I posted stats from Madden 2006. On Madden 2007, I agree, I did not see them as bad as Madden 2006, but they did appear to have the sharing carries issue. If you look at all-time NFL records, (previous post) you don't have people getting 400 carries like it ain't nothing. Madden 2006, just had it really bad on that one sim I did. I mean, if your top 21 rushers have over 400 carries, that is a bad sim, lol.
I'm just saying that multiple players getting 400 carries in a season is bad, no ways around it.
I mean, for purposes of my experiment, I turned injuries off, to prove that people were not getting subbed out, but getting injured, to reduce their carries. (Injuries or no, getting 400 carries in a season is highly unlikely, just because few players will even average enough attempts per game, to achieve it.)
A player has to AVERAGE 25 carries a game, to get 400 carries over the course of a season, and this is unrealistic, considering that NFL records have the top 3 on attempts in NFL history barely clearing 400 carries (as shown in a previous post.
So, to see just how rare it is to get 400 carries, I'll look at the year-by-year regular season attempts per game averages, of the top five rushers (by attempts per game) from the period of 2000-2009 NFL regular season.
Code:
Top Five By Season:
Rushing Attempts Per Game, from 2000-2009 NFL, Regular Season
ATPG - ATT - NamE
2000:
25.2 - 403 - e. george
24.8 - 248 - r. williams
24.2 - 387 - e. james
22.5 - 292 - f. taylor
22.2 - 355 - j. bettis
2001:
25.2 - 151 - e. james
22.2 - 356 - s. davis
21.2 - 340 - c. dillon
21.2 - 339 - l. tomlinson
20.9 - 167 - t. davis
2002:
23.9 - 383 - r. williams
23.2 - 372 - l. tomlinson
22.4 - 323 - p. holmes
21.7 - 325 - d. mcallister
21.4 - 343 - e. george
2003:
24.5 - 392 - r. williams
24.2 - 387 - j. lewis
23.8 - 310 - e. james
22.7 - 318 - s. davis
22.3 - 290 - c. portis
2004:
24.6 - 197 - j. jones
24.5 - 196 - p. holmes
23.2 - 371 - c. martin
23.0 - 345 - c. dillon
22.9 - 343 - c. portis
2005:
24.0 - 360 - e. james
23.1 - 370 - s. alexander
22.3 - 357 - t. barber
22.0 - 352 - c. portis
21.2 - 339 - l. tomlinson
2006:
26.0 - 416 - l. johnson
25.2 - 252 - s. alexander
21.8 - 348 - l. tomlinson
21.6 - 346 - s. jackson
21.3 - 341 - r. johnson
2007:
21.5 - 280 - m. lynch
21.4 - 321 - w. parker
20.3 - 325 - c. portis
20.2 - 324 - e. james
19.9 - 298 - j. lewis
2008:
23.5 - 376 - m. turner
22.7 - 363 - a. peterson
21.4 - 342 - c. portis
21.1 - 253 - s. jackson
19.8 - 316 - m. forte
2009:
23.2 - 301 - c. benson
22.4 - 358 - c. johnson
21.6 - 324 - s. jackson
20.7 - 331 - t. jones
19.6 - 341 - a. peterson
Key:
ATPG = Rushing Attempts per game
ATT = Rushing Attempts
NAME = Player's Name
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source: http://www.nfl.com
So, from NFL 2000-2009, there have only been four players to average enough carries per game to have a chance at 400 carries in a regular season, and only two of those remained healthy long enough to achieve it: Eddie George, and Larry Johnson.
So, it looks like getting 400 carries is a considerable goal.
Getting 420 carries in a season would have those players breaking the All-time NFL mark for rushing attempts in a season!
And LOL @ saying carry numbers in the 500s were rare ... they should be nonexistent! (Not laughing at you directly, but the absurdity that it even exists!) To get 500 carries, a player has to AVERAGE 31.25 carries per game. If an offense that runs the same guy 25 times per game is predictable, can you imagine one that runs the same guy for 31 carries per game?