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Old 09-16-2017, 05:36 PM   #18
yabanci
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Great work on the rosters, much appreciated.

However, I don't think converting Madden overall ratings to FOF overall ratings works when it comes to young players. The problem is Madden's overall rating is a current rating, whereas FOF's overall rating is a potential rating. If you do a straight conversion, a low current Madden rating will result in a low potential FOF rating.

For example, recently drafted QBs in the roster file cvs have the following potential FOF ratings:

* Mitch Trubisky future potential of 2 (good starter)

* Deshaun Watson and Carson Wentz future potentials of 1 (decent backup)

* Pat Mahomes, DeShone Kizer, Jared Goff, and Paxton Lynch future potentials of 0 (roster filler).

I fired up a test league (no x-factor) to check and got the following initial ratings:

Trubisky - 14/34
Watson - 12/24
Mahomes - 12/37
Kizer - 15/33
Goff - 10/25
Wentz - 13/23
Lynch - 13/22

With FOF, you really have to give young players a projected future potential rating, such as giving some of them a 3 potential (very good starter) or 4 (very good plus starter) or higher and then let the x-factor sort it all out so they all don't end up great.
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