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peatrick said:

I'm not convinced most people at EA understand how blocking calculations work. Things liek weight and strength (which I believe both would count on the sliding "scale") do not seem to have much impact on blocking this year, but in the past, anyone under 300 pounds would get literally pushed around.

Many aspects of this game operate off of thresholds, for example in the competitive tier difficulty, we'd want to hit minimum 90 Zone Coverage stat, at which point DBs begin playing significantly better, but from 91-99 there can be diminishing returns.

It's difficult to find recent info on these various thresholds, but it's probably safe to assume that little has changed in recent years. Regardless, stats barely matter -- abilities are everything, especially passive X-factors as regular abilities. 

Have you seen this Reddit post from a few days ago?

Dude appreciate you throwing that link in here that had to be the best insight I’ve read in a long time on abilities / ultimate team

peatrick said:

I believe Tony G also gets it, as well. Although I haven't used him, just based off word on the street. Makes sense Fridge would, as well. But I think Team Captain FB does, I'm just starting to figure it out, essentially know nothing.

I have his corner, and I did get an insane spin off a pick where faked out like 5 defenders. I've been loving the spin for a while now, currently using justin fields as don't want to spend money on a qb that will lose value in like a week, but when I was using OOP poe his spin was NASTY, I also have liked justin's and lamar's was really good, then some others are bad, like the bo nix seems like he does it as like 0.75 speed and the same with the honours josh allen, for HB's I've had a pretty good time with the spin on most of them tbh, I liked It when i was f ing around with the vince wilfork FB, though it didn't seem crazy to me, and I've used loads of HB's none of them seem to do this crazy spin that you are referencing. I've used marcus allen, vita Vea, shaun alexander, darren mcfadden, doug martin, cj spiller, 99 Beastmode, Saquan, Emmitt non ltd 98 and Jeanty. what is it like exactly

peatrick said:

You just tap circle and watch him zoom zoom, I'm still trying to figure out all the intricacies of who exactly gets this ridiculously good spin move. Not sure if it's based on height, or weight, or some other aspect of the player model. 

It was just two or three days ago that I discovered it finally.

ok I just watched a video on it, bro its so FAST, and its like he gains momentum after the spin, craaazy, shame I'm broke

pintusewitzj said:

ok I just watched a video on it, bro its so FAST, and its like he gains momentum after the spin, craaazy, shame I'm broke

My goodness, i haven't really mastered the zoom zoom Spin move just yet, but i'll get there -- it's kind of idiot proof, in the sense that you just run forward and he starts magically shedding tacklers off, left and right, left and right.  I haven't used Quadfather, but i'm somewhat tempted to drop ~3M coins to test and compare... but no matter what, run game is still going to be difficult this year.

Our Squads offensive coordinator has a truly impressive run game.  His Doug Martin averaged liek 11.x+ yards per carry over the course of a month, or more.  Which was exclusively Squads play.  I rarely average that passing the dang ball!

anthonysiragusa34 said:

Dude appreciate you throwing that link in here that had to be the best insight I’ve read in a long time on abilities / ultimate team

You are most welcome.  I found it interesting and packed full of info -- however, i do take issue with some of the ability combos he's detailed.  I'm not convinced that Slot-o-matic is Route Tech + Short In Elite... unless he means that it only works on a specific area of the field.

I often pair the combo of RT + SIE, which is fantastic, but i want my receivers to have ALL of their cuts be elite, to ensure i can reliably cook Man coverage.  EA never does much to explain the game to us, so we're left to our own devices and forced to do homework to try and figure this stuff out.