NHL 15 Roster Update Available Now (January Update)

[AdamJones113]

Quote: Originally Posted by Simple Mathematics

A few things- This is FAR too late. They already lost most of people's interest in the game. Those few ratings don't even look good. Mike Smith is statistically the worst goalie in the league right now and he's still rated that high. Mike Richards is an 85... maybe 5 years ago. It's absurd that he is only rated one point lower than Filip Forsberg. And the worst thing of all- every player listed above is rated 80 or higher. There is no difference between players! Please come back Revamped Rosters.

YES.

Mike Smith, aka Mr. 3.51 GAA and .885 SPCT HAD a 89 and then... got dropped a mere 4 points.

Simple, you are right. This is ridiculous.

[ERA]

It's about damn time...

[Sports360]

This update was terrible , they missed the Dubnyk trade first off and then the line combinations were wrong . I don't understand how the NHL series is so lack luster when it comes to roster updates and every other game is on top off things like Madden for example. Pathetic

[BCDX97]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sports360

This update was terrible , they missed the Dubnyk trade first off and then the line combinations were wrong . I don't understand how the NHL series is so lack luster when it comes to roster updates and every other game is on top off things like Madden for example. Pathetic

He got traded on the 15th. This was up on the 15th. How are they going to put in a trade after they submitted this? EA did a lot of stuff wrong, but not putting in a trade that hadn't happened yet isn't one of them.

If you think that's pathetic, there's something wrong with you.

[CaptainSuperman]

Quote: Originally Posted by Simple Mathematics

I just looked at the PDF. That is a ridiculous amount of players rated 78-83. And that's not even half the players in the NHL. Seriously, there is no difference between the 4th liners and the 1st liners.

That is also a ridiculous amount of players who play professional hockey. If you start making 4th liners lower than 78, what will AHL players be rated? Junior players? Just like how all the teams in the NHL are rated high 80's, that is to take into account teams in the other leagues.

If Sidney Crosby is to be a 99, what would Filip Forsberg be? Anthony Mantha? A hypothetical high school player

[jyoung]

The current ratings scale goes from 96 overall (Sidney Crosby, NHL) to 41 overall (Jakub Herman, Czech Extraliga).

So EA's still only using about 60% of their 0-100 rating scale, even with all of these minor leagues included in the game.

NHL 94's rating scale, by comparison, went from 100 overall (Mario Lemieux) to 29 overall (Greg Smyth).

[rjviking11]

Madden 15- Decent Roster Update once per week
MLB the show- Decent Roster update once per week
NBA 2k15- Great Roster update nearly EVERYDAY!!
NHL 15- innacurate (at best) roster update once a month, are you kidding me?! What exactly do these guys do all day. EANHL should be ashamed.

[Simple Mathematics]

Quote: Originally Posted by CaptainSuperman

That is also a ridiculous amount of players who play professional hockey. If you start making 4th liners lower than 78, what will AHL players be rated? Junior players? Just like how all the teams in the NHL are rated high 80's, that is to take into account teams in the other leagues. If Sidney Crosby is to be a 99, what would Filip Forsberg be? Anthony Mantha? A hypothetical high school player

They need to use the entire scale. From 1 to 99. Or in EA's strange scale, from 36-99. A 4th line scrub in the juniors could be rated a 36, and Crosby could be around a 99. We spread out the ratings in the Revamped Rosters - although not to this extreme - and it worked wonderfully. It even made the CPU generated rookies fit in better because a 1st round draft pick actually has a chance at making your NHL roster - unlike in EA's roster, where a top 5 draft pick won't be able to crack your NHL lineup for 3 years.

With our rosters, the difference between Crosby and Parros is very noticeable. With EA's rosters, I can do spin-o-ramas all day long with Parros.