Why are my player ratings down in-game?

[ChrisHansen59]

I don't know if this was happening before and I just didn't notice or not but lately when I play games in Association, every player on my team has their rating drastically reduced. Kobe is a 74, Dwight is a 72, Pau is down to 66 and so on. I paused and checked it at the start of the game so I know it's not because of any sig skills.

[FloorGeneral]

My first guess would be difficulty/sliders. At the higher difficulties, user sliders start out lower (CPU sliders higher), which directly impacts your (and CPU) players ratings for those specific areas (i.e. shooting, rebounding, whatever). There's a thread floating around here somewhere that details the penalties (bonuses for the CPU) of the higher difficulties.

It's the main reason why I use JasonWilliams55's HOF sliders, as he made adjustments so that the user penalties and computer bonuses were nullified as much as possible, thus letting the ratings dictate how the players perform.

[abbs2cute]

Sounds like a slider issue. I'm just now actually learning more about the sliders after reading another thread. Was playing my games with a roster and slider set that boosted everyone that is rated a 79 or 80 into 90 rated players during game play. Then I noticed everyone on the team had their durability, hustle, block, rebounding, offensive and defensive awareness attributes all maxed out. I read JasonWilliams55's thread and will adjust his sliders since I can't play HOF.