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Quote: Originally Posted by DeuceDouglas

Yeah I know they used to kind of do that too but it still seemed like they'd wait too long and you could always pluck the great ones a round early. I just don't like the idea of being able to scout a "tell all" which is what it seems like this could be. "This guy is a 6th round projection but he's actually the best rated player in the draft." Who is making those projections then? I've mentioned in my off-season thread that I'd like to see something along the lines of Mayock/Kiper/McShay projections but the more I think about it, I think I'd like to just see the projections removed from players altogether or maybe just generalized even more. Then the user could make their own board based off their scouting and combine data. I'll have to wait and see exactly how scouting works and plays out but I feel like some tweaks to the system before would have been better.

I wish they would just keep it simple first then build from there, all based on the real NFL. In the past, probably M12, the draft was simple and realistic, combine data, an inexact skills graphic, collegiate stats and NFL player comparisons/prototypes. If they wanted to expand from there, great, I think the next step could have been unlocking DPP info and that would have hopefully lead to adding more player differential systems, so those could be unlocked.

I get that the goal is to make the scouting process more interactive but do so within a real NFL context. What scouting is supposed to represent is trying to find some tell or info that reveals something about a player that the basic numbers don't but that can't happen when those type of things aren't affiliated with scouting or don't even exist in the game.

It's this same theme with Madden, where they take some real football terminology like scouting and add it to the game but out of football context, in the name of "fun", which makes no sense when it could be just as enjoyable used in context.