MUT is not constructed for casual play. I haven't put in much cash and have a top tier team, but I have put in a couple hundred, or even thousand, of hours this year. Yeah I haven't played with Mut 20 but I remember in other mut's I didn't pay any money but might  Madden 23 coins devote hours and hours. Gets kinda dull but makes it interesting once you get started getting a group that is good to play. I started playing salary cap and while there's some interesting teams mixed up, I have run into 3 this morning with 70s everywhere but around the OL and RB using 99 safeties all around the shield.

You can take action. In a couple of months I have made a 98 team. Haven't spent anything been a project in lockdown. The decrease in price of Legends packs really helped (as did the fan appreciation packs that I do not think are available any longer regrettably ). Though I've never played a game online against anyone - just played because I am turd. I guarantee I'm not trying to trash talk but it's so simple to have coins from wl and that I feel all players are cheap asf rn so provided that you're able to find a decent amount of wins it ought to be easy.

You DO need to put money or time in, although I won't say you have to grind to get a top-team. That said, the game is the ideal time to put yourself up for success over the season IF you capitalize on methods and your high-tier pulls. For instance, I managed to make a fantastic amount of coins during the EA Access period by selling my high pulls and flipping hyped elites after the Madden NFL 23 match drops (Bobby Wagner and Jamal Adams, presuming they are rated appropriately, are gont be in high demand early, especially if Avalanche ends up as OP as people anticipate ).

Does anybody finds it hard to tell how"good" your opponents actually are this year?

With how buttocks and simple friendly that the meta was the year, I feel just like you ran into the exact same stuff every game even over last year. Because of that, it has honestly become quite easy to counter, so whenever you face someone running, it is almost a relief since you know exactly what to do. Personally, I play quite different from most folks (pocket QB, 5 Wide and Bunch, playing coverage and practically never operating"glitch" blitzes, aside from one I made up myself). I feel like cause of this, people don't have any clue what to do, resulting in me flooding people a great deal of this time. It is hard to tell whether people are just THAT bad this year or so I'm as great as I believe myself to be.

P.S. I don't have enough time to perform all of WL, so the only WL I would actually play was to get the Stay and Play rewards and also to mess up in a game that didn't matter to me. If a person beat me by a lot without conducting the meta I considered them great unless they have bailed. I played someone earlier who run essentially only 5 Broad in his Super Bowl and that I flooded him. 5 wide takes basically no skill imo since the streaks are open every time.

Not really. I operate 3-3-5 against 5 Mut 23 coins  Wide and all I do is come outside in Tampa two and man up the blitzing CB about the Slot WR on the left and I can user the right. 5 Broad Verticals with 2 seam streaks is only really good cause most people run Cover 3(which I can kill by having the two seam streaks and a few out routes on the side) or don't know how to user it efficiently. It is very blitzed however, which balances out it IMO. Yeah I can certainly stop it however as you said Madden NFL 23 is bum friendly and individuals just run stock cover 3.

The funniest is when folks run aligned stock Cover 3 every play. I recall earlier in the year I successfully ran a Cover 3 beater out of Bunch(Insanely simple. Literally just a run from the slot and motioning the out route beside it out) with these FO Mecole Hardman on the initial play of the Madden NFL 23 game for like 4 games directly cause individuals live and die by stock Cover 3. And dont get me wrong I do use pay 3 over any other shell since I find it simplest to use as I prefer to consumer the deep middle security.