I beg you EA...matchmaking...please

[Nittany]

My frustration level is starting to peak. I am so sick and tired of jumping into a quick team EASHL game only to be playing against guys with 300 plus goals/points.

Me and my 2 teammates barely have 50 points.

EA has to give us some way to be matched up against similiar level teams. It's just plain stupid. My 83 rated checker can't even come close to knocking down a 90 plus strength guy. Don't even get me started on the 99 slap shot guys. One shot...goal. Us...barely scoring one goal a game.

It's stupid and frustrating. I have even tried to challenge another similiarly rated team...but nobody accepts.

Please EA...I beg you...

nit

[JM_Obi-Wan]

I mentioned this to Redshirt in a PM. my suggestion for the patch was maybe adding an option to the filter to search just for teams in your division. It seems like a pretty fair request so lets cross our fingers.

[jayshaw91]

Sounds logical to me. I haven't played any EASHL games yet, and reading this here, I don't know if I will until something like that is in place. I don't mind a challenge, but playing guys who just straight outclass me is not my idea of fun.

[kerosene31]

Definitely. We see this all the time. Too many people just play a ton and there's a huge gap. We're more competitive now since some have gotten their vet card, but before that it is brutal.

We've got a few casual players who don't have any time to get their cards and they struggle as guys skate circles around them.

Initially we were losing 3 out of every 4 games, now that a few have vet cards, we're winning 2 out of 3.

[JM_Obi-Wan]

It seems like this is becoming a pretty big issue. i've seen a number of posts on this over on the EA forum recently.

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/2735802.page

of note my team is in the Ameteur division , and 8 of our last 11 games have been vs. Elite division teams. This just does not make any sense. I really do believe this needs to be a priority issue for EASHL. it's getting a bit out of control.

[centauris]

agreed.

it is no where near fair.

and honestly, there isn't much you can do against jacked players

[JM_Obi-Wan]

I can't imagine this is how they intended matchmaking to work. I have to believe it's a bug or a malfunction in the code. if this was how it was intended sombody needs a serious *** chewing. how anyone would consiser it to be fair is beyond me. Even worse was last moth we played an Elite team in the second round of the "AMETEUR" playoffs. Does that even remotely make sense? I have been playing EASHL since the first year in '09, an have really enjoyed it. This year however not so much. Fact is I'm kinda becoming discouraged by the mode, and starting to loose interest simply because of this very issue.

[Juiceman612]

I agree with the above comments. This has become a big issue. My teammates and I have anywhere from 50pts to 125pts or so and we seem to draw 200-300pt players quite often.

Simply put, I'm the father of a 7 month old and I'm never going to rack up 300pts with my limited time to play. I don't have time to master the art of dangling either. Let me play against some other Dads who want to sneak in a few realistic games when their little dude is fast asleep! Better matchmaking is so much needed for EASHL!