Why all of a sudden do I keep getting torched on D?

I’m running the same team, chems, strats, and formations as I’ve been running with success in H2H. All of a sudden, today, I’ve been getting shredded with one play TDs that I never used to. Have played 10 online games and It was the same thing over and over, regardless of in-game adjustments I make. Cannot figure out what’s going on. For context:

My coaching adjustments are Base Align, Play Receiver, CB matchup By Speed, Option Defense Conservative. Run a lot of nickel 3-3 cub (come out in Nickel 3-3 so Cub has two safeties and one LB (Parsons, Warner, or Jaylon Smith), mix in Nickel Over G, Dollar (typically DB fire 2 or Cover 6 Show 4), rarely Dime, 3-4 Bear. I’m getting killed by deep Crossers/Posts with guys like Ramsey (99 speed) 5 yards behind the receiver torched. Prior to today Poyer, Ramsey, and Peppers were lurking those essentially every time. 
 

TLDR: Any tips to stop one play TDs would be greatly appreciated

Because luck was not on your side those games my friend

Tin foil hat time: I am a firm believer in the stealth nerfing of players.  It is EA's way of making you sell perfectly viable players for a loss and picking up new players and wasting your coin.

Iinvaliidd said:

Tin foil hat time: I am a firm believer in the stealth nerfing of players.  It is EA's way of making you sell perfectly viable players for a loss and picking up new players and wasting your coin.

I mean I wouldn’t even consider that a tinfoil hat take, knowing how EA operates. They know that players have, do, and will continue to shell out cash hand over fist for packs. I personally believe there’s some truth to your theory. I saw a post - can’t remember if it was on here or other Madden site that shall not be named - but a guy did an “experiment” in Mut Champs to test the hypothesis that no matter what overall team you have, to a certain extent, the EA algorithm(s) will consistently tweak games and little things like how CPU players play/react in a way that you will almost always end up around a .500  winning percentage. He admitted he is an average player, nothing special - not terrible and he  ran a team of only core elites —> went 8-9 in Mut Champs. Repeated the experiment a second time and got the same results.

ThorsQuads said:

Because luck was not on your side those games my friend

Too many games/too large of a sample size for this to be simply bad luck. Especially when I’ve never experienced anything remotely close to that bad of gameplay. For it to happen every game, 10+ plus games in a row… idk. I think it’s too simple to just chalk it up as bad luck

DDA "that doesnt exist"

kaotikords said:

DDA "that doesnt exist"

DDA?

I run into the same thing every time I play h2h for a full day. The next day seems like my team shoes dumb for a while. Usually bounces back after a few losses. Not sure about 10 in a row.

mzanoya said:

I’m running the same team, chems, strats, and formations as I’ve been running with success in H2H. All of a sudden, today, I’ve been getting shredded with one play TDs that I never used to. Have played 10 online games and It was the same thing over and over, regardless of in-game adjustments I make. Cannot figure out what’s going on. For context:

My coaching adjustments are Base Align, Play Receiver, CB matchup By Speed, Option Defense Conservative. Run a lot of nickel 3-3 cub (come out in Nickel 3-3 so Cub has two safeties and one LB (Parsons, Warner, or Jaylon Smith), mix in Nickel Over G, Dollar (typically DB fire 2 or Cover 6 Show 4), rarely Dime, 3-4 Bear. I’m getting killed by deep Crossers/Posts with guys like Ramsey (99 speed) 5 yards behind the receiver torched. Prior to today Poyer, Ramsey, and Peppers were lurking those essentially every time. 
 

TLDR: Any tips to stop one play TDs would be greatly appreciated

I feel like the game plays different every day you boot up. I’ve won 10-15 games in a row one night and than the next I lose 3-5 in a row and the opponents aren’t any better or calling unique coverage shells or have a good O scheme, but my guys don’t get open like normal and the zones don’t react as quick. I have noticed KOs working better and players on D responding better on certain days to. This hasn’t been a one time thing either, happens almost every week where you go from doing nothing wrong and then the next time you can’t do anything right. Part of the game is how random it is with animations and such as well. 
shadow nerf also feels like a thing, bc your player always plays great the first week and then after then kinda fall off.

TheChamp22 said:

I feel like the game plays different every day you boot up. I’ve won 10-15 games in a row one night and than the next I lose 3-5 in a row and the opponents aren’t any better or calling unique coverage shells or have a good O scheme, but my guys don’t get open like normal and the zones don’t react as quick. I have noticed KOs working better and players on D responding better on certain days to. This hasn’t been a one time thing either, happens almost every week where you go from doing nothing wrong and then the next time you can’t do anything right. Part of the game is how random it is with animations and such as well. 
shadow nerf also feels like a thing, bc your player always plays great the first week and then after then kinda fall off.

Yeah man, it’s wild how consistently inconsistent the gameplay is. It’s like you’re playing an entirely different game depending on the day. I’ve never been one to bash EA, at least on public forums but my god have they dropped the ball with this game. The never-ending, always-growing list of issues, bugs, etc. is insane and they don’t seem to care at all in regards to addressing any of it. That being said I know nothing about coding/how complex of a process it is to fix certain issues

mzanoya said:

Yeah man, it’s wild how consistently inconsistent the gameplay is. It’s like you’re playing an entirely different game depending on the day. I’ve never been one to bash EA, at least on public forums but my god have they dropped the ball with this game. The never-ending, always-growing list of issues, bugs, etc. is insane and they don’t seem to care at all in regards to addressing any of it. That being said I know nothing about coding/how complex of a process it is to fix certain issues

Agreed. Some days I feel like the game plays like the best madden in a long time and other days it seems worse than madden 22. Just wish it was a little more consistent as far as how your team plays.

kaotikords said:

DDA "that doesnt exist"

No question. If you play enough H2H you'll see it is very streaky, and that plays that work on your win streak don't on your losing streak. The game plays very unevenly and inconsistently. Stay with it and the DDA will swing back in your favor.

Having said that, yes, I believe EA nerfs players to keep you spending. One minute my 99 Herbert with 99 THP and gunslinger and set feet lead NEVER underthrows. Suddenly he starts underthrowing causing INT's and that lean back animation from receivers.

EA is a vile company.

Here is the simple answer:

The H2H gameplay operates on the same algorithm that is used for TVP packs. Sometimes you pull 5 silver strats, 2 80 plats, and a uniform all in a row. Sometimes you pull an 88 plat, LTD, and high OVR redux in a row. 

When you are winning too many games in a row you will automatically be fed a shit sandwich.

Iinvaliidd said:

Tin foil hat time: I am a firm believer in the stealth nerfing of players.  It is EA's way of making you sell perfectly viable players for a loss and picking up new players and wasting your coin.

Definitely witnessed several stealth nerds this year