EA - Please Get Rid Of CR
Ok, I'm sure I will get a bunch of flack for this but hear me out. Back in the day I had a ton of buddies I played with. Some good players some bad. Now for whatever stupid reason I am somewhat obsessed with my CR (ya its a lame number that literally means squat overall) and I do not want to fall below 800 and I strive to hover around 1000. The flip-side is I don't like playing with friends who are going to cause me to lose points. This sucks because back in the day we all had fun drinking and playing and if we won great, if not who cares we had fun, lets keep playing. Now with CR being a dominant factor in my head I'm not wanting to risk playing with those friends in fear I will lose precious pointless CR points... Stupid I know, but its now a factor in my decision on who I will play with. CR should be based on how you play, not if you win or lose.. EA please get rid of CR and let us all have fun again. -- I know, it shouldn't matter, but honestly it kinda does (to me), as a sad as that is... Ya I know people will respond with who cares, just play blah blah points mean nothing... But seriously it is a deciding factor on who I play with and that's just wrong (and I admit its on me).. Just my 2 cents on this so take it as you wish.
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It's actually interesting. Last year my "solo" account got up to around 800-900 CR anyway. While my main finished off at 1150.
Anyways, not a perfect solution but it works.
CR needs to be removed or overhauled. Probably just removed as I wouldnt trust EA to implement something that works from grades. The other day I got booted out of a game for poor team play after taking just 2 penalties. Meanwhile I had a hat trick and a couple of helpers... so the grade system is pretty trash too.
Kidding about being a scrub. But it’s a useless stat. Ignore it. Profit.
Some people put waaaay too much thought into this otherwise meaningless stat (e.g., having some absurd standards like refusing to play with someone below 1200 CR lmao, that's just sad and I've seen it multiple times on the ''looking for group'' page) and I agree that overall, it sucks the fun out of the game.
You guys are right. Back in the day nobody cared about any of this stuff and people were more likely to just play with anybody. Those days are gone.
I made a thread about removing the search parameters for club so anyone could play anyone like back in the day.
Now we just get great teams remaking clubs so they can beat up on low level players.
Everyone should be able to play everyone to reduce search times combined with CR removal. It's such a toxic stat. I literally never send messages to players when I win in this game but if I am sitting at 1100 or 1200CR and we lose a game you can guarantee I will be on the receiving end of a "WOW YOU ARE TERRIBLE HAHAHA" message just because of some dumb number that means nothing.
Even if they kept a variation of it and had rankings kind of like NBA 2K did last year but improved on it.
Where you could bounce around through the rankings and if you have won a ton of games it says ELITE next to your name but no stupid number. If you are an ELITE and you play with your PRO or AMATEUR friend you don't get punished because the system respects playing with your bad friends. CR has ruined circles and friendships which is sad but also true.
As was said earlier in this thread, I have seen 1100+ CR scrubs. Clealrly players that are carried by their friends.
MY CR hovers around 550ish because I will play alot of dropins at any given time. I play club, bring it back up to 600-700 ish and next thing you know I am dropping in and boom, back down to 400-600 depending on certain weeks of good or bad luck with matchups.
I really don't care what my CR is. All I know is, I am not good enough to shut down the top elite players to the point where they don't score, but I cut down their damage considerably. I hinder them quite alot and limit them in dropins as long as I have a half decent D man that understands D.
Was playing 3s on Sunday and I had a pretty good Centerman (CR was around 625 if I remember) and our winger was actually pretty decent (CR was less than 500). I was playing D. We played 3 players that were obviously very comfortable with each other and they had pretty good chemistry. 2 Danglers and a Sniper on D and yes, we ended up losing 2-1. It was a great game and IMO, those 3 must smash alot of their opponents in dropins. Just so happens us 3 random players were having good chemistry too. Those 3 opponents were all 900+
CR is meaningless, yet toxic.
Yea I totally agree. As long as some friends can carry you, it would not be hard at all to get 1000+ CR. It as absolutely not any indicator of your skill, or how well you play your position.
Watch closely and you will see.
Best proof would be a profile change like when 1000crs change with 300crs. The used to winning 1000crs will get a bad wipping...it is what it is.