Attributes are an essential part of building a team. If you have been around Madden for any length of time, you have heard developers discuss such things as “attribute thresholds.” In this article, I will provide the Madden teams most recent stab (from Madden 15) at explaining attributes through a link and explain, in the same order, what I have heard about each attribute and why I think it matters. The explanations on this page are rewordings so I would recommend you open the linked article in a tab. The comment section is helpful because this is something of an ever evolving beast. If you do not think any part of this article is accurate, please let me know. Original Article: Here You will need to read that article in order to get the exact definitions of the attributes. I recommend it because it is helpful.
Speed (SPD) – The top speed that a player can achieve. Acceleration is how fast they get to that speed.
Strength (STR) – Pretty all inclusive. Apparently, it affects everything from a push on the line to power moves.
Agility (AGI) – The ability to change direction. useful for things like cutbacks in zone running schemes
Acceleration (ACC) – The time it takes from standing still to top speed.
Awareness (AWR) – being aware of what is happening on the field.
Jumping (JMP) – height of jumps
Stamina (STA) – how fast your player turns red in the pre play menu.
Injury (INJ) – In MUT, this doesn’t matter.
Trucking (TRK) – how effective is the players
Elusiveness (ELS) – Effectiveness of speed moves and ability to break tackles
Ball Carrier Vision (BCV) – The runner’s ability to find the hole and the downfield lane. Not sure how much this matters with user control, but some runs actually work well if you let the computer take the first few steps.
Stiff Arm (SFA) – Obvious
Spin Move (SPM) – Obvious
Juke Move (JKM) – Obvious
Carrying (CAR) – The runner’s ability to not be Tavon Austin.
Catching (CTH) –open field catching.
Catch in Traffic (CIT) – not open field catching. Rex has mentioned a “nearby player penalty” in a twitch chat once. not sure what that means. Probably has something to do with this stat
Route Running (RTE) – how open your receiver gets against man. Plays against MCV.        Â
Spectacular Catch (SPC) –  no standard catch chance. Includes sidelines, jumping, and one handed.
Release (RLS) – ability to get free vs press
Throw Power (THP) – speed and distance of throws.
Throw Accuracy Short (TAS) -Â Accuracy – passes under 20 air yards
Mid (TAM) -Â Accuracy Passes 20-40 air yards
Deep (TAD) –Accuracy – Passes more than 40 yards
Throw Accuracy (THA) only matters in a simulation.
Throw on the Run (TOR) – how well he throws…..on the run……
Play Action (PAC) – effectiveness of PA fakes. Not sure if this plays against PRC or AWR.
Run Block (RBK) – How well your o line blocks on run plays
Pass Block (PBK) – How well they block on pass plays.
Impact Blocking (IMP) – Open field pancake blocking
Tackle (TAK) – Plays against elusiveness, juke, spin, etc to determine success of tackle attempts.
Hit Power (POW) – chance of causing fumbles on big hits and hit sticks. Does HPW affect strip ball animations or is that just CAR?
Power Move (PWM) – Effectiveness of using the Square/X Power Move. Plays against PBK. Rex has said this is both in user and non-user block shed.
Finesse Move (FNM) – Same as above except the X/A Finesse Move. Rex has said the same about this.
Block Shedding (BKS) – Ability to get off blocks in Run situations. It is possible I am reading this wrong.
Pursuit (PUR) – Getting to the ball carrier when unblocked.
Play Recognition (PRC) – Recognizing Run or Pass or Screen and knowing where a route is going. SUPER important.
Man Coverage (MCV) – MCV vs RTE determines ability to guard a receiver and, apparently, plays against CIT to determine a drop animation.
Zone Coverage (ZCV) – Plays against CIT to determine drop animation.
Press (PRS) – Plays against release for the success of press.
Kick Power (KPW) –How far you can kick
Kick Accuracy (KAC) – how small that black area is on your kick meter.
Kick Return (KR) – IS this still in the game? If so, this is how effective a player is on kick returns.