Madden NFL 16 CFM Impressions Part 2 - Scouting and Drafting (MyMaddenPad)

[Skyboxer]

Quote: Originally Posted by StefJoeHalt

And this is a downfall of not only offline CFM but also online leagues..not every league has all 32 teams...hell I hate playing some humans because by nature they will exploit the system to win..(see HGH, etc)..edit: (by testing I mean for gaming not HGH..lol) that type of testing and development needs to stop...if they create a great-good CPU CFM..by default it will be great-good head to head Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yep as a primarily a SP gamer this continues to be a major bummer.
I play in CFM Leagues to get the better experience and luckily have been in a few really nicely run leagues.

[DeuceDouglas]

Quote: Originally Posted by jsteele14

Not sure why nobody commented on my badass solution to all our issues. You must have missed it.

Ideas like that have been thrown around here for a while now. I had an idea in my thread a year or so ago where you had five team scouts that all gave you different reports on the players as well as "experts" (Mel Kiper, McShay, Mayock) reports on the same players so you have just an array of data when it came to players. But that's just not where it's headed because it's not "accessible" or "fun". It's hard for me to say because I don't exactly remember how scouting worked in the early 360-PS3 Madden's, but IMO this seems like the worst scouting has ever been.

[Step2001]

So IF scouting is not tweaked/toned down, the House Rules would then be to just Draft based on the players combine Numbers I guess.

[DeuceDouglas]

Quote: Originally Posted by Step2001

So IF scouting is not tweaked/toned down, the House Rules would then be to just Draft based on the players combine Numbers I guess.

You could scout the first two attributes and have a very minimal idea of what the player is. The third one is where you get the true value.

One tweak I think that needs to be made is to make the process of getting the attributes random. Don't make the first one always be the highest or the lowest. Make it be random so you can't scout a player, get C- for an attribute and know that the player is no longer worth scouting. That would create at least some risk/reward in moving forward scouting a guy. I think another decent tweak would be making the true value a very expensive fourth step so you can maybe do it on five or ten guys at the most but still get all three attributes for a lot of players.

[charter04]

Basically they nailed all this in the NFL head coach 09 system. That game had it all. Things could be tweaked but, the foundation was there.


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[DCEBB2001]

Quote: Originally Posted by Big FN Deal

Exactly, same thing I was saying in the draft board thread, scouts are apparently a specific part of each teams staff so it makes no sense to be inventing some other way of doing it in Madden. Why implement scouts in Owner Mode as a modifier vs taking that same time to implement them in a realistic manner? http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2014/3/6...cess-big-board Each teams scouts in-game could prepare a draft board and/or ranking for players in the draft, as well as all applicable player data(combine, collegiate stats, injury history, DPP, etc), NOT actual ratings, being already available/unlocked for everyone, to allow any User the ability to search for their own gems and make preferential changes to their draft board. JP, if you could man, whenever anyone affiliated with creating Madden brings up anything about the game for you to offer your two cent about, consider WWFD (What Would Football Do), meaning before thinking about it in a video game or Madden context, consider the real football context first, then go from there. Of course everything can't be 1:1 for realism to video game implementation but please start from that baseline, when applicable, then work from there. Just to clarify, this is on topic, imo, because this is the slippery slope we end up on in so many areas. We're reminded that Madden has limited resources and they can't address everything at once, so we have to wait for whatever to be addressed, then when they actual address something real football based, if they do so in a drastically unrealistic and/or gamey manner, we're right back where we started, rinse, repeat. Hence where we are now with scouting and drafting, wasting, imo, resources on creating some unrealistic tedious mini-game, that the "casuals" they claim to be targeting, likely won't bother much with anyway. Instead provide a streamlined football based automated scouting/drafting process, with a UI where those that want manual influence, can do so. Heck this concept probably applies to most things in Madden but I digress, the point is you're not going to get people that are mainly interested in just playing the games interested in most elements of weekly management by turning them into mini-games. I say "most" because I think the exceptions, off the top of my head, are practice, drills, etc, any option that allows gamers to actual take the virtual field with players and play but not for routine menu tasks. Reason being, doing so still doesn't negate the fact that most weekly management is still repetitive and tedious, which is the reason they only want to play the games in the first place. So all you end up doing is diminishing the experience of most weekly management for those that find that stuff enjoyable in its' purest form.

I was originally going to quote Step2001's comment from page 2, but you did it already.

I want to pull back the curtain and make a major point:

27 of the 32 teams either subscribe to BLESTO or NATIONAL for their scouting services. These entities compile data for the teams in a report that is compiled every spring. The teams pay hefty dues (in excess of 100k) every year to get the information. NATIONAL runs the combine. All the timing with the P3DX is NATIONAL. All but 2 teams pay for the combine results. The Pats and Raiders still get the official results released a week after the combine via other scouts from other teams - if you think for one second that these scouts do NOT share information with one another, you are ignorant. Information sharing is rampant amongst scouts from different teams. I have it on good authority, that the Pats don't subscribe to National, but yet, they always find a way to get those combine numbers year in and year out. Interesting...

What I am getting at is these teams have more similar information that what you may think. If 27 teams are getting baseline data from 2 primary sources, there is going to be overlap. Where real in-house scouting comes into play is determining if the players, broadly scoped by National and BLESTO, will fit into each team's system. Most coaches have very little say in this regard. Believe me, they have far more important things to do with their offseasons than review tape on college kids. NFL team scouts do most of their legwork on the road to interview these kids during their respective college seasons. It's rare you find one with a stopwatch in hand on a trip to a practice. After all, why bother if National or BLESTO are going to do this for you when it matters in the spring anyway?

So you see, it actually isn't far off to have every team have accessible information. What Madden needs to do is allow you to pick a scouting service (like National or BLESTO) or use your in-house scouts for rookie scouting. Then, the quality of your in-house scouts are used to tell you how well a player will fit within your scheme. If you have a good scouting team, they will be correct most of the time on the advice they give you. If you have a poor scouting team, they will be more likely to recommend to you a player that won't fit your scheme. Make sense?

This then allows you to stack your draft board based on three assumptions:

1. The data you get from the scouting service telling you what your prospect is or isn't.

2. The opinion from your team scouts telling you if your prospect is a good fit for your team or not.

3. Your own opinion as a user to either accept or reject 1 and/or 2 in any combination or weight you see fit.

THAT would make Madden's scouting system realistic.

[Ueauvan]

so from what ive read hear and other bits about 16, they want casual or mut or non franchise customers
everything it seems is being dumbed down and obvious elements that should be in for the only franchise that can carry the nfl logo is putting nothing in that actually makes the nfl the nfl
way to go ea sports, but then again you dont care what i think. like a lot of others ill probably end up buying it if for nothing else its got more up to date rosters and i wonder how my 9ers will handle a 3-4 without Pat
JP this is another reason why most of us offline chise or coach mode think ea are blowing smoke every year, every year they promise lots (which in reality means bring back from prior versions) and deliver less than currently available
for some reason the Einstein quote comes to mind
"Repeating an action expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity"
thats us and expectations on madden each year, and im more miffed at the nfl for taking the money and running and not caring

[Mr.Papercut]

Madden 15's scouting wasn't the most realistic, but it sure as hell was the best we've had. You couldn't scout everyone nor every attribute of few players because you would've had a very small draft board. Draft results were realistic. You could have per draft maybe 1-2 guys in 75-85 rating scale, and everybody else was below that. By average my draft's best player's ovr was 77, which I think is somewhat realistic. I would have guys from 80 ovr to 60 ovr every draft.

Draft combine results along with the top 3 attributes is a good idea, but the "talent rating" kills it. Most likely we'll end up with projected 5th rounders going in the first 3 rounds, which isn't realistic at all.