# Do OVR ratings matter in the game? Is this normal? **URL:** \ **Category:** TIEBREAK\ **Created:** [28 June 2026 03:42 UTC](https://board.bigant.com/t/do-ovr-ratings-matter-in-the-game-is-this-normal/4904 "2026-06-28T03:42:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sinner](https://board.bigant.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Sinner](https://board.bigant.com/u/Sinner)\ **Post date:** [28 June 2026 03:42 UTC](https://board.bigant.com/t/do-ovr-ratings-matter-in-the-game-is-this-normal/4904/1 "2026-06-28T03:42:46Z")
I beat Federer (87 OVR) in a charity match with my brand new career player (43 OVR). I usually SIM the charity matches and my AI always loses but I tried to play it. Managed to get a win… I thought it was my custom sliders nerfing the AI more than normal. So I changed the difficulty to Expert and went to play Sharapova (83 OVR) charity event. Also beat her. Is the game difficulty in general skewed toward the player? Or do the overall ratings don’t matter - if a 43 OVR can beat these legends of the game? I don’t think I’m a super good gamer either (I’m 0-4 in online matches so far). Accompanying also the SIM trends in tournaments - all the top seeds lose often to no-name players or unseeded early in the tournament. Has anyone done any testing for this? Is it similar in other Big Ant games? Is it more likely to lose playing longer matches and not just a 10 point tiebreak? ![do-ovr-ratings-matter-in-the-game-is-this-normal-v0-fyczyl12vx9h1](https://board.bigant.com/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d1b2228ea02b4b85e41f3da408f54783cdcd1a25.webp) ![do-ovr-ratings-matter-in-the-game-is-this-normal-v0-o4haptu10y9h1](https://board.bigant.com/uploads/default/original/2X/d/df5c1c18c3092daa6a5c3471a6af222bffda3322.webp) ---
**Author:** ![Sinner](https://board.bigant.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Sinner](https://board.bigant.com/u/Sinner)\ **Post date:** [28 June 2026 04:09 UTC](https://board.bigant.com/t/do-ovr-ratings-matter-in-the-game-is-this-normal/4904/2 "2026-06-28T04:09:30Z")
I increased the difficulty to Legendary and still beat Danielle Collins. There are definitely points I lose (my sprint is really slow so I cant get to every ball after a while) and she definitely wrong foots me sometime… but it’s still a win, although it’s the closest win compared to others. Also posting the stats when I automated SIM charity match vs Eubanks Here is vs Collins on Legendary: ![image](https://board.bigant.com/uploads/default/original/2X/7/72f8cee85d9f4b242e28a5e5d18e754b74ce8c17.jpeg) Versus Eubanks (all SIM, no human playing). Absolute slaughter from AI Eubanks on the SIM. If I played manually I probably win… **Still the same 43 OVR player** ![image](https://board.bigant.com/uploads/default/original/2X/8/856bd43c100427809f8c28d562bcc8faa545f829.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![UmiTatsuya](https://board.bigant.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/e9c0ed/32.png) [@UmiTatsuya](https://board.bigant.com/u/UmiTatsuya)\ **Post date:** [25 August 2026 21:30 UTC](https://board.bigant.com/t/do-ovr-ratings-matter-in-the-game-is-this-normal/4904/3 "2026-08-25T21:30:02Z")
The AI in this game isn’t great, players dont really have unique playstyles like they do in real life, as such they are fairly predictable patterns and are very prone to 2-1 or just left and right. Even when its legendary, the major bottleneck isnt the quality of their balls, but more so their ability to hit flat on seemingly everything, or your player just not being fast enough, but other than that, ratings dont really mean much in the case of AI, only against other players.