How are stats on cards supposed to work and how much should they matter?

From my understanding, there are thresholds that - once they're being met - trigger better reaction times etc. - in Theory. 
After upgrading my entire team from a lot of bnd, average cards to some of the current best cards in the game  just for fun, im wondering what that really does. 
As an example: I invested heavily in my D-Line and got a couple of guys with 90 BSH. I added Reggie White (89), Quinnen Williams, Maxx Crosby and theres no subjective difference in them getting to the QB or coming off blocks quicker against the run even against inferior O-Linemen. Should Maxx Crosby be blocked for 4 full seconds by a 82 OVR Guard? And if not, why is it happening on a regular basis ? 

Other interesting because easily measurable"matchup is between WRs and DBs. If you have a 89 SPD 90 PRS 90 MCV Corner playing a slower WR who doesn't even meet some of the 85 route running thresholds and doesn't have 90 RLS to match the press stat,  should said corner get insta-beat on the line and ran by for scores ? 
If you would let Adam Thielen line up against Riq Woolen in press man every snap, how many times would Adam Thielen beat him with an outside release and have 2-3 steps on him immediately ? Correct - he wouldnt. 
So this is obviously a video game and you probably wouldn't want better cards to shut down inferior cards 100/100 times but I feel like its a little more extreme in the opposite direction. As a Seahawks fan, I see Geno Smith run for his life every game because the O-Line sucks. The amount of pressures we concede is ridiculous. 
Thats just what it is and thats what it should be like in the game - right?

I just find it weird to see that +2-3 speed and high pursuit are not enough to catch up 2-3 yards on a receiver or running back when DK Metcalf - in real life - can track down Budda Baker or other ridiculous types of effort plays we see every week were an enormous amount of ground is being covered. As someone who played with worse teams than my opponents for the most part of this MUT, I dont see the necessity to have all the best cards - it doesn't seem to matter too much other than having more speed going down that seams that are uncovered on almost every snap lol.

Never tested it...but from my experience...the numbers on the card are designed to draw money from customers pockets into EA's.  The numbers may from time to time have an impact on actual game play...but the key threshold isn't 90 BSH...it's 90% of record profits for EA.

PBateman said:

From my understanding, there are thresholds that - once they're being met - trigger better reaction times etc. - in Theory. 
After upgrading my entire team from a lot of bnd, average cards to some of the current best cards in the game  just for fun, im wondering what that really does. 
As an example: I invested heavily in my D-Line and got a couple of guys with 90 BSH. I added Reggie White (89), Quinnen Williams, Maxx Crosby and theres no subjective difference in them getting to the QB or coming off blocks quicker against the run even against inferior O-Linemen. Should Maxx Crosby be blocked for 4 full seconds by a 82 OVR Guard? And if not, why is it happening on a regular basis ? 

Other interesting because easily measurable"matchup is between WRs and DBs. If you have a 89 SPD 90 PRS 90 MCV Corner playing a slower WR who doesn't even meet some of the 85 route running thresholds and doesn't have 90 RLS to match the press stat,  should said corner get insta-beat on the line and ran by for scores ? 
If you would let Adam Thielen line up against Riq Woolen in press man every snap, how many times would Adam Thielen beat him with an outside release and have 2-3 steps on him immediately ? Correct - he wouldnt. 
So this is obviously a video game and you probably wouldn't want better cards to shut down inferior cards 100/100 times but I feel like its a little more extreme in the opposite direction. As a Seahawks fan, I see Geno Smith run for his life every game because the O-Line sucks. The amount of pressures we concede is ridiculous. 
Thats just what it is and thats what it should be like in the game - right?

I just find it weird to see that +2-3 speed and high pursuit are not enough to catch up 2-3 yards on a receiver or running back when DK Metcalf - in real life - can track down Budda Baker or other ridiculous types of effort plays we see every week were an enormous amount of ground is being covered. As someone who played with worse teams than my opponents for the most part of this MUT, I dont see the necessity to have all the best cards - it doesn't seem to matter too much other than having more speed going down that seams that are uncovered on almost every snap lol.

You have to make adjustments. The way this game plays it's not going to let you do a streak route every play because your WR is faster. The CPU adjusts when they get beat. For example; If an offensive lineman gets beat wa couple times by a defensive lineman he gets blocker resistance and his overall goes up exponentially.

To combat this, if a player gets a sack or 2, its smart to sub him out for a different player for awhile so that the lineman's blocker resistance resets. He doesn't get any blocker resistance for that new player. 

As far as the seams being open it sounds like you play a lot of cover 3. That's the weakness of the defense. If you're getting exposed and a player keeps going to the seams.. Switch your defense up. Go to man, or a cover 4 so a safety is protecting the seams.

Theres too many people on here that will run 1 defensive play and then cry that the game is broken when it doesn't work. You have to make in game adjustments for each opponent. We all cheese certain routes, and certain parts of the field weather we know it or not. It's up to us to user the parts of the field getting beat.

However, with all of this being said to your point.. Yes, people with bad teams their team does infact receive a boost. This is very obvious and has been in the past with Ultimate Team specifically. EA wants people to keep playing and spending money, and if someone gets blown out every game the likelihood of them continuing playing is slim to none. That's why each year we're seeing far less blowout's.

Best advice I can give you, take what the defense gives you. Even if you know in your mind that your reciever is far superior than their CB, don't try to streak the ball Everytime you see man to man coverage. Wait until that perfect opportunity to throw it deep, because it will come.

I don't think thresholds are what they used to be, which is probably for the better. A few years ago 90 zone was the end all and be all. One of the few times EA realized how their laziness hurt them, Because there was no need to get better players.

V1kiNG8687 said:

You have to make adjustments. The way this game plays it's not going to let you do a streak route every play because your WR is faster. The CPU adjusts when they get beat. For example; If an offensive lineman gets beat wa couple times by a defensive lineman he gets blocker resistance and his overall goes up exponentially.

To combat this, if a player gets a sack or 2, its smart to sub him out for a different player for awhile so that the lineman's blocker resistance resets. He doesn't get any blocker resistance for that new player. 

As far as the seams being open it sounds like you play a lot of cover 3. That's the weakness of the defense. If you're getting exposed and a player keeps going to the seams.. Switch your defense up. Go to man, or a cover 4 so a safety is protecting the seams.

Theres too many people on here that will run 1 defensive play and then cry that the game is broken when it doesn't work. You have to make in game adjustments for each opponent. We all cheese certain routes, and certain parts of the field weather we know it or not. It's up to us to user the parts of the field getting beat.

However, with all of this being said to your point.. Yes, people with bad teams their team does infact receive a boost. This is very obvious and has been in the past with Ultimate Team specifically. EA wants people to keep playing and spending money, and if someone gets blown out every game the likelihood of them continuing playing is slim to none. That's why each year we're seeing far less blowout's.

Best advice I can give you, take what the defense gives you. Even if you know in your mind that your reciever is far superior than their CB, don't try to streak the ball Everytime you see man to man coverage. Wait until that perfect opportunity to throw it deep, because it will come.

Can't help but chuckle at your response. You read the post, imply and project something onto it instead of actually reading and understanding what it’s about, then proceed to lecture and assume (based on your own projection) that others are being whiny—all while completely missing the point.

There’s always that one group of people who use any discussion or questioning of gameplay mechanics as an opportunity to claim that others don’t understand the game or are just bad at it, followed by groundbreaking tips like, “you have to make adjustments."
Wouldn't me mentioning knowing about the Seams imply to you, that I in fact do not "play a lot of Cover 3" or know that you need to adjust it?
I'm just coming up with examples and scenarios to illustrate my point and you try to make it seem like I'm dumb enough to streak faster WRs every play? Lmao
I even mentioned that I don't see any immediate benefits from upgrading my team and that I had the same amount of success prior to upgrading multiple positions. 
That is in no way saying that having better cards should equal winning more games and free you from having to make adjustments. 

The entire post was only about how thresholds work this year, how noticeable they are, and how consistently the game incorporates different attributes into the gameplay as well as questioning to which extent and at which gaps the differences in cards should be noticeable. 
I'd heavily disagree with your claim that the CPU adjusts once they get beat by something. This also contradicts the issue around Cover 3 and seam routes, where, contrary to what you claim, you absolutely can let a faster player (and even slower ones compared to the defenders) run straight downfield repeatedly and still be successful.
Same for certain route combos that will break Match Coverage every time. They player has to adjust - the CPU wont.

Natej8888 said:

I don't think thresholds are what they used to be, which is probably for the better. A few years ago 90 zone was the end all and be all. One of the few times EA realized how their laziness hurt them, Because there was no need to get better players.

True. 90 Zone was the holy grail. Maybe - like you said - they overdid it. 
This year however I feel like you wouldn't spot the difference from 85 to 90 because zone logic and reactions are fundamentally bad. 
The reactions either don't get triggered at all or they are so late that the jump to 90 is not enough - maybe we'll see players starting to jump plays more at 95. 
Having 90 zone on the field shouldn't make every basic zone defense the LOB on roids but I also wouldn't want to see players dumb out as badly as they currently do basically just sitting back in their zones as bystanders and not making any plays on the ball no matter how close they are.

The numbers on the cards mean very little tbh