Creating the NFL with player rating restrictions. Need your help

[stantencza]

Hi all,

Some of you might remember my post about creating the NFL a few days back. Unfortunately, since then, we've learned the following:

1.) Up to 11 gold players on team, between offense and defense.
2.) Offensive specialty of passing, rushing, or balanced.
3.) Defensive specialty of blitzing, coverage, or balanced.
4.) Overall team bias of focus, agility, speed, or strength.

That seems to be about it. We can of course change the name, number, and skin color for each player (thankfully). Getting teams to have accurate ratings for their star players might take a few tries. The most important thing when re-creating the NFL will be getting these settings right for each team and giving a general of idea of the 'gold' players. For example:

New England Patriots
Offensive Strength: Passing
Deffensive Strength: Balanced
Team Bias: Focus
Gold Players: 8 (Offense, 5, Brady, Moss, Welker, Mankins, Koppen. Defense, 3, Wilfork, Mayo, Meriweather)

When I get home, I'm going to start playing around with this. My goal is to create all 32 teams as accurately as possible. So, please give me a hand and do this 'team profile' for any teams that you know really well. Keep in mind that you don't NEED to utilize all of the 11 gold players on each team. I would actually contend that many teams don't have any gold players at all. I believe that gold players should be gold no matter what team they play for. Just because a guy's the best player on a terrible team doesn't necessarily make him gold.

Thanks! I look forward to working on this.

[Peregrinity]

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Dallas Cowboys
Offensive Strength: Balanced
Deffensive Strength: Balanced
Team Bias: Strength
Gold Players: 9 (Offense, 5, Romo, Witten, Gurode, Austin, F. Jones. Defense 4 Ware, Ratliff, Jenkins, Brooking [I know a lot of people are going to question Brooking as a gold, but I think he's an important part of the defense. He's definitely stepped up as the leader.])

[fldash]

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Dez Bryant is a gold! :P OKST fan here. :P

[Peregrinity]

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Dez Bryant is a gold! :P OKST fan here. :P

I wanted to SOOOOO bad, but I restricted myself. Haha.

I've seen Dez play at every level (HS and College). When I was in HS, our football team played Lufkin. And I saw him play a game at UT. He's amazing.

But unproven, nonetheless. I think after this season, he could definitely be considered a gold player.

[Peregrinity]

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Houston Texans
Offensive Strength: Passing
Deffensive Strength: Blitzing
Team Bias: Speed
Gold Players: (Offense, 7, A. Johnson, Daniels, Schaub. Defense 4 M. Williams, Ryans, Cushing, Pollard).

[stantencza]

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I wanted to SOOOOO bad, but I restricted myself. Haha.

I've seen Dez play at every level (HS and College). When I was in HS, our football team played Lufkin. And I saw him play a game at UT. He's amazing.

But unproven, nonetheless. I think after this season, he could definitely be considered a gold player.

Unfortunately, the proof is in the pudding, with the pudding being solid play at the NFL level. If he can have a Randy Moss-like rookie campaign, he might be a gold player when I do the 2011 NFL rosters for BB

Good suggestions, I'll use this model when creating the Cowboys. I'll have to look into Brooking as a gold, however. I hate to say this but I may be basing some of my decisions about players on Madden ratings from 2010. I might stick to 87+ for golds.

[Peregrinity]

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Unfortunately, the proof is in the pudding, with the pudding being solid play at the NFL level. If he can have a Randy Moss-like rookie campaign, he might be a gold player when I do the 2011 NFL rosters for BB

Good suggestions, I'll use this model when creating the Cowboys. I'll have to look into Brooking as a gold, however. I hate to say this but I may be basing some of my decisions about players on Madden ratings from 2010. I might stick to 87+ for golds.

He's an 85 I think. But like I said, he's the heart and soul of the defense, and the MLB (so team captain) as well as a veteran. Definitely deserves gold status in my opinion.

[21SEC]

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Offense and defense each can have 11 gold players.

[Peregrinity]

Re: Creating the NFL with player rating restrictions. Need your help

Offense and defense each can have 11 gold players.

Really?

I think, as a general rule for the guy creating the NFL, We should limit the total number of gold players to 11 on a team (or less than that. Maybe 8?)

11 on both sides of the ball is a little ridiculous. That would mean the whole team is awesome. It'd be like Pro Bowl team.

[stantencza]

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Offense and defense each can have 11 gold players.

Are you sure? I guess I'll find out in two hours, lol.

[wrestlinggod1]

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Miami Dolphins
Offensive Strength: Rushing
Deffensive Strength: Balanced
Team Bias: Strength
Gold Players: Offense - Ronnie Brown, Jake Long, maybe Brandon Marshall? Defense - maybe Karlos Dansby?

[ddv25]

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Chargers:
Offense: Passing
Defense: Balanced

Gold 9 players:
Offense: P. Rivers, M.McNeill, V. Jackson, A. Gates, N. Hardwick
Defense: L. Castillo, S. Merriman, Q. Jammer, S. Phillips

other: M. Scifres/ N. Kaeding

[21SEC]

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Are you sure? I guess I'll find out in two hours, lol.

Positive. I've already done it.

[DarrenG]

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New York Jets Offense- Rushing
Defense Blitzing 5 Gold on Offense (Nick Mangold, Sanantonio Holmes, D'Brickishaw Ferg, Braylon Edwards, Shonn Greene.)

5 Gold on Defense (Revis Christ, Cromartie, Kris Jenkins, Bart Scott, David Harris)

[IlluminatusUIUC]

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Bills
Offensive strength: Rushing
Defensive Strength: Coverage
Team focus: Speed
Golds: Ox4 (Lee Evans, CJ Spiller, Fred Jackson, Eric Wood) Dx7 (Leodis McKelvin, Jairus Byrd, George Wilson, Paul Pozlusny, Marcus Stroud, Aaron Schobel, Brian Moorman)