even when Im playing against teams with not great players, I have multiple games where my opponents players just play better than mine. Their players shed blocks to get tackles but when my players are engaged in blocks its like they are being bear hugged by the incredible Hulk. Their players react to runs immediately, fill holes and usually stop me for minimal yardage while my players sit there and dont react until the ball carrier is already through the line of scrimmage. Dlinemen shed blocks in base 3-4 down pass rushes while my players never or rarely do. Theres games when I am constantly under pressure from basic 3 or 4 man rushes from players with no abilities meanwhile I send 5-6 man blitzes and everyone gets picked up. Players just outrun my players for no reason. My opponent runs man defense and my receivers are locked up and I will have the exact same defensive players on my team and if I run man their receivers are getting wide open. I run the ball and my oline gets zero push and there defenders are reaching out while engaged in blocks to tackle me or my rb can never seem to fit through a hole for some reason and just bounces around before getting tackled, meanwhile when my opponent runs the holes are wide open. Its literally like I go into a lot of games with a handicap where my team has been nerfed or something and so many games it feels like my team is running in quicksand or something.
I feel like the discrepancy isn't as wild as you believe it is but it's possible that it is there to a degree. The mind has a tendency to remember negative events whether big or small more potently than small positive events. You never feel your opponents pain when they're struggling to figure out YOUR defense. But when someone is running at your QB with their user every play like an APE and the AI is blessing them with BLANKET coverage on every last option down field that frustration is going to linger with you for a long time.
Try going into your binder and looking at your player's h2h stats to get an objective look at how they've actually been playing, I do this every so often just to get an idea of who's performing and who isn't. As an example I might be upset that Paul Krause (just a backup for me at this point but this is just an example) got burnt on a streak or something last game and let up a TD or two... but when I go look at his stats I see he has 99 interceptions and hundreds of solo tackles. It can be eye opening.
But yeah, simple psychology. It's just how the human brain works. You'll remember the one time someone fucks up but not the ten times they succeeded.
Yes, but only when my team is significantly better. I feel like my players play worse to even the playing field, and I also feel like when I played with a bad team, against better opponents I would also get bailed out, better catch in traffic, more broken tackles, better coverage etc.
TheNickSix said:Yes, but only when my team is significantly better. I feel like my players play worse to even the playing field, and I also feel like when I played with a bad team, against better opponents I would also get bailed out, better catch in traffic, more broken tackles, better coverage etc.
I can agree with this. I actually tested it out. My super team dbs would stand there but my opponents 87 ovr dbs would react to everything. So I down graded parts of my team jumped into another game and heck they actually covered and reacted. Same with my QB that I was using at first, the almost maxed Vic. I switched to Sam Howell in my test and he played way better than the Vic :s
Daly6661 said:I can agree with this. I actually tested it out. My super team dbs would stand there but my opponents 87 ovr dbs would react to everything. So I down graded parts of my team jumped into another game and heck they actually covered and reacted. Same with my QB that I was using at first, the almost maxed Vic. I switched to Sam Howell in my test and he played way better than the Vic :s
The scientific method being used in madden. I love to see it
You guys are spot own! I dont kno why this game like that.. it seems that it trys to keep the game close or something.... o yeah you forgot to mention if u buy players from pack like " oop player" there just better than anybody on your team... sometimes i be like really?!
Football is unpredictable & Madden is a simulation game.
Terryfying said:I feel like the discrepancy isn't as wild as you believe it is but it's possible that it is there to a degree. The mind has a tendency to remember negative events whether big or small more potently than small positive events. You never feel your opponents pain when they're struggling to figure out YOUR defense. But when someone is running at your QB with their user every play like an APE and the AI is blessing them with BLANKET coverage on every last option down field that frustration is going to linger with you for a long time.
Try going into your binder and looking at your player's h2h stats to get an objective look at how they've actually been playing, I do this every so often just to get an idea of who's performing and who isn't. As an example I might be upset that Paul Krause (just a backup for me at this point but this is just an example) got burnt on a streak or something last game and let up a TD or two... but when I go look at his stats I see he has 99 interceptions and hundreds of solo tackles. It can be eye opening.
But yeah, simple psychology. It's just how the human brain works. You'll remember the one time someone fucks up but not the ten times they succeeded.
Paul Krause was a monster for me as well for about two months. I hope he gets another card he would literally come halfway across the field to make an INT more often than not