EA Plans to Kickoff the Official Madden NFL 19 Player Ratings on June 27

[Cowboy008]

Quote: Originally Posted by jpdavis82

We also should be getting the graphics Blog Thursday. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I hope the graphics blog still comes out this week.

[Datninja619]

Joey Bosa will be one....... Kidding..... 98 OVR.

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[UFCMPunk]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sphinx

I think the overalls this year matter a lot less than in years past. At least as far as cfm folks go. I mean a guy like Brady could be a 99 in on scheme and a 97 in another. I'm more interested in seeing how the rookies are rated and who if any got the elusive superstar trait.

Truthfully, I think since we figured out all the tricks to how lowering ratings makes game play better ratings really don't matter. I mean does EA not pay attention to things people find here where lowering certain ratings makes players play better and more realistic? EX... lowering Pursuit for DEs and DTs make for better D-Line play. If people here can find these rating tricks, why does EA continue to hype up high OVRs?

[TB5XSBW]

Quote: Originally Posted by jfsolo

The archetypes should allow for more accurate ratings because in theory they shouldn't have to artificially boost certain ratings for certain players to manufacture that High OVR. Brady can have that 99 Field General OVR, which is what we'll probably see in the reveal, but many of his other ratings can be low enough to give him something like a 65 OVR for Scrambler. By the same token Cam Newton can get the 90+ for Strong Arm and Scrambler, but be in the 70s for Field General.(Although Moonlightswami will probably lobby really hard to get his boy a higher FG rating than that).

70 for Field General for Cam Newton is way too high. He's one of the dumbest players in the league, and in fact, one of the dumbest people on the planet.

[Therebelyell626]

That doesn't really look like Todd Hurley to me lol. They baker mayfield model looks pretty good though

[Rams_3]

Quote: Originally Posted by Therebelyell626

That doesn't really look like Todd Hurley to me lol. They baker mayfield model looks pretty good though

I was just thinking the same thing. That gurley face is horrible especially since now they seem to be showing more players with helmets off this year.

[Find_the_Door]

Quote: Originally Posted by brahmagoul

I hope you're right. Maybe this goes under the wish list category, but I'd love to see their ratings be based on Pro Football Focus or something like that. They are interesting, somewhat jarring, but performance based.

They already are - Kane (and Donny before him) have heavily relied upon PFF for ratings when calculating weekly ratings increases and decreases.

[TMJOHNS18]

Quote: Originally Posted by Find_the_Door

They already are - Kane (and Donny before him) have heavily relied upon PFF for ratings when calculating weekly ratings increases and decreases.

I've always felt these ratings were more manipulated than actually being a representative of the real player.

Player A is viewed as the #1 player per PFF/opinion. Therefore he is rated high 90s, and he is elite at every positional need. Players B, C, D, E are viewed as the next in line for best at their position. But in real life they all have a different play style, they've mastered their craft, but they are more one-dimensional than all-around studs. Doesn't matter in real life, because they fit perfect in their teams and are studs.

Problem is that the game cannot show this for players B, C, D and E. They must also be well rounded so that their OVRs fall in line as #'s 2, 3, 4, and 5.

This leads to inflated OVRs and lack of real difference between players, because B, C, D and E need other ratings inflated to make sure they are at the top of their position.