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alxkk's avatar
alxkk
Rising Traveler
12 months ago

NHL 25 RATINGS

Anyone see the full player ratings list on the site? What is up with some of these ratings? 

Marner defensive awareness: 85

Nylander defensive awareness: 87

Really? One of the leagues best two way forwards over the years is lower rated defensively than the guy who can't make a defensive play to save his life?

Or how Sam Reinhart is a playmaker despite having multiple 30+ goal seasons and coming off a 57 goal season. Hyman isn't even on the list yet just came off a 50 goal year, the year prior scoring 83 points. Forsberg has both 85 DFA and 85OFA when in reality he's an offensive dynamo but is bad defensively. Why does Panarin have 90 defensive awareness???

I hate to be "that guy", but does this new dev team even watch hockey? It's as if for some of these ratings they just threw darts at a dartboard blindfolded. This can't be real

16 Replies

  • KidShowtime1867's avatar
    KidShowtime1867
    Hero
    11 months ago

    You're missing the point.

    This guy likely has the job of updating each player's rating. 

    Where does that rating come from? How he feels that day? Or maybe there's a database, accessible and updated by EA's hired-out scouts, where this fella grabs the data from. 

  • NeonSkyline21's avatar
    NeonSkyline21
    Seasoned Ace
    11 months ago

    So you're saying that they give wildly incorrect ratings on purpose? I feel like giving accurate ratings for individual attributes would ALSO generate discussion so... idk if I buy that. 

    It seems like a way to let EA off the hook for the failure of not having good stats guys in their office by highlighting another (allegedly) intentional shortcoming.  

  • NeonSkyline21's avatar
    NeonSkyline21
    Seasoned Ace
    11 months ago

    And? What's your point? If the ratings are so far off than the real players' on-ice performance, does the existence of that "team" mean anything? No. No it doesn't "But ok keep going on." 

  • NeonSkyline21's avatar
    NeonSkyline21
    Seasoned Ace
    11 months ago

    "The fact they didn't have hands-on in the development process would preclude them from getting a credit."

    Not true. Consultants get credits in video games all the time. They could even create a special section of the credits for them. If not, throw them in the "Special Thanks" section. 

    Maybe I'm misunderstanding your argument but it seems like you're ignoring what's right in front of us: some of these "scout-given" ratings are miles off the mark. 

  • NeonSkyline21's avatar
    NeonSkyline21
    Seasoned Ace
    11 months ago

    But at the end of the day those ratings are still unrealistic and not representative of the players' actual skillsets so... does it matter where they come from? 

  • NeonSkyline21's avatar
    NeonSkyline21
    Seasoned Ace
    11 months ago

    So many aspects of this video game franchise that we love would "actually be interesting for them to break down" and yet... here we are. Left typing into the void. Existing as mere dollar-signs. 

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