over after putting stuff on everyone else and the only one I'd run would be either Silver or Gold Shifty, personally.
I'm primarily a passer, so my set up is:
QB: Vinny Testeverde - Dot and On Time (gold)
TE: OJ Howard - Takeoff (gold)
WR1: Calvin Johnson - Takeoff (gold)
WR2 Denzel Boston - Takeoff (gold)
HB: Eric Dickerson - Shifty (silver)
Obviously, it depends on who gets what discounts for you. If you're using WIllis at QB, he doesn't get much of a discount on his, so if you want to run both On Time and Dot, it's around 12 AP, so you'd have lose that on another player. You could try running just Dot or On time to save a bit of AP and see how he plays without both stacked.
One thing I wouldn't do is spend AP on your oline. From my experience, Oline is going to play close to the same regardless of who you have. Abilities may help a bit, but I don't think they're worth it unless you're a very heavy runner of the ball (and I mean someone who runs 90% of the game).
I like to be pretty balanced if I could it obviously depends on who I’m playing as well but I’m probably a 60/40 pass/run player. I run a pro style offense, with lofton, Steve smith, and Denzel Boston. Lofton and Boston are on the outside and smith is in the slot with 95 mark Ingram boosted to a 96 with 94 Stowers at TE
I'd probably put abilities on your QB, HB, 1 outside WR and your slot WR (or the other outside guy if you throw more to those guys). If you have enough AP left over, throw something on your TE but that all depends on how often he's used in the passing game.