FIX FRANCHISE MODE: Remove Potential Rating.

[tseliottt]

Do you know what the easiest, most effective way to fix franchise mode is? Remove the potential rating. That's it.

There should be no potential rating. I should not be able to draft a player and know what to expect out of him throughout his entire career. It destroys a HUGE part of franchise mode. Once I see that my 3rd round pick has a D potential, I cut him immediately before he even has a chance to play. Real NFL teams never do this, because there is no potential rating in real life. NFL teams don't know what to expect from their 3rd round pick until he plays.

A potential rating should not be the ONLY factor to determine progression.
It would be a mistake if they included it again into the next version of Madden.

Opinions?

[tef]

I have no issues with the Potential rating as it only tells you how good a player can be. What I would like to see is the removal of the Overall rating. I think players will start to be rated correctly if no one has to worry about real players complaining about their overall. Plus it will make franchise more interesting because now you have to look at the ratings that pertain to the position of the player rather than the OVR and Speed.

[Sik kid Pk]

Quote: Originally Posted by tseliottt

Do you know what the easiest, most effective way to fix franchise mode is? Remove the potential rating. That's it. There should be no potential rating. I should not be able to draft a player and know what to expect out of him throughout his entire career. It destroys a HUGE part of franchise mode. Once I see that my 3rd round pick has a D potential, I cut him immediately before he even has a chance to play. Real NFL teams never do this, because there is no potential rating in real life. NFL teams don't know what to expect from their 3rd round pick until he plays. A potential rating should not be the ONLY factor to determine progression. It would be a mistake if they included it again into the next version of Madden. Opinions?

I don't have a problem with the idea of a potential rating. The problem is that in Madden the rating is broke. Somebody wit A potential will have a positive progression no matter what and somebody with say a C potential will never be rated that good no matter how good they perform.

Potential and progression should be separate. Just because you have a high potential doesn't mean you are progressing.

[arsenal123gunners]

They don't have speed ratings or awareness ratings in real-life either, but it makes it easier to tell the good player from the bad. Take John Wall for example, sure he wasn't averaging 25 ppg and 10 apg at Kentucky, but you sure know that he has the potential to be a hall of famer.

[TeamBuilder]

It would be great if the potential grade could fluctuate... if it wasn't set in stone the way it is now then not everything would be pre-determined.

[GoEagles614]

I agree. Everyone that comes into the NFL has potential to get better, and potential to start. Or they wouldn't be drafted. It's not fair to get rookies and have them in Ds and Fs and never getting better. It's crap, and very unrealistic.

[HittinAgenda]

Potential is just one of many attributes to rate a player against. If you were dropping guys solely based on poor potential ratings, then you were missing out on a lot of the most fun players from the later rounds of the draft. Just because a low potential player couldn't increase his overall rating much over the course of the franchise didn't mean that he couldn't start or put up pro-bowl numbers if you used him right.

[GoEagles614]

The problem is if you DO put up those numbers he won't get better off of the numbers, he gets better off of the potential and his overall.