Another year of mystery ratings

The team rating thing never made sense to me. It's in all of their EA sports titles too. So silly.

Roster wise, Sharks are worse than Flames. Flames still have some good players, Backland, Weegar, Anderson, Kadri, Coleman, Huberdeau. 

EASports says otherwise. Here is the roster breakdown.

unfortunately I don't spend enough time watching to really know what all the players can do, so I just ignore the "real" player and go by what EA says. Hughes is also very young, I am sure it will go up.

Regarding the 80 avg skills is a 75 overall player, it was a long time since it worked like that. I know it did on PC at some point, that putting 86 on everything made an 86 overall player.

Personally I think it make more sense now, in a way (but not in every way, don't get me wrong). Some skills are more important and apart from defensive awareness, not many of the defensive skills have as much value as the skating, shooting and puck control-stuff.

I haven't investigated fully how it works, but I will do it and see if I can get any wiser.

I actually noticed that some overalls in the game must be manually edited somehow. Adam Fox starts as a 95 ovr unless I remember it wrong. When I went in to have a look at something with him (edit player, without changing anything), I then returned back to player editing, only to find Fox a 90 ovr. I have to try that again and see if I remember it right or not. But I'm sure I didn't edit his skills.

Hi, thanks for the response.

I agree with what you said but it still doesn't explain how a team can be higher rated than its best player. I also tried to detect a pattern with the player overalls thinking it might be poise or some other factor, but nothing ever fit together. The only thing I have been able to determine for sure is that skating and senses are the most important

Each line has a different weight to the overall team average. ALso just because players OVR is 86, there offense numbers might behigher then the player average. So the game looks at the players average for each category. 

For example Calgary might have more depht but the players arent rated higher overall. but the depth gives a boost to the lower lines as the team is not as vulnerable when lines 3 and 4 r on the ice. 

Team 1 - 96- 92- 87 Top line - 91.667 average

Team 2 - 90 -89-92 Top Line  90.33 average 

Team 1 80-79-81 third line 80 

Team 2 82-82-79 - 82 Third line 81 

Team 1 85.8 

Team 2 - 85.665 

Now the fun part Average, To take it further, a break down of individual offensive stats would need to be considered. To get a OVR of lets say 88 when no player on the team is 88 that does not mean the offensive stats arent at 88. Overall is lets say 88 Shot accuracy, or 86 Shot power, with 88 Puck control but defensive stats drop to Stick checking 82, hitting 80, player OVER would be 83-85 but his offensive stats are at 88. 

Then to consider the ICE time of the top players, vs lower ranked players. 

"Team 1 - 96- 92- 87 Top line - 91.667 average Team 2 - 90 -89-92 Top Line  90.33 average " 

 Calgary's top lines are nowhere near that. The top three players are 87, 85, 85 overall. they have a good first pair on defense, but again the numbers don't add up with Bean being the top offensive defender with an 85.5 average

I have taken all that into consideration. the three top offensive players on Calgary have puck skill and shooting in the 80s MAX.

Kuzmenko - average of puck skills + offensive awareness = 88.1 Huberdeau average = 87.8 Kadri average = 87.7 average.

Shooting skills -  Best players on team - Kuzmenko 88 shooting, 4 guys at 87.5 - everyone else is lower.

As you can see their three BEST offensive players barely average 88. Their 3 and 4th lines are among the leagues worst as well.

The Sharks NHL roster is just as bad as Calgary's is but due to their age and poor minor league team I gave the nod to the Flames as the worst organization.

and as I said their TOP players average less than 88, using your weighted theory the 3rd and 4th line would bring the TEAM average down, even if they only played 20-25 minutes per game. Unless the game is only looking at the top lines it doesn't pan out.

How does this equal 76 overall? Faceoffs are unimportant to dmen. EVERYTHING ELSE except hand-eye is above 75.