The time has come EA: SCRAP the current Ratings system!

[AuburnAlumni]

Note to EA Sports NCAA development team....

You are forever improving this great franchise.

Homefield advantage. Player Transfers. NCAA troubles.

It just gets better and better.

But now...for next year and beyond...one aspect of the game is SEVERELY lacking...the ratings system.

Why do we still see the mid-level teams, etc. with 65 speed WRS, and 40 speed DTs and DEs??

Why is Mike Williams...who definitely is a freakishly good WR...given 97 speed last year...when everyone and their mother KNOWS that Mike Williams is not a "speed" guy in the slightest? Now suddenly he goes down to a 90...but is given 70 strength...ummm...that is a little ridiculous for a WR...even one as physical as Big Mike.

Why are "fast QBs" given 80 speed...yet when they move to WR the next season...suddenly they are given 88 or 90 speed?

The reason..the ratings system is outdated. The ratings system is failing. It's time for new blood.

I know...you don't want to look in that direction...but take a gander over at ole Sega's franchise. Look at their ratings system for ESPN NFL Football. Look at how detailed and position specific they get. Look at how when SPEED is not the end all be all for making a guy "good" you create a much richer, more varied football gaming enviornment.

Just because a guy is a superstar at the college level...please don't inflate his 40 time to a 4.2. Please don't make every guy on a top 5 team a track star, while making every starting WR for Northeast Louisiana a slug.

Look at the NFL EA. Do you have any idea how many "speed" guys...how many Pro-Bowlers have come from "Podunk U"...quite a few.

I love your game EA. I'm a die hard NCAA'er and will always plunk down my 50 bucks a year to become the coach of my beloved Auburn Tigers, to take a Central Florida to national prominence, etc.

But the time has come to get with the program in other departments...namely ratings. Hear my plea good sirs and continue to improve this great series.

Holla.

[fishepa]

Excellent post!!!

[soxboy7]

Nice job, and I kinda agree with you.

[The GIGGAS]

This post is great, have one of these on me (sans me paying).

[RubenDouglas]

Who change something you're bound to pay for anyways?

i dont really think EA cares too much...

[usmevans7]

I completely agree, and at the same time keep TCU and other low end schools from getting into the NC after two years in Dynasty mode.

[jgully]

Awwww boo hoo

If you don't like the ratings then edit them.

[conboy31]

That is not the entire point. They have too few rating categories to begin with, which is compounded by the fact that they are extremely inconsistent and inadequate.