Old Madden Ratings Site Reborn Under New Management

[at23steelers]

Random question, but DCEBB is this all volunteer?

[DCEBB2001]

Quote: Originally Posted by at23steelers

Random question, but DCEBB is this all volunteer?

No it is not

[Maelstrom-XIII]

Any openings?

Get paid to talk/think/analyze football? I'm there.

[at23steelers]

Quote: Originally Posted by DCEBB2001

No it is not

Cool, Cool. At least you get benefits for all the work you do. Maybe you should make enough as Donny Moore, haha!

[DCEBB2001]

Quote: Originally Posted by Maelstrom-XIII

Any openings? Get paid to talk/think/analyze football? I'm there.

The draft website might have some internships for scouting, but they don't pay at all...

The goal one day is to take those kids' jobs at EA...I have the connections to Madden's daughter who runs the show for the game so it could happen. I think that if the site does better than what those guys are doing it can only garner positive attention.

[Schmackity]

You guys commenting and saying their ratings are messed up, stop comparing guys at different positions to one another. Of course a Pro Bowl defensive end might be rated at 84 and then another average player might be at 86 ahead of him. They are different positions and it has no reflection of better overall skills, its the player's rating for THAT POSITION only. Stop saying how you'd do it or how it SHOULD be done and thank these guys for putting in all the hard work and effort to do what you are not willing to do yourself.

[DCEBB2001]

Quote: Originally Posted by Schmackity

You guys commenting and saying their ratings are messed up, stop comparing guys at different positions to one another. Of course a Pro Bowl defensive end might be rated at 84 and then another average player might be at 86 ahead of him. They are different positions and it has no reflection of better overall skills, its the player's rating for THAT POSITION only. Stop saying how you'd do it or how it SHOULD be done and thank these guys for putting in all the hard work and effort to do what you are not willing to do yourself.

That's the whole problem though! It shouldn't be position or weight specific! If a guy weighs 150lbs and runs a 4.5 and a guy weighing 300lbs runs a 4.5 is the smaller guy faster? No of course not! They ran the same time for g*d's sake!

The speed rating has sooo much of an effect on the OVR rating and gameplay, that asking for more realistic times for individual players is not asking for too much. And to prove that it does NOT depend on position I want you to do a little test. Take a 300lb lineman and go time how many frames it takes you to run 40 yards with 80 SPD, ACC, and AGI in practice mode. Then take a 170lb CB with 80 SPD, ACC, and AGI and do the same thing. I'll bet you my last dollar that they run it in the same amount of frames. This will show you that position has NOTHING to do with the rating. Doing things non-universally and doing it by position is what the whole problem is in the first place. Why not make every player equal for what they timed out in?

Oh, and I believe that I have every right, as well as anyone else here, to speak my mind about how I would rate the players myself...and all of it will pay off for the website this topic is about. So please, spare me the insults and recognize how much work it really takes to rate 6 times as many players as those saps at EA are doing in a more orderly and comprehensive fashion.

[at23steelers]

Yeah, it's awesome how much time, work, and energy you put into these ratings. How do you even begin to rate agility for the players though? Also, when do you expect the ratings to be done? No rush at all, in fact as you probably know and EA needs to know is never rush anything, but make sure you take awhile and make sure it's perfect!