FBGRatings Seeks to Recalibrate Madden Ratings, Change Game

[bbuf0733]

Re: FBGRatings Seeks to Recalibrate Madden Ratings, Change Game

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What I found out in the interview was unexpected, and I left the conversation with the developers with more of a feeling of hopelessness. Hopelessness for an improved, realistic, true-to-life, Madden-gaming experience that mimics the NFL and lives up to EA's catchy slogan. What I found instead was utter disappointment. If EA asked me to join the team today and rate players with no restrictions and threat of amendment, I would take the job in a heartbeat. Not for my own personal goals (my current day job probably pays more than EA would offer), but for the sake of the community that desperately wants a game that represents real life.
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[GoC Brian]

Re: FBGRatings Seeks to Recalibrate Madden Ratings, Change Game

I like these rosters a lot, but they will be meaningless in CFM if we cannot edit the rookies in Madden CFM. As someone pointed out, the generated rookies will go by Donny Moore's scale and be way out of proportion. Ratings have to go with contract size too.

Oh well, it'd be nice to use for the Exhibition player, a shame these rosters can't be used after year 1.

I've always wondered, shouldn't those be editable? I mean, they're just files in the game client. Couldn't they be edited similar to the roster files?

[cardinaldiehard]

Re: FBGRatings Seeks to Recalibrate Madden Ratings, Change Game

Thank you so much for this website Dan! Absolutely incredible. Finally a Madden game that plays fluid and ratings that make sense. No more 320 lb offensive lineman with an 82 jumping rating! Big ups to Charter04 as well, your sliders work perfectly for CPU vs. CPU games, actually entertaining to watch. Keep up the incredible work guys!

[DCEBB2001]

Re: FBGRatings Seeks to Recalibrate Madden Ratings, Change Game

UPDATE 8/21/2014:

Just want to let everyone know that there are several player updates that have been posted resulting from the preseason thus far. You can see who has gone up/down in their OVR rating by looking at the +/- next to their names on the rosters.

Any player with a +0 likely had some attributes change, but not enough to raise or lower the overall rating more than one point.

[td7]

Re: FBGRatings Seeks to Recalibrate Madden Ratings, Change Game

I can't get into the website? Is it down?

[williamsa9]

Re: FBGRatings Seeks to Recalibrate Madden Ratings, Change Game

Anyone know what's going on with the fbg website? It says "The service is unavailable"

[td7]

Re: FBGRatings Seeks to Recalibrate Madden Ratings, Change Game

I emailed Dan about it, haven't gotten a response though?

[cardinaldiehard]

Re: FBGRatings Seeks to Recalibrate Madden Ratings, Change Game

Anyone know what's going on with the fbg website? It says "The service is unavailable"

It's usually unavailable just before he updates that ratings. He might be updating the ratings and rosters, but I've never gotten the "Service Unavailable" message before today. Hopefully it's up soon, most likely the ratings are just being updated!

[williamsa9]

Re: FBGRatings Seeks to Recalibrate Madden Ratings, Change Game

It's usually unavailable just before he updates that ratings. He might be updating the ratings and rosters, but I've never gotten the "Service Unavailable" message before today. Hopefully it's up soon, most likely the ratings are just being updated!

Well let's hope so! At least we have actual football so it's not going to be a boring night! Packers over Seahawks! You heard it here first

[Argooos]

Re: FBGRatings Seeks to Recalibrate Madden Ratings, Change Game

It was working for a while yesterday and there were indeed some updates that were done.

I certainly hope it's up again soon. The NFL is finally back and I've got a hankering for some roster editing.

[DCEBB2001]

Re: FBGRatings Seeks to Recalibrate Madden Ratings, Change Game

Hey guys, the site is up now.

As many of you know, my site is powered by TSX, the same company that owns NFL Draft Scout. Well apparently, two nights ago, we came under attack by Asian porn hackers that were bombing top football searches on the web. As many of you also know, when you google football players, my site comes up usually on the first 2 pages of a google search, so it was hit pretty hard. They get us at night and our server guys try real hard to stop them.

It seems to be working now, but it was definitely down for a day. Hope this is better from now on.

DB

[SECElit3]

Re: FBGRatings Seeks to Recalibrate Madden Ratings, Change Game

Does anyone know what has been going on with the site? I have been unable to get into this entire week. It looks to be down again.

[DCEBB2001]

Re: FBGRatings Seeks to Recalibrate Madden Ratings, Change Game

Does anyone know what has been going on with the site? I have been unable to get into this entire week. It looks to be down again.

The site is not down nor has it been down since that one incident a while back. Updates are going on constantly. This is the regular season now.

[SECElit3]

Re: FBGRatings Seeks to Recalibrate Madden Ratings, Change Game

DCEBB, I was entering rating into the game for my PS4 project last night, and the site quit responding around 9PM CST. Are there updates going on right now? It doesn't look like it has come back up yet.


Can you look into this?


By the way. These ratings are tremendous. They really change the game play of Madden. I really hope you know how much we appreciate what you do year after year. If not for you, Madden would be shelved. This project has been a huge undertaking for me, but in the end, it will be so worth it.


My hope is that one day, EA sees your value and what you can do for Madden. You alone could turn this game inside out. Sim Standard (Game Changer) is following my project closely. He has a direct line to EA and hopefully can get them aware of the value that these ratings bring to Madden. When I look at your work, I see $ signs. This site is amazing.

[DCEBB2001]

Re: FBGRatings Seeks to Recalibrate Madden Ratings, Change Game

DCEBB, I was entering rating into the game for my PS4 project last night, and the site quit responding around 9PM CST. Are there updates going on right now? It doesn't look like it has come back up yet.


Can you look into this?


By the way. These ratings are tremendous. They really change the game play of Madden. I really hope you know how much we appreciate what you do year after year. If not for you, Madden would be shelved. This project has been a huge undertaking for me, but in the end, it will be so worth it.


My hope is that one day, EA sees your value and what you can do for Madden. You alone could turn this game inside out. Sim Standard (Game Changer) is following my project closely. He has a direct line to EA and hopefully can get them aware of the value that these ratings bring to Madden. When I look at your work, I see $ signs. This site is amazing.

Thank you. It is a ton of work. I was doing updates last night. Usually do them every Thursday or Friday each week.