Physical attributes and abilities are all that matter

Looking at some of the cards that play really well, I’m 100% convinced the only things that matter are physical attributes and abilities. By physical I mean:

• Speed
• Acceleration
• Strength
• Weight
• Height

They influence the player model and how that player performs in animations and player duels. And of course the abilities then take it to another level.

Look at the cards that play really well:

• Barno at edge - fast, 6 foot 6 player model, terrible FNM and PWM but sacks for days
• Tuten at HB - fast, smaller player model at 5 9 making him shifty, terrible carry but doesn’t fumble
• Cross at safety, fast fast fast,
• Thornton at WR - fast, 6 5, shit catching but catches everything
• Porter at CB - fast, tall, terrible coverage stats but picks for days

Then you have the ‘fat 5’ theory from previous years - strength and weight for linemen - speed if you want them to pull.

It’s all physicals. This game is not that complicated programming wise, it’s a series of RNG and animations. The other stats are meaningless.

Some years back I built a team of ultimate legends, not the top cards but the physical ones, they had cheap cards that were fast or strong etc, and it played lights out.

This is how it's been for years and how it'll continue to be for the foreseeable future.

EpicDude28 said:

This is how it's been for years and how it'll continue to be for the foreseeable future.

And yet people are duped into buying expensive players for theme teams that will never be as good as the players that fit the above profile.

I’m gonna build a physical attributes team and see how it plays.

The real reason is because EA is lazy and makes unknown players clones of other players. Chase Brown isn't good because of his speed, that doesn't explain why he breaks 4 tackles every carry. It's because he's a clone of Maurice Jones-Drew. 

Thorton is a clone of Randy Moss, because Moss also played for the Raiders. Xavier Worthy is a Dante Hall clone, that's why he's so good at kick return and seems like he has 99 agility. 

 It's not really the physicals because a lower speed player will hawk a faster player down. It's the player they are clones of that really tell you what they can do.