So I picked up the game last week. I'm NMS and, after quite a bit of grinding and selling off my TOTY Kelce, I have my team up to 92 OVR.
https://www.mut.gg/23/lineup-builder/0863340a-daed-4720-aa30-d7b4efe0ad16/
I'm working to a Raiders TT. No Legends, OOP or duplicate numbers in the starting 11.
In H2H I'm always up against a Top 3 of 99's (which is no problem, I know I got the game very late) but what I don't get is that 90% of the teams play WAY better than mine? I mean, I get absolutely thumped because I can't drop back for anything other than short passes without getting sacked; most of my deep balls are jumped on despite players being open and I can't run for shit, particularly inside. On D, I can set up against basic passing OK but QB contain doesn't seem to stop the usual sprint outs you see a lot of in MUT so, once I start user covering the regular plays the other guy just runs me into the ground.
If my side is 92 OVR and the other team are say 97 - 99OVR, shouldn't they be like 8% better?? I'm an OK player and will regularly win 7+ games in H2H when playing 22 and the sides are equal but in 23 I just don't seem to have any chance? Shall I just bite the bullet until I get my team up into the late 90's or are there things I can do? Any advice is appreciated.