Donny Moore, the 'Madden Ratings Czar', Leaving EA

[Gman 18]

Quote: Originally Posted by jpdavis82

Hopefully you can convince them to add practice squads!

Considering the community has been requesting the addition of practice squads for YEARS in these forums and on other sports forums/social media, I don't see how just one guy is gonna suddenly convince them to implement them into the game


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[DCEBB2001]

OK guys just got done with my discussion with Rex Dickson and a few other guys on a conference call.

First of all, Rex said he had no problem with me posting anything regarding these "early discussions" on this forum, so here we go.

One of the first things that is apparent is that they are very open to taking in new methodologies for rating players in the game. Ideas like crowd sourcing via the Madden community came up. It looks like they want to do away with having one guy do all of the ratings.

It seemed to be mostly a Q&A session as they are brainstorming ideas on how to do this in the future. It looks like they would be more interested in using me as a consultant for which to draw base ratings for. Those would then be tweaked to ensure that they don't break the game. The big thing that was apparent is that their priority is making a competitive game over having accurate ratings. It looks like they are willing to sacrifice some accuracy, derived by real world data, for competitive gameplay.

I told them I was very open consulting and being a part of the discussion to better match the gameplay to more accurate ratings. This would require me to work with the people who develop the on-field mechanics closely. Since these discussions were very early, but will likely have an effect on their Madden 17 cycle, it looks like I won't have any more information until late August at the earliest as they will be researching a multitude of paths to take.

Questions?

[4thQtrStre5S]

I figured there would be a need to fit ratings within the program engine itself...I think it is great that they are looking for a group of people to work on ratings because they really are a big part of the game...

HOw did you feel about the interaction and plans for the future? Do you feel that there is a positive outlook for the sim community?


I believe it would be a benefit to have your input with EA

[4thQtrStre5S]

Do you believe your ratings could be scaled to meet the requirements needed to avoid breaking the game, while still maintaining their ability to represent player's quality in relation to other players? Thus being able to separate great players from average players..

[4thQtrStre5S]

Oh, and will we ever find out how sliders truly work?

[DCEBB2001]

Quote: Originally Posted by 4thQtrStre5S

I figured there would be a need to fit ratings within the program engine itself...I think it is great that they are looking for a group of people to work on ratings because they really are a big part of the game... HOw did you feel about the interaction and plans for the future? Do you feel that there is a positive outlook for the sim community? I believe it would be a benefit to have your input with EA

Honestly, I think that because their number one priority seems to be "competitive gameplay" between users, that they are better off setting every position on every team to 99 in every attribute category...ok, that's a bit tongue in cheek but...

The fact that realism and authenticity was 2nd on that list should answer your question.

[4thQtrStre5S]

This comment, "competitive game over having accurate ratings," seems to support my belief that the idea of EA is to ensure that anyone can pick any team and play online and still be able to win...It seems logical, though many in the community believes that you have to use the Seahawks or Patriots or Packers to compete, but I do not see EA wanting the game to be limited to a few teams to be competitive...

Am I wrong in thinking this way, and do you believe it is a bad idea to want to make all teams competitive, ratings wise?

EDIT: lol you just answered my question.

[DCEBB2001]

Quote: Originally Posted by 4thQtrStre5S

Do you believe your ratings could be scaled to meet the requirements needed to avoid breaking the game, while still maintaining their ability to represent player's quality in relation to other players? Thus being able to separate great players from average players..

Yes of course it could be. It does right now, in my opinion. Ask the people who have played with ratings and see if they work in the game as is.

One thing Rex did say was that they are wanting to open up the separation in ratings more, ie: more variance in the elite players to average players - something I have already done with FBG Ratings.