My Madden NFL 10 Game Experiences From Current Build

[djKianoosh]

Quote: Originally Posted by teambayern

djkianoosh, I mean no offense, but it sounds like your anxious about ratings actually mattering. To beat the good teams with bad teams, you'll need to scheme your butt off and get lucky. To use a backup, you'll feel the hit of not having your starter in. If the game is going to change, then these things have to be right up front.

dont see any offense there.. I agree, it should be hard, though not impossible, to beat a team like the Chargers with the Chiefs, or to beat the Cowboys with the Bucs, or to beat the Steelers with the Lions. Totally agree with all of you guys there. I just hope it's still possible to do it IF I scheme for that opponent AND somehow find some weakness in their armor AND make adjustments AND play mistake-free ball.

Dont get me wrong. I dont want it to be easy. But I have friends who only play with 'their' favorite team, like the Bucs, Jets and Bills, and just cause my favorite team is the Eagles I don't want a decided advantage on them from the get-go. We don't dig that whole "My Skill"/IQ thing they had in '09. We just set the mode to All-Pro and play. Don't wanna hear no excuses, actually! haha.

so that's why I'm a liiiiitle concerned with this philosophy that says backups are 10 times worse than starters. the difference between some backups and starters is minimal, and frankly a lot of teams rotate 8 guys on the defensive line (like the eagles) and do well with that system, and they all make plays! If donny and those guys tell us that there's a good D Line rotation system and all those guys can at least make some plays during the game, then it's all good. Should the 8th ranked guy be the same as the 1st? heck no! but he shouldn't be 10 times worse either! and it shouldn't be that only speed and agility matters for a DE. cause in '09 on the Eagles, I could put Bryan Smith in there and he'd make plays all game cause of his speed despite the fact that he was one of the lowest rated DE's on the team! something was outta wack there. so anyway.. I CAN'T WAIT FOR AUGUST!! hahah

[RogueHominid]

Quote: Originally Posted by kwpit79

I guess you can tell I'm bored, but: Steve Young had 30 games (where he attempted at least 15 passes) where he threw for over 70% from 1991-1998, or almost 4 per season. 6 games over 80% and 2 over 90%. Steve Young is a good example because of his high career completion percentage, third all-time behind, wait, CHAD PENNINGTON?? (Didn't know that - lol) and Kurt Warner. So Steve Young should be about the statistical ceiling for QBs in Madden.

Excellent work on Steve Young's stats.

All I'd say is that we're talking about a HOF QB, with a HOF WR, a Pro Bowl FB and a Pro Bowl HB who were very good pass catchers, all playing in the highest percentage scheme to date. There are certainly teams in the league who can replicate some of those numbers, the Cards being a great example, but we have to realize that with numbers like that we're talking about the statistical aberration, not the norm.

I think we all want the same thing, which is balance in-game and believable stat lines for the season with the kinds of highs and lows you expect over 16 games.

To the above poster who suggested that 78% games aren't a big deal, I concur. I am simply worried that we're going to have more 78% seasons, that's all. Hence the plug for more stats if the devs are inclined to give them from their games, which of course I realize they're in no way obligated to do.

[TreyIM2]

UGH! THIS IS TORTURE!! And it's all my fault. I am such a glutton for punishment. Lol.

Sounds good about how they actually wait, like they used to in past Maddens (or is my memory effed up??), to give the injury report later in the game and also about the OLs actually going up field to give good blocks. Tell me more, tell me more - Was it love at first site? Lol. Who knows what that's from? Or am I dating myself? Actually, who even cares. Ha.

[FootballDetails]

Quote: Originally Posted by TreyIM2

Tell me more, tell me more - Was it love at first site? Lol. Who knows what that's from?

Grease

[countryboy]

thanks Donny for the information.

[Megatron2k7]

Nice thread Donny. Thanks for sharing the game info with us.

I'm not sure how you can implement it into the game without just doing formation substitutions, but the Packers have already stated that they are going to run a lot of 4 man D-Line formations on defense this year. When they go into those situations like in Nickel and Dime defense, Kampman is going back to his old position with his hand on the ground as a LDE.

Kampman will only be a LOLB in the "Base 3-4" defense. In almost every other sub formation, he will be back at DE.

If we do this ourselves with formation subs... will Kampman still be rated as high, or maybe even higher than his OLB rating when at the DE position...??? I am only asking because I don't want to see his rating drop when we do this and make him less productive as a pass rusher from the DE position in those defenses.

When the Packers line up in a 4 man front.... it will probably look like this....

RDE = Cullen Jenkins

DT = BJ Raji

DT = Ryan Pickett

LDE = Aaron Kampman

Whoever wins the 3-4 LDE spot for the Packers this year (Harrell, Jolley, Pickett, Malone) will not be the LDE when in the 4 man front. If at all possible, it would be nice to see it work better than last year, where the DE's stay the same going from a 3 man line to a 4 man line, and the second DT just comes in.

Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated.

[TreyIM2]

Details - Nice catch...
Ok, how the hell do I quote on these blogs??? It doesn't seem to work for me or am I missing an extra step or two or...

[jWILL253]

TreyIM2,

You took the words right out of my keyboard...