Week One Ratings Change Suggestions

by pastapadre
Posted September 15th, 2009 at 10:16 am

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With the opening to the NFL season now complete we can turn towards the roster update for Madden 10 that is expected to come out late this week. Of course it is very early and week one isn’t necessarily indicative of performance throughout the entirety of the regular season. That being said there are players who deserve to go up or down based on the results of the first game.

Pulling notes from Donny Moore on Twitter some of the changes to look forward to based on just the Monday Night Football games are listed below. These could give an idea of the type of magnitude of changes on a per game basis across the board.

JaMarcus Russell deep accuracy up, short accuracy down

Raiders pass rush up

Leodis McKelvin awareness, carry, and kick return down

Tully Banta-Cain up

Drew Brees may have earned an increase from his already stellar 97 overall rating. Can Adrian Peterson get any better than he is? He should probably be maxed out, though being prone to fumbling is what seems to hold him at a 97. LaDainian Tomlinson wasn’t even on the field on the critical game winning drive for the Chargers and it appears that Darren Sproles has taken a more significant role. LT at 94 and Sproles at 83 will have to receive some adjustment. It’s pretty safe to assume that Jake Delhomme will see his ratings take a hit. It simply can’t be justified that he has an overall of 80 compared to a Joe Flacco at 81 (307 yards 3TDs) and several other solid starters in that range. Delhomme should probably fall in the mid-60s. Kurt Warner may see a drop as well as he and the Cardinals have looked nothing like the team that made the playoff run.

Of course the biggest move for the update transaction wise will be Brian Urlacher to the IR after his wrist injury put him out for the season. The Eagles have signed Jeff Garcia and Chris McAlister is expected to join a new team today.

Leave your thoughts in the comments on what players out/under performed their ratings in week one! Who should be recognized as deserving ratings upgrades and who should see their ratings fall?

Tags: ratings suggestions

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aaron rodgers: accuracy down, awareness down

jay cutler: awareness down
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aaron rodgers: accuracy down, awareness down

jay cutler: awareness down
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Whats the cowboys Ratings ?
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Whats the cowboys Ratings ?
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Whats the cowboys Ratings ?
josh

whens the new update even coming out
josh

whens the new update even coming out
josh

whens the new update even coming out
Bucyocouch24

Could not agree more with Chas. The cowboys explosion plays accounted for most of their offensive numbers. Defensive errors rather than stellar play killed the bucs. With four huge plays the bucs offense STILL were within 20 yds total offense. The Bucs had more first downs, better third down conversion, etc. So if you increase the Cowgirls, I want some love for the offensive line and running backs for the BUCS

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hater faggot b1tch bucs suk 34-21
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hater faggot b1tch bucs suk 34-21

Bucyocouch24

Could not agree more with Chas. The cowboys explosion plays accounted for most of their offensive numbers. Defensive errors rather than stellar play killed the bucs. With four huge plays the bucs offense STILL were within 20 yds total offense. The Bucs had more first downs, better third down conversion, etc. So if you increase the Cowgirls, I want some love for the offensive line and running backs for the BUCS
Bucyocouch24

Could not agree more with Chas. The cowboys explosion plays accounted for most of their offensive numbers. Defensive errors rather than stellar play killed the bucs. With four huge plays the bucs offense STILL were within 20 yds total offense. The Bucs had more first downs, better third down conversion, etc. So if you increase the Cowgirls, I want some love for the offensive line and running backs for the BUCS

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hater faggot b1tch bucs suk 34-21

http://intensedebate.com/people/Senator111 Senator111

Pasta
Will there even be an update this week? I figured if its not out by now that there wont be one
http://intensedebate.com/people/Senator111 Senator111

Pasta
Will there even be an update this week? I figured if its not out by now that there wont be one
http://intensedebate.com/people/Senator111 Senator111

Pasta
Will there even be an update this week? I figured if its not out by now that there wont be one
joe bober

tom brady up
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tom brady up
joe bober

tom brady up
Tom

LT Donald Penn should get and upgrade to the 85-90 range.

He shutdown every pass rusher from the Cowboys that day, including the great sack artist DeMarcus Ware.

Cadillac Williams should have a rating from 80-85.
Tom

LT Donald Penn should get and upgrade to the 85-90 range.

He shutdown every pass rusher from the Cowboys that day, including the great sack artist DeMarcus Ware.

Cadillac Williams should have a rating from 80-85.
Tom

LT Donald Penn should get and upgrade to the 85-90 range.

He shutdown every pass rusher from the Cowboys that day, including the great sack artist DeMarcus Ware.

Cadillac Williams should have a rating from 80-85.
Michael

Saints:

Mike Bell: Speed needs to go up, The guy had the second most yards in the league
Brees: Just make him 99 already
Lance Moore: Jumping should go up, or Spec. Catch
Darren Sharper: Catching up
The WHOLE O-LINE NEEDS AN INCREASE!!! HOW ARE THEY WORSE THAN THE PATS LINE!!!!
Michael

Saints:

Mike Bell: Speed needs to go up, The guy had the second most yards in the league
Brees: Just make him 99 already
Lance Moore: Jumping should go up, or Spec. Catch
Darren Sharper: Catching up
The WHOLE O-LINE NEEDS AN INCREASE!!! HOW ARE THEY WORSE THAN THE PATS LINE!!!!
Michael

Saints:

Mike Bell: Speed needs to go up, The guy had the second most yards in the league
Brees: Just make him 99 already
Lance Moore: Jumping should go up, or Spec. Catch
Darren Sharper: Catching up
The WHOLE O-LINE NEEDS AN INCREASE!!! HOW ARE THEY WORSE THAN THE PATS LINE!!!!
Kev

For Madden NFL 09, the biggest flaw with the ratings is probably the Speed rating. I think that the person who came up with the idea to make everyone slower in the game to make the gameplay more realistic, needs to consider that the speed rating isnt very accurate. The case that T.J. Housh made was very legitament. In the NFL, I believe any coach would tell you that a wide reciever is faster than a linebacker. Any cornerback is usually faster than a safety and so forth. If the speed rating is really based on 40 yard dash times (that are found through the internet) then how is it that, Jeremy Maclin(Rookie WR, Phi Eagles), who ran a 4.48 at the combine earn a 96 speed rating and Vernon Davis, who ran a 4.3 forty yard dash have a 90 speed or so rating only? Since his time was significantly faster than Maclin’s, shouldn’t Davis’s speed be a 97 plus? Well here, it doesn’t appear that the 40 yard dash is the determining factor for the speed rating. Just to throw in there, Desean Jackson had a better 40 time than Maclin running a 4.39 at the combine, but at the start of the Madden 10 roster, Maclin had a 96 speed rating while Desean only had a 95. I’m glad they changed that, because Jackson is clearly faster than Maclin is (according to the 40 yard dash times). My point here is that during that interview the crew had with T.J. about the whole speed rating issue, they said that they determined his speed rating based on his 40 yard dash, but why is it that this rule doesnt include with players such as Vernon Davis, who only has a 90 speed rating? Now this leads to my other point. I want to know if they gave Davis a 90 speed rating regardless of his 40 yard dash time, a 4.3, because he is a TE and TE’s usually aren’t that fast. And a 90 speed rating is the fastest speed a TE has been given. Well, in this case, the speed rating’s determination has been altered has it not? Because now it seems as if the speed rating was given based on a positional standpoint like what i said earlier, how linebackers arent as fast as wide recievers and safeties are usually slower than corners. Well, TE’s arent usually faster than WR’s either. So, I really do not know if the speed rating is given based on raw statistics or from a positional standpoint. If speed is given from a positional perspective, for example, eventhough V. Davis ran a 4.3, a 90 speed rating is good enough because he is a TE, then how is it that Dwight Freeney is as fast as Reggie Wayne with an 87 speed rating? That sounds obviously ridiculous. I know that Freeney is fast, but maybe defensive end fast. Not wide reciever fast. Therefore, Freeney’s speed rating should be toned down. And I’m not just talking about freeney, I’m talking about the rating system. I am using these players as examples. My suggestions about the speed rating should be curved. Since it IS EA’s idea of trying to seperate the elites from the average. An idea would be to give all WR’s a speed rating range from 86-99, 86 for the slower, aging recievers. Nothing less than that, unless if there is an exception such as how slow Earnest Wilford and Dwayne Jarett are. The speed ratings for DE’s should range from 66 to 82. 75 being fast, and 82 being fastest among DE’s. There is no way that Trent Cole, speed rating 84, a defensive end for the Eagles, is faster than their strong safety, Quintin Mikell, speed rating 82. Linebackers’ speed rating range should be from a range of 70 to 84, 84 being the fastest, but there are expections such as P. Willis. Safeties speed ratings should range anywhere from 85-90 although there are still few expections again. You get the idea. I’m not saying it is perfect, but it is something that the coaches can look at and find it reasonable rather than laugh seeing Freeney rated as fast as Reggie Wayne. It would give the game a more realistic feel even from a coach’s perspective. The rating system is flawed completely, as nothing in this world is perfect. Just another issue out there about man and zone coverage, there should not be a linebacker who’s coverage skills are better than a corner or safety, for example, in the past Madden games, Urlacher had like 75 man coverage and 85 zone coverage compared to Dawkins with 70 man coverage and 90 zone coverage. Really unrealistic. I really hope that EA finds this, and consider my suggestion on a rating curve for positions.
Kev

For Madden NFL 09, the biggest flaw with the ratings is probably the Speed rating. I think that the person who came up with the idea to make everyone slower in the game to make the gameplay more realistic, needs to consider that the speed rating isnt very accurate. The case that T.J. Housh made was very legitament. In the NFL, I believe any coach would tell you that a wide reciever is faster than a linebacker. Any cornerback is usually faster than a safety and so forth. If the speed rating is really based on 40 yard dash times (that are found through the internet) then how is it that, Jeremy Maclin(Rookie WR, Phi Eagles), who ran a 4.48 at the combine earn a 96 speed rating and Vernon Davis, who ran a 4.3 forty yard dash have a 90 speed or so rating only? Since his time was significantly faster than Maclin’s, shouldn’t Davis’s speed be a 97 plus? Well here, it doesn’t appear that the 40 yard dash is the determining factor for the speed rating. Just to throw in there, Desean Jackson had a better 40 time than Maclin running a 4.39 at the combine, but at the start of the Madden 10 roster, Maclin had a 96 speed rating while Desean only had a 95. I’m glad they changed that, because Jackson is clearly faster than Maclin is (according to the 40 yard dash times). My point here is that during that interview the crew had with T.J. about the whole speed rating issue, they said that they determined his speed rating based on his 40 yard dash, but why is it that this rule doesnt include with players such as Vernon Davis, who only has a 90 speed rating? Now this leads to my other point. I want to know if they gave Davis a 90 speed rating regardless of his 40 yard dash time, a 4.3, because he is a TE and TE’s usually aren’t that fast. And a 90 speed rating is the fastest speed a TE has been given. Well, in this case, the speed rating’s determination has been altered has it not? Because now it seems as if the speed rating was given based on a positional standpoint like what i said earlier, how linebackers arent as fast as wide recievers and safeties are usually slower than corners. Well, TE’s arent usually faster than WR’s either. So, I really do not know if the speed rating is given based on raw statistics or from a positional standpoint. If speed is given from a positional perspective, for example, eventhough V. Davis ran a 4.3, a 90 speed rating is good enough because he is a TE, then how is it that Dwight Freeney is as fast as Reggie Wayne with an 87 speed rating? That sounds obviously ridiculous. I know that Freeney is fast, but maybe defensive end fast. Not wide reciever fast. Therefore, Freeney’s speed rating should be toned down. And I’m not just talking about freeney, I’m talking about the rating system. I am using these players as examples. My suggestions about the speed rating should be curved. Since it IS EA’s idea of trying to seperate the elites from the average. An idea would be to give all WR’s a speed rating range from 86-99, 86 for the slower, aging recievers. Nothing less than that, unless if there is an exception such as how slow Earnest Wilford and Dwayne Jarett are. The speed ratings for DE’s should range from 66 to 82. 75 being fast, and 82 being fastest among DE’s. There is no way that Trent Cole, speed rating 84, a defensive end for the Eagles, is faster than their strong safety, Quintin Mikell, speed rating 82. Linebackers’ speed rating range should be from a range of 70 to 84, 84 being the fastest, but there are expections such as P. Willis. Safeties speed ratings should range anywhere from 85-90 although there are still few expections again. You get the idea. I’m not saying it is perfect, but it is something that the coaches can look at and find it reasonable rather than laugh seeing Freeney rated as fast as Reggie Wayne. It would give the game a more realistic feel even from a coach’s perspective. The rating system is flawed completely, as nothing in this world is perfect. Just another issue out there about man and zone coverage, there should not be a linebacker who’s coverage skills are better than a corner or safety, for example, in the past Madden games, Urlacher had like 75 man coverage and 85 zone coverage compared to Dawkins with 70 man coverage and 90 zone coverage. Really unrealistic. I really hope that EA finds this, and consider my suggestion on a rating curve for positions.
Kev

For Madden NFL 09, the biggest flaw with the ratings is probably the Speed rating. I think that the person who came up with the idea to make everyone slower in the game to make the gameplay more realistic, needs to consider that the speed rating isnt very accurate. The case that T.J. Housh made was very legitament. In the NFL, I believe any coach would tell you that a wide reciever is faster than a linebacker. Any cornerback is usually faster than a safety and so forth. If the speed rating is really based on 40 yard dash times (that are found through the internet) then how is it that, Jeremy Maclin(Rookie WR, Phi Eagles), who ran a 4.48 at the combine earn a 96 speed rating and Vernon Davis, who ran a 4.3 forty yard dash have a 90 speed or so rating only? Since his time was significantly faster than Maclin’s, shouldn’t Davis’s speed be a 97 plus? Well here, it doesn’t appear that the 40 yard dash is the determining factor for the speed rating. Just to throw in there, Desean Jackson had a better 40 time than Maclin running a 4.39 at the combine, but at the start of the Madden 10 roster, Maclin had a 96 speed rating while Desean only had a 95. I’m glad they changed that, because Jackson is clearly faster than Maclin is (according to the 40 yard dash times). My point here is that during that interview the crew had with T.J. about the whole speed rating issue, they said that they determined his speed rating based on his 40 yard dash, but why is it that this rule doesnt include with players such as Vernon Davis, who only has a 90 speed rating? Now this leads to my other point. I want to know if they gave Davis a 90 speed rating regardless of his 40 yard dash time, a 4.3, because he is a TE and TE’s usually aren’t that fast. And a 90 speed rating is the fastest speed a TE has been given. Well, in this case, the speed rating’s determination has been altered has it not? Because now it seems as if the speed rating was given based on a positional standpoint like what i said earlier, how linebackers arent as fast as wide recievers and safeties are usually slower than corners. Well, TE’s arent usually faster than WR’s either. So, I really do not know if the speed rating is given based on raw statistics or from a positional standpoint. If speed is given from a positional perspective, for example, eventhough V. Davis ran a 4.3, a 90 speed rating is good enough because he is a TE, then how is it that Dwight Freeney is as fast as Reggie Wayne with an 87 speed rating? That sounds obviously ridiculous. I know that Freeney is fast, but maybe defensive end fast. Not wide reciever fast. Therefore, Freeney’s speed rating should be toned down. And I’m not just talking about freeney, I’m talking about the rating system. I am using these players as examples. My suggestions about the speed rating should be curved. Since it IS EA’s idea of trying to seperate the elites from the average. An idea would be to give all WR’s a speed rating range from 86-99, 86 for the slower, aging recievers. Nothing less than that, unless if there is an exception such as how slow Earnest Wilford and Dwayne Jarett are. The speed ratings for DE’s should range from 66 to 82. 75 being fast, and 82 being fastest among DE’s. There is no way that Trent Cole, speed rating 84, a defensive end for the Eagles, is faster than their strong safety, Quintin Mikell, speed rating 82. Linebackers’ speed rating range should be from a range of 70 to 84, 84 being the fastest, but there are expections such as P. Willis. Safeties speed ratings should range anywhere from 85-90 although there are still few expections again. You get the idea. I’m not saying it is perfect, but it is something that the coaches can look at and find it reasonable rather than laugh seeing Freeney rated as fast as Reggie Wayne. It would give the game a more realistic feel even from a coach’s perspective. The rating system is flawed completely, as nothing in this world is perfect. Just another issue out there about man and zone coverage, there should not be a linebacker who’s coverage skills are better than a corner or safety, for example, in the past Madden games, Urlacher had like 75 man coverage and 85 zone coverage compared to Dawkins with 70 man coverage and 90 zone coverage. Really unrealistic. I really hope that EA finds this, and consider my suggestion on a rating curve for positions.