Hello all. I wanted to officially state that I am currently working on creating a 1986 roster. This is a favorite season of mine because of how good the Browns were that year. Lots of quality teams in 86 throughout the NFL.
As always, this roster will be as close as I can get to replicating the NFL of that year. Equipment will be accurate to the players during the 86 season, or at least as close as Madden allows.
Most of you are familiar with my ratings and my rosters in general. I am trying some slight modifications for some positions. The changes mostly affect RBs, WRs, TEs. The goal of my new approach is to spread out the ratings and make sure that RBs make good decisions.
So what is different: for RBs, for top tier RBs, the BCV will be higher than I have used in the past. Some mid-range RBs will also be a little higher, but AWR may be lower. Also, in an effort to increase fumbles, I am lowering the CAR rating from my normal range. Nothing dramatic, but hopefully noticeable in game. Also, Catching and route running ratings are more spread out
WRs: The main thing here is I am trying to spread out the route running ratings to better reflect the difference between players.
TEs: Taking advice from Tommycoa and his years of testing, I am dramatically lowering TEs route running. With very few exceptions, DRR will be in the 20s-low 30s. MRR: 30s-40 SRR: 35-45 There will be guys that are exceptions, but you will not see TEs who run routes as good as WRs. This results in TEs all have a very similary OVR. I do not like that, but I do believe that it dramatically helps gameplay.
OLINE: Very little change here except I am trying to provide a greater range of ratings so that again, the top guys really stand out.
DLINE: No changes here from my normal ratings.
LBs: No changes
DBs: No major changes, as normal for my classic rosters, to help emphasize the more physical play style that was allowed, the Press rating for CBs is relatively high.
These are all being tested as I work on the roster. So far, I really like the way the game is playing.
Let me know if you have any questions.
As always, this roster will be as close as I can get to replicating the NFL of that year. Equipment will be accurate to the players during the 86 season, or at least as close as Madden allows.
Most of you are familiar with my ratings and my rosters in general. I am trying some slight modifications for some positions. The changes mostly affect RBs, WRs, TEs. The goal of my new approach is to spread out the ratings and make sure that RBs make good decisions.
So what is different: for RBs, for top tier RBs, the BCV will be higher than I have used in the past. Some mid-range RBs will also be a little higher, but AWR may be lower. Also, in an effort to increase fumbles, I am lowering the CAR rating from my normal range. Nothing dramatic, but hopefully noticeable in game. Also, Catching and route running ratings are more spread out
WRs: The main thing here is I am trying to spread out the route running ratings to better reflect the difference between players.
TEs: Taking advice from Tommycoa and his years of testing, I am dramatically lowering TEs route running. With very few exceptions, DRR will be in the 20s-low 30s. MRR: 30s-40 SRR: 35-45 There will be guys that are exceptions, but you will not see TEs who run routes as good as WRs. This results in TEs all have a very similary OVR. I do not like that, but I do believe that it dramatically helps gameplay.
OLINE: Very little change here except I am trying to provide a greater range of ratings so that again, the top guys really stand out.
DLINE: No changes here from my normal ratings.
LBs: No changes
DBs: No major changes, as normal for my classic rosters, to help emphasize the more physical play style that was allowed, the Press rating for CBs is relatively high.
These are all being tested as I work on the roster. So far, I really like the way the game is playing.
Let me know if you have any questions.
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