Reason for Lowering Speed Threshold

[ajwhawkeye12]

For those that do this, what is your justification? Why do you personally feel it is necessary? I'm genuinely curious as I haven't tinkered with this at all.

[crimsonpride93]

because the older more experienced players like Mark Ingram are alot faster than a freshman right out of high school. lets be honest, a freshman cornerback is probably a little bit slower than a heisman winner. and thats why i do it, its more realistic to me and is actually an advantage.

[ajwhawkeye12]

Quote: Originally Posted by crimsonpride93

because the older more experienced players like Mark Ingram are alot faster than a freshman right out of high school. lets be honest, a freshman cornerback is probably a little bit slower than a heisman winner. and thats why i do it, its more realistic to me and is actually an advantage.

I'm pretty sure the speed threshold has NOTHING to do with age/experience. I thought it just magnified the difference between players' speed ratings. Assuming that is true, if a Freshman corner has a higher speed rating than Ingram, then that difference in speed will be taken to a more extreme level if you have the speed threshold set low... zero to do with age/experience.

[Carolina Dude29]

Quote: Originally Posted by crimsonpride93

because the older more experienced players like Mark Ingram are alot faster than a freshman right out of high school. lets be honest, a freshman cornerback is probably a little bit slower than a heisman winner. and thats why i do it, its more realistic to me and is actually an advantage.

this is same with me. i like a lower threshold because i like a 97 speed guy to be a big advantage. but as for experienced players being faster. i dont know. i got this freshman thats a 95 spd. and 92 acc. lot faster than some other juinors and seniors.

[CR Shepard]

For me it helps to seperate the elite teams from the rest of the pack. IMO having a higher speed threshold tends to even the playing field. If Florida has a bunch of speed on their team I want that to show itself when I am playing them. By lowering the threshold better players will achieve seperation and maybe score or go for longer gains a couple of times more a game which will result in a more realistic outcome, IMO.

[pdiehm]

IMO, 0 threshhold is the only way to play this game, otherwise you have 45 spd DT's running down 97 speed TB's from behind.

[BleacherCreature]

Quote: Originally Posted by crimsonpride93

because the older more experienced players like Mark Ingram are alot faster than a freshman right out of high school. lets be honest, a freshman cornerback is probably a little bit slower than a heisman winner. and thats why i do it, its more realistic to me and is actually an advantage.

Age shouldn't have anything to do with it.
I'm 40 and I seriously doubt I'm faster than a college freshman cornerback. Maybe to the buffet table I am but not on the field.

[bh446066]

I think if you are playing with a dominant team, and you want a challenge, bumping it up to 65-70 is the way to go. I am using a created team based off Alabama's roster and I just went 7-5 and had some pretty reasonable stats with my slider settings.