EA Sports & NFL - Tracking Player Movement, Looking to Revolutionize Madden Ratings

[roadman]

Re: EA Sports & NFL - Tracking Player Movement, Looking to Revolutionize Madden Ratin

It's going to take someone high up to say this is wrong let's stop F'n around and fix it because your starting to embarrass a once proud name.

I doubt there is anyone high up who believes anything is wrong, it still sells.

[TreFacTor]

Re: EA Sports & NFL - Tracking Player Movement, Looking to Revolutionize Madden Ratin

I doubt there is anyone high up who believes anything is wrong, it still sells.

Thus the cycle we are in with this series. I'm waiting for it to get the attention and respect it deserves.

[RandyBass]

Re: EA Sports & NFL - Tracking Player Movement, Looking to Revolutionize Madden Ratin

Revolutionize? SMH. Any data collected from something like this would be unreliable due to different playing conditions, injuries, etc.

The best part is how EA is already in marketing mode, even though they aren't even using yet, lol. Are they really that desperate?

[TjJunior]

im still expecting the nfl to phase out ea sooner before later anyway. why share the profits when the folks you hired are only doing adquate work? This may be the beginning.

[I_Tyler_Durden_I]

Who cares where they got the values from, as long as a punter is blocking a DT with no problem?

[DGMikeBarker]

I have little problems with Madden's rating scale. The only thing I can think of is there are too many 90+ players. I would be grateful if Donny Moore was the new 2k Insider. At least he changes stats for all teams and notifies what he changed EVERY WEEK.

[lynkraid]

Sounds cool, also sounds like reasons for them to add more useless ratings.

[TreFacTor]

Re: EA Sports & NFL - Tracking Player Movement, Looking to Revolutionize Madden Ratin

Revolutionize? SMH. Any data collected from something like this would be unreliable due to different playing conditions, injuries, etc.

The best part is how EA is already in marketing mode, even though they aren't even using yet, lol. Are they really that desperate?

You forget the number one reason this data will be useless to Madden....the game relies on animation driven outcomes that's it. There are other reasons this won't help Madden like the poor AI and synchronized quadruple player animations but the numbers the NFL gives Madden will be negated in other ways as well.

[LionsFanNJ]

Hype train starting up early this year. Damn.

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[TreyIM2]

You're overlooking the fact that it will cost them more from a production standpoint for next gen which will possibly also mean a bigger dev team and more paychecks being cut. This is going to be a point of contention for ALL game developers, not just EA. Stakes will be higher for every gaming house especially with the downtrend of sales this gen. It's gunna be harder to turn coin. I believe most will have to go hard or go out of business. Next gen could possibly usher in the next gaming industry crash.

[TreyIM2]

You're overlooking the fact that it will cost them more from a production standpoint for next gen which will possibly also mean a bigger dev team and more paychecks being cut. This is going to be a point of contention for ALL game developers, not just EA. Stakes will be higher for every gaming house especially with the downtrend of sales this gen. It's gunna be harder to turn coin. I believe most will have to go hard or go out of business. Next gen could possibly usher in the next gaming industry crash.

That was in response to TreFacTor

[N51_rob]

Re: EA Sports & NFL - Tracking Player Movement, Looking to Revolutionize Madden Ratin

Madden in it current iteration has what 50 ratings yet only a handful of them even matter. This all sounds great, but until there is a way to make individual player play like individuals none of this stuff will matter. Not only that but no one knows how all these ratings interact with each other.

Which is better a CB with 99 man coverage and 30 awareness or 30 man coverage and 99 awareness? No one knows and EA won't say.

[JerseySuave4]

Sounds like another pointless thing EA can hype as innovative and ground breaking. What good are accurate ratings if the gameplay is no good? The players don't move like real athletes. Why don't they work on that before coming up with another thing they can hype up that does nothing in the long run.

[Jakeness23]

I wish they could get the Euphoria engine or something like it. To me, I feel like I'm just playing a slightly updated game every year. Something like euphoria could really inject the series with some much needed life. Again, just my opinion.

[cmehustle]

Madden could do themselves a great favor when it comes to ratings by hiring scouts and people who watch film, i.e. people that grade players for a living and get them guys involved with the ratings. Im thinking Greg Cosell, who is one of the most knowlegable people I have ever heard. Go to his twitter and listen to his weekely podcast, and tell me he EA doesnt need someone like that.