Player Progression in Franchise Mode

[mylife2010]

is player progression fixed in Madden 11 ? Cursive didn't say anything about Player Progress .. please tell me about if it fixed or not

[mavfan21]

Fixed?

It was fine last year. Excellent actually.

[rooney8]

Quote: Originally Posted by mylife2010

is player progression fixed in Madden 11 ? Cursive didn't say anything about Player Progress .. please tell me about if it fixed or not

He said it seems completely based on age and was the same last year.
He also didn't confirm he had a legit copy either though.

[Argooos]

Quote: Originally Posted by mavfan21

Fixed? It was fine last year. Excellent actually.

Players progressing only once a year is excellent?

[mylife2010]

nope it not excellent, i throw 43 td and 4,500 yards and he increase just 2 points rating on his overall rating .. 2 points is just bad numbers to boost up

[Sik kid Pk]

Quote: Originally Posted by mavfan21

Fixed? It was fine last year. Excellent actually.

Actually i thought it was garbage last year. Players with a "A" potential would progress positively regardless of performance and a player with say a "C" potential could go to the pro bowl and his overall would stay the same.

The progression system is one of my biggest gripes with the franchise mode.

[KensaiKatai]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sik kid Pk

Actually i thought it was garbage last year. Players with a "A" potential would progress positively regardless of performance and a player with say a "C" potential could go to the pro bowl and his overall would stay the same. The progression system is one of my biggest gripes with the franchise mode.

Blame that on the 'predetermined' ratings/doesn't make logical sense to do it by stats/"it's a time paradox so back to the future is a bad movie" crowd.

I prefer the old system as well. I love the feeling of being able to build up players. I understand the whole 'well if he's this good then he's that good prior to the stats' argument but video games aren't real life. Performance should dictate progression (to a degree).

[NoSubs]

It seems there are two schools of thoughts when it comes to player progression:

1. Player performance should dictate ratings (i.e. a 70 rated player who makes the Pro Bowl because of huge stats should see his ratings increase commensurate with that performance, in this case having that 70 approach 90 over time). This would help the player have similar performance if you were to simulate the following season.

2. Player potential should dictate ratings (i.e. a 70 rated player increases based on the development team's projection of how the player should increase).

I don't want to get into which method is better, but I think we could all be happy if there was an option to choose one or the other. Or perhaps a slider where you could have part of the ratings increase/decrease (i.e. 30%) from potential and the remainder (70%) from statistics.