For those of you who didn't play NFL Head Coach 09 - KalimbeNaire's Blog

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For those of you who didn't play NFL Head Coach 09

Posted on June 21, 2011 at 09:51 PM.

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Senior Scouting Day:

Sometimes you can get a little bit extra info when the college seniors decide to play. Depending on the ability of your GM, you will get a list of seniors on a position by position basis.

Say this year, there are 7 college senior QB's to be looked at. Maybe your GM is only average at scouting QB's...you might be able to look at 3 or 4 of them to unlock a little bit more information about them. This might get you up to a 40% overall scouting of that player and would start to unlock other information like his athletic rating, his size rating, and maybe his production rating.

NFL head coach would actually rate guys on size. This would affect a player's overall skill for your team specifically because for instance you might have the philosophy of wanting tall, redzone threat WR's. Well, a 5'9'' speedster with return ability wouldn't rate very well for size in your system, but that 6'5'' 220lbs guy with a nice vertical leap would. It might affect an OVR score around 3-4 points. So that speedy guy might only be an 85OVR in your system, but for a team that wants a speedy deep threat, he could be a 90 OVR.

Combine Scouting:

You would get a little pop up saying that this week, the runningbacks went to the combine. You'd select that little window and you'd be taken to a screen that measured the standard things like height, weight, 40 yard time, 60 yard time, the cone drill, bench press, vertical leap, and for some players (QB's) a ball speed rating. Sometimes you will find a HB or a WR that actually has a ball speed rating...that means they might actually have some skills at QB. They might not be great, because if they were, they would be in with the QB's, but maybe you could run a trickery play with that guy?

After the raw data, you would then be taken to a screen that would allow you to scout some of the running backs that actually went to the combine (yes, some players will actually not go). Say there were about 20 runningbacks and fullbacks in total that went to the combine. Your GM is very good at scouting RB's...so you might be able to take a closer look at 8 of them.

As you progress through the scouting process, you are unlocking more and more of a perecentage of that players OVR rating. Once you get to 100% scouted, you pretty much know everything there is to know about this player and that OVR rating is probably very legit.