What does the awareness rating in Madden 13 affect in certain positions?

[Bose3399]

I recently drafted a stud TE who excels in a lot of areas, but only has a 29 for awareness. (Apparently he's one of those guys who only played b-ball in college a la Antonio Gates). I haven't gotten to use him yet, and wanted to know if anyone knew how that could adversely affect him

[thebizarrojerry]

Re: What does the awareness rating in Madden 13 affect in certain positions?

I recently drafted a stud TE who excels in a lot of areas, but only has a 29 for awareness. (Apparently he's one of those guys who only played b-ball in college a la Antonio Gates). I haven't gotten to use him yet, and wanted to know if anyone knew how that could adversely affect him

Only guessing here, but run blocking he will probably miss a block once in a while

Also probably more false starts.

[falconfansince81]

Re: What does the awareness rating in Madden 13 affect in certain positions?

honestly i never even look at awareness, if it does hold any water it is not significant enough to sway me from drafting an otherwise beast player.

[bsantos_5]

Re: What does the awareness rating in Madden 13 affect in certain positions?

I don't know if AWR has ever really been explained. As thebizarrojerry said, it might affect his blocking and his decision making when running option routes. I know a lot of guys say AWR doesn't matter when user controlling the guys, I'm not so sure about that. It could just be me but when playing QB it sure seems that my receivers get open a lot more when the QB has high AWR. I know that doesn't make sense as the WR should get open based on their AWR and route running, but it could be that high AWR for a QB allows him to "see" the field better which in turn allows him to find open guys easier.

That's probably all in my head but that is my take.

[Rebel10]

Re: What does the awareness rating in Madden 13 affect in certain positions?

I have never understood awareness, but it's usually the #1 factor in determining overall rating. But what it actually does on the field... hell no one knows.

[MikeLove]

Re: What does the awareness rating in Madden 13 affect in certain positions?

probably essentially nothing like it does every year

[Greencollarbaseball]

I have never understood awareness, but it's usually the #1 factor in determining overall rating. But what it actually does on the field... hell no one knows.

Yeah, raising a guys AWR is the fastest way to raise his OVR. I


Sent from that place where I'm at.

[StevenPalaci]

Re: What does the awareness rating in Madden 13 affect in certain positions?

I know that doesn't make sense as the WR should get open based on their AWR and route running

[DLaren]

Re: What does the awareness rating in Madden 13 affect in certain positions?

On option-routes AWR is used to determine whether the WR/TE/RB makes the correct decision based on the coverage.

Also, AWR affects whether or not the WR/TE/RB sits in an open area after the play breaks down.

[Bose3399]

Thanks for all the insight. It seems that awareness doesn't REALLY affect much in the area of actual on the field performance. Like Greencollar said, all it seems to really affect is the actual overall. I drafted a TE and WR that have excellent ratings but 20s in overall, so they are both in their 60s. I'm sure if the Awareness was in the 70s range, they'd be in the 80s, easily.

[Dbrentonbuck]

Re: What does the awareness rating in Madden 13 affect in certain positions?

Something I learned from D. Moore that I didn't know... awareness means very little to nothing on defense, play recognition is awareness on defense

[koszak27]

Re: What does the awareness rating in Madden 13 affect in certain positions?

It also affects whether the player turns around when you throw the ball to them and how long before their icon turns solid.

[jmacz]

Re: What does the awareness rating in Madden 13 affect in certain positions?

Well I didn't see many answers here so I decided to test my self. Made two exact WR's same stats, size everything except one had 50 awareness the other had 99. Thee 99 awareness guy has does better every time. I was throwing different routes to them, switching them from 1/2 WR so they'd get lined up against a different corner and the 99 awareness guy made more catches, dropped less passes, got open more, scored more tds, and the qb threw more accurately to him. So maybe awareness lets players only play to a certain level of there skills. But I honestly have no clue, it does something though.

[AlecLeamas]

Re: What does the awareness rating in Madden 13 affect in certain positions?

On option-routes AWR is used to determine whether the WR/TE/RB makes the correct decision based on the coverage.

Also, AWR affects whether or not the WR/TE/RB sits in an open area after the play breaks down.

How do you know this? Source?

[Raging Raider]

Re: What does the awareness rating in Madden 13 affect in certain positions?

Well I didn't see many answers here so I decided to test my self. Made two exact WR's same stats, size everything except one had 50 awareness the other had 99. Thee 99 awareness guy has does better every time. I was throwing different routes to them, switching them from 1/2 WR so they'd get lined up against a different corner and the 99 awareness guy made more catches, dropped less passes, got open more, scored more tds, and the qb threw more accurately to him. So maybe awareness lets players only play to a certain level of there skills. But I honestly have no clue, it does something though.

AWR affect so many things because it is actually how well the CPU controls the player, and the only time it is useless is when the user is directly controlling that player in a game.

AWR 99 is as good as the AI can control the player, and low AWR players will not react quickly to things going on around them.

I am surprised that so many Madden gamers think AWR means little more than calculating OVR.

On WRs I consider AWR and CTH the two primary skills, with CIT and RTE being the second tier of skills.