[Legionnaire]

Cool, thanks for shedding some light on this for me.

I'm anxious to wrap up my first season so I can move on to the good stuff (building my own hand-picked team through the draft/recruiting is always my favorite way to savor sports games). Glad you set me straight on not placing importance on the early ovr numbers... because I was considering setting up my preliminary draft board by taking my 75 scouted kids and weeding out the ones with low overalls as a starting point. Which wouldn't be wise at this point in the scouting process, I know now.

This kind of info is really useful because Madden's scouting/drafting is so new to me. And I've been reluctant to even start up a "practice" franchise to play out the offseason to get a feel for it, because I don't want any spoilers on EA's hand-crafted draft classes. (Frankly, even with randomized names and numbers, I'm afraid I might still be able to recognize guys going by their heights/weights/colleges). So you've given me a lot to work with. Thanks again.