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Quote: Originally Posted by Marmemole

I hope, that they dont. The OVR gives you an idea of how good a player is, that helped me a lot, when I was new to Madden and Football in general and didnt know what most attributes meant.

I cannot agree with this. You can assess a player by looking at their attributes.

The best example of this working (without OVR) are the football (soccer) management games.

Quote: Originally Posted by mattjames2010

The "overall" completely kills any kind of scouting and development of players. It's a ridiculous thing to have in any sports simulation game. Leave that crap in MUT or online - it doesn't need to be in offline career mode.

Completely agree.

Quote: Originally Posted by roadman

OVR won't go anywhere because it's a great marketing tool for EA. NFL players yack it up when the OVR's are announced before the game arrives on the market. Interesting to note, I haven't heard the word simulation out of EA since Rex left 8 months ago.

Yup. Madden isn’t made for nuance. It’s made for headlines.

Quote: Originally Posted by stinkubus

OVR is bad, but that's because it's a vauge composite of ability that ignores age, archetype, and how easily a player's deficiencies can be remedied. Bad ZCV can be fixed by a season or so of intensive development. Low SPD cannot.

Well said.