Incorrect Playoff Teams?

[HozAndMoose]

I went 9-6-1 playing as the Cardinals. Redskins got into the playoffs ahead of me at 9-7. As far as i know thats not possible. Am i just wrong or did EA screw up? Pic in spoiler.

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[kehlis]

Definately incorrect.

You can tell they base the teams off of winning percentage when it should technically be losing percentage.

[kpkpkp]

Quote: Originally Posted by HozAndMoose

I went 9-6-1 playing as the Cardinals. Redskins got into the playoffs ahead of me at 9-7. As far as i know thats not possible. Am i just wrong or did EA screw up? Pic in spoiler. Spoiler

Madden does not compute winning % correctly.

The game does not take ties into account. If you look again at your picture you will see the "winning percentage" column shows the same number for your 9-6-1 Cardinals as it does for the 9-7 Redskins, which is obviously not correct.

In real life winning % is determined by dividing wins by total games played. So you should take 9.5/16 to get a .593% for your Cardinals..... But Madden treats it as 9/16 (since the .5 win is wrongly ignored) and gave you a .560% just like the 9-7 Redskins since the game just took the 9 wins divided by 16 total games.

This is a personal peev of mine with Madden. It seems basic math is too complicated to code for EA. Or they are so incompetent they don't even know they have basic math coded wrongly. Who knows with these knuckleheads.

It has been bugged for years and I have even Tweeted Josh Looman directly about it.

It never gets fixed.

I'm almost embarrassed for them.

[kehlis]

Quote: Originally Posted by kpkpkp

In real life winning % is determined by dividing wins by total games played. So you should take 9.5/16 to get a .593% for your Cardinals..... But Madden treats it as 9/16 (since the .5 win is wrongly ignored) and gave you a .560% just like the 9-7 Redskins since the game just took the 9 wins divided by 16 total games.

Wow, I never knew they included .5 into winning percentage (IRL).

[HozAndMoose]

Quote: Originally Posted by kpkpkp

Madden does not compute winning % correctly. The game does not take ties into account. If you look again at your picture you will see the "winning percentage" column shows the same number for your 9-6-1 Cardinals as it does for the 9-7 Redskins, which is obviously not correct. In real life winning % is determined by dividing wins by total games played. So you should take 9.5/16 to get a .593% for your Cardinals..... But Madden treats it as 9/16 (since the .5 win is wrongly ignored) and gave you a .560% just like the 9-7 Redskins since the game just took the 9 wins divided by 16 total games. This is a personal peev of mine with Madden. It seems basic math is too complicated to code for EA. Or they are so incompetent they don't even know they have basic math coded wrongly. Who knows with these knuckleheads. It has been bugged for years and I have even Tweeted Josh Looman directly about it. It never gets fixed. I'm almost embarrassed for them.

I just dont get how they let this stuff go. Hopefully Green Bay makes it to the playoffs so EA might actually pay attention to it. Feel bad for my rookie QB.

[Mizzou24]

Would divisional record come into play and if the 49ers and Seahawks had better records as well would they allow the cardinals in to? Just tryin to figure out of there was more to it. U didn't really show much of the info.

[The7LiterWizard]

Stuff like this after all this time is quite frankly, inexcusable. And yet there are some who are still excusing it. I don't get it.

[kpkpkp]

Quote: Originally Posted by Mizzou24

Would divisional record come into play and if the 49ers and Seahawks had better records as well would they allow the cardinals in to? Just tryin to figure out of there was more to it. U didn't really show much of the info.

No. It's because EA doesn't know grade school mathematics.