Transparency of Madden Ratings Needed
I want to be positive, but these ratings really lack transparency and seriously are more based on getting people to talk about it on social media. That, or it's EXTREMELY legacy based.
Take for instance Anthony Richardson. Sure he's a 72 and I can get with that, but there's data and a track record that he can throw a deep ball but struggles with short and intermediate throws. So why not give him a better deep ball rating and turn down his short and intermediate accuracy?
Another call out is Jesse Bates. If you watch Falcons film last year, he's far from a 95 rating.
With all the real-time data and 10 years of data they're mining for things, you'd think they'd incorporate more of that into player ratings.
My only other gripe is that I feel there's wayyyyyyy too many 80+ rated players and that the rookie ratings really need to be scaled down a bit and leave room for progression. I'm eager to see if franchise is still broken where after the first year there's a laundry list of NFL players with 3+ years experience sitting in the free agency pool because the CPU logic doesn't think to sign them anymore.
I feel like NBA 2k, at least in years past, really got the ratings dialed to where superstars felt so different than other role players and backups. Surely, there needs to be a progression where you can build a 68 rated guy into a superstar if your progression calls for it, but I feel the game would play so much better if they scaled some ratings down so it really felt monumental when you hit on a killer draft pick or got that 80+ rated player or 90+ rated player to sign with you in free agency.
In the end, I do get these ratings are a marketing ploy for Madden to get people to talk about them, but it's really puzzling to see guys like Matthew Golden, who ran sub 4.3 at the combine, get 91 speed. If anything, he has more straight line speed than killer burst, so why not give him 95 speed with 93 acceleration?!
Just would love more transparency in their rating decisions.
