An idea regarding player types.

[kcarr]

I am pretty sure most people here would agree that having different player types or philosophies would be a good idea. Even those who aren't truly "in favor" of it, I don't see any real downside to it where they would truly be against. That said when discussing official ratings I had an idea.

There should be the preset types that would be easy to use for players who really don't want to get this in depth into it. Also, in play now you could just set every team's philosophy to balanced if you wanted to maintain something along the lines the overalls shown outside franchise mode.

At least in franchise, however, you should be able to choose between all the presets they had in head coach or make your own. For the creating your own you could have a set of sliders that would set the importance of every rating for that position.

That way if for instance I want my third down back to be a guy who can block and I want to place more importance on that than on his elusiveness or speed or whatever then I can raise the level that pass block strength or footwork effects that positions overall and lower the ones that I feel are less important.