It's clear that the game chooses when you win. Makes all of your opponents atrociously bad to get you hooked on the high of winning. Then it starts helping the opponent subtly. I notice that my players always seem more sluggish than the ai's (no, these aren't real players like the game would have you believe), their players are more aggressive and when I'm not controlling them, my players just stay in formation and don't set up for passes (if I try to move them up to set up a pass, they go back)