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  • GiantBlue76
    Banned
    • Jun 2007
    • 3287

    #31
    Re: Donny Moore, the 'Madden Ratings Czar', Leaving EA

    I have never been a Donnie Moore fan. That being said, I won't put the blame on the ridiculous ratings that madden has traditionally had, on him. We all know that marketing plays a massive role in the ratings of players. There is very little objectivity with fans of the game. They all want their favorite players to be rated WAY higher than they should be. Marketing is well aware of the power of the ratings announcements and how much it does for the game. Like I said, I never felt he was all that good at what he did either, but it's not as much him as it is the "machine" there.

    Also, I have zero faith that anything will change in this area. it will be business as usual most likely with someone else handling it. Good luck to the guy and hope he does something he enjoys.

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    • Mr.Smif
      Banned
      • Jun 2014
      • 796

      #32
      Best news I've heard all day, hopefully this means they aye going a different direction for ratings in the future.

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      • RACZILLA
        Run After Catch
        • Mar 2004
        • 224

        #33
        Re: Donny Moore, the 'Madden Ratings Czar', Leaving EA

        Originally posted by GiantBlue76
        I have never been a Donnie Moore fan. That being said, I won't put the blame on the ridiculous ratings that madden has traditionally had, on him. We all know that marketing plays a massive role in the ratings of players. There is very little objectivity with fans of the game. They all want their favorite players to be rated WAY higher than they should be. Marketing is well aware of the power of the ratings announcements and how much it does for the game. Like I said, I never felt he was all that good at what he did either, but it's not as much him as it is the "machine" there.

        Also, I have zero faith that anything will change in this area. it will be business as usual most likely with someone else handling it. Good luck to the guy and hope he does something he enjoys.
        I don't think there many examples where people say "hey, can you knock this dude down a little?" At one point there was a ratings forum (there might still be, not sure) for every team and people would generally go in there and do exactly what you're saying.

        The marketing part seems off to me. That wasn't my experience at least.
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        • GiantBlue76
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          • Jun 2007
          • 3287

          #34
          Re: Donny Moore, the 'Madden Ratings Czar', Leaving EA

          Originally posted by RACZILLA
          I don't think there many examples where people say "hey, can you knock this dude down a little?" At one point there was a ratings forum (there might still be, not sure) for every team and people would generally go in there and do exactly what you're saying.

          The marketing part seems off to me. That wasn't my experience at least.
          Well, from what Dan from FBG posted here a while back, he disclosed in his interview for a ratings job there that he would have to cater to marketing to make changes to ratings even if they weren't "right". That seems to be invasive to me, assuming Dan was telling the truth, and I don't see why he wouldn't be.

          EDIT: Will - thanks for the response. I would love to hear your perspective on this since you worked there. You would know better than any of us. It sure would be nice to have a more realistic option for ratings. Maybe even make it a part of a simulation setting where ratings are adjusted more realistically for simulation style players.
          Last edited by GiantBlue76; 07-02-2015, 03:40 PM.

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          • fballturkey
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            • Jul 2011
            • 2370

            #35
            Re: Donny Moore, the 'Madden Ratings Czar', Leaving EA

            Short of reworking the entire system I doubt whoever takes over is going to do any better than Donny. He did very well with what he had to work with, which sounds like a backhanded compliment but I don't mean it that way. Hopefully next year they take this as an opportunity to do that and have hidden/fuzzy ratings and a new, realistic progression system.
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            • RACZILLA
              Run After Catch
              • Mar 2004
              • 224

              #36
              Re: Donny Moore, the 'Madden Ratings Czar', Leaving EA

              Originally posted by GiantBlue76
              Well, from what Dan from FBG posted here a while back, he disclosed in his interview for a ratings job there that he would have to cater to marketing to make changes to ratings even if they weren't "right". That seems to be invasive to me, assuming Dan was telling the truth, and I don't see why he wouldn't be.
              Gotcha. I've been out of the loop for some time so it's not super helpful for me to speculate, anyway. Just had that gut reaction to the post since we did a lot of stuff with ratings and it seemed unusual.
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              • Iceman87GT
                MVP
                • Jan 2010
                • 1739

                #37
                Originally posted by crenk
                can you tell me the two second version of how it improved the gameplay? Not doubting, I just have no experience with these ratings
                The game plays more realistically the bummer is it doesn't work part year 1 in CFM because the Rookies come in with the regular rating system.

                The FBG ratings are based on how the ratings actually work in Madden as opposed to having a ratings system that works but is hampered in an attempt to please fans and players. They also modify the tendencies which manages to create more diverse QB decisions (hopefully this aspect won't be necessary this year as they have touted an improvement in this department). .

                With the way the rating system is actually set up top players should be in the high-80s, low-90s range with truly elite players at 95+ (I.e. the spread of ratings should look more like it does in MLB: The Show or even FIFA, where high-70s players are actually good despite our conditioning to think that's low).

                I'd like to see them truly embrace a more diverse ratings spread (I don't think a new ratings system is necessary, considering the success that can be had by plugging in the FBG ratings), or at the very least evaluate players every other week instead of every week. Way too much fluctuation in ratings increases and decreases with how it's currently done, a bad day results in a ratings hit but a return to normal form the next week really results in a return to the original rating because normal performance isn't worth increasing stats over (except they should have been increased because they were penalized for an abnormal performance last week). One prime example of this is Mason Crosby, before 2012 he was seemingly automatic on anything inside 50 yards (he could hit it from 50+ yards but want add automatic, and he alwaysv had the leg but struggled with the angle), but he was rated a 79, then 2012 cane and he went into a slump and instead of realizing he was already underrated and was now playing like Madden said he does he got dropped even further down, and then in 2013 when he went on a 19+ make streak nothing happened, it wasn't until he posted a similar make streak this past year that he finally started to climb up in the ratings. I know you're thinking he's a kicker why does matter, but this is indicative of his other least players get ignored. Have a huge fantasy day? You're gonna get a ratings boost, have a bad day? you're going to get dropped, have an above average or 6+ weeks of play consistent with how you played before that bad day (or even a good day because players rarely get normalized after those either)? Sorry but you won't be returning back to where you were before unless you really wow some people.
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                • DeuceDouglas
                  Madden Dev Team
                  • Apr 2010
                  • 4297

                  #38
                  Re: Donny Moore, the 'Madden Ratings Czar', Leaving EA

                  Best of luck to Donny and whatever he decides to do.

                  Originally posted by fballturkey
                  Short of reworking the entire system I doubt whoever takes over is going to do any better than Donny. He did very well with what he had to work with, which sounds like a backhanded compliment but I don't mean it that way. Hopefully next year they take this as an opportunity to do that and have hidden/fuzzy ratings and a new, realistic progression system.
                  I agree with this. It doesn't really matter who or how the ratings are done when seemingly there's little more than a handful of ratings that actually have a noticeable enough affect on gameplay. That being said though if they're reworking speed this year hopefully that means that other ratings reworks are on the agenda but who knows.

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                  • crenk
                    Rookie
                    • Jan 2009
                    • 396

                    #39
                    Re: Donny Moore, the 'Madden Ratings Czar', Leaving EA

                    Originally posted by Iceman87GT
                    The game plays more realistically the bummer is it doesn't work part year 1 in CFM because the Rookies come in with the regular rating system.
                    It seems like all roads lead back to the need for us to edit ratings on every player at any point in our cfm.

                    Users could come up with some generic deduction of points from rookies in certain categories to bring them down to earth.

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                    • Playmakers
                      Hall Of Fame
                      • Sep 2004
                      • 15340

                      #40
                      Re: Donny Moore, the 'Madden Ratings Czar', Leaving EA

                      Originally posted by 4thQtrStre5S
                      Will be interesting to see what happens from here...I do not believe consolidating ratings would be good as it would just further make players the same; they need to utilize the ratings they have and give them true value, thus allowing for more diversity between players.
                      i agree....i think biggest issue with the ratings was the lack seperation amongst players

                      for example a small speed back often didn't have much seperation in his break tackle ability vs power back.

                      ea just never takes advantange of the full 0-100 ratings scale
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                      • DCEBB2001
                        MVP
                        • Nov 2008
                        • 2569

                        #41
                        Re: Donny Moore, the 'Madden Ratings Czar', Leaving EA

                        Guys,

                        Just want to let the community know that I have already been contacted by EA today about "an open dialog" regarding my website's use at EA. We have a meeting set up for 16:30 EST on Monday. Details to come after that.

                        Dan
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                        • 4thQtrStre5S
                          MVP
                          • Nov 2013
                          • 3051

                          #42
                          Re: Donny Moore, the 'Madden Ratings Czar', Leaving EA

                          Originally posted by DCEBB2001
                          Guys,

                          Just want to let the community know that I have already been contacted by EA today about "an open dialog" regarding my website's use at EA. We have a meeting set up for 16:30 EST on Monday. Details to come after that.

                          Dan
                          Good Luck !!! Hope it turns out well...

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                          • jb12780
                            Hall of Fame
                            • Oct 2008
                            • 10665

                            #43
                            Re: Donny Moore, the 'Madden Ratings Czar', Leaving EA

                            Originally posted by DCEBB2001
                            Guys,

                            Just want to let the community know that I have already been contacted by EA today about "an open dialog" regarding my website's use at EA. We have a meeting set up for 16:30 EST on Monday. Details to come after that.

                            Dan
                            What website do you run?

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                            • sir psycho
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                              • Jun 2012
                              • 286

                              #44
                              Re: Donny Moore, the 'Madden Ratings Czar', Leaving EA

                              Originally posted by DCEBB2001
                              Guys,

                              Just want to let the community know that I have already been contacted by EA today about "an open dialog" regarding my website's use at EA. We have a meeting set up for 16:30 EST on Monday. Details to come after that.

                              Dan
                              Awesome! Good luck

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                              • 4thQtrStre5S
                                MVP
                                • Nov 2013
                                • 3051

                                #45
                                Re: Donny Moore, the 'Madden Ratings Czar', Leaving EA

                                Originally posted by jb12780
                                What website do you run?

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