Better teams play worse vs worse opponents

davesgrinder said:

I have a 92 ovr team. and get 85-86 match ups from Time to time. they are so sweaty. I miss throws I never miss. The receivers drop numerous passes Fumbles and I play on conservative. Its wild. I have finally just accepted if they want you to loose you loose.

Conservative carry only affects hits not strips. Also your opponent could be doing something to affect you negatively, but you’re too stuck on the “my team is better” entitlement mindset and not recognize what is actually going on. 
 

Sounds like user error

Takeover said:

I knew I wasn’t tripping, it feels like ea specifically makes sure your team dims down to your trash opponent

Or you play down to your opponent through your entitlement mindset. 
 

You see tough team you lock in. You see a bad or worse team you don’t. It’s human nature. 
 

User error

SlagSlapper said:

Or you play down to your opponent through your entitlement mindset. 
 

You see tough team you lock in. You see a bad or worse team you don’t. It’s human nature. 
 

User error

you can definitely say that this plays a factor, but again the thing that gets me is the drastic speed differences being negated. that has nothing to do with mindset.

ejstew said:

you can definitely say that this plays a factor, but again the thing that gets me is the drastic speed differences being negated. that has nothing to do with mindset.

Stamina, play style, depth, game scenario, etc.- are all human factors that we as players can control. It’s more than “my guy is faster so A better happen, B or C better not happen “. It’s more than that is affecting people negative

SlagSlapper said:

Stamina, play style, depth, game scenario, etc.- are all human factors that we as players can control. It’s more than “my guy is faster so A better happen, B or C better not happen “. It’s more than that is affecting people negative

It is more than that in a game of football I agree, I'm talking about when my +3-5 speed receiver with no wear and tear is in front of the DB on a deep ball, and then gets ran by while the ball is in the air.

Takeover said:

I knew I wasn’t tripping, it feels like ea specifically makes sure your team dims down to your trash opponent

Last night I had a dude throw into QUINTIPLE coverage on 4th & forever. His WR caught the ball with 4 of them making contact. Absolutely insane. I wish the game would just let us play. I don’t want the odds tilted in my favour when I’m at a disadvantage

ejstew said:

It is more than that in a game of football I agree, I'm talking about when my +3-5 speed receiver with no wear and tear is in front of the DB on a deep ball, and then gets ran by while the ball is in the air.

I’ll attribute that NOW as in this point if the video game season to low throw power. People complain so much about early gameplay not realizing this is a threshold animation game. Everyone is ass until 95 overalls where you start to hit the 96 threshold on ratings. 
 

now if your 99 speed 99 DRR wr has this happen to a known 88 speed player then yeah. Also I do think it’s funny everyone thinks they have their opponents teams pegged. I know I’m squads I won’t know any of my opponents card ratings

markcfb said:

Last night I had a dude throw into QUINTIPLE coverage on 4th & forever. His WR caught the ball with 4 of them making contact. Absolutely insane. I wish the game would just let us play. I don’t want the odds tilted in my favour when I’m at a disadvantage

We have ALL had that happen FOR us as well. When that happens we clip we pop we shout we exclaim happily. Like we did it ourselves. So yeah.

SlagSlapper said:

We have ALL had that happen FOR us as well. When that happens we clip we pop we shout we exclaim happily. Like we did it ourselves. So yeah.

I actually don't lol, I'd rather the stats on the cards matter regardless of it's for or against me. That's what makes the team building/schemes fun

SlagSlapper said:

We have ALL had that happen FOR us as well. When that happens we clip we pop we shout we exclaim happily. Like we did it ourselves. So yeah.

Ive maybe thrown into double coverage and gotten away with it a small handful of times - usually get burned. But quintuple coverage? While 4/5 are making contact during the catch? Never in a million years. It was outrageous

ejstew said:

I actually don't lol, I'd rather the stats on the cards matter regardless of it's for or against me. That's what makes the team building/schemes fun

Attributes on cards aren’t always the end all be all. That feels like an entitlement thing. Ohio state would be undefeated if the refs don’t call OPI on J Smith but his ratings are high enough that we just don’t call that? And I’m a lifelong buckeye

markcfb said:

Ive maybe thrown into double coverage and gotten away with it a small handful of times - usually get burned. But quintuple coverage? While 4/5 are making contact during the catch? Never in a million years. It was outrageous

I’m sure you broke 14 tackles in a play for a TD with tackling abilities on the entire defense in the past. We all get those breaks. We just recognize when they go against us

SlagSlapper said:

I’m sure you broke 14 tackles in a play for a TD with tackling abilities on the entire defense in the past. We all get those breaks. We just recognize when they go against us

Maybe you’ve had all this outrageous shit happen because you’re often the inferior player getting the breaks but I can assure you I’ve never broke 14 tackles.

SlagSlapper said:

Attributes on cards aren’t always the end all be all. That feels like an entitlement thing. Ohio state would be undefeated if the refs don’t call OPI on J Smith but his ratings are high enough that we just don’t call that? And I’m a lifelong buckeye

Again, I agree on the overall point here- but scheming matchups should be the end all be all just like IRL. If I can scheme my fastest player to be 1on1 with a much slower player, there should be a pretty good payoff for that. There's a reason NFL teams don't just line up their MLBs or 4th nickel back over teams #1 WR. I'm not saying I should be able to lob Restrepo over 91 Hunter because of a slight speed difference- but there shouldn't ever be a time that guys like Shaun Dolac can stick to Restrepo or Lacy in man, do you get what I'm saying?