Note, for those who are snarling in revulsion due to me bringing up the taboo player ratings, I'm not talking about OVR ratings, those I could care less about. I'm more concerned with the meat and potatoes, the actual ratings of individual attributes.
The defensive player of year last season, he should be good for a bunch of points in defensive awareness, right? Try 80. Boris Diaw clocks in at 90. No offense to Boris, I really like the guy, but c'mon.
Then you have FG. Who does not fit in this crowd, in terms of sticking the mid-range shot: Kobe, T-Mac, Rip, 'Toine. That's right, it's Toine beacause he's 6 points higher in FG then the next highest guy! WTF!? (FYI, Kobe's at 75, Rip's at 72, T-Mac is at 71, and Toine is at 81).
I dunno, this is just a handful of players I've looked at, I'm sure there's all sorts of other weird ish in there, like last season. Am I the only one that's bothered by this? I know the response from the peanut gallery is going to be "edit them and shutup", but I did that last season and it killed more than a few hours of my life -- I shouldn't have to pay for a game and invest a boatload of time to get stats to at least attempt to jive with reality. The interface to do large scale edits was absolutely cumbersome. And for all I know, they did all their playtesting with these outlandish values, so who knows what happens to the game when you make those studs actually able to shoot the ball.
/rant
The defensive player of year last season, he should be good for a bunch of points in defensive awareness, right? Try 80. Boris Diaw clocks in at 90. No offense to Boris, I really like the guy, but c'mon.
Then you have FG. Who does not fit in this crowd, in terms of sticking the mid-range shot: Kobe, T-Mac, Rip, 'Toine. That's right, it's Toine beacause he's 6 points higher in FG then the next highest guy! WTF!? (FYI, Kobe's at 75, Rip's at 72, T-Mac is at 71, and Toine is at 81).
I dunno, this is just a handful of players I've looked at, I'm sure there's all sorts of other weird ish in there, like last season. Am I the only one that's bothered by this? I know the response from the peanut gallery is going to be "edit them and shutup", but I did that last season and it killed more than a few hours of my life -- I shouldn't have to pay for a game and invest a boatload of time to get stats to at least attempt to jive with reality. The interface to do large scale edits was absolutely cumbersome. And for all I know, they did all their playtesting with these outlandish values, so who knows what happens to the game when you make those studs actually able to shoot the ball.
/rant
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