I THINK what they tried to do was make it so that the higher ranked (but slower) defenders were more desirable. In previous UT's a lot of the best defenders in the world blew because they were pretty useless due to their speed. So instead of equaling up the speeds a little bit, they decided to make first touches shitty as balls and make headers the king of the game. That way, the higher ranked defenders were actually worth the ranking. Instead of making the game more realistic though, it made it to where I can be running a clean break with Aubemeyang and get caught from 10m back by Hummels due to shitty touches. Same deal with dribbling, instead of coming up with a system to make defending it more effective (with skill), they just made the dribbling a joke. I honestly can't stand the way they did it but now am shaping my entire team into heading oriented.
In addition, I am also still noticing quite a significant handicapping type system in place. For me at least, it is pretty obvious within the first game or two of a season whether I am going to get a title or get relegated. One season I will go 7-0 for a title with every game feeling like I can do whatever I want and still get a goal, whereas the next season I will go 1-6 with every pass being way off and my keeper parrying every ball straight to an opponents waiting feet. It's obviously not the competition as it is happening in the same division every time, so I don't know how else to explain it. On the positive side, it does seem like they did away with the whole end of the game shananigan handicap that was in the last one where if the other team was on a comeback almost anything would go in.
and holy shit just realized I wrote half a paper on ultimate team while I have an essay due tomorrow that I am dreading writing and putting off. This is pathetic.
