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[IdleRace]

These ratings are a mood killer. I think these are the worst player ratings in a Madden ever.

I am on board for speed to be toned down. I would love for these ratings to not be so inflated and jacked up.

The speed makes no sense. Its like fast players all got their speed lowered but then allot of players didn't get the same treatment. So it's just one big mess.

CFM is unplayable with these rosters. I will enjoy MuT and hopefully from what I see FGB is re doing all the roster ratings. Hopefully I can snatch them up and play CFM then.

Player ratings are no easy task. But EA has the wrong people doing them. my biggest issue with Madden was the penalty settings and no WR/DB interaction. Now ratings are the biggest flaw with this game.

[The JareBear]

Quote: Originally Posted by bspring3

From what's been said, it sounds like the younger you are, the higher your speed will be. Veterans purposely have lower speeds than guys in there first few years. I am hoping that means these young guys will gradually lose speed as they age and that this all evens out. Key words being: I am hoping.

Oh man...

Just saw the spreadsheet on that Google doc.

I'm not trying to jump to conclusions but I hope you're right and these balance out eventually cuz these are awful.

Von miller and Cody latimer are as fast or faster than DT and Sanders on my team. That's almost unforgivable.

I'm extremely concerned. I can tolerate a little randomness but these ratings at face value, might legitimately alter my enthusiasm about the game. Just being honest, not trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. To me, in my perspective, these are really really bad.

[Would]

Quote: Originally Posted by IdleRace

These ratings are a mood killer. I think these are the worst player ratings in a Madden ever. I am on board for speed to be toned down. I would love for these ratings to not be so inflated and jacked up. The speed makes no sense. Its like fast players all got their speed lowered but then allot of players didn't get the same treatment. So it's just one big mess. CFM is unplayable with these rosters. I will enjoy MuT and hopefully from what I see FGB is re doing all the roster ratings. Hopefully I can snatch them up and play CFM then. Player ratings are no easy task. But EA has the wrong people doing them. my biggest issue with Madden was the penalty settings and no WR/DB interaction. Now ratings are the biggest flaw with this game.

Mood killer is very accurate of a description for me too. I have been excited for M16, I'm a 49ers fan with all of the departures I was looking forward to some the additions we made. Torrey Smith was a 95 in M15 & is now a 89, Reggie Bush was a 94 now a 87. It just seems so random.....

[Kilendil]

I read here a lot. People are just on the jump to conclusions train. Got an idea. You like football? You like video games? Then don't complain, get excited about this years version. Maybe try the game out before you say this is the biggest flaw in the game or that this makes no sense. In real life football speed isn't the biggest factor. I for one am looking forward to seeing how the game plays, because game play is THE most important thing.

[BleedGreen710]

god these ratings are terrible

the speed ratings are just all over the place

[The JareBear]

Quote: Originally Posted by IdleRace

These ratings are a mood killer. I think these are the worst player ratings in a Madden ever. I am on board for speed to be toned down. I would love for these ratings to not be so inflated and jacked up. The speed makes no sense. Its like fast players all got their speed lowered but then allot of players didn't get the same treatment. So it's just one big mess. CFM is unplayable with these rosters. I will enjoy MuT and hopefully from what I see FGB is re doing all the roster ratings. Hopefully I can snatch them up and play CFM then. Player ratings are no easy task. But EA has the wrong people doing them. my biggest issue with Madden was the penalty settings and no WR/DB interaction. Now ratings are the biggest flaw with this game.

Well said

Had it just been speed being toned down, I would have loved it.
That's not what we have. What we have looks like they equivalent of throwing paint on a wall and just seeing where it lands. I would really love to hear the devs explain the method and maybe that would clear some things up

[bspring3]

I also think people need to put in perspective that Speed is only one rating out of many. And speed is not even an important rating anymore to a certain extent. In Madden 15, speed had a very small impact on success and I would not be surprised for that trend to continue. Why is no one upset about Person A having higher route running than person B...that rating is much more important to gameplay for WRs than speed is.

Just a thought.

[Would]

Quote: Originally Posted by bspring3

I also think people need to put in perspective that Speed is only one rating out of many. And speed is not even an important rating anymore to a certain extent. In Madden 15, speed had a very small impact on success and I would not be surprised for that trend to continue. Why is no one upset about Person A having higher route running than person B...that rating is much more important to gameplay for WRs than speed is. Just a thought.

Well because that's not true. Speed IS the most important attribute in Madden. The route trees in Madden are not expansive enough to worry about RR. every WR runs the slant, post, hitch, etcetera the same way in Madden. IMO the reason why speed is talked about so much is because there's data available used by real NFL teams that could be used to rate these players. There is no need to guess.