I have been thinking about rating scales and systems since the announcement of fully editable players in franchise and came up with the following. Now, this is just a thought and would require a team of people to work on it, but I feel this would create a fully comprehensive and workable roster for franchise mode (similar to what the OSFM roster is for The Show). I figured that we could come up with teams of members here at OS to do rosters for both XB1 and PS4 so no one would be left out.
In my research I found that Profootballfocus.com has a player grading system, you can find a few links here:
How They Grade:
https://www.profootballfocus.com/about/how-we-grade/
Grading Info:
https://www.profootballfocus.com/why...name=hd-grades
My thinking was to rate all current NFL players to this scale and see how the game would play out. I feel that this would help spread out ratings across the board and help elite/ superstar players to really stand out. In the "How They Grade" section, they define each players rating as such
0-59 > Replaceable
60-69 > Backup
70-84 > Starter
85-89 > Pro Bowler
90-100 > Elite
Editing of the rosters would need to include the following:
- Updated Transactions
- Edited Depth Charts
- Created Missing Players
- Updated Player Contracts (if possible)
For The Rookies:
I like the idea someone already proposed here of making an updated list of real rookies per draft class year and ranking them. The fictional players on the draft board ranking would then be edited to that rookie. This is where we would need to have our own ratings scale to work within. Everything could be laid out in the thread so players can edit the rookies within their own franchises. I figure spreadsheets would be best here. Anybody have any suggestions? As long as the ratings fell within the set parameter above, we would have real rookies within that spread ratings system.
For Sliders:
I feel that we could come up with another slider maker to adjust sliders accordingly to the roster set. If we worked together as a community, no one person would have to take on this amount of work themselves.
Please feel free to discuss below.
What are your thoughts? Anyone interested? I know the grading on profootballfocus.com costs money, but I would be willing to pay that price and share through DMs to the teams working on the roster. I would not be able to share that info publicly, as I do not want to have any issues with PFF.