NHL 15 Hasn't Updated Its Player Ratings Since Launch

[RaychelSnr]

Now 19 games into his 2014-2015 season, the 22 points tallied by Nashville Predators rookie Filip Forsberg currently tie Steven Stamkos and Phil Kessel for the fourth-highest total in the National Hockey League. Forsberg's +20 on-ice rating leads the NHL, placing five pluses ahead of the second-place skater, Vladimir Tarasenko.

It's been 10 weeks since NHL 15 launched, yet in the game, Forsberg remains the worst player in the Predators' lineup, tied with fourth-line grinder, Taylor Beck, for a team-low 77 overall rating.

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[csamuelsvt]

this game has become a disaster and the above just shows it...such a shame.

[TheKid40]

Re: NHL 15 Hasn't Updated Its Player Ratings Since Launch

Not only Filip Forsberg, but where is Jori Lehtera? Lehtera is still a 77 overall only at 26 years old; at least Forsberg has an opportunity to progress. Hopefully EA makes a worthwhile roster update soon.

[Nomah5]

Sad really. A total mess of a year. Hopefully new people are on for NHL 16.

[@marcusjiles]

I dont play NHL, last time I did was on the PS1. But this is an utter disgrace and the fact they charged 60 bucks for it is so beyond inexcusable. Someone should have to answer for this.

[snc237]

The NHL series to my knowledge for the last multiple years have only done one ratings adjustment per year and then a monthly roster update. I was never a fan of the hot cold thing because they were to slow to update that as well for it to have a true meaning to the real life counterpart. I just expect this from the NHL series now as it obvious EA really give minimum funds and attention to the NHL team.

[jake19ny]

Re: NHL 15 Hasn't Updated Its Player Ratings Since Launch

I hate to keep beating the same drum but this could all have been avoided with player edit and total roster control. Roster sharing would be a bigger bonus so we could have the revamped roster project. Sadly I think EA is done fixing anything or adding anything to the game that is not HUT related. They also won't address any of these gripes either.

[SVCbearcat10]

I hate Madden's weekly ratings update. I don't think there should be frequent updates. Players go through hot and cold streaks, but eventually regress to their average ability. I don't want someone's overall bumped up 2 points because he had a week with 3 or 4 goals just to bump it down 2 points the following week when they go scoreless.

The most frequently ratings should be updated is at the quarter points of the season. That's a long enough sample size to say, yes.. this players abilities are actually better/worse than we thought. Anything more frequent is not reflective of one's true ability, thus not sim.

[tyler289]

Pretty much par for the course for these guys.

[addybojangles]

But people asked for IMPROVED PRESENTATION so they focused their time on that.

/Sarcasm

After putting nearly one thousand games into both NHL 13 and NHL 14, news like this makes me very glad I voted with my wallet and skipped this year.

What an embarrassment.

[DJ NEO]

Re: NHL 15 Hasn't Updated Its Player Ratings Since Launch

But people asked for IMPROVED PRESENTATION so they focused their time on that.

/Sarcasm

After putting nearly one thousand games into both NHL 13 and NHL 14, news like this makes me very glad I voted with my wallet and skipped this year.

What an embarrassment.

Well they claim many things, but reality is different.
The presentation basics are almost identical to lastgen, except replays are glitchy.

[MannTooth24]

I didn't buy NHL this year for the first time in years because of the no EASHL deal. Instead of spending time on a roster update for NHL 15, I would rather them focus every minute on NHL 16, and making sure that they release a real, complete game next year.

[Simple Mathematics]

Oh Revamped Rosters..... I miss you.

[bukktown]

I wouldn't say that they are too late to update the ratings at this point in the season, but if they haven't by game 42 then I will be less forgiving.

[speels]

Re: NHL 15 Hasn't Updated Its Player Ratings Since Launch

I always find the rating adjustment just causes more problems. They do tend to increase people that are playing well, but they leave players who are having a bad year at their original rating anyway so you just get higher ratings overall.

Of course edit player and total team control would be the best, but we don't have them and there's no plans to add them so let's just let that one go for now.

Me and my buddies have a ball hockey group and we always have a get together around Christmas to have some beers and play some Sega Genesis hockey. This year we picked up NHL 97 for the Genesis and we were messing around with it and I started looking at the rosters and found them quite interesting.

NEW YORK RANGERS
|
| Even-Strength - 5th | Power-Play - 5th |
| Penalty Killing - 14th | Goaltending - 7th |
____|_____________________________________________ ____________________________
Pos | # | Players | Overall |
C | 11 | Mark Messier | 87 |
C | 12 | Ken Gernander | 67 |
C | 13 | Sergei Nemchinov | 75 |
C | 27 | Alexei Kovalev | 87 |

RW | 16 | Pat Verbeek | 75 |
RW | 18 | Bill Berg | 67 |
RW | 22 | Shane Churla | 71 |
RW | 37 | Daniel Lacroix | 67 |

LW | 9 | Adam Graves | 80 |
LW | 15 | Darren Langdon | 64 |
LW | 17 | Jari Kurri | 70 |
LW | 20 | Luc Robitaille | 75 |
LW | 24 | Niklas Sundstrom | 73 |
LW | 32 | Sergio Momesso | 74 |

RD | 23 | Jeff Beukeboom | 68 |
RD | 25 | Alexander Karpovtsev | 68 |
RD | 33 | Bruce Driver | 71 |
RD | 55 | Marty McSorley | 70 |

LD | 2 | Brian Leetch | 83 |
LD | 4 | Kevin Lowe | 66 |
LD | 5 | Ulf Samuelsson | 74 |
LD | 6 | Doug Lidster | 66 |

G | 35 | Mike Richter | 81 |
G | 30 | Glenn Healy | 71 |

Sorry it's not lined up better, but you see the point. The range on a good team like the Rangers is 66 to 87. Lemieux was highest at 100 along with a couple others, but the guys that weren't great were rated as such Gtrezky was only an 88 because of his decline in skills by then. Most teams in 15 are 80-100 now and that is the problem. I just wish when EA updated the rosters they would use this wider spread like they used to and make the 3rd and 4th liners play just like that.