Madden told ESPN that if he were coaching today, he’d assign assistant coaches to play the Madden game in preparation for upcoming opponents.
“I would have a couple of young guys that are good, good Madden players, and hire them and put them on my staff,” Madden said. “And each week I would have them play our opponent. If the Raiders are playing Kansas City, I’d have one of them be the Raiders and one of them be Kansas City. And then I would run our players against their defenses and their defenses against our players. And I’d have them just check that out and then write up — this was good, this was bad, had trouble here and trouble there. I don’t know how much I would use it, but that’s what I would do.” |
Exclusive licensing deals have killed sports gaming.
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the game. Madden is an absolute dumpster fire. It's not true simulation football, everything is dependent on animations. Just check out RyanMoody on youtube and you'll see how shitty a game Madden is.
Exclusive licensing deals have killed sports gaming.
100%. Why improve your game when there really is no incentive to? Every year people buy it with real no improvements.
It isn't like there are tendencies like the ones that can be identified by watching film.
I'm struggling to understand what value can be derived from it.
The old versions of the game - going back to PS2 - were good. Boring beyond belief now.
Even then, watching film and seeing tendencies replaces any benefit from the computer information.
The old versions of the game - going back to PS2 - were good. Boring beyond belief now.
Bring back NFL2k!
Of course, it is also a folly to try and pull analytic data from Madden too.
"Of course I watch on television. ESPN. The coverage is excellent, you'd be surprised at how much you can pick up."
Case of how dry and flat video game structure of today's sports media.
At least MLB The Show hasn't gone down the swamp, yet.
You can make madden play more reaslistically but you have to mess with the sliders a ton but without the play editor who could never accomplish what madden is saying here but with millions of dollars being thrown around in the NFL you could put a development team together to create that type of game/simulation for coaches and players
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the game. Madden is an absolute dumpster fire. It's not true simulation football, everything is dependent on animations. Just check out RyanMoody on youtube and you'll see how shitty a game Madden is.
Exclusive licensing deals have killed sports gaming.
Mam I miss playing some of those football gamea from the 90s. They weren't all great but they all had different features that were fun. Quarterback Club comes to mind.
You can simulate games all day long on Madden without actual game time coaching so throwing in Humans would just skew the whole thing
It's not feasible.
Robbie I don't know how many people know this but Madden is almost 85 years old. This sounds like a comment from a guy who's mentally losing his fastball more than promoting his game. I mean hell, I don't think he needs to do any more promoting. It's the most successful sports game franchise ever.
I just think he's getting senile and that's a sad thought.
The fidelity of the 'model' and the amount of variation doesn't come close to providing any actionable conclusions. You would have to run a significant (statistically significant) number of iterations with different variables to even develop a confidence interval. Just the weather variables alone would take many thousands of monte carlo runs...
I think if the porgam would allow play editing and just focus on player traits it could be useful to help with develping a game plan or helping FAs that come in learn the playbook. Especially with limited practice time an assistant coach could run the plan through and see if any glaring holes are established and deep dive it in practice
It's not feasible.
Even then, watching film and seeing tendencies replaces any benefit from the computer information.
There are almost certainly some very sophisticated AI applications that could be used effectively for football simulation and gameplanning. Machine learning is advanced enough to apply tendencies to what you want to do, and see how the AI version of your opponent responds. It wouldn't be infallible, but it could be an extremely valuable tool in preparation.
A Madden video game platform isn't equipped to handle that level of AI workload. It's built to let couch commandoes live out their NFL dreams, not vice versa.
I know it's hard for a Giants fan to acknowledge this, but the actual NFL is also geared toward offense and scoring.
"The Raiders were at their best when they used 'ask Madden' for literally every play over a 10 year span."