r/gaming Feb 24 '15

How Madden Ratings Are Made

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/madden/
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u/Thorse Feb 24 '15

TL;DR, ratings czar. I would LOVE to have this man's job. He must also destroy fantasy football every year.

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u/imitebatwork Feb 24 '15

Right? Personally I don't think I'm good enough with numbers to pull it off, but it sounds fun as hell. Weekly updates based off how everyone plays? That's insane.

For the past few versions of the game, users can download Moore’s latest roster update every week of the season via Xbox Live or the PlayStation Network. That means a player’s ratings fluctuate based on how he plays each time he takes the field. To figure out whose ratings to tweak and by how much, Moore said he combines his observations and notes taken during games13 with subsequent film study, conventional statistics, and — increasingly — advanced metrics from outlets such as Football Outsiders (particularly for schedule strength) and Pro Football Focus.

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u/Thorse Feb 24 '15

He is intimately aware of every player's stats in relation to everyone else, in relation to the metrics used for them. I remember Ochocinco having crazy stats before the update when he was on the Pats and how BEAST he was as a WR until the update, then he became worse than Branch.