I 100% agree with this post. I play all my sports titles cpu vs cpu and I've noticed with madden and with cfb that it seems unless I'm far and above better rated than my cpu opponent that it's tough to get wins. I don't want to win all my games or anything like that. I just want the ratings to play out over the course of the game. In play now we are able to put the controller in the middle to spectate which seems to let the ratings play out. If nothing else i would love for that feature to be in dynasty and franchise for madden. Just let us put the controller in the middle so the game knows that this is 100% cpu vs cpu. This still off play encourages team building to the utmost degree because we don't have input on the players. The last thing we want is a modifier hindering our cpu controlled team.
What I have noticed through a lot of slow sim testing is that outcomes often compress and suppress throughout the game and especially late regardless of how the first three quarters played out. You will see one team control efficiency field position and scoring early then the game gradually tightens with extended drives inflated play counts and spike efficiency that does not match the rest of the performance. The fourth quarter often becomes the most obvious example of this. Play Now spectator feels different because it seems to remove some of that pacing logic across the entire game. Dynasty does not give us that option so even when we are not touching the controller the game still behaves as if it needs to manage the result from start to finish. Nobody is asking for guaranteed wins. We are asking for a true simulation mode where ratings and execution are allowed to play out naturally without game wide modifiers. CPU vs CPU should reward team building not override it. It is also a shame that EA does not have a true sim option because this is not hard to do and exists outside of this game already. The only reason it is not included is because they do not want to. To sim focused players it feels like a personal message that our style of play is not valued. At the very least there should be a Dynasty or Franchise setting that explicitly flags the game as 100 percent CPU vs CPU with no pacing suppression or comeback logic applied.
I completely agree with you. There are times where it seems like the ratings are playing out but it has to be such a disparity. I'm playing as Ohio State and we're 99 across the board going against Purdue who's like 71 ovr. Their qb passed for well over 400 yards against my 99 ovr defense and we barely won 22-20. I ran that game several times and every game was tight. It feels so scripted to keep them in that game. Don't get me wrong if I played that game 10 times and just once Purdue stayed in the game I would be OK w it. But the fact that I played that game 7 times and every single time it was close. 1 of the games they was actually kicking Ohio state's butt smh. This needs to be better.
