FBGRatings Seeks to Recalibrate Madden Ratings, Change Game

[da professor]

Ray Rice is rated higher than Lesean McCoy. Rice had maybe 600 yards last year. Nice work.

[charter04]

Quote: Originally Posted by da professor

Ray Rice is rated higher than Lesean McCoy. Rice had maybe 600 yards last year. Nice work.

Donnie Moore!? What are you doing on this thread!? Lol 5 life time posts on OS and 100% seem to know more than anyone about Madden ratings. Shouldn't you be working on giving 80% of the players 90+ overalls and cover boy Richard Sherman 99's in every category?

[Hooe]

Coincidentally, I'm also a Cowboys fan.

The way I saw Tyron Smith's ratings, all his pass blocking ratings are really good (assuming the average individual rating is indeed 70), but just as DCEBB described a criticism of his coming out of college was that he was weak at the point of attack in the run game. His footwork ratings in both PBF and RBF both look to be Top 5 at the LT position amongst all players graded too, which I'm assuming is correlated his Smith's praise in his technique as opposed to his physical presence; I don't think anyone has ever called him a dominant lineman to the extent that, say, Walter Jones was.

The ratings correlated pretty well with what I thought about him, personally. Dude's only 23 too, so he's going to be around for a while and hopefully only get better.

[Hooe]

Also, we'll not be having any personal attacks in this thread, please.

Thanks!

[charter04]

Quote: Originally Posted by CM Hooe

Also, we'll not be having any personal attacks in this thread, please. Thanks!

My bad.

[da professor]

Quote: Originally Posted by charter04

Donnie Moore!? What are you doing on this thread!? Lol 5 life time posts on OS and 100% seem to know more than anyone about Madden ratings. Shouldn't you be working on giving 80% of the players 90+ overalls and cover boy Richard Sherman 99's in every category?

Apparently I'm the only one that sees the obvious. So every one is in agreement that McCoy is worse than Ray Rice? Are you guys really serious? Is it because he has good traits? LOL

[charter04]

Quote: Originally Posted by da professor

Apparently I'm the only one that sees the obvious. So every one is in agreement that McCoy is worse than Ray Rice? Are you guys really serious? Is it because he has good traits? LOL

Why do think a higher Madden overall rating means the player is better in game? Do you know how messed up Madden overall ratings are? What matters is how a player plays in the game. Not the arbitrary overall Madden Rating.

[DCEBB2001]

Quote: Originally Posted by charter04

Why do think a higher Madden overall rating means the player is better in game? Do you know how messed up Madden overall ratings are? What matters is how a player plays in the game. Not the arbitrary overall Madden Rating.

The Madden OVR for RBs incorporates the PBK, RBK, IBL, RBS, RBF, PBS, PBF, SPC, CIT, RTE, and REL attributes. Rice is a better receiver and WAY better blocker than McCoy. Not to mention that his physical skills (measurables) are also better than that of McCoy. McCoy is better at breaking tackles, but he is not a superior athlete or as technically sound in many of the categories. For those who want to argue "yardage" and production, they will be missing the point - production does not equate to ratings. Where is the YPC attribute? Where is the YAC attribute? How about the REC attribute? They do not exist because they do not matter.

Putting production ahead of traits is like putting the cart ahead of the horse. Traits lead to production, not vice versus.