Ok there's some weird juju going on with my gameplay yesterday LOL

Keith Byars who clearly appears to be the best back in the game, fumbled twice, got stuffed all day, and got out muscled for a crucial potential first down pass in his hands.....

Then Bo dropped 2 picks while I was usering him and with acrobat lighting up both times.....then as I was about to make another pick in the end zone with Peppers, Bo jumps in front and swats the ball down (I know Bo has the plays ball in air "balanced" trait so I'm not shocked about that)...but still! I mean, I even recorded this crap because it never happened before. It's not like I got a ball hawk bad timing message, he just dropped them.

Then marshawn with like 98 accel gets caught from the backside by a 92 speed, 92 accel OLB  on quick power run near the goal line. Same happened to Byars.

I mean, I won my good share of games but the DDA or Madden G-ds or something was in full force yesterday LOL. Or it could be I just sucked yesterday LMAO

The bright spots were Tony G makin some twisting TD catches and Troy with acrobat leaping over one guy for a pick and then laying out horizontally for another one.

Everyone has been saying Byars is a fumble god

efbr22 said:

Everyone has been saying Byars is a fumble god

Dude 2 fumbles and a reception taken away from him in a span of 10 touches. Tank does nothing, he still goes down from hit sticks.

There's no point on putting him on conservative because then you can't truck, stiff arm, juke, spin, etc

Martyr1968 said:

Dude 2 fumbles and a reception taken away from him in a span of 10 touches. Tank does nothing, he still goes down from hit sticks.

There's no point on putting him on conservative because then you can't truck, stiff arm, juke, spin, etc

I mean yeah hes alright on conservative but thats because ik how to use my sticks rlly well

efbr22 said:

I mean yeah hes alright on conservative but thats because ik how to use my sticks rlly well

Stick skills are fine if but if you come up 1 on 3 you need to be able to truck or juke or jurdle. Running on conservative all game puts you at a disadvantage no matter how good your stick skills are. For example I don't need abilities on my RBs for me to usually be able to run with them.....but I still need the ability to make ballcarrier moves to be at my best. You see it in MCS tourneys and in high level gameplay where a spin or a truck get the player out into the open, and those guys have the best stick skill in the world.

Why play at a disadvantage?

Martyr1968 said:

Stick skills are fine if but if you come up 1 on 3 you need to be able to truck or juke or jurdle. Running on conservative all game puts you at a disadvantage no matter how good your stick skills are. For example I don't need abilities on my RBs for me to usually be able to run with them.....but I still need the ability to make ballcarrier moves to be at my best. You see it in MCS tourneys and in high level gameplay where a spin or a truck get the player out into the open, and those guys have the best stick skill in the world.

Why play at a disadvantage?

People use conservative because they believe that getting stopped off a fumble is more common than getting stopped  off not getting some extra yards. You could maybe, for example, be on conservative for 1st/2nd down, and then back to normal on 3rd/4th down. And its not just for RBS, too. QBs and receivers can fumble too. However i do LOVE that nice fake juke right and juke all the way back left. Jukes everyone one

Martyr1968 said:

Stick skills are fine if but if you come up 1 on 3 you need to be able to truck or juke or jurdle. Running on conservative all game puts you at a disadvantage no matter how good your stick skills are. For example I don't need abilities on my RBs for me to usually be able to run with them.....but I still need the ability to make ballcarrier moves to be at my best. You see it in MCS tourneys and in high level gameplay where a spin or a truck get the player out into the open, and those guys have the best stick skill in the world.

Why play at a disadvantage?

because you wont fumble as much?

efbr22 said:

because you wont fumble as much?

I guess, but why not just use a HB that isn't prone to fumbling so you don't have to worry about it and you don't have to use conservative???. I ran with Marcus Allen's card and fumbled twice in over 350 touches. I don't think I fumbled once with Earl Campbell. Dickerson's previous card- I used for months and he rarely fumbled.

So I was able to not use conservative and also not worry about fumbling. I'd rather have the best of both worlds - running on balanced/normal , and not fumbling....than to use a card at a disadvantage (no ballcarrier moves) and reduce the fumble risk.....

And on top of that, I have had and seen fumbles even on conservative - it doesn't prevent fumbling, it just reduces the risk of fumbling