Madden NFL 15 Video - Simulated Season Stats

[Sheba2011]

Quote: Originally Posted by bc21045

Favre also only played in 13 games (really 11 because in his last two games he had a total of 8 attempts) and only threw for 2500 yards. If you want to act like Manning just had a HUGE drop off fine, but he can't have a drop off and lead the league in passing yards.

I am not defending the game in any way, I am just saying I have been a fan of the real NFL long enough to know that nothing is predictable. I have seen guys have record breaking seasons one year and a complete drop off the next. I have seen guys be top 3 in passing but be no where close to that in TD's (see Trent Green 2005). I want to see more than one season to see if this is something they did correct or if it is still broken.

[ApolloKids]

Quote: Originally Posted by sir psycho

Very disappointing. Passing stats are horrible all around. It seems like every time I get excited about something with this game, some new issue comes up to take away the hype for me.

yep, exactly this.

[OhMrHanky]

It's official. Stats engine is STILL broken. Low TDs, high INTs (for QB. INTs and sacks actually looked ok for D). Low rushing TDs, low receiving TDs. Stats looked pretty much like last year outside of sim QB comp % which looks better here. Pretty disappointing. I know it's only one season, yadda, yadda, yadda, but I have a feeling the sim engine is going to be same old, same old. I'm really curious if they fixed supersim in game to include play clock or not? If they didn't fix this, either, that's pretty weak. And, to be perfectly honest, these 2 things should NOT be difficult to program. They don't have to take into account all of the ratings of the players (and, I really don't think they do). You know, u take the NFL avgs for all these stats. U assign a per game avg for an overall rating. U say a 99 OVR QB throws for 5000 yds in a season and u fluctuate his avg during the season around that avg per game, etc, etc. simmed games are NOT played out. Defense doesn't come into play. Plays don't actually PLAY OUT! They just have to sim some stats. This is NOT difficult to program!! Uggghh, getting more and more frustrated just thinking about this. I am a java programmer and I feel fairly confident I could create a decent NFL stat simulator in maybe a week? Using basic type stuff. I simply don't understand the lack of effort here, or the lack of design by the madden team. Perhaps, they are trying TOO HARD to include all sorts of ratings to dynamically play out games, but this is completely unnecessary for what needs to be simmed here. Idk.

[Spanky]

Hopefully they patch this. Even in the most bizarre season, your passing leader is going to have much more than 4,000 yards and your TD pass leader much more than 24 TDs. And Peyton Manning with 13 TD passes in a full season? He would have more than 13 TD passes throwing left-handed.

[alichu]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bootzilla

Not cherry picking. I looked at all of the stats and the guy said that he did more simulations than that one and the stats were similarly off. Sure someone can fall off statistically from one year to the next but tell me, when have you ever seen someone pass for over 4,000 yards and lead the NFL in yards and throw for 13 TDs? Especially a player that has never thrown for less than 26 TDs. Every year that he's thrown for over 4,000 yards he averages in the mid 30's or so.

Maybe Peyton got hurt which is why he'd only throw for 13 TD's

[Holic]

Quote: Originally Posted by alichu

Maybe Peyton got hurt which is why he'd only throw for 13 TD's

He had over 4,000 yards passing and only 13 TD's. Don't believe he was hurt in the sim unfortunately.

Rather disappointing to see the sim stats to be this bad yet again.

[Mauer4MVP]

Man that really sucks. Hopefully someone's roster can fix it or they can patch it.

[Sheba2011]

Quote: Originally Posted by alichu

Maybe Peyton got hurt which is why he'd only throw for 13 TD's

Or maybe some of his WR's got injured. He lost Eric Decker who had 11 TD's last year, Welker and Julius Thomas both are injury prone. They also have one of the hardest schedules (2nd) in the NFL this year. They start out with games against Indy, KC, Seattle, Arizona, NY Jets, San Fran, San Diego and New England. Those are some of the best defenses in the NFL. A lot different than last year when they had the 7th easiest.