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]

Re: Reason for Lowering Speed Threshold

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]

Re: Reason for Lowering Speed Threshold

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]

Re: Reason for Lowering Speed Threshold

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]

Re: Reason for Lowering Speed Threshold

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]

Re: Reason for Lowering Speed Threshold

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]

Re: Reason for Lowering Speed Threshold

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]

Re: Reason for Lowering Speed Threshold

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.

[sirjam]

Re: Reason for Lowering Speed Threshold

It's different after the tuning update.

[SincerelYourz]

Re: Reason for Lowering Speed Threshold

It's different after the tuning update.

how????????????

[ConVick]

Re: Reason for Lowering Speed Threshold

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.

Do you even know what you're talking about??

[ajwhawkeye12]

Re: Reason for Lowering Speed Threshold

Do you even know what you're talking about??

The answer would be no... he doesn't.

[MasterMike32v2]

Re: Reason for Lowering Speed Threshold

Nah actually its a huge disadvantage and its very unrealistic if you take the time to calculate the exact numbers 55 thresh on normal speed is simulation football. This is coming from someone who used to love 0 thresh sliders. Well not anymore realistic football pass defense can only be captured with a higher threshold because the linebackers are way to slow plain and simple

[rmcguire]

Re: Reason for Lowering Speed Threshold

any update for your varsity sliders after the tuning? Last night played me(UCONN) vs. Michigan, and lost 23-5

[CPT]

Re: Reason for Lowering Speed Threshold

I solely opt for a lower (40) thresh (on AA/slow) for the simple reason that players run very accurate 40 times....so yes, a WR will burn a LB.....and no guys with 90SPD are not magically run down from behind by a DE.

I tried the game set at zero and saw WR's running 4.3's and (good)LB's running 4.9-5.2's.....I know that there are a handful of delusional people out there who think their favorite player simply blows by everyone and cant be caught (which is fine), but to me - "0" creates unrealistic seperation and returns the game to "just recruit flat out speed and you will win." which was the downfall of the series for a long time.

The game also plays fun set at 60-65 as well with the right adjustments but again....for me the 40-45 range creates NCAA-like timing.