Fans to Influence Madden NFL 11 Rookie Ratings During the NFL Draft

[kcarr]

Re: Fans to Influence Madden NFL 11 Rookie Ratings During the NFL Draft

I am probably going to create a few usernames and just vote straight 0s for everyone to offset all the fans trying to boost their player's ratings.

[dmick4324]

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I read one of the comments that were left on the page of the blog that was very interesting. The person wrote that you can post your name to EA and pronunciation so they can have it in the game. Is this true and if so where can I do this?

[LionsFanNJ]

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I read one of the comments that were left on the page of the blog that was very interesting. The person wrote that you can post your name to EA and pronunciation so they can have it in the game. Is this true and if so where can I do this?

EA did it last year for NCAA and earlier this year (like January maybe) if you followed any EA guys they did something similar over twitter. For that they didn't say what game it would be for, just "get your name in an EA game."

[rootofalleli]

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You just wait! haha jp.. DHB is the 3rd worst pick ever in the NFL Draft.. right behind Ryan Leaf and JaMarcus Russell...

What are you talking about? 9 catches for 124 yards and a TD is a great stat-line.














Oh, wait, for 1 game, not 1 season.

[MaddenBalla]

Re: Fans to Influence Madden NFL 11 Rookie Ratings During the NFL Draft

Donny does a great job rating players already I think we should stay away from Fanboyism. Especially with someone like me who believes Jake Delhomme should be a 75 overall for Madden 11, it would be disastrous to see what some people think Sam Bradford or Tim Tebow should be in Madden 11.

Donny, please continue doing the ratings without the fans help. If we see the guy is rated too high or too low, we can easily edit them ourselves. Thanks a bunch.

[joejccva71]

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Donny don't do this. Stick with YOUR ratings and not rely on the fans because "fanboism" will come true to tone. We appreciate the thought in giving us fans more say so, but not in the ratings category.

We would rather you take care of this department.

[jeremym480]

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Highest any of these dudes should be is like a 75...but they should progress quicker (and during the season)

I support this post.

This is the same reason Allen Iverson was an All Star this year when he's clearly DONE!

Exactly. But, like other's have said, hopefully the fanboys and haters will cancel each other out so, we get a decent average.

Donny does a great job rating players already I think we should stay away from Fanboyism. Especially with someone like me who believes Jake Delhomme should be a 75 overall for Madden 11, it would be disastrous to see what some people think Sam Bradford or Tim Tebow should be in Madden 11.

Donny, please continue doing the ratings without the fans help. If we see the guy is rated too high or too low, we can easily edit them ourselves. Thanks a bunch.

I loved the stretched rating's they had last year (for the most part) and with those stretched rating's 75 would still be a good QB. MisJake should be rated somewhere between 55-60 IMO. Also, no rookie except for maybe Suh should start out rated above 75.

[JerseySuave4]

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instead of listening to the fan's input on rookie ratings and applying that, how about listening to our input on pass rush, line blocking and all the other gameplay gripes and applying those

[Dewiel]

I wanted to provide you with a bit more insight here that may clear things up a bit for you. We’re not going to just allow guys to go in and rate say Tim Tebow a 100 or a 5 based off of where he goes in the draft or based off of personal dislike. We knew from the start that this would be an issue if we gave that much freedom to the fans.

Instead, here’s how it’s going to work. We’re going to take Donny’s initial ratings for a player, and use it as the baseline. From that point, members of the community will be able to increase/decrease the player by a yet to be determined amount in either direction.

So let’s use +/- 5 in this example. If Donny has Tim Tebow’s Throwing Power rated at a 70, the community will have the ability to make it as high as a 75, or as low as a 65 when they make the changes. Again, I just used +/- 5 as an example, because we are still working through what the exact number will be.

I hope that clears this up a bit. Let me know if you have any other questions!

[lolfalconsbeatu]

Re: Fans to Influence Madden NFL 11 Rookie Ratings During the NFL Draft

I wanted to provide you with a bit more insight here that may clear things up a bit for you. We’re not going to just allow guys to go in and rate say Tim Tebow a 100 or a 5 based off of where he goes in the draft or based off of personal dislike. We knew from the start that this would be an issue if we gave that much freedom to the fans.

Instead, here’s how it’s going to work. We’re going to take Donny’s initial ratings for a player, and use it as the baseline. From that point, members of the community will be able to increase/decrease the player by a yet to be determined amount in either direction.

So let’s use +/- 5 in this example. If Donny has Tim Tebow’s Throwing Power rated at a 70, the community will have the ability to make it as high as a 75, or as low as a 65 when they make the changes. Again, I just used +/- 5 as an example, because we are still working through what the exact number will be.

I hope that clears this up a bit. Let me know if you have any other questions!

Thats great to hear Dewiel. I feel much better about the players being accurately rated in the game now. Thanks for clearing all this up!

[JerseySuave4]

Re: Fans to Influence Madden NFL 11 Rookie Ratings During the NFL Draft

I wanted to provide you with a bit more insight here that may clear things up a bit for you. We’re not going to just allow guys to go in and rate say Tim Tebow a 100 or a 5 based off of where he goes in the draft or based off of personal dislike. We knew from the start that this would be an issue if we gave that much freedom to the fans.

Instead, here’s how it’s going to work. We’re going to take Donny’s initial ratings for a player, and use it as the baseline. From that point, members of the community will be able to increase/decrease the player by a yet to be determined amount in either direction.

So let’s use +/- 5 in this example. If Donny has Tim Tebow’s Throwing Power rated at a 70, the community will have the ability to make it as high as a 75, or as low as a 65 when they make the changes. Again, I just used +/- 5 as an example, because we are still working through what the exact number will be.

I hope that clears this up a bit. Let me know if you have any other questions!

even with that being said, just use Donny's ratings. You're still asking a lot of uneducated people (in terms of really knowing football) to adjust ratings. People complain enough about ratings, now theyre going to complain even more knowing that a guy was raised or lowered because fans voted it that way and not because the guy really deserves to be raised or lowered.

[lolfalconsbeatu]

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even with that being said, just use Donny's ratings. You're still asking a lot of uneducated people (in terms of really knowing football) to adjust ratings. People complain enough about ratings, now theyre going to complain even more knowing that a guy was raised or lowered because fans voted it that way and not because the guy really deserves to be raised or lowered.

I agree what your saying, and I do kinda just wish Donny would have full control -- but its clear they are not taking the fans advice and making it into what we all totally want.

I believe if Donny gets us in the ballpark of where the rating is going to be, its ok to have some debate over little attributes like Throw Power, Accuracy, etc with a +/- 5 increase/decrease of attribute rating (or w/e they decide). If they were giving us a +/- 5 increase/decrease of Overall Rating, yeah that might be a little much, but since its only gonna influence the attributes, i think its ok, because even if some categories get cranked up the entire 5 extra points, the Overall rating may go up a point.

[polamalu82]

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Fans to influence rookie ratings?! This is like giving a slow kid the keys to the short bus.lol

[Dewiel]

And the other thing to note here guys is that this may not even be a +/- 5. We're going to release more information in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.

[lolfalconsbeatu]

Re: Fans to Influence Madden NFL 11 Rookie Ratings During the NFL Draft

And the other thing to note here guys is that this may not even be a +/- 5. We're going to release more information in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.

That sounds get...the less power us fans have over the rating, the better -- thats just the sad truth.