2006 Individual Player Rating File

[SteveMax58]

This is a player file for the 2006 season, with individual position-specific ratings assigned. It encompasses every noteworthy starter(and many not so noteworthy), as well as most noteworthy backups. I initially made it for my own league, but figured I might as well see if anybody else would also like to use it. I dont claim perfection, or that everybody will agree with every player's rating assignments...but this file should be a nice alternate from the default.

This file contains about 20 more players than the default player file, as the goal of this file was to capture the style of the players in the NFL, with a little more granularity than by default, and with another season of hindsight. As many have noted, however...there is still a degree of randomness to these ratings, even when individual ratings are assigned. (For example: Merriman is one of the highest rated players in the file, yet on one of my tests, he came out as a 51. Not terrible, but no where close to the file's ratings. This only happened once, but YMMV.)

There are a few items I've noticed & tried to account for in testing & creating the file...but in the spirit of not getting overly long-winded, here is one worth mentioning.

In my tests with the default player file(and subsequent rating assignments), I noticed Punt Avg & Punts I-20 seemed a little higher(in both cases) than what I found from NFL statistics. I was able to compensate reasonably well for the Punt Avg, but the I-20 numbers were a little more difficult to modify, without compromising the positives & negatives of different styles of punters. Naturally, this will not apply to punters who are created by the draft process, and in turn, could lead to rookies replacing established punters a little more frequently than otherwise. I did not notice this becoming a major trend, but it did seem like a plausable outcome.

Edit: Feedback is welcome...but please understand/help with 2 things if you'd like to help make this file more accurate:
1) If you notice a rating(s) for somebody that seems low/high, please list that rating(s) so that I know whether it was the rating I assigned, or the game's importing/scout's deviation.
2) My main goal for the file was to try to portray the players in the NFL "that matter". This includes starters, potential starters, & future prospects, as well as the occasional sentimental "old guy", but also includes KR/PR specialists. There are also many special teams players that are very solid which I did not exhaustively rate, but if you let me know some of these guys, I will try to get them in as well.
I know there will be some "roster fodder" players here & there who are not on the correct team, or listed in general. This wasnt what I wanted to do in the time I had to put it together.


Have fun, enjoy, & let me know if there are any issues with the file.
http://mysite.verizon.net/resvoku4/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/playerfile_rated_v1.1.zip

Steve

[orton1227]

Changes for Cowboys:

Sam Hurd should have a potential in the high 40s or low 50s.

Skyler Green should have a kick and punt return potential in the 80s. Current probably in the 40s.

Marion Barber doesn't have much breakaway speed in real life.

Julius Jones should have breakaway speed in the 80s and much lower power inside and 3rd down running.

Roy Williams shouldn't be as good in coverage. He should probably be rated in the 50s overall.

Terence Newman is a pro-bowl caliber CB. He's near-elite. He should be in the high 70s or low 80s. Anthony Henry is not better than TNew.

Thanks. Good job on the rosters. I like them much much better than the default.

[waitforit]

Roster looks pretty good at first glance. Two comment on the NY Giants.

1. I think Pierce should be a a tad higher in run defense and play diagnosis.

2. My other point has to do with Plaxico Burress. With the new emphasis in this version of FOF on weight and height this may automatically be taken care of, but, Burress' height should give him a better rating than he has for big play receiving and adjust to ball in my opinion.

Nice job, keep up the good work!

[SteveMax58]

Thanks for the feedback orton1227. I think what I'll do is see if anybody else has any feedback to give, and then make some adjustments to the file.

One thing to note...even turning X-factor off does not assure an exact(or even close all the time) translation of the ratings I put in, and the ratings you get (let alone scouts factored in). Marion Barber's breakaway speed is probably one of those cases...it's actually a 3 in the file.

Terence Newman is rated higher than Anthony Henry in the file...but perhaps a little underrated in his M2M cover skills, and perhaps Play Recognition. But he should be a solid CB, so if he's bad in your game...that could be the randomness that I've seen as well(see Merriman example above).

[orton1227]

Awesome. Thanks a bunch.

[orton1227]

Bethel Johnson, WR, is missing from the Vikings.

[SteveMax58]

Bethel Johnson, WR, is missing from the Vikings.

Good catch. He's a major KR/PR guy that should be in there.

[orton1227]

The only reason I noticed was because of a fictional WR on their roster. I then looked up who was missing. Are there a lot more fictional players? Did you do full 60 man rosters?

Again, though, great job on these.

[nilodor]

The fictional players are pretty much unavoidable, the game will generate them to fill out the FA market so there will typically be a few floating around on teams rosters.

[SteveMax58]

I know the game automatically adds fictional players to the Free Agent pool, and I believe, to teams that do not meet minimum roster requirements. Or the AI will sign a player upon initial creation to meet position minimums (although not for your team I believe).

But all teams actually fall within the 55-60 player range. I didnt want to take forever on the file to ensure every last player, but I did mean to catch players like Bethel Johnson. He must not have been in the original player file either.

[orton1227]

Sounds good. I looked thru most of the other rosters and they look good. Any chance for a minor update tonight based on what's been mentioned so far? Version 1.0b? I'd love you forever.

[SteveMax58]

Probably a good chance. Not sure what time but...I'll reply back. In the meantime feel free to keep listing anything else.

[SteveMax58]

Updated to v1.1...original post updated.

[SFL Cat]

Appreciate your efforts.