FBGRatings Seeks to Recalibrate Madden Ratings, Change Game

[Hooe]

Re: FBGRatings Seeks to Recalibrate Madden Ratings, Change Game

Game 1 - Cowboys (me) v Eagles (CPU)
All-Pro difficulty, default sliders across the board
10-minute quarters, accelerated clock to 15 seconds

Cowboys 24 - Eagles 17

Tony Romo - 20/26, 244 yds, 2 TD, long of 44
Mark Sanchez - 17/19, 157 yards, TD, long of 44
Nick Foles - 1/1, 12 yards

Demarco Murray - 17 attempts, 64 yards, 11 after first hit, long of 12
Darren Sproles - 7 attempts, 41 yards, TD, 4 after first hit, long of 26
LeSean McCoy - 3 attempts, 6 yards
Lance Dunbar - 2 attempts, 10 yards, fumble
Nick Foles - 1 attempt, 9 yards

Dez Bryant - 8 catches, 158 yards, 31 YAC, long of 44
Riley Cooper - 5 catches, 79 yards, TD, 20 YAC, long of 44
Demarco Murray - 5 catches, 29 yards, 36 YAC, long of 17
Jeremy Maclin - 4 catches, 46 yards, 6 YAC, long of 15
Darren Sproles - 3 catches, 2 yards, 9 YAC, long of 4
Jason Witten - 3 catches, 38 yards, 2 TDs, 4 YAC, long of 25
Terrance Williams - 3 catches, 7 yards, TD, 1 YAC, long of 4
Jordan Matthews - 2 catches, 18 yards, 6 YAC, long of 14
LeSean McCoy - 2 catches, 23 yards, 12 YAC, long of 12
Josh Huff - catch, 2 yards, 2 drops
Cole Beasley - catch, 12 yards, 2 drops
Gavin Escobar - drop

George Selvie - sack, 2 TFLs, fumble forced
Connor Barwin - sack, 3 TFLs
Fletcher Cox - sack, TFL
Sean Lee - sack, 2 TFLs
Malcolm Jenkins - pass deflection

IMPRESSIONS - QBs still felt too accurate on default settings - typical of Madden - though Sanchez was content to throw dippy short passes most of the game once Foles and McCoy left due to injury (both left in the first quarter). Sanchez did go down field in the 4th quarter with success, however. Coverage never felt very tight for either side, most of the incompletions were dropped passes. Sanchez's 44-yard pass was the result of a missed jam by Brandon Carr (PRS 87) against Riley Cooper (RLS 97) who then couldn't win a footrace down the sideline. Clearly FBGratings has graded Mark Sanchez as not a very accurate passer (TAS 76, TAM 70, TAD 68), yet he was pretty solid in this game. This will likely require a slider adjustment to correct, but I anticipated this.

The players with high ratings looked and felt very good; Bryant, Free, Witten, Sproles, Lee, Ryans, Barwin all stood out easily. Kickoff length seemed very short compared to today's touchback-heavy NFL, but that's a simple slider adjustment. Dez Bryant in particular was really fun to use; he kept getting open and was able to break some tackles after the catch to get further downfield.

The one thing that jumped out at me about player movement was that it felt harder to break away for a game-breaking play. I think this is by design with the ratings, though; Bryant isn't graded so much as a burner (80 SPD, 86 ACC) as much as he is a physically dominating receiver who can be dangerous after the catch (79 STR, 74 SFA, 76 TRK, 82 ELU, 93 SPM, 95 JKM, 94 BCV) and everyone knows Jason Witten isn't running away from anyone (78 SPD, 76 ACC). Dallas in general doesn't really have a "home-run hitter" sorta player. Putting drives together to move the ball was important.

The other phases of the game to me felt really good. I could tell that Ron Leary was a weak link in the Cowboys' line in all phases, while Doug Free was a bit of a monster to run behind and Tyron Smith was trustworthy in blindside protection. I'm not sure I've ever noticed the differentiation in OL skill in Madden so obviously before. At least some of that is the new advertised OL logic, admittedly; I admittedly don't have a large breadth of experience playing Gen-8 Madden yet. Melton wasn't consistently a force, but with his high athletic ratings (SPD 76, STR 86, AGI 76, ACC 80), he was able to really blow up a play a time or two.

Other than the pass accuracy being too high - which again, is typical Madden - this is one of the best experiences I've had playing a Madden game out of the box with no settings adjustments. Encouraging so far, but I obviously want to play more games against other teams to get more data to this end. Probably the first thing I will do is reduce QB accuracy to 25 for both User and CPU before my next game. Everything in general felt a little more measured than a typical Madden game, for lack of a better phrase for it. I'm a fan.

[Hooe]

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Game 2: Redskins (me) @ New York Giants (CPU)
All-Pro difficulty, default sliders across the board baseline
HUM and CPU QB Accuracy slider at 25
10 minute quarters, accelerated clock to 15 seconds

Redskins 26 - Giants 20

Robert Griffin III - 17/25, 179 yards, 2 INT, long of 27
Curtis Painter - 9/22, 111 yards, TD, 3 INT, long of 22
Ryan Nassib - 10/15, 91 yards, 2 INT, long of 15

Alfred Morris - 16 attempts, 54 yards, 14 after first hit, long of 11
Roy Helu Jr. - 9 attempts, 42 yards, 6 after first hit, long of 15
Rashad Jennings - 6 attempts, 18 yards, TD, 2 after first hit, long of 10
Robert Griffin III - 4 attempts, 15 yards, TD, 2 after first hit, long of 11

Andre Roberts - 6 catches, 71 yards, 10 YAC, long of 27, drop
Desean Jackson - 5 catches, 64 yards, 7 YAC, long of 21, drop
Mario Manningham - 4 catches, 41 yards, 26 YAC, long of 15
Reuben Randle - 3 catches, 39 yards, 9 YAC, long of 19, 2 drops
Victor Cruz - 3 catches, 38 yards, TD, -2 YAC, long of 22

Jon Beason - 7 tackles, TFL
Ryan Kerrigan - 2 tackles, 2 TFLs, sack
Stephen Bowen - tackle, TFL, sack
Cullen Jenkins - 4 tackles
Prince Amukamara - 6 tackles
Stevie Brown - 5 tackles, INT
DeAngelo Hall - 4 tackles, INT
Nat Berhe - 4 tackles, TFL, INT
Jose Gumbs - INT
David Amerson - 5 tackles, 3 INTs

IMPRESSIONS - This was a sloppy game to play overall. The Giants dug themselves a hole early with some rather bonehead throws into obvious coverage by Ryan Nassib (he has the "Trigger Happy" player trait), which led to easy interceptions. He left the game partway through with an injury but came back. In the meantime, Curtis Painter's accuracy issues (TAS 71, TAM 62, TAD 52) were readily apparent, though inconsistent; sometimes he would throw darts and sometimes his passes would sail. His inaccuracy was most obvious when he was under pressure (he has the "Paranoid" DPP trait, and TOR of 54). An improvement over the previous game I played for sure, however, where Mark Sanchez pretty much couldn't miss. RGIII's low mid-range accuracy rating (66 TAM) appeared to manifest itself in receivers having to come back to passes more often than not, which led to longer down-and-distance situations and a few more failed 3rd down conversions than the previous game. The INT I threw to Stevie Brown was user error where I picked the wrong receiver to throw to and he obviously wasn't open.

The opening quarter of the game also featured a fumble returned for a touchdown after Brandon Meriweather destroyed an effectively-stationary and dead-to-rights Henry Hynoski (CAR 68) in the flat.

The Giants were content to let me keep putting the ball into Morris' hands on the read option, they stayed at home on RGIII far more often than not and I never attempted to force the issue. Griffin's TD run came off of a playaction bootleg where he just beat the defense to the corner without much of a challenge after a long drive.

I don't normally sub heavily in Madden, really only doing so as need as the formation sub interface is clunky, but by the end of this game the fatigue of my players on the offensive side of the ball was obvious. I struggled in the later stages of the game to gain much on the ground with Morris and had to yank him for Roy Helu at times. Going forward I want to try subbing players earlier and more often to see if I can have a more effective team in the 4th quarter, as this game was a bit of a struggle to close out after I got off to a hot 13-0 start. The fatigue was also obvious on the defensive front; when I used the DL sub package in the 4th quarter (having not really subbed at all in the game before that point), the fresh players did have a burst on the ball my starters simply didn't have at that point. Nothing which struck me as unrealistic - in fact, I think the toning down of player ACC ratings on both the OL and DL helps out the play there a lot, I don't see any unusual bursts - but a difference was evident.

One comment I will make about running plays is that, I'm guessing on account of the general rise in defenders' AWR and PRC ratings, draw plays are consistently tough to succeed with, and screen plays can also be hit or miss; I struggle to even get back to the line with draws, and screen passes certainly don't feel like the easy yards they were at times on XBOX 360 Madden 25 on account of a more active and smarter defense. When there's a particularly athletic DL in the mix - such as Henry Melton for the Cowboys (not in this game, I was just running plays in practice mode afterward) - the issue is exacerbated a bit.

It was readily apparent who on my defense was really bad at coverage, particularly man coverage where guys with low MCV ratings flat-out would wait sometimes as much as (eye-balling) about a third of a second before reacting to a receiver's cut. The more balanced / less extreme SPD / ACC ratings FBGratings provides also seem to either mitigate or eliminate weird boosts on the ball downfield players sometimes get towards a ball when tracking a pass; I didn't feel gipped out of anything on the two INTs I threw and I didn't ever feel like the AI for my team or the CPU's was cheating.

I remain happy with what I'm seeing from the game with these rosters, and in particular I'm impressed by how few slider adjustments I've had to make to get competitive games. Again, the only slider I've touched is pass accuracy (which I think I may have overdone, but I need to actually play against a good QB for a whole game, they keep getting hurt!) and I don't really see the need to touch anything else right now. That said, I probably will mess with the auto-sub sliders because my curiosity about fatigue is piqued.

[Hooe]

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Game 3 - Eagles (me) vs Cowboys
All-Pro difficulty, default sliders across the board baseline
HUM and CPU QB Accuracy slider at 35
10 minute quarters, accelerated clock to 15 seconds
Auto-Sub sliders: 90 out, 95 in for all defense

Tony Romo - 22/34, 176 yards, TD, INT, long of 29
Nick Foles - 15/22, 140 yards, 2 TDs, long of 28

LeSean McCoy - 14 carries, 104 yards, 23 after first hit, long of 56
Demarco Murray - 8 carries, 37 yards, TD, 5 after first hit, long of 25
Nick Foles - 8 carries, 40 yards, 8 after first hit, long of 11
Darren Sproles - 6 carries, 42 yards, TD, 9 after first hit, long of 14

Cole Beasley - 6 catches, 58 yards, 27 YAC, long of 29
Jason Witten - 5 catches, 43 yards, TD, 12 YAC, long of 16
Dez Bryant - 4 catches, 36 yards, 4 YAC, drop, long of 20
Jeremy Maclin - 4 catches, 49 yards, 10 YAC, long of 15
Terrance Williams - 3 catches, 27 yards, 9 YAC, 2 drops, long of 13
Riley Cooper - 3 catches, 55 yards, 18 YAC, long of 28

Sean Lee - 4 tackles
Rolando McClain - 4 tackles, TFL
J.J. Wilcox - 4 tackles
George Selvie - 3 tackles, 2 TFLs, sack
Bruce Carter - 3 tackles, TFL
Brandon Boykin - 4 tackles, fumble forced
Mychael Kendricks - 4 tackles
Demeco Ryans - 4 tackles
Nate Allen - 4 tackles
Casey Matthews - INT
Phillip Hunt - tackle, TFL, sack

IMPRESSIONS - this was a tight game up through the third quarter, with Dallas up 14-13 at half, but their defense just appeared to wear out by the end of the contest.

McCoy is a ton of fun to use, even with his speed reduced. I had to keep giving him the rock, but I eventually was rewarded with a 56-yard run in the fourth quarter on the game-sealing drive. I'm pretty sure on the default ratings this run would have been a touchdown, but again McCoy's top-end speed isn't that great with FBGratings (81 SPD, 87 ACC) so I wasn't really upset. He was obviously more quick than fast and was very effective evading tacklers.

Romo played reasonably well but never really challenged downfield. I was playing a lot of zone coverage on account of the Eagles' cornerbacks not having great ratings, which probably had something to do with the matter; would have been nice to see the Cowboys try to stretch the field more, though. He was obviously capable though; well, minus the one INT he literally threw right at me when I was playing on Casey Matthews in coverage.

The Eagles' OL played very well in pass blocking, with the exception of the Selvie sack I'm not sure that Foles was touched. Between that and a strong running game, I was able to have success throwing the ball without much issue.

This is mostly not a ratings concern but I'll say something anyway - I could be wrong, but it was almost like the adjustments to auto-subs affected the CPU team more than it did mine, which I did not expect at all. By the end of the game I was seeing plenty of Cowboys' reserves on the field for extended periods of time; Rolando McClain, Orie Lemon, Jeremy Mincey, Tyrone Crawford, Ben Bass, Ken Bishop, and Ahmad Dixon all logged significant minutes in the fourth quarter. There were some subs on the Eagles' side of the ball - I saw a lot of Philip Hunt in place of Trent Cole in the 4th quarter and Jason Phillips was in there for a few plays in place of Mychael Kendricks - but not nearly to the extent as what I saw from Dallas. I did win time of possession 23:00 to 17:00, which contributed certainly, but bottom line is that the changes I made to auto-sub sliders appeared to have a profound impact which I don't yet understand (I'm not a slider guru) and that likely swung the outcome a bit. I also assume that the reduced stamina ratings across the board contributed, as most of the defensive linemen's STA ratings are now in the low 70s.

I had 98 total offensive plays. Might be necessary to up the quarter length to get a realistic total amount of offensive plays (which I believe is supposed to be closer to 120 or 130?). These ratings so far appear to really reduce the number of big plays in the game; the 50+ yard run by McCoy is easily the longest play I've seen with these ratings in the three games I've logged (and one additional game which I did not record). This in turn results in more longer and sustained drives. Worth noting that I did not attempt to play at the uptempo no-huddle pace which the Eagles typically play at in real life.

[HC0023]

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The Subs are seriously broken i would just leave them at default . Well atleast a minimum of 120 plays last year the most was 142 i believe but minimum 120

[Argooos]

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Quick question: Does anyone know how much on average the ratings on Madden are inflated compared to the FBGRatings?

I'm creating a bunch of players based on their FBGRatings for my next franchise, but I plan to use them in a regular Madden roster. I plan to raise my created players ratings to match those of players on other teams (to make them competitive). I just wanted to see if anyone has done any work on comparing these ratings to the Madden ratings.

[Hooe]

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I don't have quantified data to give you but my impressions from fully roster editing four teams so far -

- physical traits are more spread out. You'll see some WRs, RBs, and CBs with speed in the 70s, some skill position players with high STR ratings, some players with high SPD and low ACC ratings, and so on. More diverse from a pure physical attributes standpoint. Makes for some interesting player builds.

- generally speaking, mental stats are higher than on the EA roster. Things like AWR, BCV, and PRC come to mind. There's still diversity there, but the range is tighter than on EA's roster. This is especially notable with rookies, as EA's ratings love to slam their mental ratings into the ground. My impression is that this makes for a more even-handed game overall.

- across pretty much every player on the EA roster, ACC is always greater than SPD. This is not the case with FBGratings' roster.

- SPD and ACC for OL and DL is lower and the relationship between each player's SPD and ACC rating is much tighter; you don't see as many OLs with say 60 SPD and 80 ACC (20 point differential)

-fewer players with physical ratings > 90. There may be a half-dozen players with SPD > 90 on the four teams I've edited so far?

That's all I got for now.

[DCEBB2001]

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Quick question: Does anyone know how much on average the ratings on Madden are inflated compared to the FBGRatings?

I'm creating a bunch of players based on their FBGRatings for my next franchise, but I plan to use them in a regular Madden roster. I plan to raise my created players ratings to match those of players on other teams (to make them competitive). I just wanted to see if anyone has done any work on comparing these ratings to the Madden ratings.

Well, I don't think that FBG Ratings would be a good source for anyone wanting to create players for stock EA rosters. CM Hope hit on a bit of it, but it is actually far more complex than what he alluded to. Basically, every player on the FBG site uses data to determine their ratings. No range in attributes is dictated. Rather, all of the data dictates the range.

According to Donny Moore in 2009, when EA attempted in Madden 10 to spread the ratings distribution (and then choose not to do so for Madden 11), they would set the range for an attribute before rating the players. For instance, Donny said that the range for WR SPD used to be 75-99 but for Madden 10, he adjusted it to 70-99. He did this also for most other attributes.

This is the WRONG approach, however. We know that the usable scale in Madden is 0-99. Since SPD is measured for all players, we can use a metric like maximum velocity to determine every player's SPD REGARDLESS of position. Think about this: If a 300lb OL runs a 40 yard dash in 5.00 seconds and a 180lb QB runs a 40 yard dash in 5.00 seconds, should the QB be faster because he weighs less and plays a different position?

OF COURSE NOT! Mass has no affect on velocity! Velocity is a function of distance and time. If the distances and times are the same, then the average velocity is the same! EA took the Bass Ackward approach of dictating the range for each position before looking at the d*mn data! That is not only TERRIBLE science, but even worse logic.

My next question is, why would you even WANT to use their rosters knowing that they don't use the right data to dictate their results, and instead, dictate their results without using any verifiable metrics?

If you rate all players using the same measures, you will find that OL are slower than QBs (on the average), WRs are more agile than DL, and RBs have higher BCV than CBs without having to dictate the parameters first. All EA had to do was use some of that money, make some REAL connections in an NFL front office, get some REAL scouting data, and rate players how they should REALLY be rated.

The scouting data that drives FBG Ratings makes no assumptions. However, what it does do is tell us a few things about all of the players to play since 1997. Let's assume that ALL PLAYERS are measured equally, regardless of position so I can give you a prime example:

EXAMPLE: STR

STR varies far wider than what EA is letting you believe. In fact, NFL 2K had their STR ratings just about right. My guess is that they used REAL data, unlike their EA counterparts. If you set the weakest player to 1 and the strongest to 99, then, employ a linear regression (so the distance between each point is the same), you find that elite (90+) STR is EXTREMELY RARE. How rare? Well, out of 26,000 players with verifiable data, only 12 would have a STR rating over 90. 12! The average STR rating for a player would be 43. Those numbers are WAY lower than the crap that EA feeds you, but it is true! I have the data to back it up! Instead, EA is trying to convince you that the average STR for a player is 71. Those numbers are WAY off.



So you see, EA is trying to make you think that every player is a massive professional weight lifter who squat 750 and bench 600. This could not be farther from the truth. Any guess as to what the average 1 rep max in the squat is for a DT? EA would let you believe that it is 700 freakin' pounds with all of those DT STR ratings that are 90+.

506.

Wanna know the average 1 rep max in the bench press?

382.

Those are NOT super-human numbers that are deserving of averaging ELITE STR numbers, yet, EA believes that the average DT in the NFL has a STR rating of 87. You know what it should be? 65.

EA has over-inflated all of these ratings when you actually compare them to some real data. The data tells us that EA is not only tightening the actual range, but is also raising the average based on position. It is complete crap. They need to get their collective heads out of their you know wheres and rate these players correctly.

[DCEBB2001]

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****AN UPDATE FOR ROSTER EDITORS****


I know that there are a few groups making rosters using FBG Ratings. Well, I have made it a bit easier to track player updates on the website.

Each time a player's ratings change, you will notice a + or - sign with an attribute amount next to their name on the roster. EXAMPLE:

http://www.fbgratings.com/members/vi...ovr&order=DESC

When you click on the player's ratings page, you can see in the lower right corner (right under the ratings box) two dates. The first is the "Overall Rating Updated" date. This is the date that the OVR rating was last updated. The second is the "Player Attributes Last Updated" date. This is the date that the attributes were last updated. They should always be the same date.

http://www.fbgratings.com/members/pr...php?pyid=54857

All players in the entire database were last updated on 7/9/2014. I highly suggest you edit players to those specifications in your rosters. However, some players have been updated on 7/11/2014. You can tell because the dates on their profile pages say 7/11/2014 for the "Overall Rating Updated" and "Player Attributes Last Updated" dates. Other players will still reflect the last date their ratings changed. EXAMPLE:

http://www.fbgratings.com/members/pr...php?pyid=57020

Now, if a player changed positions (and thus his OVR calculation changed) OR his attributes changed but his OVR did not, his dates will be updated on his player profile page, BUT his ratings change on the roster list will say "+0". That means that the player still needs to be edited but his OVR did not change due to the edits. This could be because of the position change or because some attributes changed but not enough to bump the player up or down a full OVR point. EXAMPLE:

http://www.fbgratings.com/members/vi...team=Cardinals

http://www.fbgratings.com/members/pr...php?pyid=58077

Basically, if a player has a + or - in the "+/-" column on the roster page, you need to edit them. If they do not, then just leave that player alone. This way, you won't have to be editing entire rosters, but instead, just edit the players that changed.

Let me know if you have any questions. I will post this in the other FBG-Related Roster Threads.

Dan B.

[Argooos]

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Thanks for the info. I actually already knew most of that, having been reading this thread pretty much since it started. In any case, hopefully others reading the thread will find that info enlightening

I guess I was hoping for a general rule of thumb for converting the ratings, but I should have known better. I'll just have to adjust based on positional averages like I have done in the past.

My next question is, why would you even WANT to use their rosters knowing that they don't use the right data to dictate their results, and instead, dictate their results without using any verifiable metrics?

I would love to use a roster made entirely with your ratings, but I'm not aware of one for Madden 12 with the rosters updated for the 2014-15 season. I don't have time to edit the entire roster myself either. Plus, even if I had such a roster, I plan to play a franchise, so every rookie who came into the league in future seasons would likely have some ridiculous game-breaking attributes and not fit in with the rest of the players in the league.

[ranta21]

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Good stuff Dan. One observation though. I understand that all the data comes from the scouts, but how come we see so many raises (+) but hardly any cuts (-)? Or so it seems on the "RECENT RATING CHANGES" page. Is it countered by injuries or retirements perhaps? If you could give us some insight, it would be highly appreciated.

[jwagner82]

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Sorry if I'm missing something, but how does Ryan Mallett get boosted to a 76 with his only game tape being sub-par, yet Logan Ryan who was actually helping our defense, is at like a 66. Also, how in god's name is Casey Hayward a 67..

[DCEBB2001]

Re: FBGRatings Seeks to Recalibrate Madden Ratings, Change Game

Good stuff Dan. One observation though. I understand that all the data comes from the scouts, but how come we see so many raises (+) but hardly any cuts (-)? Or so it seems on the "RECENT RATING CHANGES" page. Is it countered by injuries or retirements perhaps? If you could give us some insight, it would be highly appreciated.

The raises are just for the updates I did yesterday. Over the course of a season, there will be far more (-) than (+) designations due to injury. The recent ratings changes page only shows some of the recent changes. You will see more of them by either searching by player name or by looking at the active rosters. Look up injured players and retired players. You will note that they all have significant (-) drops in OVR.

I only report what the data shows and the scouts only change the data when a change is warranted.

[DCEBB2001]

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Sorry if I'm missing something, but how does Ryan Mallett get boosted to a 76 with his only game tape being sub-par, yet Logan Ryan who was actually helping our defense, is at like a 66. Also, how in god's name is Casey Hayward a 67..

Keep in mind that I only report the data as it is interpolated from the scouting source to Madden ratings. The scouts obviously saw something to give me a +3 point OVR boost. Keep in mind that everything is based on TRAITS, not stats/vids/etc. Mallett just completed another year as a QB in a very good system behind a very good coach and starting QB. That alone, I would think, would perhaps allow him to gain a few AWR points at a minimum.

For Logan Ryan, once again, look at his traits, not his production. Madden does not have an attribute called "actually helped NE's defense because someone on OS said he did". His SPD for a CB is subpar. His hands, tackling ability, and ZCV skills are below average for his position. He had a handful of starts. Obviously, he needs to acquire more time so we can see how he develops.

Casey Heyward was injured the whole season from mini-camp onward in 2013. Look at our FAQ section - injuries affect the OVR. Try playing up to your potential with a pulled hamstring so bad that it lands you on IR. He is healthy this year, however, and he led all rookies with 6 INTs in 2012. I guess the scouts think he is nearing his level from that season where he topped out at a 71.

[williamsa9]

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Love how these ratings a truly change the game, and I understand how you get all the attributes for the players, and I completely trust your scouting reports and sources, and I'm pretty biased here lol but I know Teddy Bridgewater will outplay the ratings he's been given, mark my words, half way through the season he will be the best rookie QB in every category!

Side note, I've been playing around with the sliders and I feel like I've found a good combo to go along with the FBG ratings rosters

All Pro for both CPU/HUM
QBA(both) at 15
-With the QBA at 15 you'll see some incomplete passes that are pretty realistic in my opinion. Like out routes, throwing it to hard will lead the receiver out of bounds and be incomplete, throwing down the field could result in overthrow, or if you underthrow it, with the Pass reaction, good chance a safety thats hanging around will pick you off.

Pass reaction time(both) at 75
-With it at 75, curl routes are pretty dangerous and you can't just call them and march down the field. I've noticed that curl routes tend to be to easy to complete and at 75 I've had the DBs recognize, jump the route, and pick me off, which is awesome.

Everything else is all madden, except I do lower kick accuracy to 45. I don't know if it helps or not, I've just always done it. Also I don't know if this has to do with the sliders, but since I've been playing with these, I've been getting some penalties, I've had like 3 OFF/DEF pass interference calls total throughout a few games, and my favorite, a couple cases of unnecessary roughness when being tackled out of bounds.

[DCEBB2001]

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Love how these ratings a truly change the game, and I understand how you get all the attributes for the players, and I completely trust your scouting reports and sources, and I'm pretty biased here lol but I know Teddy Bridgewater will outplay the ratings he's been given, mark my words, half way through the season he will be the best rookie QB in every category!

Side note, I've been playing around with the sliders and I feel like I've found a good combo to go along with the FBG ratings rosters

All Pro for both CPU/HUM
QBA(both) at 15
-With the QBA at 15 you'll see some incomplete passes that are pretty realistic in my opinion. Like out routes, throwing it to hard will lead the receiver out of bounds and be incomplete, throwing down the field could result in overthrow, or if you underthrow it, with the Pass reaction, good chance a safety thats hanging around will pick you off.

Pass reaction time(both) at 75
-With it at 75, curl routes are pretty dangerous and you can't just call them and march down the field. I've noticed that curl routes tend to be to easy to complete and at 75 I've had the DBs recognize, jump the route, and pick me off, which is awesome.

Everything else is all madden, except I do lower kick accuracy to 45. I don't know if it helps or not, I've just always done it. Also I don't know if this has to do with the sliders, but since I've been playing with these, I've been getting some penalties, I've had like 3 OFF/DEF pass interference calls total throughout a few games, and my favorite, a couple cases of unnecessary roughness when being tackled out of bounds.

IF Bridgewater improves, you will see his ratings rise, I'm sure. Just have to wait for it to actually happen...IF it does.