Unbalanced goalies and low OVR teams

No, actually, I didn’t accuse the game of anything. 

I appreciate the whole confirmation bias thing. I said the same. When I used to teach intro to psych, that concept was part of the course. I lose to lower OVR teams all the time. None of that is what I’m saying. 

I will try this once more. I’d like to think you’re just not getting it, but thanks to EA’s character, it’s possible that you get it, but are being deliberately obfuscatory. Who knows. 

The AI can change how difficult a team is to play without changing any player attributes. There is abundant evidence of that built in to the game. I don’t think any rational player can argue that it can’t happen. It’s a part of SB.  

Often, when a human is dominating AI, little things happen that “feel” like the AI is getting advantages it didn’t before. The human AI teammates don’t check.  The line changes at a stupid time. The goalie can’t save shots that it should. The AA opposition starts to make passes it didn’t even try before. Your idiot D man is out of position again and again. The computer wins. Of course, those things happen more often than we notice. 

But, the question was asked : Did the AI adjust the game?  You said it does do that by changing strategies, or aggression. It takes some chances. Maybe you didn’t mean it the way it sounded. Maybe you have no clue. That’s fine too. All I said is that it “feels” like the computer improved. Everything since then has been you arguing with yourself. 

I don’t have video of feelings, but I am sure there is video of AI players doing impossible things. Somewhere I have a video of my goalie sliding backwards through the net, getting stuck behind it, and AI firing the puck into the now empty net. That’s an outdated example (19?), but it happens. When it helps the AI, it “feels” like an advantage. No video required.