FBGRatings Seeks to Recalibrate Madden Ratings, Change Game

[DCEBB2001]

Quote: Originally Posted by jfb33

Do you know any formula that we can apply to current player abilities to obtain the correct overall? With that we could at least make the change by ourself in our game.

I have the OVR formulas for every position in Madden. I will incorporate them once I have completed all of the player audits to get the positions for every player corrected. I will not be publishing any adjusted attributes until that time.

[garret2]

Dcebb, would you happen to know if there is anything similar to FBG ratings out there for basketball. i've searched and haven't found anything, but you seem to be well connected and may know about something i don't. thanks!!

[DCEBB2001]

Quote: Originally Posted by garret2

Dcebb, would you happen to know if there is anything similar to FBG ratings out there for basketball. i've searched and haven't found anything, but you seem to be well connected and may know about something i don't. thanks!!

FBG stands for FootBall Gaming. There is nothing out there that utilizes FBG ratings for other sports aside from football. I too, however, enjoy basketball so if I was able to get the correct data, I would love to rate basketball players as well. However, for now I need to hash things out on the NFL side of things before making the huge leap to rating college players.

I am still considering altering some of the formulas to make them better correspond to Madden ratings for franchise. The real problem is that Madden rates their rookies so darn high that it throws the population data off. However, the adjustment would be to go back to more "classic" (2001-2005) FBG Ratings. This scale would "fit" Madden's scale "better" but would be more of a warped impression of what the scouting data shows.

For instance, in 2005, FBG Ratings had 99 players rated 90+. Madden 25 has 142 players rated 90+. Scouts Inc in 2012 had only 19 players rated 90+ (http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/story...layer-rankings). This year, FBG ratings has only 7 players rated over 90.

Now, lots of people disagree with my ratings because there are so few players rated 90+ (elite) but look at what Scouts Inc says for ESPN. They only had 19 players rated that high last year. Even the old FBG ratings had less than 100 players rated that high. Madden 10, that was to have more variance in ratings, still had 138 players rated 90+. Scouts Inc also only had 196 players rated 80+. FBG 2013 has 50 players rated 80+. I think that even if you don't trust my sources and the subsequent ratings, you can look at Scouts Inc to get an idea on how few of the really elite players there are in the NFL according to another premier scouting source.

So the big question is, do gamers want realistic Madden ratings that best mimic the real NFL, or do they want ratings that best mimic EA?

[garret2]

ok thanks for the reply. i've seen a few good basketball raters out there, like VTCRB. was just wondering if anyone had ever attempted to create a more scientific rating system that would eliminate bias and rate player abilities based off of scouting data, like you do.

[GJD23]

Does anyone have a roster file that has these completed? It seems like it would take an eternity implementing them, lol.

[DCEBB2001]

Quote: Originally Posted by GJD23

Does anyone have a roster file that has these completed? It seems like it would take an eternity implementing them, lol.

Try the roster threads.

I will be getting NEW attributes in HOPEFULLY tonight along with updated roster movement and player info.

[Streetfbmv]

I noticed, what seemed to be, a pretty big update a couple days ago. Any update on what's been going on over there at FBG? It seems to be that the strength rating was greatly effected with this last update.

[DCEBB2001]

Quote: Originally Posted by Streetfbmv

I noticed, what seemed to be, a pretty big update a couple days ago. Any update on what's been going on over there at FBG? It seems to be that the strength rating was greatly effected with this last update.

The attributes have been converted to be more in-line with Madden 25 and beyond as to not distort the use of draft classes and CPU mechanics in the game. The same data is still used to effectively rate each player, but now the attributes and ratings reflect more upon how EA rates players.