Out of Position (OOP) Players

Lately I’ve become more and more irritated and burnt out by the amount of OOP Players being released. I realize that this is the nature of MUT - building a team of your favorite players with minimal limitations is a young football fan’s dream.

 But we’ve not only reached a point of saturation (naturally, it’s June), but we’re making OOP Players that either have never played that side of the ball, or never played that position in general. We’ve got Vince Wilfork & The Fridge at QB, Mike Evans & Harold Carmichael at SS, and a plethora of other ridiculous combinations. 
 

I just wish we’d stuck to real-life Players who played two-ways/multiple positions. For example, Ryan Tannehill was a WR before he was a QB. Taysom Hill is another example of one of those Swiss Army Knife-type players. But that’s not as FLASHY nor would it generate even close to the amount of revenue - which if you ask me, is the reason for almost ALL of EA’s shortcomings and oversights in this game. Money > Consumer happiness.

Yep, it's terrible.

Agree completely.  Especially when most of the top players at each position are OOP players.

I’m going to push back on this slightly. I find it really fun to play with oop players. What I don’t like is how many they released. I think it would be a fun last few days of madden if they released a plethora of oop players for a final release. However, I do think that it’s too early and there are are too many oop players in the game.

I dislike OOP players as they seem stupid and often are incredibly meta and OP, I don’t mind OOPs that are realistic and actually happened irl like Deion WR or William Perry FB (not a stupid super fast meta HB) but most of the time it’s annoying as hell to see Bo Jackson at every position on the field

I agree with prolate spheroid I think ours not supposed to be serious so just have fun with it I think cards like gom Carmichael and gom peppers were to early but at this point I just wanna use fun goofy cards.

this late in the madden cycle especially might I caveat. with the exception of Boception, I find oops play poorly, as football is a sport of sizes and shapes for positions, at this stage even Ray Lewis feels heavy, and sluggish with 99 everything’s and that’s just because his weight is too much, even nitshke at 235 and 6”3 feels way smoother and is just generally nicer to user, i tried mailiata, at, and bowers and found them gross to use because they All felt too heavy and giving away yards after catch. I actually get much more joy ( wins = joy ) from using a balanced realistic squad than I ever have playing with ‘meta’ oop players, there are a few exceptions to this but even those have realistic weight and size for the position Like mlb gronk (Fred warner is only marginally smaller and is an amazing mlb irl) so yeah hit me with the silly oops I’ll carry on running out of empty formations and wait for one of these oops to cpu into brain dead coverage

A rare MUT.gg post where I agree with every single word

In The normal Mut cycle I say it’s not great for the game, but it’s basically dead so I’m just trynna have fun and these players are so fun

There trying to revive the game chill

Money > Consumer happiness.

always this, it's a business. They don't care about how we feel until we stop spending but there will always be heaps of people spending thousands of dollars on crappy store offers

ProlateSpheroid said:

I’m going to push back on this slightly. I find it really fun to play with oop players. What I don’t like is how many they released. I think it would be a fun last few days of madden if they released a plethora of oop players for a final release. However, I do think that it’s too early and there are are too many oop players in the game.

I agree with you in that, if this is the only way I’d be more inclined to chalk it up to symptoms of end-game final releases if the meta wasn’t saturated by 4,5 even 6 OOP in the field at a given time. Even a few degrees more realistic with the player pool would be great.

TheMockingjay38 said:

A rare MUT.gg post where I agree with every single word

Why thank you, good sir.

I like OOP players. Liked them more when they were almost exclusive to Zero Chill. But I don’t mind when they make sense. WRs or TEs playing db and vice versa. LBs at running back etc. but recently all of the OOP players have just been OL or DL, players just getting OOP cards because they’re super tall. Mainly, I like when I can believe it, I can believe that randy moss can play corner and keep up with my 99 WR, Joe Alt should be trailing 30 yards behind my guy