Madden NFL 11 News Post

FBGRatings Seeks to Recalibrate Madden Ratings, Change Game

01:46 PM - January 24, 2011 by RaychelSnr

I recentely sat down for a talk with FBGRatings.com's Dan Berens to discuss his site's vision and what's going on over there today. The site is currently working on getting accurate ratings for every player using real hard data converted into the Madden ratings universe. Dan claims that when these numbers are plugged into the game, it plays much better and much closer to real life. Check out the interview below and also check out Dan's website to see what he's got going on!

Interview with Berens on the OS Radio Show on BlogTalkRadio

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# 1481 cardinaldiehard @ 08/21/14 12:39 AM

Thank you so much for this website Dan! Absolutely incredible. Finally a Madden game that plays fluid and ratings that make sense. No more 320 lb offensive lineman with an 82 jumping rating! Big ups to Charter04 as well, your sliders work perfectly for CPU vs. CPU games, actually entertaining to watch. Keep up the incredible work guys!

# 1482 DCEBB2001 @ 08/21/14 09:04 PM

UPDATE 8/21/2014:

Just want to let everyone know that there are several player updates that have been posted resulting from the preseason thus far. You can see who has gone up/down in their OVR rating by looking at the +/- next to their names on the rosters.

Any player with a +0 likely had some attributes change, but not enough to raise or lower the overall rating more than one point.

# 1483 td7 @ 09/04/14 09:05 AM

I can't get into the website? Is it down?

# 1484 williamsa9 @ 09/04/14 01:20 PM

Anyone know what's going on with the fbg website? It says "The service is unavailable"

# 1485 td7 @ 09/04/14 02:48 PM

I emailed Dan about it, haven't gotten a response though?

# 1486 cardinaldiehard @ 09/04/14 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by williamsa9


	Anyone know what's going on with the fbg website? It says "The service is unavailable"

It's usually unavailable just before he updates that ratings. He might be updating the ratings and rosters, but I've never gotten the "Service Unavailable" message before today. Hopefully it's up soon, most likely the ratings are just being updated!

# 1487 williamsa9 @ 09/04/14 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by cardinaldiehard


	It's usually unavailable just before he updates that ratings. He might be updating the ratings and rosters, but I've never gotten the "Service Unavailable" message before today. Hopefully it's up soon, most likely the ratings are just being updated!

Well let's hope so! At least we have actual football so it's not going to be a boring night! Packers over Seahawks! You heard it here first

# 1488 Argooos @ 09/04/14 10:59 PM

It was working for a while yesterday and there were indeed some updates that were done.

I certainly hope it's up again soon. The NFL is finally back and I've got a hankering for some roster editing.

# 1489 DCEBB2001 @ 09/05/14 07:31 AM

Hey guys, the site is up now.

As many of you know, my site is powered by TSX, the same company that owns NFL Draft Scout. Well apparently, two nights ago, we came under attack by Asian porn hackers that were bombing top football searches on the web. As many of you also know, when you google football players, my site comes up usually on the first 2 pages of a google search, so it was hit pretty hard. They get us at night and our server guys try real hard to stop them.

It seems to be working now, but it was definitely down for a day. Hope this is better from now on.

DB

# 1490 DCEBB2001 @ 09/13/14 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by SECElit3


	Does anyone know what has been going on with the site? I have been unable to get into this entire week. It looks to be down again.

The site is not down nor has it been down since that one incident a while back. Updates are going on constantly. This is the regular season now.

# 1491 DCEBB2001 @ 09/26/14 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by SECElit3


	DCEBB, I was entering rating into the game for my PS4 project last night, and the site quit responding around 9PM CST. Are there updates going on right now? It doesn't look like it has come back up yet. Can you look into this? By the way. These ratings are tremendous. They really change the game play of Madden. I really hope you know how much we appreciate what you do year after year. If not for you, Madden would be shelved. This project has been a huge undertaking for me, but in the end, it will be so worth it. My hope is that one day, EA sees your value and what you can do for Madden. You alone could turn this game inside out. Sim Standard (Game Changer) is following my project closely. He has a direct line to EA and hopefully can get them aware of the value that these ratings bring to Madden. When I look at your work, I see $ signs. This site is amazing.

Thank you. It is a ton of work. I was doing updates last night. Usually do them every Thursday or Friday each week.

# 1492 DCEBB2001 @ 09/26/14 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by SECElit3


	My hope is that one day, EA sees your value and what you can do for Madden. You alone could turn this game inside out. Sim Standard (Game Changer) is following my project closely. He has a direct line to EA and hopefully can get them aware of the value that these ratings bring to Madden. When I look at your work, I see $ signs. This site is amazing.

Unfortunately, EA is not in the business of creating an accurate game. I interviewed with them for Donny's job back in 2011. All they wanted was pump me for information (name sources, see how I rate players, etc). What I found out was that the marketing dept at EA alters the OVR rating against Donny's wishes quite a bit. I was specifically asked how I would react if/when I was asked to change a player's ratings because a suit said I had to. I told them I wouldn't compromise the system. As you can imagine, my honesty didn't lead to the job.

As far as seeing $ signs with the site, the only $ signs I can ever see is if someone at EA hires me to do their ratings. Aside from that, these ratings are for the public. I hope people enjoy them. It makes me feel good to see all of the threads regarding rosters that use my ratings. I hope it continues.

# 1493 DCEBB2001 @ 09/27/14 12:11 AM

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Originally Posted by SECElit3


	In my eyes, your ratings are the only ratings. I just hope you can find the time to sit down and enjoy them.

I only work the site man. That is my enjoyment.

# 1494 il blood il @ 09/27/14 11:33 AM

is there a file i can download on the xb1 to get these?

# 1495 wordtobigbird @ 09/27/14 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by il blood il


	is there a file i can download on the xb1 to get these?

Just search FBGFULLRATINGS. Theres a thread for it in the roster section

# 1496 DCEBB2001 @ 09/27/14 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by il blood il


	is there a file i can download on the xb1 to get these?

Look in the roster section.

# 1497 Jazon654 @ 10/06/14 05:40 PM

i used tdawgs rerated rosters on ncaa 14, and it was the only way to enjoy the game. anyway to pull draft classes and rerate them?

# 1498 DCEBB2001 @ 10/07/14 12:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Jazon654


	i used tdawgs rerated rosters on ncaa 14, and it was the only way to enjoy the game. anyway to pull draft classes and rerate them?

There is no way to edit draft classes. Please write to EA requesting that we can in the future to improve your Madden experience.

# 1499 DCEBB2001 @ 10/07/14 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by jovanitoliver415


	I'm Doing full fbg ratings for Xbox 1 a lot of guys are just doing the ratings of the players skill position and leaving the rest of the ratings the same...there's a big difference wen u fully input all of the ratings I kno it takes a lot of time but it's worth it especially with the fbg slider that's out I will upload videos today

In order to get the entire scope of the system, you must re-rate ALL attributes for every position, not just those that are position-specific. Remember, in FBG, all ratings work TOGETHER to form a player's athletic profile. Ignoring some and changing only others is NOT FBG.

# 1500 DCEBB2001 @ 10/07/14 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by SECElit3


	Well that is concerning... Seeing as how we are over 5 weeks into the project. Changing those ratings would almost double the input time. How much is throw power for a defensive tackle really going to alter the game play? Can you expand on the benefits of re-rating non-specific position attributes? Is this really going to change the experience that much to warrant the time it would take to do it?

I cannot tell you if it is worth it or not. What I can tell you is that every player has their attributes listed for a reason. It would be an epic novel and would reveal a little "too much" to go more in depth, but just know that I don't take the time to publish all the attributes for every position "just because". Otherwise it too, would save me time on my end. My election not to ignore other attributes should only verify their importance.

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