I know that 95 Speed Threshold has long been considered to most accurately replicate the speed disparity in the NFL, but I’ve done testing at 100 and found it to be closer to real life 40 times. My main issue is the methodology Aestis used in his testing. He is testing the disparity between the average NFL WR and the average NFL OL, which is all well and good, but he uses a 90 Speed rating as the "average" speed of a Madden WR and I wonder where he gets this rating from? Is the average WR in Madden actually a 90 speed rating? (i.e., if you added up all the speed ratings of all the WR’s in Madden and divided them by the total number of WR’s in the game would you get 90?)
For my testing I used Tyreek Hill, the fastest player in Madden 25 (99 Speed), whose real-life 40 time was clocked at 4.29 seconds, and Greg Eiland, the slowest player in Madden 25 (51 Speed), whose real-life 40 time was 5.77 seconds. On 100 Speed Threshold I clocked Tyreek Hill at roughly 4.5 seconds (.21 slower than his real-life 40 time, which I figure to be accurate considering his wearing helmet and pads and what not). Greg Eiland came in at roughly 6.2 seconds (.43 slower than his real-life 40 time). I can’t imagine helmet and pads would slow down Eiland twice as much as Hill in real life, but lowering Speed Threshold to 95 would mean just this. In effect, it seems 100 is much closer to real life.
Thoughts anyone?
For my testing I used Tyreek Hill, the fastest player in Madden 25 (99 Speed), whose real-life 40 time was clocked at 4.29 seconds, and Greg Eiland, the slowest player in Madden 25 (51 Speed), whose real-life 40 time was 5.77 seconds. On 100 Speed Threshold I clocked Tyreek Hill at roughly 4.5 seconds (.21 slower than his real-life 40 time, which I figure to be accurate considering his wearing helmet and pads and what not). Greg Eiland came in at roughly 6.2 seconds (.43 slower than his real-life 40 time). I can’t imagine helmet and pads would slow down Eiland twice as much as Hill in real life, but lowering Speed Threshold to 95 would mean just this. In effect, it seems 100 is much closer to real life.
Thoughts anyone?
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