Foul Discrepancies

[ucat4]

Has anyone noticed any huge foul discrepancies favoring the human players? For example, on multiple occassions in my dynasty, I've had games w/ the CPU team getting nailed for 100 to 120 yards of penalties and I receive about 30 yards on penalties. Some of my wins feel cheap because of this.

I do play on varstiy w/ a good challenging set of sliders, but I'm wondering if maybe it has to do w/ the "varsity" level. Can anyone who plays on all american or heisman give their take on penalty comparisons between the human vs CPU teams....I'd be very curious to know what others are experiencing.

There could also be a "home field" advantage effect as well. Seems like the discrepancies are more severe when I'm playing at home....not totally sure about this though.

FYI, all penalty sliders are maxed except facemask, clipping and offsides, which are set to 55.

[AbsoluteFury]

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I disagree, I feel that more penalties are called against me than the CPU.

[NoDakHusker]

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I agree, ucat. I'll have like 2 penalties called against me and the CPU gets around 8-10, mostly holding and false start penalties.

[LambertandHam]

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Even with clipping at the default of 50 or so, it's probably the most abundant penalty in my games. I'm talking about 3-4 clipping calls per game, with everything set to balanced.

[Deegeezy]

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Seems about even to me. Here are my penalty sliders (Heisman default game play settings):

Penalty Sliders: Offsides turned down to 30, False Start turned down to 40, Holding turned up to 60, Facemask turned down to 30, Roughing the Passer turned down to 25, and Roughing the Kicker turned down to 25. Everything else set to default.

[youALREADYknow]

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The CPU tends to get Clipping and Facemask penalties far more often and at far more critical times than Users. I don't know why.

[KG]

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The CPU tends to get Clipping and Facemask penalties far more often and at far more critical times than Users. I don't know why.

Sadly you only see 3 types of penalties.

[jello1717]

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Sadly you only see 3 types of penalties.

I generally see 7. Holding, clipping, facemask, defensive PI (never offensive), false start, offsides, roughing the passer. I also see the rare running into the kicker penalty, but that's not common enough for me to count it.

[KG]

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I generally see 7. Holding, clipping, facemask, defensive PI (never offensive), false start, offsides, roughing the passer. I also see the rare running into the kicker penalty, but that's not common enough for me to count it.

Ah, I forgot about offside/false start. I see maybe 1 of those a game but I have seen only 1 PI called in about 75+ games this yr.

[thf24]

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The CPU definitely gets more false starts than I do; although I don't ever use fake snaps, the CPU gets them even when they don't do fake snaps, just at random times. They tend to get more holding calls as well, but never an offsides(again, possibly due to the fact I never do fake snaps). I think EA needs to give the whole penalty system in general an overhaul. I have my pass interference sliders at 95 and it still never gets called on me or the CPU, and if I move my holding slider from 50 to 55, I go from around one holding call per game to seven or eight. It all just seems very inconsistent and neglected from year to year to me.

[canes21]

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In my online dynasty we have penalties higher than default and are still always the best in the league when it comes to penalties. You can add all four of our totals and be barely over the top teams.

[Roggie]

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I only ever see Holding, Clipping, False Starts, and Encroachment. Seen 2 PI calls, and ZERO of the other unless I intentionally blast a QB 2 seconds late if he's competed about 18 passes in a row.

[ucat4]

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I think EA needs to give the whole penalty system in general an overhaul. I have my pass interference sliders at 95 and it still never gets called on me or the CPU, and if I move my holding slider from 50 to 55, I go from around one holding call per game to seven or eight. It all just seems very inconsistent and neglected from year to year to me.

I couldn't agree more. EA definitely needs to overhaul the penalty system. It drives me nuts that you never (or extremely rarely) see pass interference and various other calls even though the sliders are maxed out. I'd be fine even if the pass inteterference calls were just random (a couple a game would be fine w/ me) just to make it more realistic.

It seems that this would be easy for EA to fix, but all their football games are the same ole same ole w/ regard to penalties.

Come on EA!!!